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Justice Dept. Granted Immunity to Specialist Who Deleted Hillary Clinton’s Emails
New York Times ^ | Sept 8,2016 | By ADAM GOLDMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Posted on 09/08/2016 6:51:36 PM PDT by NoLibZone

A computer specialist who deleted Hillary Clinton’s emails despite orders from Congress to preserve them was given immunity by the Justice Department during its investigation into her personal email account, according to a law enforcement official and others briefed on the investigation.

Republicans have called for the department to investigate the deletions, but the immunity deal with the specialist, Paul Combetta, makes it unlikely that the request will go far. Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, the top Republican on the House oversight committee, asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to investigate whether Mrs. Clinton, her lawyers or the specialist obstructed justice when the emails were deleted in March 2015.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201503; carterheavyind; clinton; clintonrico; combetta; comeycoverup; comeyrico; dojrico; emails; fbirico; hillary; hillarycriminalprobe; hillaryemail; hillaryemailserver; immunity; lynchcoverup; lynchrico; obamarico; paulcombetta; stonetear
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To: Chode
welcome to tyranny

Thanks - I've never been here before hey free purple kool-aide of course I'd like some - wheee!

Chode - I"m thinking in a couple of weeks it not even going to be close, the election,- it just worries me that it ever was .. so much back-filling that needs to be done on a whole generation.

Prosperity has a way of changing people - I just worry these progressives have learned how to tap into psychological means of permanently putting a governor on peoples ability to try to access whatever is their true potential. Shouldn't worry it does no good. Keep up the good work

61 posted on 09/08/2016 10:36:25 PM PDT by datricker ( Vote alt-black, vote Trump -)
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To: Future Useless Eater

You don’t expect Paul Ryan; Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to find a quick cure for his Cranium Rectal Disorder. ;-)


62 posted on 09/08/2016 10:37:16 PM PDT by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's don't lie, they just Testily{ing} as taught in their respected Police Academy.)
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To: blueunicorn6

his JV team, isis, is already doing that.


63 posted on 09/09/2016 12:24:22 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: NoLibZone

If Hillary believes in spirits, I am sure Vince Foster visits her nightly.


64 posted on 09/09/2016 3:17:49 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: NoLibZone

There is NO Law in America.

What is coming, at best, is Civil War 2.


65 posted on 09/09/2016 3:21:26 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: WENDLE

let me assure you that this is totalitarian corruption. There is no excuse for this and it calls for a revolution. Quickly!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I agree. Liberal fascists control our country. We need rid of them.


66 posted on 09/09/2016 3:28:03 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: PAR35

we have been taken over, the coup is complete


67 posted on 09/09/2016 3:41:01 AM PDT by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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To: NoLibZone

Now the DOJ controls the truth with this move. This is how the control what gets out to the public. The witness is now in danger.


68 posted on 09/09/2016 3:46:19 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Art in Idaho
our Forefathers started a revolution over much less... it's coming
69 posted on 09/09/2016 4:31:47 AM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: datricker
100%... cause the left doesn't even add water to the Koolaide, they lick the powder right out of the package
70 posted on 09/09/2016 4:34:46 AM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: NoLibZone

How many people were granted immunity? This is interesting.


71 posted on 09/09/2016 5:01:02 AM PDT by DrDude (Does anyone have a set of balls anymore?)
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To: Future Useless Eater

He will be prosecuted under Trump’s US AG, along with Pagliano, Mills, Abdein et al...


72 posted on 09/09/2016 5:04:41 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: NoLibZone

And who paid for his legal defense?

“Last year investigative reporter Todd Shepherd reported on an invoice suggesting Combetta’s legal expenses were defrayed by the Clintons as late as September 2015.”

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/09/delete-this.php


73 posted on 09/09/2016 5:16:13 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Future Useless Eater; All
Thanks very much for the ping/post.

With no rule of law, we have no country, only tyranny.

Great posts BUMP!

You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help. - Bastiat

Every day is a battle. Every election is a war.

