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Originally posted by sdy:
"The FBI has not found any evidence the (Clinton) servers were compromised," the official said

original letter that Comey drafted about the email investigation:

Comey initially said it was “ reasonably likely ” that “hostile actors” had gained access to Clinton’s email server, the text was edited to say that such an intrusion was “possible.”

The FBI has lost all credibility.

Comey and the intel folks ridiculed Donald Trump in congressional testimony when DT said he had been wire tapped.

When in reality at that exact same time there was a FISA warrant on Carter Page with all sorts of collection going on. How many other FISA warrants were there ?

Christopher Wray doesn't show the slightest signals that his number one job is restoring FBI credibility to the American people.


wiki:

Christopher Wray was Assistant Attorney General from 2003 to 2005, working under Deputy Attorney General James Comey

Why would that be his No. 1 job?

“Why would that be his No. 1 job?”

Because the most powerful law enforcement agency in the U.S. has been shown to have massively abused its power to falsely frame the President of the United States.

If the FBI leadership is not interested in convincing the people that the leadership will ruthlessly punish those rogue agents and put strong prevention safeguards in place, then the FBI should be dismantled.

It should be divided up into smaller units with less power and authority.

That will weaken the ability of the FBI to perform its legitimate missions. But an FBI that is willing to crush U.S. citizens, lie, hide behind phony claims of “national security”, and utilize fabricated falsehoods to prosecute us - that FBI should not exist.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
Why would that be his No. 1 job?

They have the power to take away your freedom. Do you not want them to be ethical above all else?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
Why would that be his No. 1 job?

They have the power to take away your freedom. Do you not want them to be ethical above all else?

Ethical yes of course, but that is not necessarily the same as restoring credibility. That takes trustworthy conduct over a long period of time, I would think.

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That takes trustworthy conduct over a long period of time, I would think.

That seems like a reasonable job description.

We should probably keep in mind that this is the same outfit that kept Donnie Brasco undercover with the Mafia for 6 years, and bugged the Ravenite Social club right under their noses.

Came across her Tweets, she sure has a lot of time on her hands . I love the responding tweets.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Hil.../1042067964403572736

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Originally posted by oddball:
Came across her Tweets, she sure has a lot of time on her hands . I love the responding tweets.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Hil.../1042067964403572736

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On the day after the election, I hoped my fears for our country's future were overblown. They were not. ... One of HRC's tweets.

On the day of the election, I hoped my fears for our country's future under an HRC presidency were overblown. Clearly, they were not.

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Originally posted by oddball:
Came across her Tweets, she sure has a lot of time on her hands . I love the responding tweets.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Hil.../1042067964403572736

Tweets are one thing, but she needs more camera time! Oh I wish she will get on the campaign trail. Drive home the deplorable thing and keep talking her trash in her so likable demeanor.

Looking forward to reading that filthy, treasonous sow’s obituary. Hopefully sooner, rather than later.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
Looking forward to reading that filthy, treasonous sow’s obituary. Hopefully sooner, rather than later.

Ah come on, tell us how you really feel. Don’t sugar coat it.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
Looking forward to reading that filthy, treasonous sow’s obituary. Hopefully sooner, rather than later.

I'd be satisfied with seeing her in an orange suit, doing prison laundry.

flashguy

BREAKING: Clinton's State Dept. Emails Appeared on Weiner's Personal Laptop – And the FBI Knew All Along

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...-laptop-and-n2529530

The Hillary Clinton email scandal came to light in early 2016. We know that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her own personal email server instead of the State Department's email server when she conducted official government business.

Now, it has come to light that "a significant number" of the 340,000 emails between Hillary Clinton and her staffer, Huma Abedin, were found on former Congressman Anthony Weiner's computer. Abedin and Weiner are married.

The discovery was made after Weiner was found having sexually explicit communications with a teenage girl. The Southern District of New York (SDNY) was awarded a search warrant to search Weiner's computer for child pornography. The person searching the laptop found the communications between Abedin and Clinton.

