FBI Says It Will Investigate New Emails From Clinton's Server

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday, FBI Director James Comey wrote that the agency is investigating additional emails that were discovered as part of a separate investigation.

"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation … I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation," he wrote



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[BlueCaliDem]

1. Why, again, do Democratic presidents appoint Republicans in powerful positions? Clearly, Comey is a

partisan HACK and not the venerated and respectful public servant he's being portrayed as by M$M.

I'm so sick and tired of Republicans. They can't help but put Party over country.

[red dog 1]

9. + 1

[Democat]

28. Obama desperately wanted Republicans to like him

He spent many months trying to convince Republicans to like him.

He has been a great president, but disregarding hateful right wingers from the start would have made him even greater.

[TonyPDX]

56. Yeah, that worked out really well, didn't it?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

135. That's why I was a Hillary guy in 2008.

I knew she knew the score.

Maybe he did too. But I had to laugh at all my friends who were claiming he "would bring both sides together"


That's not to say he wasn't a great President. I will be sad to see him go.

[Tarheel_Dem]

180. I hope you will, at some point, reflect on just how divisive that mindset is. It's why we are....

where we are. There was a time when lawmakers & politicians of good conscience came together to work for the good of the whole. Trying to blame Obama for some really bad choices made by others, is the height of dishonesty.

[awoke_in_2003]

188. Yeah, that time stopped

when Gingrich was speaker. The GOP has been in blood sport mode since.

[Tarheel_Dem]

192. So, you too, blame Obama for wanting to change that? It was honest outreach on his part.

[awoke_in_2003]

194. No, I hate to fault him

The fault lies at the GOP doorstep. What I will fault him, and dem senators, for is not being more vocal about his SC nominee. They should be bringing up the puke senators refusing to do their job every time a camera is in their face. Kennedy was appointed in the last year of Reagan's tenure, and they should be citing that, instead of pouting because the GOP is being mean. Where is man of big words Harry Reid? Oh yeah, preparing for retirement with his nice pension and possible future lobbying job. Don't want to upset that cart.

[Democat]

207. Obama had 8 years in office

He wasted precious time kissing right wing ass only to be laughed at by Republicans.

Voters didn't elect him to be tricked by corrupt right wingers.

[Tarheel_Dem]

220. I don't ever think it's a "waste of precious time" trying to bring the country together. Someone...

will have to do it eventually, otherwise we're going to destroy ourselves as a nation.

[dalton99]

74. Well, there were no qualified Democratic candidates

[Tarheel_Dem]

182. To whom did he "donate a couple mil"? And where did you hear this? Link?

[Tarheel_Dem]

184. WTF does the CGF have to do with Obama appointing Comey as FBI Director? Please explain.

[Tarheel_Dem]

187. "Won't talk about it anymore". IOW, you made it up. I'm sure we'd all like a link to where you....

heard that Comey donated a couple a mil to either Obama or CGF. You made a claim, you should back it up. If you didn't know what you were talking about, there's no shame in saying so.

[ananda]

127. Exactly!

I will never understand why he wasn't removed
last year!

[ileus]

191. This wouldn't have been allowed if we weren't going to come out on top.

It's our FBI, and Mr Obama wouldn't have let this come out if it wasn't going to damage us.

In a few days the FBI will give Hillary a clean bill of health and basically tell us she's more innocent than they ever thought and to vote for her.

[Joe Turner]

204. Hillary set the forces in motion

when she foolishly decided to use her personal server to conduct State Department business. I mean how reckless can you get in this age? Being outside the State Department security network leaves everything on her computers open to hacking from around the world. And she wants to be president? Bernie Sanders was right all along.

[BlueCaliDem]

205. What a bunch of BUNK. There is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that her server has ever been hacked into.

And you call that "reckless"?? Wow.

HOWEVER, there is plenty of evidence that government servers, AT&T servers, Yahoo servers, and others have been targeted and hacked into, and people's information have been sold to the highest bidder.

So please try and keep a reality-based perspective.

[ismnotwasm]

227. No

The state departments entire tech has been exposed to be inadequate and possibly atequated. I would have a personal sever myself.

[wordpix]

228. this has NOTHING to do with her private server, NOTHING

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/fbi-directors-fraud-exposed-as-latest-emails-were-not-to-or-from-hillary-clinton/26440/

[wordpix]

226. the emails are NOT from HRC's private server

they're from a computer in the Abedin-Wiener household. FBI confiscated it in the Weiner scandal re: a 15 y.o. he was sexting with.

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/fbi-directors-fraud-exposed-as-latest-emails-were-not-to-or-from-hillary-clinton/26440/

[BlueCaliDem]

231. I made no claim, anywhere, in my post that those unseen, unread e-mails were from Hillary's private

server.

My post wasn't that long. Maybe you'd like to reread it.

