Posted on 10/31/2016 4:19:17 PM PDT by mojito
The Comey-Lynch confrontation unfolded on Thursday, some time after Comey was fully briefed on the existence of the trove of emails uncovered by agents investigating Anthony Weiner's sexting of a 15-year-old girl.
Lynch made it known that she thought his decision violated department policy, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
As Comey and Lynch aides debated last Thursday whether alerting Congress about the emails would comply with longstanding Justice Department policy against announcing overt investigative steps that would influence an upcoming election, Comey asked whether he was being explicitly directed not to do so. Lynch never gave Comey the order not to send the emails, a senior government official said.
Comey's letter on Friday notifying members of Congress that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had discovered new emails apparently pertinent to the Clinton server probe has upended the presidential race and given new hope to Republican candidate Donald Trump that he can make a comeback and win on November 8.
Lynch's office informed the FBI on Thursday that sending the letter conflicted with a memo containing official guidance that is sent to all Justice Department employees during presidential election years, according to the official.
The memo instructs employees to 'never select the timing of investigative steps... for the purpose of affecting any election.'
But the Justice Department made no effort to block the FBI from obtaining a search warrant to review the emails, which the agency received on Sunday.
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The agency MUST NOT be associated with the President. I must be an elected organization from each of the 50 States.
The federal and State governments can investigate us but right now we have zero means to investigate them. We can only vote them out of office.
A Peoples Court should also be enacted to prosecute the cases brought.
The federal and State governments can investigate us but right now we have zero means to investigate them. We can only vote them out of office.
A Peoples Court should also be enacted to prosecute the cases brought.
This needs a LOT more publicity. Kadjik (sp?) was Marc Rich's lawyer! A real inside operator, with Clinton history, if what I've read is correct.
“That’s what Grand Juries were supposed to be.”
The problem is they can only be called by the government AG, not the people. If we the people could convene a GJ that’s be great.
Yep
That probe will be going on long after 1/20/17. I’d guarandamntee you the current lead will not be in place from that point on.
Dude, it’s totally fake. John Podesta’s BEST FRIEND WILL BE HEADING THE INVESTIGATION! It WILL GO NO WHERE. But now they have a reason Hillary loses on Monday.
“God bless the local reporter in AZ who saw Bill Clinton board Lynch’s plane.”
He was doing what a real journalist is supposed to do.
“It’s good to know that Rudy Giulianni is on Trump’s team, and Rudy is tight with the various offices of NYPD and FBI NYC Office”
Yep, and that is how we learned that there is some real damaging things in those emails.
>>Trump was never behind.
I agree.
Probably the one silver lining that the corrupt MSM and pollsters can find in this debacle is a convenient cover to for their lying and deceit.
Who says?
ML/NJ
Surprise is putting it mildly. It’s like winding up the jack-in-the-box and when it pops open, a bomb goes off.
One thing baffles me. Trump pulls in thousands at his rallys, Illary plus in, what, a few hundred. How is it she’s stated to always have a lead in the pols despite what I’ve laid out and the fact she’s under at least two FBI investigations and has the email thing swirling around her.
The head of steam behind this, I think people at the NYPD might leak.
No more playing around!
Hackers are the journalists, journalists are the hacks! (Someone here has a good graphic for such.)
This is the latest meme. It is bullshit. Trump was not behind and did not need a comeback. It is just giving the Hillary shills in the press cover for being so in the tank for Hillary. I just want to know whether our friends in the press have been as tanked up as Hillary apparently has been.
We REALLY, REALLY needed that wall years ago. I live on a cul de sac about 15 miles south of Houston. We have 15 kids of trick or treating age. Ran out of candy and quit counting at 137. At least 100 of them were Hispanics. Asked the last group of 29 if any of them lived on our street and they said no, their parents brought them from an adjoining neighborhood in cars. Most appeared to be teenagers.
No wonder our local schools are bursting at the seams and they are asking for bond money for expansion.
“Who says?”
Show us one that isn’t.
‘We needed an independent special counsel not connected to the Clintons or the Obamas over a year and a half ago.’
Or the Bushes
SQUIRREL!!!
And bingo. This election we’ve seen how they send out a lot of smoke so we miss the fire.
I suspect they were doing this with more discretion for a couple of decades.
Not so sure she’s all that corrupt. Bill-O simply gave her an offer she couldn’t refuse on the tarmac. Hard to blame her for that.
She’s doing what she has to do to survive; that’s how it is with most blacks, and you gotta give ‘em credit!
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