The following letter was sent to the FBI, letting them know about the emails between Abedin and Clinton showing up on Weiner's laptop:

Just putting this on the record because of the optics of this case.

During the course of my review of a computer seized from Anthony Weiner, a seizure and search of which was authorized by an SDNY Search Warrant, I encountered approximately/at least 340,000 emails stored on the computer. The large number of emails appears to be a result of a mail client program installed on that computer (such as Outlook) that pulled emails from servers belonging to both Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin.

A significant number of these 340,000 emails appeared to be between Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton (the latter who appears to have used a number of different email addresses). This is based simply a review of the header information. I did not review content of these emails, as the warrant only authorized me to view items that would give me probable cause to believe that CP [child pornography] evidence may reside therein.

SDNY is comfortable with me continuing my review as I have, which is to NOT read any emails to/from Anthony Weiner to which his wife, or a possible attorney is a party. Even if there is a third party on those emails, I will not review their content out of an abundance of caution. Obviously, I will not review any emails to which Anthony Weiner is not a party (such as emails between Ms. Abedin and Mrs. Clinton). I just wanted to formally bring this to your attention due to the pending election, the ongoing Congressional investigation into the FBI’s own investigation into Ms. Clinton’s email activities, etc.

It took a full month before the FBI went to Congress about the findings. Fired FBI official Peter Strzok created the initial draft letter then-FBI Director James Comey would send to Congress.

The Department of Justice's Inspector General believes it took a month for the information to reach Congress because of Peter Strzok and other officials' anti-Trump stance, which they outlined in their report:

In September 2016, the FBI’s New York Field Office (NYO) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) began investigating former Congressman Anthony Weiner for his online relationship with a minor. A federal search warrant was obtained on September 26, 2016, for Weiner’s iPhone, iPad, and laptop computer. The FBI obtained these devices the same day. The search warrant authorized the government to search for evidence relating to the following crimes: transmitting obscene material to a minor, sexual exploitation of children, and activities related to child pornography.

The Weiner case agent told the OIG that he began processing Weiner’s devices on September 26, and that he noticed “within hours” that there were “over 300,000 emails on the laptop.”

This information was obtained by Judicial Watch as part of multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

What is the news in this? We have known about the Weiner laptop and its contents for months.

Maybe this will clarify it. RealClear Investigations’ reporter Paul Sperry reported that only 3,077 of the emails found on the Weiner laptop “were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information. There were over 300,000 emails on the laptop.

Judicial Watch: FBI Documents Detail Weiner Laptop / Clinton Email Find Just Before the 2016 Election
OCTOBER 17, 2018

https://www.judicialwatch.org/...e-the-2016-election/

‘A significant number of these 340,000 emails appeared to be between Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton …’

(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced today that it has received 45 pages of FBI documents that reveal a “significant number” of 340,000 emails on the laptop of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner were between the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents as the result of a September 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department did not act on two FOIA requests for Anthony Weiner laptop investigation documents, including any Clinton emails found on the laptop (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:18-cv-02105)).

The new documents include an October 3, 2016, email to a FBI official in New York that reads:

Just putting this on the record because of the optics of this case.

During the course of my review of a computer seized from Anthony Weiner, a seizure and search of which was authorized by an SDNY [Southern District of New York] Search Warrant, I encountered approximately/at least 340,000 emails stored on the computer. The large number of emails appears to be a result of a mail client program installed on that computer (such as Outlook) that pulled emails from servers belonging to both Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin.

A significant number of these 340,000 emails appeared to be between Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton (the latter who appears to have used a number of different email addresses). This is based simply a review of the header information. I did not review content of these emails, as the warrant only authorized me to view items that would give me probable cause to believe that CP [child pornography] evidence may reside therein.