[wordpix]

233. I am not on your case, I am trying to point out the HEADLINE is incorrect

[BlueCaliDem]

235. Then you should have directed your respone to the OP, not me, because it came across as if you

were making a point about my post, not the OP.

Btw, I KNOW that those unseen, unread e-mails weren't from or to Hillary's server. I'm an L.A. Times subscriber.

[Grey Lemercier]

2. desperation in fascist clown town

[Chicago1980]

3. How convenient.

Steve King of Iowa is on MSNBC right now, spewing all the same talking points that the GOP and Trump have been talking about for months.


October surprise?

[lillypaddle]

107. Jan Brewer was on a little while ago

They might as well ask Pee Wee Herman what HE thinks.

[Democat]

4. Thanks Obama

Why did he cave to Republicans and appoint a right winger to head of the FBI?

Obama has been good on most things but he spent way too much time trying to kiss Republican ass.

[red dog 1]

17. + 1

[ffr]

5. For the 16th time? lol

[OnDoutside]

6. Never be fooled that Comey isn't a Republican Toadie. A vile individual.

[Democat]

11. Why does Obama support him?

Because Obama desperately wanted Republicans to like him. That was one of the worst parts of his mostly great presidency.

[OnDoutside]

18. Water under the bridge at this stage. Between the staggered release of emails and now this, he's

done his Republican job.

[calimary]

7. Sigh...

[meadowlark5]

8. Comey has been taking a lot of crap from all the alt right nuts

Who knows. Maybe even getting death threats.

He's probably trying to save his reputation. Trump probably promised him something big in his administration if he did this.

[malthaussen]

21. Director of the FBI is already pretty big.

The only higher appointment in law enforcement would be Attorney General.

-- Mal

[wordpix]

229. now he'll get even more from US for throwing the election to a sex trafficker/

tax evader/possible murderer ---referring to Jane Doe's court filing stating Trump threatened while raping her at age 13 with disappearance like "Maria," another girl at the sex parties who did not show up to the later ones. Was Trump involved in a murder?

"Maria" was age 12

[Chicago1980]

10. And the media couldn't wait to get GOP opinions on the matter.

Bullshit

[msanthrope]

12. Very careful wording by Comey. I smell a punt. nt

[Cha]

166. What do you mean, msanthrope? n/t

[rtracey]

13. relax

Relax, nothing moves fast in DC.... Hillary will be elected in 2 weeks... let them investigate, because sorry but if there is any damning email she knew about or she let go thinking it wouldnt fly, then she deserves what happens, if its false like the other 55,000 she gave then its another BS monent.

[spooky3]

58. And many people have already voted.

[christx30]

70. I voted for Clinton on Monday.

But even if that were the case, and I saw this news, I'd go out to the polls and vote for her again. This is just republican garbage being thrown at Hillary because they know they don't have a prayer of electing Trump through legitimate means. It's a smear job, pure and simple.

[6000eliot]

14. Setting up impeachment proceedings are we?

[Stonepounder]

116. The Rethugs are already floating the idea of starting impeachment inquires

before she is even sword in. I am not at all sure that our country, as we have known it, is going to survive the Tea Party asshats in Congress and their pathological hatred of anyone who is not a white, male, Right-wing, Republican. They hated Obama because he was black and a Democrat, and they hate Hillary because she is a woman and a Democrat.

Maybe we could convince Michele to run in 4 or 8 years and watch all the old fart Republicans in Congress simply stroke out and have their heads explode.

[Mr. Sparkle]

16. Im guessing that there might have been something in the wikileaks release.

but either way its outrageous, he could have waited 2 weeks so as not to interfere in the election. Its highly inappropriate doing this investigating now.

[red dog 1]

23. + 1

[getagrip_already]

24. wikileaks material wouldnt be admmissible in court.........

[lucca18]

64. Yes, the timing is very suspicious.

[getagrip_already]

19. don't hyperventilate......

just because they are reviewing new emails doesn't mean much. They already found emails containing classified material.

It didn't rise to a level of charges before. Unless hillary cut and pasted ts material herself, it really won't amount to a lot.

Perceptions and gop blotivating of course will continue.

[humbled_opinion]

104. I think the issue is why would

The FBI director put this massive headline out there days before an election ? Now you are going to have non stop speculation and those on the fence about Hillary may abandon her because of this.

[cilla4progress]

20. Maybe we will have to keep President Obama in office

until this is resolved.

He was, after all, the last democratically-elected President.

This county is a friggin' drama queen clusterfuck.

Hopefully this will be shown as an overreach, just like the impeachment proceedings against Bill turned out to be.

[Chicago1980]

27. Was your comment supposed to make sense?

It doesn't.

[Farmgirl1961]

22. Here's the headliner from CNN on the emails

(CNN)FBI Director James Comey said Friday the bureau is reviewing new emails related to Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, according to a letter sent to eight congressional committee chairmen, a surprise development with 11 days until the election.

