Washington Post – by Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman
FBI Director James B. Comey notified key members of Congress Sunday afternoon that after reviewing newly discovered Hillary Clinton emails the agency stands by its original findings against recommending charges.
Comey wrote that investigators had worked “around the clock” to review all the emails found on a device used by former congressman Anthony Weiner that had been sent to or from Clinton and that “we have not changed our conclusions expressed in July.”
The conclusion from Comey provided one more twist to the 2016 presidential race and cleared away a major distraction for Clinton and her team just two days before the election.
Comey had upended the campaign just nine days ago, when he alerted Congress that new emails had been located that were related to Clinton’s use of a private server as secretary of state.
The announcement effectively revived a controversy that had dogged Clinton since before she launched her presidential campaign and resumed an FBI investigation that had concluded in July. At the time, Comey had criticized Clinton as “extremely careless” with classified information but said,”no reasonable prosecutor” would recommend criminal charges.
Prior to his Oct. 28 announcement, Clinton had opened a significant lead over Republican Donald Trump in most public polling following a string of strong debate performances. But the polls tightened considerably as Clinton’s email practices once again took center stage.
The newly discovered emails came from a laptop owned by Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The computer had been seized by the FBI on Oct. 3 as part of an investigation into lewd text messages Weiner is alleged to have sent to a 15-year-old girl. Abedin has told people close to her that she does not know how her emails ended up on her husband’s laptop.
Comey had come under fire for inserting the FBI into the campaign’s final days with the announcement. Department of Justice policy discourages the agency from taking steps in days before an election, to avoid the perception that the FBI is trying to the influence the outcome of the vote.
A spokesman for the FBI declined to comment beyond Comey’s letter. A Department of Justice spokesman said only that the department and FBI had “dedicated all necessary resources to conduct this review expeditiously.”
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted in response: “We were always confident nothing would cause the July decision to be revisited. Now Director Comey has confirmed it .”
The news hit as Clinton and her campaign team flew from Philadelphia to Cleveland for a campaign event. Some aides read the news on a phone passed around the staff cabin before the plane lost satellite wifi ahead of landing.
The three-paragraph letter was sent to the chairman of the Homeland Security, Judiciary, Appropriations and Oversight and Government Reform and was copied to the ranking members of those committees. Comey said the FBI had performed an “extraordinary amount of high quality work” to conduct the review.
Comey, who had been praised by Democrats and blasted by Republicans in July, had spent the last several days in the opposite position. Trump, who had charged for weeks that the FBI investigation had been rigged because it did not result in criminal charges for Clinton, instead announced that he had “great respect” for the FBI.
Asked Sunday to react to Comey’s announcement, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC that “he’s mishandled the investigation from the beginning.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said that regardless of Comey’s announcement, “the undisputed finding of the FBI’s investigation is that Secretary Clinton put our nation’s secrets at risk and in doing so compromised our national security.”
“Fortunately, the American people have the opportunity to ensure Secretary Clinton never gets her hands on classified information again. Let’s bring the Clinton era to an end by voting for Donald Trump on Tuesday,” Ryan said in a statement.
Senate Homeland Security Committee, Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) promised to press ahead to question Comey about the review and “to hold Secretary Clinton, Director Comey, and the administration accountable and to ensure compliance with our federal records and national security laws.”
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee said the announcement “affirms and vindicates” the FBI’s decision from July. “Over the past week, Republicans have engaged in wild speculation and launched unsubstantiated accusations, but the FBI has determined—yet again—that they are without merit. Now it is time for the American people to go forward base,” he said.
Anne Gearan, Sari Horwitz and Matt Zapotosky contributed to this report.
“Comey wrote that investigators had worked “around the clock” to review all the emails found on a device used by former congressman Anthony Weiner that had been sent to or from Clinton and that “we have not changed our conclusions expressed in July.”
