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https://i.imgur.com/dzhBbGW.pngI guess facts still matter to some people.
Trump's DOJ, headed by the rabidly political Bill Barr, has declined to prosecute Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Baker, and Page.
Hillary is walking in the woods somewhere. John Brennan and James Clapper are making big bucks wherever they're at.
Paul Manafort is in prison, Mike Flynn and Roger Stone await sentencing.
http://i.imgur.com/PHXVQfe.gif not charged doesn't mean not guilty. and i'm not convinced that it's the end of things for McCabe specifically.
we'll see though. here's a small reminder of what happened in 2016.
https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download(pg. 376)
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Comey denied that a fear of leaks influenced his decision to send the October
28 letter to Congress. However, other witnesses told us that a concern about leaks
played a role in the decision. As Baker stated, “We were quite confident that.... f
we don’t put out a letter, somebody is going to leak it. That definitely was
discussed....” Numerous witnesses connected this concern about leaks specifically
to NYO and told us that FBI leadership suspected that FBI personnel in NYO were
responsible for leaks of information in other matters. Even accepting Comey’s
assertion that leaks played no role in his decision, we found that, at a minimum, a
fear of leaks influenced the thinking of those who were advising him.
(pg. 371)
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Although Comey told us that he “didn’t make this decision because [he]
thought it would leak otherwise,” several FBI officials, including Baker and Strzok,
told us that the concern about leaks played a role in the decision.
(pg. 429)
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Concerns about the impact of possible leaks on the Midyear investigation,
particularly in the October 2016 time period, are described in Chapters Ten and
Eleven. Several FBI officials told us that their concerns about potential leaks were
a factor that influenced them in the discussions about the possibility of sending a
notification letter to Congress on October 28, 2016, regarding the FBI’s discovery of
Clinton-related emails on the Weiner laptop. As then FBI General Counsel Baker
starkly characterized that decision to us, “f we don't put out a letter, somebody
is going to leak it.”
(pg. 368)
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The letter sent to Congress also stated that “[d]ue to recent developments, I
am writing to supplement my previous testimony” and “I am writing to inform you
that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday.” FBI Attorney 1’s first
draft stated that the FBI “has recently retrieved emails” and “today, the FBI decided
to conduct additional investigative steps.”
(pg. 368-369)
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In providing comments and edits to the draft letter, Baker stated in an email
on the night of October 27, “[T]he institution has known about these for a while
(albeit not long) but not ‘yesterday.’ What happened today was the Director’s
decision.” Baker recommended the letter state that “I decided yesterday.”
(pg. 381)
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Noticeably absent from the search warrant application prepared by the
Midyear team is both any mention that the NYO agent had seen Clinton’s emails on
the laptop and any mention of the potential presence of BlackBerry emails from
early in Clinton’s tenure
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We also reviewed the factual basis of the October 30 search warrant
application with the NYO case agent for the Weiner investigation. The case agent
told us that each of the facts related to the Weiner laptop that were included in the
search warrant application were known to him “within a day or two” of September
26.
(pg. 373)
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Moreover, the Midyear team did not treat the BlackBerry emails as if they
were critical to completing a thorough investigation prior to October. Rather, the
team decided during the investigation not to obtain personal devices that Clinton’s
senior aides used for State Department work, because, among other reasons, they
did not believe obtaining those devices was necessary for a thorough investigation.
(pg. 374)
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In fact, as detailed in Chapter Nine, every pertinent fact that the FBI knew
about the laptop in October was already known in late September.
(pg. 384)
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On Monday, October 31, Lynch requested a private conversation with Comey
after the regularly scheduled Monday morning meeting between the Department
and the FBI. Yates told us that she and Lynch had talked about this meeting
beforehand and that Lynch told Yates that Lynch planned to make two points to
Comey: (1) the October 28th letter “was a blunder,” and (2) that Comey and the
FBI needed to process the Weiner laptop “as fast as you can.”
(pg. 274-275)
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In September 2016, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern
District of New York (SDNY) began investigating former Congressman Anthony
Weiner for his online relationship with a minor. The FBI’s New York Field Office
(NYO) was in charge of the investigation. A federal search warrant was obtained on
September 26, 2016, for Weiner’s iPhone, iPad, and laptop computer. The FBI
obtained these devices the same day. The search warrant authorized the
government to search for evidence relating to the following crimes: transmitting
obscene material to a minor, sexual exploitation of children, and activities related to
child pornography.
