FBI Folds (Again): Comey Says “Conclusions Unchanged From July” On Clinton Email Review

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And now the pendulum of Comey backlash swings the other way.


The Hill reports that, in a letter to several committee chairmen released Sunday, FBI Director James Comey announced that the FBI has not changed its July conclusion regarding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of State.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz made waves Sunday afternoon, when he tweeted about the FBI letter…

Full letter from FBI Director Comey…

So, having reviewed 650,000 emails in less than a week (?), we can now go back to Democrats loving Comey and the FBI and Trump hating on them.

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The Mexican Peso is soaring on the news…

 

One cannot help but draw parallels between this ‘relief’ rally headline-driven event to the death of British MP Jo Cox days before the Brexit vote which swung polling opinion whipsawing markets before a Brexit vote that remain for “leave” anyway.

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rhs jr
rhs jr
November 6, 2016 3:53 pm

What was the Elite’s message to Comey just before he wrote that letter?

Tampa Gold
Tampa Gold
  rhs jr
November 6, 2016 7:49 pm

This is actually a brilliant move on Comey’s part.

Notice what wasn’t said was that the investigation was closed.

This ‘update’ on the current status of the investigation is that they still do not know what they will decide, but for now, no changes.

This makes the Hitliary demothugs fuck right off for now and allows his agents to keep plugging along and moving forward with their investigation while not being attacked by the demonicrats constantly.

The tell in this will be if the FBI agents protest, or just keep quiet about it like nothing changed.

Rick Caird
Rick Caird
  Tampa Gold
November 7, 2016 3:34 pm

I think it actually hurts Hillary. It puts the email server back in the headlines the day before the election. Most people realize this server was wrong and a security risk. Most people realize Hillary lied about this continuously. Most people realize Hillary is being protected. This just reminds people of how cunning and corrupt she is.

Musket
Musket
November 6, 2016 3:57 pm

Forget it…..the toothpaste is out of the tube and the bitch is toast…….

The Comey news just came out stating that the 650,000 emails are all of the yoga and wedding school of thought……..This is in fact Comey’s rendition of a fat carp on a lake dock in lower Alabama in August. This is just the latest of many “transformations” given to America in the last 8 years…….all b/s too…….

Suzanna
Suzanna
November 6, 2016 3:57 pm

Oh for heaven’s sake…Comey is a dirty dish rag.

AC
AC
November 6, 2016 4:00 pm

I wonder what sort of horrifying videos they have of Comey?

Overthecliff
Overthecliff
  AC
November 7, 2016 8:32 pm

Doing dead little boys with pal John Roberts.

Muck About
Muck About
November 6, 2016 4:02 pm

Too late, the damage is done and the credibility of the FBI as the Nations’ Premier law investigative and justice seeking Agency is in total disarray. Comey should resign. Obvious political strings and pressure were applied at all levels by the bitch Lynch at DOJ which should earn her time in the female bay of a Federal Prison.

The confidence of the American People in its’ Government is at about its’ all time low, slipping lower and is downright absurd in some areas. There is no one the American People can count on the suport them, properly investigate the bad guys slipping and sliding in the mud behinds the scenes, find the truth and prosecute those who are continually breaking the black letter laws of our country.

Corruption and crony ways of business (you scratch mine, I’ll massage yours – for a fee) has gone to levels beyond belief in what only 50 years ago was reasonably honest Federal Government.

We’re sliding toward the peak of the 4th Turning and nothing will stop it from completing its’ climax.

Muck

Morkus
Morkus
  Muck About
November 6, 2016 4:16 pm

“There is no one the American People can count on the suport them, properly investigate the bad guys slipping and sliding in the mud behinds the scenes, find the truth and prosecute those who are continually breaking the black letter laws of our country.”

Spot on, Muck. The FBI’s reputation is right down there with used toilet paper. Comey has twice underlined for us that there is no rule of law in this country.

Uncorrupted
Uncorrupted
November 6, 2016 4:15 pm

Fuck it. Burn it down.

For those who ever watched HBO’s “Deadwood” they would know Seth Bullock, a character that was played by the actor Timothy Olyphant.

Seth had a temper, but it was a righteous kind of anger and this is how I feel right now. Something smells bad in the halls of power. This clip below sums up my feelings exactly. Mainly the part starting at the 1:29 mark where the sleazy asshole says in a condescending and arrogant manner:

“I suppose you best take your swing”

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
November 6, 2016 4:23 pm

*Cue to NYPD leaking the 650,000 emails before the election.

