Comey’s Third Door: Delay

DonaldAx.com ^ | 5/5/2017 | Donald Ax

[DonaldAx]

FBI Director, James Comey, stated in public testimony on Wednesday that he had only two doors available to him just eleven days before the Presidential election when new Hillary Clinton emails surfaced on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. The two choices he had were to either conceal these new emails from Congress and ultimately the American People or to reveal that new Clinton emails were found that may be important to the case. He wanted the public to go back with him to October 27, 2016 and asked what would any reasonable person have done, reveal or conceal? He said in his testimony that in hindsight that reveal was still the correct position. There was an obvious third door that most reasonable people would have gone through, however. If confronted with this new information eleven days before when the American people went to the poles, the most prudent action would be to delay notifying Congress until the weekend before the election. A solid week would have been enough time to ascertain whether these new emails would show ‘intent’ from Clinton that may lead to an indictment. The FBI didn’t have to go through every email. They could have prioritized their inquiry to just the missing emails from her first three months sent from Clinton’s Verizon Blackberry. Comey even stated in his testimony, “We never found any emails from her first three months. She was using a Verizon Blackberry then and that's obviously very important because if there was evidence that she was acting with bad intent, that's where it would be.” If the new emails were damaging enough, Comey could have then notified Congress the Sunday before the election that new emails were found and the electorate would have been informed before voting. If there was nothing there, then Comey could have notified Congress after the election of what had occurred. This is called discretion and is what would be expected by all reasonable people even if the FBI was obligated to share with Congress any new information. This glaringly obvious third choice makes one wonder if the true story is being hidden. Perhaps Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is wondering the same thing; in his opening statement he pointed out that the FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act became law in December 2016 and still the FBI had not updated its policies or educated its employees of their new protections. I believe Grassley wants someone to shed some light on what actually transpired. The story of James Comey interjecting himself in the Presidential election actually began back in July 2016 when he held a press conference. Comey outlined how Mrs. Clinton gave untrue public statements, he questioned her judgment, and said she was “extremely careless” handling classified information that foreign agents probably gained accessed to. Comey then said that he decided there would be no prosecution because he couldn’t prove she intentionally mishandled classified material. Of course, it’s not the FBI’s job to bring charges, but just to investigate and bring all evidence to the prosecutors who then make the determination. The reason Director Comey gave this press conference was because he felt that Attorney General, Loretta Lynch could not be the one stating there would be no charges because otherwise the public would believe the system was corrupt and the DOJ would lose all trust. The likely scenario is that Loretta Lynch simply told the FBI that if there wasn't a smoking gun that showed intent, to stand down. There was no way the DOJ was going to prosecute the leading DNC candidate, Hillary Clinton, who would be nominated by the party later that month, unless there was clear intent. As a patriot, this probably didn’t sit well with James Comey. Since the FBI cannot prosecute cases, he had to comply with Lynch and bring the matter to an end. This is why Comey laid out Clinton’s misdeeds before the American people. He wanted everyone to know the truth even though there would be no prosecution that would bring accountability and justice. When the new emails were discovered on October 27th, James Comey could only see his two doors. Choosing the reveal door was a way to bring justice, not prosecutorial, but public justice. If there was a smoking gun of intent, these new emails would show it. The backlash against Comey caused the FBI to actually get through all the emails in a weeks’ time and the Director came forward the Sunday before the election again stating there was nothing there to show intent and there would be no criminal charges. Sen. Grassley asked Comey in the public hearing about an email the FBI discovered where Lynch provides assurances to protect Clinton by making sure the FBI investigation “didn't go too far.” Comey didn't comment. The real question that remains is did Loretta Lynch interfere with the investigation and choose not to prosecute because she was trying to protect Clinton or was it because there really is the standard of intent that must be legally proven. If the former is true, then Hillary did get a free pass. It wasn’t because of Comey as President Trump recently tweeted, but the free pass came from Loretta Lynch.

[ClearCase_guy]

The real question that remains is did Loretta Lynch interfere with the investigation and choose not to prosecute because she was trying to protect Clinton or was it because there really is the standard of intent that must be legally proven.

I'm pretty sure the actual statute specifically states that intent does not matter.

This was political interference, pure and simple.

[cpdiii]

The likely scenario is that Loretta Lynch simply told the FBI that if there wasn't a smoking gun that showed intent, to stand down.

Clinton intentionally set up the private server. Clinton intentionally had classified emails on the server. THAT IS INTENT.

It should also be noted that intent is not needed to prosecute a crime. I I get drunk and accidentally kill someone will driving the fact that I did not have intent to kill them means nothing. The DA WILL prosecute me for negligent homicide.

