Posted on 10/16/2016 8:06:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
FBI Director James Comey’s decision to not file charges against Hillary Clinton over her unauthorized and unsecure email server was controversial. It led to a backlash against him by conservatives that was also dotted with disbelief and shock. It led to him appearing before congressional hearings for further questions, given how damning his press conference was on July 5 about the agency’s findings. During that press conference, he said that 110 emails on 52 separate chains contained classified information, that Clinton and her staff were extremely careless in handling sensitive information, and that there were three emails that they recovered, which were classified at the time these communications were sent or received. But Hillary Clinton might not have known these were sensitive since the documents weren’t properly marked. In fact, she didn’t know that “c” stood for classified. Wikileaks’ Julian Assange denies that claim, saying that Clinton is lying.
If anything, as Chuck Todd and others noted, Comey’s July 5 press conference was GOP attack ad gold and offered an indictment of her judgment as president. That point would never be made; the Trump campaign never did any ads immediately after Comey’s presser. Regardless, the FBI is apparently at odds over their boss’ decision not to file charges. Fox News reported from a high-level source that said that the agents involved in the email investigation were “disgusted” by Comey’s refusal to file charges, and that virtually everyone investigating thought that Clinton’s security clearance should be revoked. Guy wondered if any DOJ or FBI officials/agents would resign over their grievances with Comey. That remains to be seen. The latest news from the grapevine is that the FBI is revolting against Comey, and that agents view him as a “dirty cop,” according to a former U.S. attorney (via American Spectator):
“I know that inside the FBI there is a revolt,” Joseph diGenova tells The American Spectator. “There is a revolt against the director. The people inside the bureau believe the director is a dirty cop. They believe that he threw the [Hillary Clinton email] case. They do not know what he was promised in return. But the people inside the bureau who were involved in the case and who knew about the case are talking to former FBI people expressing their disgust at the conduct of the director.”
The loss of faith in the bureau chief stems in part from a dishonest rendering of the decision not to indict Mrs. Clinton as unanimous rather than unilateral and in part from the bureau’s decision to destroy evidence in the case and grant blanket immunity to Clinton underlings for no possible prosecutorial purpose.
“There is a consensus among the employees that the director has lost all credibility and that he cannot lead the bureau,” diGenova explains. “They are comparing him to L. Patrick Gray, the disgraced former FBI director who threw Watergate papers into the Potomac River. The resistance to the director has made the agency incapable of action. It has been described to me as a depression within the agency unlike anything that anyone has ever seen within the bureau. The director’s public explanation for the unorthodox investigation are viewed by people in the bureau as sophomoric and embarrassing.”
The Spectator added that the FBI’s own notes cited Clinton aides destroying old Blackberries (Clinton had 13 devices) with hammers, which isn’t State Department policy. The publication also adds that agents are now a bit on edge that Congress could subpoena them over Comey’s handling of the investigation.
We’ll keep you updated. But, regarding the dirty cop remark, things look like they’re getting worse over there.
Anybody that tries to defend espionage and treason at the highest level knowingly violating OPSEC and COMSEC regs and directives by trying to claim “intent,” is more than dirty, they are stupid! At that level, there is no such thing as intent. Especially when the perp was aware she was doing it.
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He was appointed on the recommendation of ...Chuck Schumer of all people. I’m not sure Ashcroft had any say in the matter if Bush OKed it. Might have been a stupid mistake or might have been a concession to extract something of value from Schumer.
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What you say makes eminent sense in the cesspool that is DC politics.
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“Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are two former New York Police Department (NYPD) police detectives who worked on behalf of the New York Mafia, principally the Lucchese crime family, while they committed various illegal activities.
In 2006, they were convicted of labor racketeering, extortion, narcotics, illegal gambling, obstruction of justice, eight counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, charges stemming from the 1980s and the early 1990s in New York, and in the 2000s in Las Vegas.
Both were sentenced to life in federal prison.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Eppolito_and_Stephen_Caracappa
His first run-in came in the mid-1990s, when he joined the Senate Whitewater Committee as a deputy special counsel. There he dug into allegations that the Clintons took part in a fraud connected to a Arkansas real estate venture gone bust. No charges were ever brought against either Clinton..."
"In 2002, Comey, then a federal prosecutor, took over an investigation into President Bill Clinton's 2001 pardon of financier Marc Rich, who had been indicted on a laundry list of charges before fleeing the country . ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/who-is-james-comey-fbi-director-things-to-know/index.html
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"The Whitewater controversy (also known as the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s."
Whitewater Convictions
Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)
John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax evasion)
William J. Marks, Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker's business partner (conspiracy)
Stephen Smith: former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.
Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)
Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)
Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.
David Hale: banker, self-proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)
Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)
Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.
Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)
Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.
John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)
Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)
Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery)
Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 15 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton's successor as Governor, who was removed from office.[40]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29#Convictions
or,
https://web.archive.org/web/20090326122112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29
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Under criticism, Livingstone resigned from his position.
Allegations were made that senior White House figures, including First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, may have requested and read the files for political purposes, and that the First Lady had authorized the hiring of the underqualified Livingstone.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_FBI_files_controversy
Supposedly.
And this information aids America and lessens the trashing of the constitution in what way?
“...the FBI’s own notes cited Clinton aides destroying old Blackberries (Clinton had 13 devices) with hammers, which isn’t State Department policy.”
I was assigned to I.T. in the Army. That’s what we always did when personnel needed a new device - take a HAMMER to the old one!
*Rolleyes*
I could not have said it any better.
FFrom the article: “...things look like they’re getting worse over there.”
Right. The resignations are happening right and left. Former FBI agents are all over the media condemning Comey and Clinton.
Until that happens, this is a nothingburger.
THE OBAMA-CLINTON HALL OF SHAME
This happened in Boston office back when Whitey Bulger was in cahoots with a corrupt FBI agent John "Zip" Connolly, Jr. Connolly was supposed to be Bulger's handler. Instead, Connolly was feeding Bulger FBI insider info to tip him off about FBI raids and he helped setup raids on Bulger's competition. FBI informants died as a result of this corrupt scum.
Connolly is a small fish compared to the corruption by Comey at the national level. Comes actions will result in good agents leaving and bad/lazy/corrupt agents staying. It is corrosive.
Agreed- they are really, really sad that democracy and the rule of law is being subverted.
- They can resign, individually or on mass.
- Ten or 15 of them could call a press conference to express their concerns regarding the corruption at the top of the FBI and demand action. Dare them to fire you for speaking up...
- They could draft an open letter regarding what is happening and have respected current and former agents sign it. Again- dare them to fire you.
- The could leak compromising documents to the press, or even to the (allegedly) responsible people in congress.
- The could stage a one day “sick out.”
But they wont. “I have a gun to me head” is a sympathetic excuse for going along with evil. “I’m afraid of loosing my cushy govt job” is not...
Stand aside!
Make way!
Here comes the stampede.
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