After recommending this year that the Department of Justice not press charges against the Secretary of State, Comey said in the letter that "recent developments" urged him to take another look.

"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation," Comey wrote the chairmen. "I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation."

[GeorgeGist]

60. Sounds like a heap of desperate bullshit.

[jberryhill]

25. Your subject line is not accurate

The letter does not say that they are "re-opening" the investigation.

They are taking a look at some additional emails, with no indication as to whether they are significant.

[Nancyswidower]

67. Pertinant to the investigation... unrelated case, ......

Was in the letter.....it's worrisome.

We can't sweep this.

[jberryhill]

81. It's not worrisome

Obviously, the FBI is investigating Russian hacking of DNC and related email accounts.

Obviously, as we've seen, there are discussions in those emails of how to deal with the political ramifications of the various "Clinton email" stuff, and the GOP has been attempting to find inconsistencies between those discussions and various public statements.

Obviously, someone prodded Comey to say "something" about that stuff and, obviously again, he did the best he could - "We are aware of 'new stuff' and we'll look at it, but have no idea whether it is material to anything."

When you say "We can't sweep this" can you explain to me what the "this" is that anyone is looking to "sweep"?

[Nancyswidower]

96. This is a big leap...."Obviously, the FBI is investigating Russian hacking of DNC and related email"

Considering the Wiki's weren't Sec. Clinton's emails.....you have to know something that hasn't been reported yet.
Nothing in the Podesta releases would trigger a FBI investigation....except for how they got them...absolutely needs to be investigated and prosecuted....

"....GOP has been attempting to find inconsistencies between those discussions and various public statements." Gopsters can do that all the want....public statements can't be criminalized.

[jberryhill]

97. Okay, well you go worry then

...since it is virtually certain that nothing is going to come of this letter.

[Nancyswidower]

103. Must be nice to be so secure in that.....it's not the letter that's of concern....

It's that this is coming from the FBI....DoJ/Lynch had to have been alerted...and not a peep from from Ms. Lynch or Pres. Obama.

[jberryhill]

126. Yes, it was in a letter sent from Comey to Chaffetz' committee

Which was not publicly released from Comey's end.

What sort of comment would you expect from Obama and or Lynch? They are not involved in FBI investigations.

The letter from the FBI says, in so many words, "We have stuff that we are investigating, and we don't know whether it makes a damn bit of difference to anything."

What kind of response, from anyone, does it merit?

[Tarheel_Dem]

185. Thanks for trying. Some people are really "concerned", and they seem to want to spread it around.

[getagrip_already]

122. pete williams said...

his sources said (1) not related to wikileaks (2) emails not from hrc server (or hrc) (3) found on seized device.

probably state emails. state had no archival tools, so any emails deleted or lost due to system errors not on their servers or backups.

If someone had a horde of state emails, they would have to go through them to try to find new ones and see if they mean anyting.

Relax. It's a nothing burger.

[Nancyswidower]

129. It's NEVER a "nothing burger" this close to Election day....it's too damn close today.

[getagrip_already]

138. meh, by 5:00 it will seem like nothing....

the non fox related sites have rolled back their headlines. they are all following up on pete williams sourced info.

sure, kkkelly anne and company will shout about it, but they have always been shouting about it.

I'm not as worried now as I was back in july, and I wasn't very worried then.

[Nancyswidower]

157. I hope you are correct.....

I fear this has legs...especially if it goes back to a device in the Abedin household...Rep. Weiner has frigged us before

[bucolic_frolic]

26. The FBI has no business releasing investigative information late in election campaigns

There ought to be a blackout period

They are not there to sway, bring balance, or massage the facts

and "appear to be pertinent" is just baldfaced ether at this point

[Cooley Hurd]

42. It would be illegal for them to not review the new materials

[bucolic_frolic]

44. So they should review them before they speculate in public about them

[Cooley Hurd]

49. Ari Melber on MSNBC said as much...

[pnwmom]

46. It would be perfectly legal for them not to publicly announce

that they'd decided to review the materials.

[hughee99]

206. Did he publicly announce this?

He sent a letter to congress, and one of the republicans released that info.

[pnwmom]

208. Yes. He knew without a doubt that the letter to GOP committee heads

would immediately be made public.

And this is NOT standard procedure.

For example, the FBI refuses to say whether who they're investigating for the email hacks. That's the normal procedure -- secrecy till they're ready to indict.

[hughee99]

209. He didn't really say who he's investigating here.

During the previous investigation, we were aware that there was an investigation going on well before he was ready to make a decision to not recommend indicting anyone. Given that the republicans have continued to hassle him on this issue since the hearings, do you think he'd have been able to get away with continuing the investigation, that he already testified was closed, without telling anyone in congress?

Yes, I'm sure he knew it would be publicly released, but I don't think he thought keeping the new investigation secret from congress was a viable option either.

