Another item that was too hard for the FBI to figure out

http://www.washingtonexaminer....g-eu/article/2603370

State Department attorneys admitted Wednesday that they had lost copies of a 2012 email between Jake Sullivan, a top former aide to Hillary Clinton, and an employee of the Clinton Foundation.

The email contained an attachment memo about Greek bonds — a significant detail given the heavy investments Clinton's son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, was making in the Greek economic recovery during that same period.

Chelsea Clinton, Mezvinsky's wife, is a board member at the Clinton Foundation. The fact that one of Clinton's closest aides shared insider information about the economic climate in Greece with the foundation — just one year after Mezvinsky and fellow Goldman Sachs alum founded a hedge fund that operated primarily by placing bets on international economic trends — raises questions about the many potential conflicts of interest that could have arisen from the Clintons' web of connections.

The government needs to apologize to Al Capone for sending him to prison. He was just a rank amateur compared to KLINTON.

Wikileaks was set to do a document dump this Wed., but Julian Assange has canceled the release due to "security concerns" at London's Ecuadorian Embassy where he was going to appear for the much anticipated announcement.

Hopefully Assange will get it straightened out and get his "October Surprise" in motion soon.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
The government needs to apologize to Al Capone for sending him to prison. He was just a rank amateur compared to KLINTON.

This is literally true. He was small potatoes compared with the Clinton Crime Family.

It will be released sooner or later. Assange is a drama queen if there ever was one. Still he does good work so I'll wait. I doubt the information he has is time sensitive. Depending on what it is, it will need to be checked and vetted. Might even be too soon, since the low information voters won't remember things for a month.

The reality of the situation is that I don't think he should be killed until he dumps it all. After that, I really don't care what happens to him. He's a useful fool.

Not quite sure how to think about the State Department Operations Center Watch Log from 9/11/2012 (Benghazi attack)

At this link there is an issue raise that Obama took 6 hours to join the meetings.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...lary-didnt-find-him/

The watch log is here:

http://www.veteransforastronga...inal-RD-Ltr-docs.pdf

5 MB download.

Note that in the pdf (page 3), there is a call between Clinton and Libyan General National Congress President Mohammed Magariaf at 11:34 pm on 11 sep 2012.

In the call Clinotn asks Magariaf to assist those at Bengahzi and also to protect the embassy at Tripoli.

She says there is a gun battle ongoing and a fire.

There is no mention of requesting permission to send US troops to help at Bengahzi or Tripoli.

I almost wonder if this is part of the big coverup. That Clinton & Obama relied on the locals to provide protection and it all went to hell. They knew there was a battle going on and didn't even attempt to bring in US troops.

This would have been terrible for Obama's PR because he had been emphasizing he had defeated al-qaeda.

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Originally posted by oldRoger:
Comey decided to give Hillary a pass because he wanted to do so, not for fear of his job. I wish I thought his conscience would bother him, but he is after all a bureaucrat and a liberal, no conscience included.

He may not have feared for his job, but with the Clintons involved, he may well have feared for his life.

flashguy

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He may not have feared for his job, but with the Clintons involved, he may well have feared for his life.

I wouldn't give him that much credit. His fear like that of most of the other high level DC bureaucrats is more about negative comments in the press and not being invited to the best progressive parties.

In other words he did not do his duty for mundane personal reasons.

Why destroy government computers unless you are trying to coverup? Tell me FBI

FBI agreed to destroy laptops of Clinton aides with immunity deal, lawmaker says.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...l-lawmaker-says.html

Immunity deals for two top Hillary Clinton aides included a side arrangement obliging the FBI to destroy their laptops after reviewing the devices, House Judiciary Committee sources told Fox News on Monday.

Sources said the arrangement with former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and ex-campaign staffer Heather Samuelson also limited the search to no later than Jan. 31, 2015. This meant investigators could not review documents for the period after the email server became public -- in turn preventing the bureau from discovering if there was any evidence of obstruction of justice, sources said.

The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee fired off a letter Monday to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking why the DOJ and FBI agreed to the restrictive terms, including that the FBI would destroy the laptops after finishing the search.

“Like many things about this case, these new materials raise more questions than answers,” Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wrote in the letter obtained by Fox News.

“Doesn’t the willingness of Ms. Mills and Ms. Samuelson to have their laptops destroyed by the FBI contradict their claim that the laptops could have been withheld because they contained non-relevant, privileged information? If so, doesn’t that undermine the claim that the side agreements were necessary?” Goodlatte asks.

The immunity deals for Mills and Samuelson, made as part of the FBI’s probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state, apparently included a series of “side agreements” that were negotiated by Samuelson and Mills’ attorney Beth Wilkinson.

The side deals were agreed to on June 10, less than a month before FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency would recommend no charges be brought against Clinton or her staff.