Was this guy one of them?
http://denverguardian.com/2016/11/05/fbi-agent-suspected-hillary-email-leaks-found-dead-apparent-murder-suicide/
You betcha! He just happens to get killed (or he committed suicide, if you believe that joke) right before the election and the FBI all of a sudden gives up on the emails, moments later.
Wow….What are the chances…..
Ha! Thanks for that link.
What a coincidence, eh? It couldn’t possibly be more than that, of course. To say otherwise would be to buy into a “conspiracy theory.”
Not that I have any sympathy for a dead FBI agent. He got what he deserved (or rather gave it to himself) for being a member of an anti-American, child-murdering, stateside equivalent of the KGB. Nevertheless, his murder serves the purpose of displaying the true colors of the Clinton Mafia once again.
Just read the article at that link. Wow. The authorities are ON it. I mean, the firefighters put the fire out, were then able to determine the cause of the fire, then the charred remains are whisked away for immediate analysis and examination and determinations reached and press releases ready to go with all the pertinent details, all within the space of what? 24 hours? On a weekend, no less.
That’s top-notch right there.
That’s Johnny on the spot.
That’s professionalism.
That’s….completely unbelievable.
Turns out it was FAKE…
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And…..proof yet again, that the fix is in.
Head over to Breitbart and you’ll see the trolls telling people this is going to be solved by the ballot box with all the MAGA stuff. Bunch of retards. As for comey the homey. Look of a bought off soulless guilty fag.
This headline is all wrong. It should read:
“FBI director receives second payoff from Clinton Foundation.”
There. Fixed it.
Whew! I’m glad that’s over. Poor Mrs. Clinton sure didn’t deserve any of that.
Now, if they can just stop those pesky Russian hackers everything will be fine.
Oops. Sorry everybody. I kinda slipped back into the Matrix there for a second. Sorry about that.
I don’t want to be re-inserted!
Need a new bottle of red pills, tc? lol j/k
NYPD this is your chance,bring it to us.
The NYPD can be counted on to do the wrong thing in pretty much any circumstances, regardless of the choices they’re given.
YIKES!!!
The only thing they bring is DEATH.
ROFLMFAO
I certainly hope you’re joking, reenie217.
Comey is history. Imagine being that sellout scum bag and having to look into a mirror in the morning? Hope that dirt bag gets his.
DOW futures are up 200 points on the news.
The metals took a dive on the news.
Come on y’all… Didn’t you expect it? 😯 🙄 😉
Just in! FBI Heir Director Comey was found dead this morning hands tied behind his back and two gun shot wounds to the back of the head. Federal Coroner ruled the death ‘suicide by natural causes’.
LOL 😉
Will Comey survive the Clinton email flap?
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/james-comey-fbi-clinton-230851
650,000 emails read in a week? That’s outstanding FBI…..They’ve been priming this crazy bitch since the 70’s. She’s it and that’s the end of it. Now it’s either go out that door feet first or submit. Submit? F*ck that!
Fkng hilarious.
Uh….sorry but….is that your penis…?
….. Well as a matter of fact it is sir.
Well …, would you mind putting it back in your pants and acting like nothing happened. …?
…..Sure…we can agree to disagree that my penis was never here.
By the way…..
Is that a tribal tattoo that says…FBI on your scrotum…?
No… actually it says….
I’m your commie bitch in Chinese. ….
GTFOH…..!!!!!
I’ve said, for decades, that the FBI is corrupt. Now, all of America has finally seen the same thing. This black eye will be remembered for decades. Have any of you seen a mass exodus by FBI agents, in protest over Comey’s decision? Nope! Why? Because they all are evil low-life scum bags. No sacrifice, even their honor, means nothing, so long as the paychecks continue. There is not a single FBI agent, male or female, who would not be flawlessly interchangeable with a member of the former Tonton Macoute. That’s how low these pond scum have stooped.
Well, this election cycle has shown the sheeple one thing for sure and that is, not a single branch of the .gov at any level has any credibility, not a single shred.