[pnwmom]

210. He's had these emails for FIVE WEEKS. He could have "gotten away"

with telling no one for another week and a half. In fact, the official FBI prosecutor manual bars prosecutors from taking actions that could interfere in an election. The standard has been to release nothing for at least 60 days before an election.

[hughee99]

212. Out of curiosity, what happens if wikileaks drops something on monday revealing some of these emails

and we find out the FBI had them for 5 weeks and said nothing. It's going to look like he's covering up something rather than trying not to interfere in an election. Frankly, I think this situation is much more manageable for Clinton than the appearance of an FBI coverup a week before the election.

[pnwmom]

213. If that had happened they could point to the FBI manual and historical precedent

for not releasing information about possible or real investigations during the 60 days before an election.

What he has done in this partisan witch hunt is set lose some ghosts for Hillary to fight. How can she respond to the rumors and insinuations that that letter has unleashed? It couldn't be more unfair.

[hughee99]

214. The FBI could have pointed to their manual and precedent, but the people who haven't decided yet

aren't going to care. Look, the people who follow politics on a regular basis have already made up their minds, and none of this is going to change their minds. This isn't going to lose Clinton any votes she already had locked up.

The wishy-washy undecideds will hear Comey say this, and then they'll hear some republican say that they knew there was more to the investigation that Comey had closed, and this is proof that either he didn't do his job right the first time, or is covering up. If the ghosts and rumors were going to come out anyway, you know the undecideds don't care enough to actually find out what's going on, and given the speed at which the FBI operates, this probably won't be known until after the election anyway.

In the end, Clinton can (and seemingly is) calling for transparency and can say this is evidence that Comey isn't looking to do her any favors. While it's certainly red meat that may get more republicans out to vote, I don't think this will have any significant impact on the election. Though not ideal, this situation is better than the public finding out about the emails (or investigation) before the FBI seems like they're on top of it.

[pnwmom]

215. If he waited till after the election, as he should have,

then the people who haven't decided yet would have decided based on real information, not smears and ghost emails. He wouldn't have affected the outcome of the election if he'd waited, as he should have done.

The public didn't need to find out about any of this unless the FBI determined that there was a reason to reopen the investigation -- which they still haven't done. At the very least, he could have held off for another week and a half.

[hughee99]

216. I'm thinking that this info was going to come out, maybe from wikileaks, before the election anyway.

If that's the case, than the smears would be out there anyway, and it would look like hackers had better access to information than the FBI did or cause speculation that the FBI had this info already and said nothing.

[pnwmom]

217. The FBI was SUPPOSED to say nothing. The FBI manual bars such statements

in the heat of an election campaign.

There would have been no valid criticism for him following proper procedure. He shouldn't have acted out of fear of smears being leaked by other people trying to affect the election.

At the very least, he should have written a much better letter, so the first stories out didn't push the story that Hillary had been withholding emails. He should have made clear that the emails were under Huma's control, not Hillary's; and that, for all they know, all the emails may be copies of ones they've already had access to and analyzed. They don't know there is anything new in them or anything classified -- despite all the speculation and innuendo -- and he should have made that clear in his statement.

[hughee99]

218. I completely agree he should have written a better statement, but I think maybe he knew something

was coming, and not just speculating about it. We'll see in the next few days if someone else comes out with more info on this.

[Iliyah]

30. Most of HRC's voters are yawning and will vote for her early, mail in and in person. . .

[ismnotwasm]

224. "the unions are voting for Trump"??

Do you mean certain union workers? Because unions in general overwhelmingly endorse Hillary Clinton.

[ismnotwasm]

230. I suppose it depends on which unions as well

As well as the area. I even know one nurse--my profession--who is going to vote for Trump. His wife was for Hillary, so they decided that 'cancels' each other's vote out.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

31. emails - furnished by Russia?

[getagrip_already]

36. wouldn't be admissable....

it's more likely it was a haul of data from another investigation such as the guy that hap hundreds of storage devcies full of classified info.

But it still doesn't mean the needle will move. It's just more grist through the mill.

[safeinOhio]

98. Rules of evidence.

They can't be used until they know who hacked and prosecuted those that illegally released them. How else would they know if doctored.

[dalton99]

32. Just a polite letter to cover his butt

[JudyM]

33. The middle paragraph is oddly ambiguous. Which investigation may the new emails be pertinent to?

Sounds as if he's reopening the server investigation, but even if the new docs are found to be classified, he closed the investigation before even with the issue of classified docs.

Head scratcher.

[humbled_opinion]

43. This is an effort by the

Republican establishment to prep for her impeachment.

[pnwmom]

48. It could be an investigation into the hacking. n/t

[emulatorloo]

82. Or it could be a little smear and innuendo

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. But but but

The FBI are tools of the evil Clinton family. I heard it from the Orange One himself:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/26/donald-trump/facts-dispute-donald-trumps-claim-donation-fbi-spo/

"One of the closest people to Hillary Clinton, with longstanding ties to her and husband -- the closest person, I can tell you that … gave more than $675,000 to the campaign of the wife of a top FBI official who oversaw the investigation into Mrs. Clinton's illegal email server," Trump said at the Sanford rally. "In other words, the man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife."