Judiciary Committee aides told FoxNews.com that the destruction of the laptops is particularly troubling as it means that the computers could not be used as evidence in future legal proceedings, should new information or circumstances arise.

Committee aides also asked why the FBI and DOJ would enter into a voluntary negotiation to begin with, when the laptops could be obtained condition-free via a subpoena.

The letter also asked why the DOJ agreed to limit their search of the laptops to files before Jan. 31, 2015, which would “give up any opportunity to find evidence related to the destruction of evidence or obstruction of justice related to Secretary Clinton’s unauthorized use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State.”

Aides expressed shock at the parameter, saying it is especially troubling as Mills and Samuelson already had immunity from the consequences of whatever might be on the laptop.

“You’re essentially extending immunity to everyone,” one aide said.

The letter to Lynch sought to determine how many documents were blocked from FBI investigators because they fell outside of the date range agreed to by the DOJ.

^^^^ Just when you think it can't get any more blatant....

The corruption of the FBI in this mess is astounding.

Whoa. Somebody said that Assange has proof the Killery wanted authorization to use a drone strike to kill Assange. This as Secretary of State. Rumor right now, I'll try to find link.

I doubt you'll find corroboration, but it wouldn't surprise me.

flashguy

And Assange is a dud.....

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“There has been a lot of misquoting of me,” Julian Assange told reporters over a video link from his refuge at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, after speculation arose that the upcoming Wikileaks release would seriously damage Hillary Clinton. Claims that he and Wikileaks have targeted Hillary and want to stop her from becoming president are “false,” Assange insisted, although he did state that the leaks would impact the US election in other ways. Assange hinted that Google might need to start sweating a bit, however...

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
And Assange is a dud.....

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“There has been a lot of misquoting of me,” Julian Assange told reporters over a video link from his refuge at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, after speculation arose that the upcoming Wikileaks release would seriously damage Hillary Clinton. Claims that he and Wikileaks have targeted Hillary and want to stop her from becoming president are “false,” Assange insisted, although he did state that the leaks would impact the US election in other ways. Assange hinted that Google might need to start sweating a bit, however...

Sounds like he might have overplayed his hand or maybe he is just running scared now that she wants to "drone" him. Holiday Inn might be a safer place than the Ecuadorian Embassy.

RMD

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Originally posted by rduckwor:

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
And Assange is a dud.....

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“There has been a lot of misquoting of me,” Julian Assange told reporters over a video link from his refuge at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, after speculation arose that the upcoming Wikileaks release would seriously damage Hillary Clinton. Claims that he and Wikileaks have targeted Hillary and want to stop her from becoming president are “false,” Assange insisted, although he did state that the leaks would impact the US election in other ways. Assange hinted that Google might need to start sweating a bit, however...

Sounds like he might have overplayed his hand or maybe he is just running scared now that she wants to "drone" him. Holiday Inn might be a safer place than the Ecuadorian Embassy.

RMD

Somebody must have gotten to him and he's pulling a Comey.

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Originally posted by rduckwor:

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
And Assange is a dud.....

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“There has been a lot of misquoting of me,” Julian Assange told reporters over a video link from his refuge at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, after speculation arose that the upcoming Wikileaks release would seriously damage Hillary Clinton. Claims that he and Wikileaks have targeted Hillary and want to stop her from becoming president are “false,” Assange insisted, although he did state that the leaks would impact the US election in other ways. Assange hinted that Google might need to start sweating a bit, however...

Sounds like he might have overplayed his hand or maybe he is just running scared now that she wants to "drone" him. Holiday Inn might be a safer place than the Ecuadorian Embassy.

RMD

Somebody must have gotten to him and he's pulling a Comey.

Nonsense. He never had the goods. He was just playing the media for attention and publicity.

Gucifer hacks the Clinton Foundation:

https://www.facebook.com/mattd...ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf

Fun and hilarity ensue!

RMD

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
Nonsense. He never had the goods. He was just playing the media for attention and publicity.

I think you're wrong. Why are you in such a big hurry? There's 4 1/2 weeks left in this campaign. Would you like it all to come out today so they have time to do damage control? Me thinks your a little bit impatient SigMan. Time will tell which one of us is right.

Bill Clinton’s airport run-in with Loretta Lynch was no accident.

http://nypost.com/2016/10/03/b...o-let-hillary-skate/

In his new book, “Guilty As Sin” (Regnery), out Tuesday, Edward Klein claims officials in the Obama administration decided before the first witness was interviewed that Hillary Clinton would not face prosecution over the handling of classified email. An excerpt:

Bill Clinton’s private jet was cleared for takeoff and was taxiing toward the active runway at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport when a Secret Service agent informed him that Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s plane was coming in for a landing.

“Don’t take off!” Bill barked.

As his plane skidded to a halt and then headed back to its parking space, Bill grabbed a phone and called an old friend — one of his most trusted legal advisers.