B. Emails and BlackBerry PIN Message Viewed by Case Agent
The case agent assigned to the Weiner investigation was certified as a Digital
Extraction Technician and, as such, had the training and skills to extract digital
evidence from electronic devices. The case agent told the OIG that he began
processing Weiner’s devices upon receipt on September 26. The case agent stated
that he noticed “within hours” that there were “over 300,000 emails on the laptop.”
The case agent told us that on either the evening of September 26 or the
morning of September 27, he noticed the software program on his workstation was
having trouble processing the data on the laptop.165
The case agent stated that he
went into the email folder on the laptop to see why the processing was “hung up.”
He explained that, because the laptop was still processing, he was only able to view
the emails that were immediately visible in the window on his computer screen.
The case agent told us that the first item he clicked on was “either an email
between Hillary and Huma [Abedin] or a BlackBerry PIN message.” The case agent
stated that, in the window of items visible to him, he saw a “couple” of emails
between Clinton and Abedin and at least one BlackBerry PIN message between
Clinton and Abedin. The case agent told us that the BlackBerry PIN message in
particular caught his attention because his “general understanding” was that those
messages reside on a “BlackBerry proprietary-like backbone” and would not “leave
much of a trace because it doesn’t go through any external servers other than a
BlackBerry server.” When asked specifically how he identified this BlackBerry PIN
message as being between Clinton and Abedin, the case agent stated that “it was
obvious” from the domains, which were “something like HR15@BBM-dotsomething, and HAbedin@BBM-dot.” With respect to the emails he observed, the
case agent said he recalled seeing emails associated with “about seven domains,”
such as yahoo.com, state.gov, clintonfoundation.org, clintonemail, and
hillaryclinton.com.
The case agent told us that he asked another agent to take a quick look at
his computer to “make sure, am I, am I seeing what I think I’m seeing?” The other
agent told the OIG that he “vividly” recalled what he described as the “oh-shit
moment” when the case agent said that Hillary Clinton’s emails were on the laptop.
The other agent stated that, while he did not view the content, he believed that he
did see the domain portion of the emails and remembered thinking at the time that
it was the same domain that had been associated with Clinton in news coverage.
The other agent told the OIG that he and the case agent agreed that this
information needed “to get reported up the chain” immediately.
C. Reporting of Clinton-Related Emails to FBI NYO Supervisors
The case agent told us that, after speaking with the other agent, he
immediately told his Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) what he had observed,
including that he had seen “private BlackBerry messages, private messages
between Hillary and Huma to which Anthony Weiner was not a party.” The NYO
SSA corroborated this account, stating that the case agent came into his office on
September 27 and told him “he had discovered emails that could be tied to Hillary
i was going to gather a bunch of crap for McCabe leaking, but i'm only going to if i have to at this point. that's on another report. it is heavily linked to why Comey was forced to announce the re-opening of the Clinton E-mail Investigation.
i'll stick with the basics on this one... he leaked info to the WSJ and lied to Horowitz about it for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/02/andrew-mccabe-said-he-lied-to-fbi-about-wall-street-journal-leak/Quote
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to agents who spent weeks investigating the source of a leak to the Wall Street Journal that actually came from him, new documents reveal.
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“I remember saying to him, at, I said, ‘Sir, you understand that we’ve put a lot of work into this based on what you told us,’” the agent said.
“I mean, and I even said, long nights and weekends working on this, trying to find out who amongst your ranks of trusted people would, would do something like that.’ And he kind of just looked down, kind of nodded, and said ‘Yeah I’m sorry.”
The Justice Department’s inspector general blasted McCabe in April for misleading investigators, but did not include the transcripts in his report.
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Lying to the feds is a crime, but McCabe has not been charged.
let's not forget that Comey also leaked to the press part of his conversation with Trump immediately after taking office.
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/o1902.pdfhttps://thefederalist.com/2019/08/29/inspector-general-eviscerates-fired-former-fbi-director-james-comey-in-formal-report/Quote
“By not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his FBI employment, and by using it to create public pressure for official action, Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees — and the many thousands more former FBI employees who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”