SDNY is comfortable with me continuing my review as I have, which is to NOT read any emails to/from Anthony Weiner to which his wife, or a possible attorney is a party. Even if there is a third party on those emails, I will not review their content out of an abundance of caution. Obviously, I will not review any emails to which Anthony Weiner is not a party (such as emails between Ms. Abedin and Mrs. Clinton). I just wanted to formally bring this to your attention due to the pending election, the ongoing Congressional investigation into the FBI’s own investigation into Ms. Clinton’s email activities, etc.



The documents also include a September 29, 2016, FBI report indicating that after agents served unidentified persons with a grand jury subpoena on September 22, “Discussions immediately ensued between the US Attorneys’ Offices in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and [redacted], as well as the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.”

RealClear Investigations’ reporter Paul Sperry reported that only 3,077 of the emails found on the Weiner laptop “were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges.”

In a related case, Judicial Watch obtained an email revealing that fired FBI official Peter Strzok created the initial draft of the October 2016 letter then-FBI director James Comey sent to Congress notifying lawmakers of the discovery of Hillary Clinton emails on Weiner’s laptop.

The notification to Congress, according the DOJ IG, came a full month after the emails were discovered by the FBI on Weiner’s laptop. The delay, the IG suggests, may have been the result of anti-Trump bias by FBI official Peter Strzok and others:

In September 2016, the FBI’s New York Field Office (NYO) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) began investigating former Congressman Anthony Weiner for his online relationship with a minor. A federal search warrant was obtained on September 26, 2016, for Weiner’s iPhone, iPad, and laptop computer. The FBI obtained these devices the same day. The search warrant authorized the government to search for evidence relating to the following crimes: transmitting obscene material to a minor, sexual exploitation of children, and activities related to child pornography.

The Weiner case agent told the OIG that he began processing Weiner’s devices on September 26, and that he noticed “within hours” that there were “over 300,000 emails on the laptop.”

***

In assessing the decision to prioritize the Russia investigation over following up on the Midyear-related investigative lead discovered on the Weiner laptop, we were particularly concerned about text messages sent by Strzok and Page that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions they made were impacted by bias or improper considerations.

***

After October 4, we found no evidence that anyone associated with the Midyear investigation, including the entire leadership team at FBI Headquarters, took any action on the Weiner laptop issue until the week of October 24, and then did so only after SDNY raised concerns about the lack of action.

“These new documents show the FBI knowingly sat on the Clinton emails for over a month before notifying Congress,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And even worse, we now know the FBI didn’t even bother to look at the emails, and then again only partially, for weeks. The Clinton email scandal needs to be reviewed again and immediately by the Justice Department.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/...er-production-02105/

Chapter Nine of the IG Report back in June had this information, in great detail.

Is there some new critical discovery here? Not that I see.

I’m still waiting to see what the 700,000 e-mails were about. Are the “30,000 personal ones” in there?

I admire Judicial Watch and respect what they are trying to do, but sometimes they create these excited press releases to open wallets, not necessarily to advance information.

State Department provided 'clearly false' statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, 'shocked' federal judge says

Is the headline of the story on Fox News site now.

Judge Royce Lamberth says Mills perjured herself.

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U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said he was "shocked" and "dumbfounded" when he learned that FBI had granted immunity to former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills during its investigation into the use of Clinton's server, according to a court transcript of his remarks.

"I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given immunity in — by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case," Lamberth said during Friday's hearing.

Read the whole thing here.

Can the FBI ever restore its reputation?

I recall someone saying, when I was a youngster, that recovering your reputation after lying was akin to recovering your virginity.

In my somewhat jaundiced view of the FBI, there is extremely small chance that anyone will ever believe what they say. At least until the top dozen levels of management are replaced with known and proven to be honest and trustworthy.

I realize that the huge majority of street level agents are honest and hardworking. Probably as disgusted with this crap as we are. But those agents are not in positions to improve much at the DOJ.

I'll be satisfied when video of Hillary's body cavity search is up on free porn sites.

The same goes for the rest of the cabal at DOJ, FBI, DOS, EOTP, and EIEIO.