It was June 27, 2016 — one year into the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

“Bill said, ‘I want to bushwhack Loretta,’ ” the adviser recalled. “ ‘I’m going to board her plane. What do you think?’ And I said, ‘There’s no downside for you, but she’s going to take a pounding if she’s crazy enough to let you on her plane.’

“He knew it would be a huge embarrassment to Loretta when people found out that she had talked to the husband of a woman — the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party — who was under criminal investigation by the FBI,” the adviser continued. “But he didn’t give a damn. He wanted to intimidate Loretta and discredit [FBI Director James] Comey’s investigation of Hillary’s emails, which was giving Hillary’s campaign agita.”

Bill hung up the phone and turned to a Secret Service agent.

“As soon as her plane lands,” he said, “get the attorney general on the phone and say the president would like to have a word with her.”

Once inside Lynch’s plane, Bill turned on the Clinton charm. He gave Lynch’s shoulder an affectionate squeeze and shook hands with her husband, Stephen Hargove.

“Bill said he could tell that Loretta knew from the get-go that she’d made a huge mistake,” his adviser said. “She was literally trembling, shaking with nervousness. Her husband tried to comfort her; he kept patting her hand and rubbing her back.

“Bill made small talk about golf and grandchildren and [former Attorney General] Janet Reno, and he kept at it for nearly a half-hour. It didn’t make any difference what they talked about; all he wanted to do was send a message to everyone at Justice and the FBI that Hillary had the full weight of the Clinton machine, the Democratic Party, and the White House behind her.

“It was clearly tortuous for Loretta. Bill told me later that he noticed there were beads of sweat on her upper lip.”

One week later, Barack Obama invited Hillary to fly with him to North Carolina for a campaign rally. He wouldn’t have let her use two of the greatest symbols of presidential power — Air Force One and the podium with the Seal of the President of the United States — if he thought there was even the slightest chance she was going to be indicted. But Attorney General Lynch had privately assured him that she wouldn’t let that happen, and that the fix was in.

Many members of the mainstream media thought that FBI Director Comey was hell-bent on indicting Hillary. They called him the Eliot Ness of his time — squeaky clean and untouchable.

But that was a complete misreading of Comey.

He was affable, had a good sense of humor, and might come across as a straight arrow, but he didn’t get to be director of the FBI by falling off the turnip truck. It took huge ambition and an instinct for political survival.

Comey knew that if he recommended an indictment of Hillary — something that was fiercely opposed by the president, the attorney general, the Democrats in Congress, and the mainstream media — he’d ignite a firestorm and go down in history as the man who traumatized the country’s political system. What’s more, if after all of that, Hillary was found not guilty by a jury, it would blacken Comey’s reputation for all time to come.

The day after Obama and Hillary flew to North Carolina, Comey held a televised press conference in the FBI auditorium. Dressed in a blue shirt and gold tie, which matched the colors of the FBI flag standing behind his lectern, Comey methodically laid out a bill of indictment against Hillary Clinton.

He said that Hillary and her top aides at the State Department — Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jake Sullivan — had been “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

On and on he went, for a full 10 minutes, making an iron-clad case that Hillary was guilty of gross negligence in her handling of classified material, and that she had violated a federal statute that did not require evidence of intent to prove her guilty.

Attorney General Lynch sat in her office, along with her top aides, watching Comey deliver his blistering rebuke of Hillary Clinton.

Lynch had promised President Obama and Valerie Jarrett that Hillary would not be indicted. But here was the director of the FBI on national TV laying out what appeared to be an unassailable case for prosecuting her.

How could this have happened? What had gone wrong? Would she be forced to resign?

All these thoughts went through Lynch’s mind, as she later recalled to a friend, as she listened to Comey drone on.

She was livid.

Finally, she couldn’t stand to watch him anymore. She covered her eyes with her hands and let out a string of curses aimed at Jim Comey. And then, three-quarters of the way through his news conference, Comey dropped a bombshell.

Hillary, he said, shouldn’t be prosecuted for her handling of classified information — even though it wasn’t his job to make prosecutorial decisions. That was up to the prosecutors in the Justice Department. There was no evidence, he said, that Hillary had intentionally transmitted or willfully mishandled secret documents in order to harm the United States.

“Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

Hillary was clearly guilty as sin, and the right thing would have been for Comey not only to say so — which he did — but to make her pay for her sins.

But he didn’t.

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
Nonsense. He never had the goods. He was just playing the media for attention and publicity.

I think you're wrong. Why are you in such a big hurry? There's 4 1/2 weeks left in this campaign. Would you like it all to come out today so they have time to do damage control? Me thinks your a little bit impatient SigMan. Time will tell which one of us is right.

The hurry is that some of the critical states are already taking early voting. (A wrong thing, in my opinion, and certainly wrong this far ahead of the Election Day.)

flashguy