Be prepared to battle every day. Pick and choose wisely. Win every battle.

Currently, ZERO representation. November 8 a chance at some representation. War ahead.

74 posted on 09/09/2016 6:34:53 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Future Useless Eater

While I believe Justice doesn’t have any standing to reverse a preservation order of Congress, Justice would have to handle any prosecution that would arise from a Congressional contempt citation. This is where Justice can offer immunity, just as it did when they declined to prosecute Lois Lerner.

However, any IT guy worth his salt, probably has his bacon covered by making copies of the material he was supposed to delete. This gives him his golden “get out of jail” ticket.

Look for this guy to have his attorney approach Chaffetz with a proffer.


75 posted on 09/09/2016 6:35:40 AM PDT by offduty
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To: NoLibZone

How the FBI Went Easy on Hillary Clinton
Published September 9, 2016

By Paul Sperry, The New York Post

It’s clear now the FBI conducted a sweetheart investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail shenanigans that appears to have been fixed from the start to go nowhere.

Far from exonerating Clinton, the nearly 60 pages of documents expose both the systematic destruction of subpoenaed evidence by Clinton’s aides and the curious lack of interest by investigators in recovering it.

Agents also failed to resolve unanswered questions, reconcile contradictory testimony or sweat uncooperative witnesses.

Comey declared the investigation free of undue influence three days after his agents interviewed Clinton at FBI headquarters under special terms. Agents weren’t allowed to Mirandize Clinton or place her under oath, even though she was the subject of a criminal investigation possibly involving espionage. They weren’t even allowed to record her answers.

What’s more, Comey made the two FBI agents who interviewed Clinton — along with all agents and forensic analysts involved in the so-called investigation — sign non-disclosure agreements gagging them from talking about the case even with other employees.

Comey even let Clinton’s State Department aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson sit in on the interview with Clinton’s other lawyers, despite the glaring conflict of interest. FBI documents make clear Mills and Samuelson led the effort to search and destroy Clinton’s subpoenaed e-mails and should’ve been prime targets of the investigation.

Comey didn’t even attend her interview and, per his testimony, only read a “summary” of it.

The FBI failed to pursue even the most basic lines of questioning. When Clinton pleaded ignorance about basic classification symbols, agents could’ve produced the State documents she signed acknowledging she was briefed about how to ID and handle classified information at the highest levels.

Read at: http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/09/09/how-fbi-went-easy-hillary-clinton


76 posted on 09/09/2016 7:17:07 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Candor7

“If Hillary believes in spirits, I am sure Vince Foster visits her nightly.”

I’m sure she dreams of JODIE Foster visiting her nightly.


77 posted on 09/09/2016 7:29:53 AM PDT by JohnnyP (A minuscule percent of donations are distributed as aid.)
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To: NoLibZone
He changed his story! In February, this Platte River Networks guy, Paul Combetta, tried the old Clintonian "I don't recall" tactic. Quote from the article ... "he did not recall deleting the emails."

Then suddenly in May he miraculously got his memory back, and told this new tale:
Way back in December 2014 he had been ordered to do a routine deletion of Hillary's emails (see, this was before Congress had ordered preservation of the emails). But he "FORGOT."

So oopsie, all on his own (or so goes the new tale he told in May), this Paul Combetta goes to catch up on this forgotten job. Not only does he perform the "routine" deletions, but just to be a good boy, he uses BLEACH-BIT on these emails.

Just a coincidence, you see, that he performed this "forgotten" task after he learned of the preservation order.

78 posted on 09/09/2016 8:49:58 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: WENDLE
There is no excuse for this and it calls for a revolution. Quickly!!

We should be surrounding their buildings and daring them to come out.

79 posted on 09/09/2016 9:18:33 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
I did a duck search

http://completecolorado.com/pagetwo/2016/09/09/paul-combetta-may-have-stayed-tethered-to-clintons-through-legal-reimbursements/

80 posted on 09/09/2016 10:24:14 AM PDT by IC Ken
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