2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFBI never asked top aides for devices used while Clinton was secretary of state
The FBI never asked Hillary Clinton's top aides to turn over all the computers and smartphones they used while Clinton was secretary of state, an omission that is now triggering questions from Republican lawmakers.
While the FBI made a concerted effort to obtain all the computers that were used as Clinton's private server and ultimately asked two of Clinton's lawyers for laptops used to review her email messages, investigators never requested or demanded all equipment her top staffers used for work purposes during her four years at State, a source familiar with the investigation told POLITICO.
"No one was asked for devices by the FBI," said the source, who requested anonymity.
The decision left the FBI at least partially dependent on the aides' attorneys' decisions about which messages were work-related and therefore might have contained classified information the agents were looking for. Those messages were turned over to State in response to its request last year.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/fbi-hillary-clinton-devices-230592#ixzz4Op86CW1j
riversedge
(70,224 posts)demanding that the FBI redo their investigation and demand all the devices. oh damn.
TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)straight to Putin.
tinrobot
(10,900 posts)Most people replace their phones every few years.
wishstar
(5,269 posts)Next thing, after Weiner case, they'll want FBI to go after all staffers' spouses' devices too. It never ends when you go down a rabbit hole.
TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)The one thing they came up with was lying about a BJ, and they impeached him for it.
Republicans will do anything to win. They are all horrible people.
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING!!!
Tom Rivers
(459 posts)seriously, enough of this horseshit. the more you scream bloody murder the more you turnout our base and moderate women who are turned off by the constant witch hunt and obstructionist tactics.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Gov't owned and provided desktops, laptops, cell phones, etc are all regularly changed out for upgrades. The agency collects the old, issues the new and then cleans the drives of the old devices which are then disposed. That's the way it works.
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)pnwmom
(108,978 posts)when he left office.
Done. End of story.
complain jane
(4,302 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)and stood up to this "investigation trolling" the GOP (and their gov't agency arms such as the FBI and CIA) has carried out for the past 30 years, which itself has traded arms for hostages, started illegal wars under false pretenses, deleted 22 million emails from private RNC servers, etc - yet there are no investigations on those actual scandals which cost lives and trillions of dollars, crashed the economy, etc.
They spent the 90's trying to find whatever they could to bring down Bill Clinton, who won the votes of the people in 2 landslide elections, yet they could never leave him alone and let him do his job.
They can't cope with losing, and think the country belongs to them, and will sit and play these games all day long unless Dems start standing up to this sh1t.
Tactical Peek
(1,209 posts)Well. the top aides weren't running for President and needing to be slimed and their campaigns damaged, duh.