No matter that:

The bureau says that by the time he had some oversight role in the Clinton investigation, the election involving his wife had been over for three months.

[humbled_opinion]

38. Republicans gearing up for their

Impeachment attempt.

[Arkansas Granny]

39. The FBI has had Hillary's server since August, 2015. Is it reasonable to believe that after all

this time, they have just now discovered emails that they hadn't found before? Could these "pertinent" emails possibly be from the wikileaks email dump? Is there a possibility that a foreign entity could be involved in this?

My skeptical side is telling me that something sneaky and underhanded is going on here. It just seems too convenient that this kind of info floats to the surface 11 days before the election. It's especially hard to believe that this is just coincidence.

[PoliticAverse]

86. Yes it's reasonable to think they've found some of the emails that had been deleted from the server

in the possession of someone else and not related to the wikileaks dump.

"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation"

[Akicita]

154. Supposedly from Anthony Weiner's devices. Hope to God there is nothing classified from Huma on his

devices.

[Firebrand Gary]

45. Our country is dangerously close to collapse.

When the Bundy's can overthrow a local Government and get away with it, but First Americans cannot protest the destruction of their sacred land. When a candidate for President can openly receive assistant from the Russian Government, yet his opponent cannot operate her email in the manner previous administrations have. We have a problem.

[NotHardly]

47. Investigate Comey ... questional behavior

politically motivated, as in dipped in Republican messaging

[Vinca]

50. This seems like the ultimate dirty trick.

[videohead5]

52. I Don't Think This

Will be from her server.they already got everything off of it sometime ago.

[malchickiwick]

54. Welcome to the 2020 Campaign, opening salvo: GOP (n/t)

[stonecutter357]

55. I'm not concerned at all.

[Catherine Vincent]

57. Pressure

A lot of repukes put a lot of pressure on Comey to "do something and do something now!" I can just hear them.

[andym]

59. The timing of this will have maximum effect on the election: less than 2 weeks out

The next two weeks of news will be all about the emails. The media loves this kind of stuff and will go whole hog. Trump's campaign and surrogates will bring this up every minute of every day. Lets hope that Hillary's lead will hold against the barrage of innuendo that is sure to follow.

[underpants]

79. I agree

Hold on everyone.

[TeamPooka]

61. Putin and Wikileaks play a song and the FBI dances as instructed. nt

[videohead5]

62. Can't Be Many E-mails

Unless they have a big header over the top of the e-mails saying classified they have nothing.this just sounds like Comey is trying to throw the election to Trump.

[Saviolo]

63. They have found some very damning evidence...

... that unnamed parties offered Clinton a substantial reduction in her insurance rates in exchange for a change of insurance companies.

So far a duck, a gecko, and a caveman implicated int he quid-pro-quo scandal have refused to comment.

[qwlauren35]

197. LOVE IT!

You had me going for a minute.

[JoePhilly]

66. Comey is "interviewing" for a 7 figure deal at a RW think tank for after Hillary wins.

[PoliticAverse]

90. At this point Comey is a pariah to the left and the right. If he was going for...

a "7 figure deal" he needed to have recommended a Clinton indictment weeks ago.

[JoePhilly]

91. Couldnt do that, it would have been illegal.

Back then he called her "extremely careless" ... which was also part of his audition for his next job.

He knows he's OUT the minute she takes office.

[former9thward]

155. The FBI Director serves a 10 year term.

Not subject to the whims of any particular president.

[Paladin]

69. Best to avoid MSNBC for the rest of the day.

Chris Matthews will be spewing spittle from both sides of his mouth as he advises the Trump campaign on how to exploit this new development. And as for Andrea Mitchell's satisfaction...the less said the better.

[andym]

73. Best to avoid all of the media

they will be on this like files on poop.

[George II]

71. Talk about a RIGGED election! He just found this now, 11 days before the election? Bullshit!

[fleabiscuit]

72. WTF is the "unrelated case?" This could go sideways, even to republithugs.

Wasn't evidence tampering done by the republithugs that was brought up?

[Gman]

75. Comey was Ken Starr's lead Whitewater investigator.

He's got a vendetta for failing.

[EV_Ares]

76. Actually Comey needs to be investigated. This is totally unbelievable. Something behind all this &

it is not the emails. Even where they got it wrong about the investigation being reopened which it is not but just reviewing some new emails that have come to light.

Really sucks.

[stonecutter357]

77. FBI has NOT said it is reopening investigation.

[fleabiscuit]

78. Strange isn't it.

[BainsBane]

80. This is really rotten timing.

[George II]

83. Might it be intentional?

[videohead5]

84. Just Heard Now On MSNBC

These e-mails are not from Hillary.