It must also be noted that after serving in government for many years, Clinton knew these were illegal acts.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

All the doors were the direct result of Crooked Hillary operating a personal unsecure server in violation of the Federal Records Act, then passing Top Secret information to Anthony Weiner-Danger and others in violation of the Espionage Act.

She should be behind steel doors in a federal prison.

[Liz]

Despite Comey's obsession w/ covering his and Hillary's backsides, I'm pretty sure the actual statute specifically states that intent does not matter.This was political interference, pure and simple.

Nice input. He's as lawless as Obama....they just ignore our laws to protect themselves and their frickin' cronies.

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BACKSTORY Comey's team found "thousands" of emails, some containing classified information, that were forwarded to the computer of Huma's husband----Anthony Weiner. "Somehow, Hillary's classified emails were being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, including classified information," Comey said.

So did Comey ever wonder whether Wiener passed them on to perhaps an Muslim relative of Huma’s in the M/E?

Dollars to donuts Anthony is the conduit in this case (below) ......to one of Huma's greedy, opportunistic cousins swilling at the State Dept trough.....Hillary filling the trough as its emptied by the Abedin family hogs. Read on.

In my nightmares, I keep seeing an endless parade of Huma's cousins w/ their hands in the State Dept cookie jar.

UNDER HOUSE ARREST---Huma's first cousin Omar Amanat AKA a serial swindler;
This smirking creep got rich subsidizing businesses w/ OUR tax dollars from Hillary's State Dept.

EXCERPT--“Thanks for getting in touch. Would love to arrange a meeting,” Huma Abedin replied in a June 23, 2009, email to her cousin Omar Amanat and Shamil Idriss, who heads New York-based Soliya Inc.

In May 2010, then-Secy Clinton helped Soliya get access to U.N. funding by making the U.S. a participant in a U.N. high-tech media initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations.

Then in October 2010, the State Department directly awarded Soliya $1.25 million for a media technology project.

“Huma helped Omar make KIT appear more valuable because of its association with the Alliance of Civilizations, which was approved by Hillary and funded in part by U.S. grants (tax dollars),” said an attorney familiar with the case. “This helped Omar raise money for KIT, which he and his brother misappropriated for other purposes. Approximately $6 million has vanished.”

Amanat took KIT Digital public in August 2009. At the time, Amanat, known as a “serial swindler,” was in personal bankruptcy and being sued by other investors. Despite his reputation, he still managed to gain special access to US government tax dollars thanks to his ties to his well-positioned cousin and the Clinton Foundation.

THE CLINTON FOUNDATION MONEY LAUNDRY Records show that Amanat and several other family members and related charities have together donated as much as $1.2 million to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, as well as the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Amanat, who personally contributed as much as $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, was appointed to the Council on Foreign Relations during the time that Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state.

While the FBI has apparently closed its espionage investigation into Clinton’s unsecured private email server (the House has reopened it), its public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation remains open.

It’s not clear if this still-active probe overlaps with the Amanat fraud investigation. However, investigators reportedly continue to look into alleged “pay-for- play” schemes involving the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation and its wealthy donors, as well as entities that paid the Clintons millions of dollars in speaking fees.

Judicial Watch and other government watchdog groups have charged that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-for-play operation that rewarded its benefactors with State favors AND tax dollars.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Too much information. ASAP will keep you out of trouble. Think Watergate coverup.

[Buttons12]

Comey as patriot, as honorable man?
No sale.
True, his actions helped Trump by hurting Clinton.
True, people like Trey Gowdy claim to respect and admire him.

But then I hear him speak to Congress and I don’t like what I hear. I don’t hear patriotism or honor. I hear double talk. Evasion.

My gut tells me things about Comey I’d rather not think.

[traderrob6]

The only 2 questions he should have asked himself were 1. Did she break the law and 2. Can he prove she broke the law.

The answer to both is yes. All the rest is superficial.

[Sasparilla]

The MSM continues to refuse to include in the “reporting” that Comey said “The last straw was the meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch at the airport.”

This added to the urgency of his statement on Hillary prior to the election. This is a MAJOR factor in his decision that has been buried by the MSM.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I think the error in the way that everyone looks at this is the focus on Comey. He is not the last word on seeking an indictment. Any US Attorney could seek an indictment, the AG could direct a particular US Attorney to review the case so far and to seek an indictment, if the evidence supported it, Comey's reluctance and reliance on intent notwithstanding.

