Posted on 10/30/2016 12:44:03 PM PDT by maggief
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The latest development began in early October when New York-based FBI officials notified Andrew McCabe, the bureau’s second-in-command, that while investigating Mr. Weiner for possibly sending sexually charged messages to a minor, they had recovered a laptop with 650,000 emails. Many, they said, were from the accounts of Ms. Abedin, according to people familiar with the matter.
Those emails stretched back years, these people said, and were on a laptop that both Mr. Weiner and Ms. Abedin used and that hadn’t previously come up in the Clinton email probe. Ms. Abedin said in late August that the couple were separating.
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At a meeting early last week of senior Justice Department and FBI officials, a member of the department’s senior national-security staff asked for an update on the Weiner laptop, the people familiar with the matter said. At that point, officials realized that no one had acted to obtain a warrant, these people said.
Mr. McCabe then instructed the email investigators to talk to the Weiner investigators and see whether the laptop’s contents could be relevant to the Clinton email probe, these people said. After the investigators spoke, the agents agreed it was potentially relevant.
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Others further down the FBI chain of command, however, said agents were given a much starker instruction on the case: “Stand down.” When agents questioned why they weren’t allowed to take more aggressive steps, they said they were told the order had come from the deputy director—Mr. McCabe.
Others familiar with the matter deny Mr. McCabe or any other senior FBI official gave such a stand-down instruction.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Loads of new info.
Huma could have had IT guys sync all her devices and Weiners too. Or Anthony Weiner could have. Is it possible he is a Mossad honey pot handler for Hillary’s honey pot?
WaPo is claiming this is a 4th Amendment violation or some such.
Sounds like McCabe should be suspended
Just a coincidence that McCabes wife received a ton of campaign money from Hitlery. This whole thing stinks.
They are grasping at straws. Nothing I’ve seen here is a fourth amendment matter as long as the PD lawfully had the info.
BOOM!
Rapid rise ...
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/andrew-mccabe-named-deputy-director-of-the-fbi
January 29, 2016
Andrew McCabe Named Deputy Director of the FBI
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-announces-executive-appointments-1
July 30, 2015 Promoted: Andrew McCabe, Associate Deputy Director, FBI Headquarters
Since September 2014, Mr. McCabe has served as assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office.
Just got home..trying to catch up!!
Can’t get past wsj wall..
So Hillary has decided she doesn’t want the e-mails released after all?
Google or Bing the title, “FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe”.
Works for me.
It’s a must read, IMO.
If that happened, it would have downloaded EVERYTHING in her account into a local cache on the desktop/laptop.
That's the only way I can believe that 650,000 emails ended up on her computer. She set it up (or someone set it up for her), and left it connected to a high-speed internet line.
It would have downloaded her entire email account in the background. The efforts to "clean" Hillary's account in preparation for releasing the emails to State wouldn't have affected Huma's account.
There's also another possibility: someone got illicit access to the laptop/desktop -- allowing them to make a copy. It would be epic if that ends up on Wikileaks.
If this story is corraborated even 50% the DNC will have to scramble to replace her by nov 8th. Paging the ghost of Frank Lautenburg
McCabe has got to stay out of this. He and his wife received way too much money from the Clintoon Crime Family Syndicate. He needs to resign.
McAbe should be recused from any further involvement with this case. He is ethically compromised. If he doesn’t then it’s clear the fix is still in.
Yeah, wow. Looks like the FBI is a big mess. And 650,000 emails? That's insane. I get lots of spam, up to 20,000 a month, but I don't keep those, and mostly am unaware of them. They get filtered to a SPAM folder that I rarely look at, and after 6 weeks, they roll off, gone.
Does this help?
http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/JW-v-State-Abedin-Deposition-01363.pdf
Page: 110
A It would have been folders on my Outlook
account on the — on the — my State Department
computer.
(snip)
A I did that when I was working or
responding to e-mails that came in. I couldn’t
check my Clinton BlackBerry, so it was the only — I
didn’t have access to my Clinton e-mail BlackBerry
when I was in the office, so it was the only way I
could check my Clinton e-mails.
Q How did you access your Clintonemail.com
account off your desktop?
A It was just a — it was a fairly simple
login system. It was through a web browser.
Q Okay. Was it connected to your Outlook?
A No. No.
Q Okay.
A It was just Safari or ...
Here is a whole other investigation. Who ordered the Stand Down?????
a) The laptop was voluntarily surrendered. Under consent doctrine no further warrant is required. The Exclusionary Rule only protects against unreasonable searches. No serious person would accept that reading emails on a voluntarily surrendered laptop would constitute anything "unreasonable."
b) Under plain view doctrine, in most US circuits, all of the emails on the laptop fall under the original sexting warrant anyway.
c) there is no evidence that the new emails have been examined in depth. When an initial warrant leads to the discovery of additional material, the evidence obtained by a second warrant that covers the new material is NOT considered tainted. All the FBI needs to do is obtain a second warrant. It's usual for DOJ to do that, but under US code the agents can submit an affidavit directly to the court, and plenty of them (including Comey) are lawyers.
d) The mere presence, without further in-depth examination of any of these emails is prima facia evidence that Huma lied in her assertion that none of her other devices contained work-related emails. This violates her immunity deal, and she must now testify under oath against Hillary and all of her other criminal accessories.
e) wikileaks already has all the Clinton emails.
f) The court of public opinion is not going to let a Presidential candidate escape on a technicality.
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