[Iliyah]

89. Instead of doing some research first, MSNBC spouted out on tv about fbi reopening investigation

on HRC's e-mail and server. Dumb fucks.

[awoke_in_2003]

190. They aren't dumb

they are in collusion.

[wordpix]

232. dead intern Joe will be raving about it Mon. with MEEKa nodding lovingly

at his BS. She swallowed Joe's KoolAid.

[elmac]

85. The registered republican head of the FBI

is playing politics with his Federal power.

[sheshe2]

88. F**K this SHIT!

GOTV.

[wisteria]

92. This is nothing more than a Friday trumped up news dump

And, it will play all weekend, to try and take down her numbers, and hurt us down ballot. I will not give the MSM my time or ratings this weekend. I don't give a damn about thie emails.

[beachbumbob]

94. Most non trump zealots don't care either...much ado about nothing

[anneboleyn]

124. No. This is the most hysterical CNN has been since the original FBI announcement. They are running

wild -- doing all of Trump's work for him by saying Comey must have found something "devastating" on Clinton, saying they are speechless, saying this is the most exceptional thing they've ever seen, etc. and that is just CNN -- not fox.

[Tommy2Tone]

95. Didn't Obama appoint this Republican?

Thanks prez

[RickRockwell]

99. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - TIME FOR OBAMA TO GROW A PAIR AND ISSUE A BLANKET PARDON TO CLINTON

By now, The American People should have been fed up. I know I am - to my eyeballs with the habitual and pathological interrogations, pursuits, witch-hunts, smear campaigns and crusades of pettty GOP character assassins in hot pursuit of Hillary. This has been the trademark and raison d'etre of rabid right psychopaths for 30 years. We've seen time and time again that they are willing to throw incalculable amounts of our money, the interests of the American People and business of our country overboard for no other reason than to satisfy the demented and perverse obsession they have with pinning something - anything - on Hillary Clinton. It's long been nothing but a counter-productive and insane farce. And, now, the most obscene, counter-productive and insane farce of all time: Their Candidate For President - could very possibly be handed the future of this country on a silver platter, just like everything else in his super, over-privileged, spolied rottern life. And it's very clear that he's wasting not a minute to use this obscenity to gin up his lynch mob of crackpot, grammar school dropouts into another grotesque display of utter madness - lathering them into a blood lust which may herald the literal demise of this country in 12 days. It's TIME: The Constitution provides broad latitide to the President and the pardoning power of the office. It's time to shut these animals down - at long last - and put Trump's Mad Dogs back in their cage. Obama needs to issue a full, unconditional and absolute pardon to Hillary Clinton for any and all allegations, past, present and future relevant to her tenure as Secretary Of State and do it now. If Trump's Chumps want to keep frothing at the mouth and take to the streets, I would welcome that. Let them take up their beef with the National Guard. I, for one, am sick and tired of having to share The World's Great Experiment in Democracy with those who so thoroughly despise it, despise the person we elected President and - indeed- despise over half of the American People themselves. Their level of toxic, hate-fueled rhetoric which routinely and recklessly spews from their profoundly disturbed candidate and the phalanx of lunatics in their "party" has accomplished but one thing: to put the rest of us on final notice. They see America as nothing more than an opportunity to bully, intimidate, persecute and abuse anyone who doesn't goose step to their tune - just to get their bloody hand on the levers of power and have it all their way. Indeed, The Republican Party isn't a political organization. It hasn't been for years. It's a psychiatric diagnosis..plain and simple. The bottom line for me: Simple. They need to go.

[VespertineIconoclast]

132. Welcome to DU, RickRockwell!

You've eloquently encapsulated the state of affairs here. Unfortunately, I don't believe that President Obama would do anything to stop what's happening for any number of reasons including the optics of such a move.

At times, it feels as if those of us with reason, logic, empathy, humanity, and intelligence are forced to look on as rabid masses who represent the most base, animalistic, simple and narrow-minded, racist, misogynistic, and bigoted parts of the US attempt elevate a narcissistic, sociopathic megalomaniac to the highest office in the US (and dare I say the world). This news and their actions are meant to dishearten us and make us feel defeated. They want us to give up! This election is too important and we have to continue to persevere through the nonsense. We are not helpless in the face of the rhetoric; we can and will get past the ridiculousness!

[Ligyron]

134. Welcome to DU!

Don't know if he should pardon her now though. This maybe nothing and his action could rile more repugs to vote who may have been discouraged from doing so at this point.

I wish someone could wave a magic wand and make this go away, but...

Lesson learned - don't even try to be nice to repugs like Obama, it gets you nowhere and will come back and bite.

When Hillary gets in she needs to shitcan Comey and any other GOP operative in government.

[RegexReader]

148. There are problems with a pardon

Obama needs to issue a full, unconditional and absolute pardon to Hillary Clinton for any and all allegations, past, present and future relevant to her tenure as Secretary Of State and do it now.

