FBI reopens Clinton investigation as new emails found ‒ Comey
U.S.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton © Carlos Barria /
Reuters
RT,
29
October, 2016
The
FBI has learned of more emails involving Hillary Clinton’s private
email server while she headed the State Department, FBI Director
James Comey told several members of Congress, telling them he is
reopening the investigation.
“In
connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the
existence of email that appear to be pertinent” to
Clinton’s investigation, Comey wrote to the chairs of several
relevant congressional committees, adding that he was briefed about
the messages on Thursday. “I
agree 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.”
Bradd Jaffy
FBI Director Comey, in letter to members of Congress, says FBI is investigating additional emails in Clinton private server case
The
FBI director cautioned, however, that the bureau has yet to assess
the importance of the material, and that he doesn’t know how long
that will take.
The
Clinton campaign has yet to comment, but an aide told CNN: “We’re
learning about this just like you all are.”
Democratic
vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine was asked about Comey’s letter
while campaigning at an early voting site in Tallahassee, Florida.
“Gotta read a little more, gotta read a little more,” he told
reporters.
Jason Chaffetz
FBI Dir just informed me, "The FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation." Case reopened
Representative
Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia), chair of the House Judiciary Committee,
praised the decision to reopen the case.
“Now
that the FBI has reopened the matter, it must conduct the
investigation with impartiality and thoroughness,” he
said in a statement. “The
American people deserve no less and no one should be above the law.”
Almost
15,000 new Clinton emails were discovered in September, but it's
unclear if the announced investigation relates to them or other
correspondence. The newly discovered emails are not related to
Wikileaks or the Clinton Foundation, law enforcement sources told
CNN’s Evan Perez.
The
messages were not found on the private email server in the Clintons’
New York residence, a government source told Reuters.
The
emails were apparently discovered as part of the sexting
probe into
former Representative Anthony Weiner (D-New York), the New York Times
reported. His electronic devices, as well as those belonging to his
wife, senior Clinton aide Huma Abedin, were seized during that
investigation.
House
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) renewed his call for Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper to “suspend
all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is
fully resolved.”
“Yet
again, Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame,” Ryan
said in a statement. “This
decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a
private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal
investigators.”
Kellyanne
Conway, Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign manager,
applauded the decision.
“That
is superb. That is extraordinary news for the American people,” she
told Yahoo News. "A
great day in our campaign just got even better," she
tweeted.
Bianna Golodryga
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“They
are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that
threatens the security of the United States,” Trump
said in Manchester, New Hampshire, 10 minutes after learning about
the reopening of the case. “We
must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”
“I
have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the Department of
Justice have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they
made,” he
said. “This
was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully
understand, and it is everybody’s hope that it is about to be
corrected.”
“With
that being said, the rest of my speech is going to be so boring.
Should I even make the speech?” he
joked before turning to his prepared remarks.
The “FBI
reopening investigation isn’t an October surprise, it’s an
October nuclear explosion,” conservative
political commentator Ben Shapiro wrote as
part of a tweetstorm, adding that “Comey
[is] trying to cover his a** 11 days before [the] election” and
wondering if a “pre-emptive
impeachment of a president elect” is
possible because “the
odds on President Tim Kaine just rose substantially.”
An
‘October Surprise‘ is a major event that happens in the month
before the election that affects the outcome of the vote.
Donna Brazile
Fear:
F. False
E. Evidence
A. Appearing
R. Real
In
response to the announcement, the Democratic Coalition Against Trump
filed a complaint with the Department of Justice against Comey.
“It
is absolutely absurd that FBI Director Comey would support Donald
Trump like this with only 11 days to go before the election,” Scott
Dworkin, senior advisor to the Democratic Coalition Against Trump,
said in a statement. “It
is an obvious attack from a lifelong Republican who used to serve in
the Bush White House, just to undermine her campaign. Comey needs to
focus on stopping terrorists and protecting America, not
investigating our soon to be President-Elect Hillary Clinton.”
Stocks
fell after Comey’s announcement, CNBC reported.
Here is Debbie, Sane Progressive on this
Here is Debbie, Sane Progressive on this
This is how Pravda-on-the-Potomac reports it
Clinton
Calls on FBI to Explain Reopened Email Investigation Without
Delay
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to explain its reopened investigation into her emails and release all available information immediately.