I would also direct the FBI to look at communications between the Clinton campaign and its attorneys, and Verizon. Somewhere there was a conversation seeking the retention periods for information like the 3 months of Verizon Blackberry data at the first 3 months of Clinton's tenure at Foggy Bottom. Let's say in March of 2015, Hillary's lawyers inquired of Verizon, and learned that there was a 7 year retention for the data generated in January-March 2009. In that scenario all they had to do was run out the clock until April 2016 and the data would routinely have been lost for investigation purposes. I think it is that light that you have to interpret things like the Loretta Lynch - Bill Clinton tarmac meeting. He was making sure she knew exactly how slow the process had to be slow-walked so that Hillary was in the clear with respect to those early months.

I realize that Trump has a lot on his platter, but I hope that Sessions has not concluded that there is no point to prosecuting Hillary. Put it on the record, get a conviction, and then recommend a fine and probation as punishment. No incarceration, but get it on the record that she recklessly broke the law and compromised the security of the United States.

[yoe]

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure "that chance meeting" on an airplane in Phoenix, AZ was all about....nor as I have said repeatedly on FR, that few Americans would want a woman of Hillary's character to be our first female president...a more valueless, corrupt, and mendacious politician would be hard to find. NO TO HILLARY!

The multitudinous articles, T.V. interviews rarely if ever, allude to Ms. Clinton's lying, her delusions, her "misinterpretations" about what normal people understand to be reality...in her latest foray into LaLa land was with the Socialist/Communist Christiane Amanpour, Hillary was allowed to wrongly blame everyone but her self.

[acoulterfan]

Comey is “at will”. Trump can dump him! Why doesn’t he get rid of him?

[shanover]

It all stinks and is rotten to the core. This is all an extreme insult to those who still believe in the rule of law. All that is happening is hearing after hearing and saturation by surrogates to water this all down until it disappears like every other felonious and treasonous scandal this country has been whipped with. What is this administration doing? Are they doing due diligence to eventually put these a-holes on trial or are they co-conspiring by letting Clinton inc. and imbecile Comey set the narrative babbling nonsense?

[Chewbarkah]

Your “third option” requires making choices based on what helps Hillary the most, which was not Comey’s obligation. You also seem to accept the notion that a credible examination of the 650,000 files on the Weiner-Abedin laptop could or did occur in a matter of days. After using stonewalling for months and years on the basis of how long it took to examine thousands of files in this case, it is absolutely preposterous to pretend they thoroughly reviewed 650,000 over a few days. We have no idea what the laptop files actually contained and neither did Comey when he pronounced that nothing had been found “that changed his judgment about the case”. Note how his wording skirts the issue of what was found. The mere fact massive quantities of Hillary’s state department files were found in the possession of her top aide’s sex offending spouse, and that said top aide had failed to disclose the existence of this laptop during multiple FBI interrogations is evidence of itself that Hillary and her staff were massively mishandling classified information and obstructing justice.

In July 2016 Comey had made it clear that he knew Hillary, and others in her group, were guilty and SHOULD be indicted, but he was not recommending indictment because in is judgement, “no prosecutor would take the case”. He left unsaid “because politics made it too difficult a case to pursue” and no one pinned him down on whether, despite that, the evidence indicated that HRC was guilty of violating the LAW. As he said, Comey dismissed the laptop evidence on the same basis: politics outweighs the rule of law because its Hillary. He obviously wanted to expose the laptop situation to remove any doubt of Hillary’s guilt and unfitness for office.

Here are some real options a better man would have taken:
1) Publicly expose and condemn Lynch and the DoJ for obstructing the investigation, granting immunity, allowing games about Atty-Client privilege to protect Hillary, etc.
2) Fire Deputy FBI Director McCabe for failing to recuse himself from the investigations of Hillary Clinton while his own wife received $600,000 raised mostly via a political event headlined by Hillary Clinton.
3) Recommend appointment of an independent prosecutor to take over the case from DoJ, because of its through corruption, and investigate not only Hillary, et al, but the corrupt AG and DoJ.
4) Recommend indictments for various lesser players in Hillary’s scheme, as a stepping stone to the kingpin.

[Vaduz]

We never found any emails from her first three months.We looked in the shower the garage washing machine........

[DonaldAx]

Hi Chewbarkah,

I agree with you everything except your opening paragraph. You have to take into account the DOJ and FBI’s policy regarding public statements about investigations right before an election, not what helps Hillary the most. We shouldn’t want these organizations influencing any election, should we? Secondly, Comey had access to the meta data before the search warrant. The FBI could search the most likely emails (the first three months) to find intent, which was the DOJ’s standard, IMO. I agree with everything else though. Thank you.

[DonaldAx]

Thanks for the info, Liz. Clinton didn’t care who she dealt with.

[DonaldAx]

thanks, i totally agree.

[DonaldAx]

thanks, you are correct about that.

[DonaldAx]

I think because the left and the media will accuse Trump of sabotaging the Russian investigation. Then, there would no doubt be a special prosecutor called to take over the investigation.