There are a couple of issues with that. The biggest is that if Obama issues a pardon now, the freepers would go take to the streets and it would not be a pretty sight.

Let them take up their beef with the National Guard

Per Google search for "how many ar15s are in america"
Depending on the definition there are an estimated 20-30 million lawfully owned Modern Sporting Rifles in the U.S.

Just say for a swag, assume a quarter of the low number would give 5 million insurgents. That is as big as the US Army in 1942. That is FIFTY 100,000 man Armies vs. 498,642 soldiers being listed on active duty right now. It would make the 1989 Romanian Revolution look like a group hug.

This violence is nothing that I want to see. Let the lawyers work things out in a courtroom and keep on with a peaceful election. But to wish for violence ..... No. I reject that. Totally.

[DesertRat]

156. Using your first post to tell our President to "grow a pair"?!

[BumRushDaShow]

163. Um what?

"issue a blanket pardon" for what exactly?

[fleabiscuit]

165. Paragraphs friend, paragraphs. nt

[videohead5]

100. Not Hillary's E-mails

Pete Williams on MSNBC say's these e-mails are not Hillary's.

[onecent]

105. They are probably messages from Putin....

[anneboleyn]

114. Well, neither CNN or fox are saying this -- they are saying Clinton emails.

[videohead5]

118. Comey

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Better clean this up or he should be fired!

[louis-t]

101. Oh, the horrors! Hillary got some emails!

[videohead5]

106. The FBI

Told Pete Williams these e-mails were not withheld by Hillary Clinton.they are not her e-mails.

[louis-t]

108. Just a general proclamation about the whole sordid, phony

'investigation'.

[humbled_opinion]

102. WHY would the FBI put this out

10 days before an election ? Does he even realize what kind of shit storm this starts ? Obama should ask for his resignation, the case was closed.

[James48]

109. Wikileaks

I THINK- it is because two days ago the Wikileaks site published a note that said that the "missing 30,000 emails" might still be present on a google account- since the guy who was the IT guy who "bleach-bit" the server, moved the entire contents from one place to another place, by uploading it onto a google server, and then down-loading it again.

If that IS the case, then the missing emails would possibly be still on that google server.


Im sure they mean nothing- BUT- if they exist, then the FBI director has the duty and obligation to reopen the investigation, go try and get a court order, and try to find those previously missing emails again.

[humbled_opinion]

193. Latest news indicate it is

Huma Abedins computer that was under investigation because of the Weiner case, is that not true? WTF would the FBI do this for?

[James48]

198. Makes sense now

Since the FBI has her computer, they would also have any emails sent to her from Clinton. That means they gave to sort through all of her old emails, identify anything sent by Clinton, read those, and determine if any contained classified info.

If it is anything like my email at work, there may be a few hundred from her in that time period which is missing from the 30,000 or so- so it won't be quick-

At the same time, if that were what was happening, I'd say there is a very low likelihood of anything classified being in any of those emails.

My opinion only- I have nothing to base that in except what u am hearing on the news.

[lillypaddle]

110. Wasn't it just a few days ago

that the repukes were gloating about something they had up their sleeves still to be dropped?

This whole think STINKS to high heaven.

[Monk06]

111. Comey punting to get the Trumpen Proletariat off his back until after the election Nothing Burger

[Akicita]

113. This is an extraordinary thing to do 2 weeks before an election. Comey lacked proof of intent in the

original investigation. I hope to God that they didn't find proof of intent in the new emails. This is dropping a bomb on the election process. It either has to be something very big to take this step at this point in the election cycle or Comey is very corrupt. Hopefully it is a corrupt FBI. Hillary can clean house there after the election.

Given all that, there is no way they can complete an investigation before the election. Once elected she is immune from prosecution. She would have to be impeached and there is no way she would be convicted in the Senate. Even if she is, Tim Kaine, who I like a lot, would become president.

So Democrats win no matter how this turns out.

[anneboleyn]

115. Problem is the msm coverage is so bad Clinton could lose and also lose senate. They are running wild

[BumRushDaShow]

164. Um no.

And Democrats don't have the Senate now so there is nothing "to lose". But there may be enough seats to regain it.

[jberryhill]

128. I can guarantee you that they will not find "proof of intent"

Unless the idea here is that Clinton actually intended to do that, which I highly doubt.

[videohead5]

131. Pete Williams

Said these e-mails were not withheld by Hillary or her staff and these e-mails are not Hillary's.I don't know how they can prove intent when these e-mails really have nothing to do with her.

[Akicita]

143. Just heard the new emails may have come from Anthony Weiner's devices. Hope to God Huma was not

sending damaging info or anything classified to that lech. Weiner I think is being investigated for sending nasty pictures to minors. That would be the unrelated investigation Comey is talking about.