I was reading the interview of Erik Prince (Blackwater CEO) talking about how the NYPD wanted to leak the emails and threaten Comey if the FBI didn’t investigate. I already knew despite the overwhelming evidence from Wikileaks the DOJ wasn’t going to make/approve any motions of taking down the Clintons & Co. before the election. I just hope the NYPD pulls through and leaks the emails like they’ve threaten in the event the FBI/DOJ didn’t act.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
November 6, 2016 4:31 pm

Erik Prince: NYPD ready to make arrests in Weiner Case
BreitBart:http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/

“Because of Weinergate and the sexting scandal, the NYPD started investigating it. Through a subpoena, through a warrant, they searched his laptop, and sure enough, found those 650,000 emails. They found way more stuff than just more information pertaining to the inappropriate sexting the guy was doing,” Prince claimed.

“They found State Department emails. They found a lot of other really damning criminal information, including money laundering, including the fact that Hillary went to this sex island with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton went there more than 20 times. Hillary Clinton went there at least six times,” he said.

“The amount of garbage that they found in these emails, of criminal activity by Hillary, by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress was so disgusting they gave it to the FBI, and they said, ‘We’re going to go public with this if you don’t reopen the investigation and you don’t do the right thing with timely indictments,’” Prince explained.

“I believe – I know, and this is from a very well-placed source of mine at 1PP, One Police Plaza in New York – the NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making in this investigation, and they’ve gotten huge pushback, to the point of coercion, from the Justice Department, with the Justice Department threatening to charge someone that had been unrelated in the accidental heart attack death of Eric Garner almost two years ago. That’s the level of pushback the Obama Justice Department is doing against actually seeking justice in the email and other related criminal matters,” Prince said.

“There’s five different parts of the FBI conducting investigations into these things, with constant downdrafts from the Obama Justice Department. So in the, I hope, unlikely and very unfortunate event that Hillary Clinton is elected president, we will have a constitutional crisis that we have not seen since, I believe, 1860,” Prince declared.

Marlow asked Prince to clarify these revelations.

“NYPD was the first one to look at that laptop,” Prince elaborated. “Weiner and Huma Abedin, his wife – the closest adviser of Hillary Clinton for 20 years – have both flipped. They are cooperating with the government. They both have – they see potential jail time of many years for their crimes, for Huma Abedin sending and receiving and even storing hundreds of thousands of messages from the State Department server and from Hillary Clinton’s own homebrew server, which contained classified information. Weiner faces all kinds of exposure for the inappropriate sexting that was going on and for other information that they found.”

“So NYPD first gets that computer. They see how disgusting it is. They keep a copy of everything, and they pass a copy on to the FBI, which finally pushes the FBI off their chairs, making Comey reopen that investigation, which was indicated in the letter last week. The point being, NYPD has all the information, and they will pursue justice within their rights if the FBI doesn’t,” Prince contended.

“There is all kinds of criminal culpability through all the emails they’ve seen of that 650,000, including money laundering, underage sex, pay-for-play, and, of course, plenty of proof of inappropriate handling, sending/receiving of classified information, up to SAP level Special Access Programs,” he stated.

“So the plot thickens. NYPD was pushing because, as an article quoted one of the chiefs – that’s the level just below commissioner – he said as a parent, as a father with daughters, he could not let that level of evil continue,” Prince said.

He noted that the FBI can investigate these matters, “but they can’t convene a grand jury. They can’t file charges.”

“The prosecutors, the Justice Department has to do that,” he explained. “Now, as I understand it, Preet Bharara, the Manhattan prosecutor, has gotten ahold of some of this. From what I hear, he’s a stand-up guy, and hopefully he does the right thing.”

Marlow agreed that Bharara’s “sterling reputation” as a determined prosecutor was “bad news for the Clintons.”

Prince agreed, but said, “If people are willing to bend or break the law and don’t really care about the Constitution or due process – if you’re willing to use Stalinist tactics against someone – who knows what level of pressure” could be brought to bear against even the most tenacious law enforcement officials?

“The point being, fortunately, it’s not just the FBI; [there are] five different offices that are in the hunt for justice, but the NYPD has it as well,” Prince said, citing the Wall Street Journal reporting that has “exposed downdraft, back pressure from the Justice Department” against both the FBI and NYPD, in an effort to “keep the sunlight and the disinfecting effects of the truth and transparency from shining on this great evil that has gone on, and is slowly being exposed.”

“The Justice Department is trying to run out the clock, to elect Hillary Clinton, to prevent any real justice from being done,” he warned.

As for the mayor of New York City, Prince said he has heard that “de Blasio wants to stay away from this.”

“The evidence is so bad, the email content is so bad, that I think even he wants to stay away from it, which is really telling,” he said.

Prince reported that the other legislators involved in the case “have not been named yet,” and urged the NYPD to hold a press conference and name them.

“I wish they’d do it today,” he said. “These are the unusual sliding-door moments of history, that people can stand up and be counted, and make a real difference, and to save a Republic, save a Constitution that we actually need and love, that our forefathers fought and died for. For any cop that is aware of this level of wrongdoing, and they have veterans in their family, or deceased veterans in their family, they owe it to them to stand up, to stand and be counted today, and shine the light of truth on this great evil.”