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to explain its reopened investigation into her emails and release all available information immediately.
28
October, 2016
WASHINGTON
(Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Comey informed the US Congress that
the FBI discovered new emails sent from Clinton's private server
during the course of an unrelated investigation.
Comey said
investigators would review the new emails to determine if they
contain classified information.
"I’m confident whatever they
are will not change the conclusion reached in July," Clinton
said at an impromptu news conference Friday on the FBI’s action.
"It’s imperative that the bureau explain this issue in
question, whatever it is, without any delay."
Clinton has been criticized for the use of a private email server and
account for official business during her 2009-2013 tenure as
secretary of state.
In July, Comey described Clinton's conduct as
extremely careless but said it did not warrant criminal charges.
After
the initial FBI probe, Comey in September described Clinton's use of
a nongovernment email system for official business while the top US
diplomat as "extremely careless," but he recommended
against filing criminal charges against her. In 2014,
Clinton
released more than 55,000 emails from the private server to State
Department investigators, claiming the documents contained only
work-related information. She has admitted to erasing 33,000 emails
Watergate's
Carl Bernstein: FBI Wouldn't Reopen A Probe Unless It Is "A Real
Bombshell"
Zero Hedge,
Zero Hedge,
28
October, 2016
In
the aftermath of the so-called Cocktober surprise unveiled this
afternoon by the FBI when the bureau announced it was reopening a
probe into Hillary Clinton's email server because "new evidence
has come to light" after "materials" were found on
equipment belonging to Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin, the question
on everyone's lips - and certainly Hillary Clinton's and most
democrats - is why did the FBI do this now, 11 days before the
election, in a way that did not even coordinate with the White House?
One
opinion belongs to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, who just days
after his infamous peer Bob Woodward said that the "Clinton
foundation is corrupt, it's a scandal" said that "her
conduct in regard to the e-mails is really indefensible and if there
was going to be more information that came out, it was the one thing,
as I said on the air last night, actually that could really perhaps
affect this election. We don't know what this means yet except that
it's a real bombshell. And it is unthinkable that the Director of the
FBI would take this action lightly, that he would put this letter
forth to the Congress of the United States saying there is more
information out there about classified e-mails and call it to the
attention of congress unless it was something requiring serious
investigation. So that's where we are..."
Courtesy
of Real Clear Politics is the full transcript:
CARL
BERNSTEIN: Well, there's no question that the e-mails have always
been the greatest threat to her candidacy for president, that her
conduct in regard to the e-mails is really indefensible and if there
was going to be more information that came out, it was the one thing,
as I said on the air last night, actually that could really perhaps
affect this election.
We
don't know what this means yet except that it's a real bombshell. And
it is unthinkable that the Director of the FBI would take this action
lightly, that he would put this letter forth to the Congress of the
United States saying there is more information out there about
classified e-mails and call it to the attention of congress unless it
was something requiring serious investigation. So that's where we
are...
Is
it a certainty that we won't learn before the election? I'm not sure
it's a certainty we won't learn before the election.
One
thing is, it's possible that Hillary Clinton might want to on her own
initiative talk to the FBI and find out what she can, and if she
chooses to let the American people know what she thinks or knows is
going on. People need to hear from her...
I
think if she has information available to her from the FBI or any
other source as to her knowledge of what these e-mails might be,
hopefully she will let us know what they are and what is under
discussion here.
Right
now we're all talking in a vacuum but I want to add here that in the
last, oh, 36, 48 hours, there has been an undercurrent of kind of
speculative discussion among some national security people that
something might surface in the next few days about e-mails, and I
think the expectation in this chatter -- and I took it as just
chatter but informed chatter, to some extent -- was that it would
relate to another round of WikiLeaks e-mails, which our Justice
Department people seem to be saying is not the case, but there has
been some noise in the national security community the last day or
two of this kind of possibility of some kind of revelation.
But
this is her achilles heel and we have to remember that it also comes
on the -- back to the word heel -- of the revelations about the
Clinton Foundation. So the confluence of all of this is bad for her
as it stands now but with some knowledge she might be able to stop,
turn things around, and give us some idea of what's going on in a way
we might not otherwise know, and also it's very possible that some
members of congress very quickly are going to get an idea of what
these e-mails are, and what this is all about, and for whatever
purpose put some information out there.
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