[Agnosticsherbet]

125. The letter did not say reopened.

[mitch96]

133. And if the FBI finds nothing AGAIN

This would put a cap on all the naysayers and put a point in Clinton's camp for people on the fence.

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[Amishman]

139. Someone found some major dirt on Clinton or Comey

If Comey was always completely in the bag for the Republicans, he would have brought indictment the first time around on whatever grounds he could scrape together.

Something changed, he would not take an immense risk to his career without serious pressure

Either A) someone found some seriously damning evidence on Hillary and Comey is confident he can throw the election and save himself from consequences.

Or B) someone found some seriously damning evidence AGAINST COMEY and is blackmailing him.

B seems much more likely as I would think any enemy of Clinton's would take proof to the press and not the FBI. Also, Comey seems much more likely to have the skeletons in his closet.

[videohead5]

142. This Has Really Nothing to Do with Hillary

They found e-mails on Anthony Wieners phone.none from Hillary.

[Akicita]

145. Unless he had emails Huma forwarded to him from Hillary that contained classified info. Comey said

reviewing to see if any of the emails contained classified info. Where would Weiner get classified info if not from Huma?

[Akicita]

150. That sounds much better although who knows what that pig wrote. I wonder how Huma got mixed up with

someone like that in the first place.

[videohead5]

149. Well

Unless they were mark classified with a big header on them this does not change anything.Comey said they did not knowingly send or receive classified information.Hillary would not be responsible for anything Huma forwarded to her husband anyway.

[Akicita]

152. Unless Huma told her hubby not to talk to anybody about the info she sent him because it was

classified. Whatever it is it has to be extraordinary to cause the FBI to reopen the investigation 11 days before an election. I heard someone say it is against FBI protocals to do this unless it is very serious. Election day cannot come soon enough.

[Foggyhill]

153. They did not reopen investigation

[videohead5]

172. What I understand Now

Pete Williams said it was a laptop that both Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin used.the FBI is just looking at Huma Abedin's e-mails on the computer to see if there is any classified information in them.I really don't see anything here and I bet they are mostly duplicates found on other systems.the FBI said every one of those e-mails they found on Hillary's server that contain classified information originated from the State Department.since the State Departments e-mail system captures everything sent or received they already had most of these e-mail's.the only thing they might have not had is some of those e-mails that were forwarded to Hillary but they still originated from the State Department.

[Akicita]

175. If there is nothing to this Comey needs to be roasted alive for disrupting the campaign.

Another theory is that this is a big misdirection. the wikkieaks stuff is starting to break through to the MSM showing play for pay. This will take that off the headlines while the repugs salivate over the FBI investigation for the next week. The FBI then announces the new emails are innocuous and Hillary breezes to victory. Hopefully this is what's happening.

[Skittles]

222. repuke propaganda really works on you

seriously

[beachbumbob]

151. Were they on email server or not?...

[Tempest]

159. No.

They may not have come from Clinton at all.

[beachbumbob]

161. Nothing but a PR ploy to sabotage a campaign...seems DOJ needs

To look at comey...

[LisaL]

202. They were not on Clinton's server.

[red dog 1]

160. K&R

FUCK COMEY!

[GreydeeThos]

176. Welcome to DU WeinerHolder!

I propose we stick with our duly nominated Hillary Clinton.

[PSPS]

174. To investigate it is OK, but announcing it now indicates the FBI has been compromised.

[still_one]

177. Except that is NOT what they did. The media has fabricated that facts

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/us/politics/fbi-hillary-clinton-email.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1

[PSPS]

200. Paywalled link, but I understand.

However, it's a long-held standard practice to never reveal any kind of investigation close to any election.

[jberryhill]

196. Chaffetz released the letter, not the FBI

[PSPS]

199. Understood. Thanks. Of course, it's counter to standard practice to do this close to an election.

[GreydeeThos]

178. The Republicans have got nothing.

It is too late for an effective October surprise.

Most people have made up their minds by this date, and it is Hillary who will be victorious.

All the people who early voted are committed; there is no changing a cast ballot.

Weiner emailed Huma at work. So what, like spouses never email each other at work?

Like I said, the Republicans have got nothing.

[awoke_in_2003]

189. Frankly, I am sick to death...

of this country. Had I the means to emigrate, I would. 50% of the population is unredeemable.

[LisaL]

201. Title of this article isn't correct.

E-mails are not from Clinton's server. Media wasn't even distributing accurate information.

[Rocknrule]

203. God damn it, if Trump wins

because that partisan weasel Comey Swift Boated Hillary...I would like to spend the rest of my life doing something other than cleaning up the damage inflicted by a Trump presidency

[Jnew28]

211. Nothing more than witch-hunt part 2!!!

http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2016/10/comey-just-revealed-true-colors-partisan-hack-must-fired-just-look-opening-words-2.html

[nest]

221. This is ridiculous

Comey notified congress against protocol that he was re-opening the investigation. The FBI is playing politics.