“From what I understand, up to the commissioner or at least the chief level in NYPD, they wanted to have a press conference, and DOJ, Washington people, political appointees have been exerting all kinds of undue pressure on them to back down,” he added.

Marlow suggested that some of those involved in keeping the details quiet might want to avoid accusations of politicizing the case and seeking to influence the presidential election.

“Sure, that’s it. That’s the argument for it,” Prince agreed. “But the fact is, you know that if the Left had emails pointing to Donald Trump visiting, multiple times, an island with underage sex slaves basically, emails, you know they’d be talking about it. They’d be shouting it from the rooftops.”

“This kind of evil, this kind of true dirt on Hillary Clinton – look, you don’t have to make any judgments. Just release the emails,” he urged. “Just dump them. Let them out there. Let people see the light of truth.”

Prince dismissed the claims of people like Clinton campaign CEO John Podesta and DNC chair Donna Brazile that some of the damaging emails already released by WikiLeaks were fabricated, noting that “forensic analysis done shows that, indeed, they are not fabricated; they are really legitimate.”

“This is stuff coming right off a hard drive that was owned by Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin, Hillary’s closest adviser for the last 20 years,” he said of the new bombshells. “This is not from some hacker or anybody else. This is a laptop seized from a warrant in a criminal investigation.”

Prince confirmed that based on his information, Abedin is most likely looking at jail time, unless she cuts a deal with prosecutors.

“There’s a minimum of obstruction of justice and all kinds of unlawful handling of classified information,” he said. “Because remember, this laptop was in the possession of Weiner, who did not have a security clearance. And many, many of those emails were from her Yahoo account, which had State Department emails forwarded to them, so she could easier print these messages, scan them, and send them on to Hillary. That’s the carelessness that Hillary and her staff had for the classified information that the intelligence community risks life and limb to collect in challenged, opposed areas around the world.”

“That’s not who you want in the White House,” Prince declared.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote
November 6, 2016 5:11 pm

Comey had to walk back his letter because of the Hatch Act.
He said the checked the emails tied to her directly.
They scanned them for previously reviewed emails and for key words.

They have nothing on Hillary but plenty on her minions.
This still leaves open the possibility of getting the Weiners.
My guess was they would throw Huma and the Weiner under the bus.

Huma deserves it, how the fuck does she keep 666,000 emails as security against Hillary and think she won’t catch a bullet? Attention, Huma: Vince Foster

General
General
November 6, 2016 5:28 pm

Comey is such a spineless pussy. Doesn’t anyone in the FBI have the balls to release those emails to the American Public. I would be amazed if there wasn’t evidence of treason in them.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
November 6, 2016 5:31 pm

I wonder what it must be like to know that your are the new Benedict Arnold? I wonder what he dreams about at night, what thoughts run through his mind when he wakes up at 3 am and there’s no sounds but his own conscience?

I hope it was worth it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 6, 2016 5:38 pm

Never underestimate a Clinton, and never expect a Clinton to be held accountable.

FWIW, the FBI should be commended for such a quick and thorough review of 650,000 e-mails, that would seem like record time to me and they probably had to dedicate the entire bureau’s resources to it.

Reds Fan
Reds Fan
November 6, 2016 5:38 pm

The Clintons escape again.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
November 6, 2016 5:47 pm

Wow.

I’m still in shock that this guy would do this to his own troops. You think any decent law abiding person will ever again lift a finger to help these guys solve any crime ever again? He put every one of their heads on the chopping block to save his own ass and turned the FBI into the NKVD of his own free will.

Shameless.

ASIG
ASIG
November 6, 2016 5:55 pm

The question now is – What will the NYPD do in the next 24 hours?

Gayle
Gayle
  ASIG
November 6, 2016 10:32 pm

Remember that Al Quaida may attack NY tomorrow.

unit472
unit472
November 6, 2016 5:55 pm

I am reminded of that Korean War epic, The Bridges at Toko Ri where he watches, at the end of the movie, as US Navy pilots take off again from their carrier to fight the communists,the Admiral turns to the other officers on the bridge and asks ‘Where do we find such men?”

Now we know they are gone. We only find weaklings like James Comey too afraid to do his duty.

Hoboken411
Hoboken411
November 6, 2016 6:48 pm

Here’s what I don’t understand. WHAT CHANGED from their initial conclusion that warranted the case to be re-opened?

When they don’t offer a DETAILED explanation of why… it makes you wonder. They could have at least said WHY they were initially doing it one way only to reverse.

Not “nothing to see here, move along…”

Hollow man
Hollow man
November 6, 2016 7:11 pm

Wanna bet that all the states that tied or close go to Clinton?

Robert Gore
Robert Gore
November 6, 2016 8:42 pm

Somebody made Comey an offer he couldn’t refuse.