Posted on 11/05/2016 6:28:41 PM PDT by James Thomas
Why is the Clinton Foundation Investigation Being Run from Brooklyn?
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Thank you for posting this. It is interesting.
There is no serious Clinton Foundation investigation. It’s all reputation polishing by the FBI leaked to Fox News. The FBI is as corrupt and crooked as Hillary
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Perhaps Cruz is attempting to scrape off the patina of Douchbaggery with the 11th-hour endorsement of Trump. 
At the very end he claims Comey had the FBI field agents’ back.
What nonsense!
Comey went along with a rigged investigation in which the field agents were not allowed to use a grand jury, ridiculous immunity agreements were handed out, the FBI was ordered to destroy laptop evidence, search and seizure warrants were not used, and the DOJ acted as Hillary’s defense lawyers.
There are reports that Comey came out with his statement on July 5 and cut short the investigation because the FBI field agents were asking to see Hillary’s medical records after she used the excuse of her head injury to not answer questions.
Comey came up with a legally nonsensically standard for “intent” that echoed Obama’s claim that Hillary had no intent to damage national security.
But that’s not the legal standard. Did she deliberately and purposely use a homebrew server knowing that a Secretary of State necessarily deals in national secrets?
Of course. One intends the natural consequences of one’s actions.
And then after falsely claiming she did not have the necessary intent, he then wrongly claimed that the provisions of the statute which would make her guilty of negligence were unconstitutional.
Comey stepped out of his role as FBI director to give the corrupt DOJ cover by lending his reputation to the whitewash.
And we find out Comey knew of the Weiner emails much earlier than he let on, and his hand was only forced by a rebellion of FBI agents. What if Comey had informed Congress two weeks earlier, forcing the DOJ to approve a warrant to read the emails two weeks earlier and giving the FBI field agents more time before the election to figure out whether these emails are evidence of Hillary crimes?
Well, pardon me for breathing, but I thought it was a lot of inside baseball stuff, and not one syllable that gives me any confidence that justice will prevail. In fact, I felt like he was O.K. with how this case seem to be being finessed into oblivion. Thanks, Andy.
Why is the Clinton Foundation Investigation Being Run from Brooklyn?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
NYPD has copies of Weiner’s hard drive.They work with the FBI New York office, who are leading the investigation after obtaining information from Weiner’s hard drive from the NYPD.
Of course Donald Trump is very close friends of the Head of the NYC police union, and the police commissioner. Trump has known about Weiners lap top for at least three weeks prior to the Comey reopening the investigation into her e-mails.Now the Clinton Foundation will be scrutinized according to what is found on the Weiner drive.
“Hey dingaling, you forgot your spinning odometer thingie!”
It’s good to see that you FBI fanboys have come out of hiding we missed you around here
As McCarthy notes, the FBI has a certain amount of flexibility in choosing the USA Office where a Grand Jury may be impaneled. The agents pursuing the CGI/CF investigation pointedly asked McCabe if they could ask Preet Bharara (The USA for the SDNY) for a Grand Jury when the Lynchbots at EDNY repeatedly refused. According to The WSJ McCabe told them they wouldn't be allowed to "go prosecutor shopping."
As far as I know, the Deputy Director of the FBI is, oddly enough, The Deputy of the Director.
If James (aka Jimmy the Weasel) Comey really had their backs, why didn't he override McCabe?
The answer is obvious: the "reopening of the investigation" is a sham just as the original investigation was, and Comey did nothing more than quell the revolt in the ranks of the FBI by giving them a sop. As damaging as Comey's letter of intent to Congress might have been a mass of public resignations would have been far more damaging.
0bama's recent remarks make it clear that the fix remains in, and James Comey is the fixer.
The question is: why doesn't SDNY have jurisdiction? The answer: Preet Bharara vs. Lynch's hand-picked stooges across the East River.
Learn to be gracious in victory if you want to get everyone’s support.
Andy McCarthy continues to live in a fantasy world that all US Attorney’s offices are above reproach and deserving of honor. You know, as the Kevin Bacon character told the Tom Cruise character in A a Few Good Men, “I represent the USA without passion or prejudice.” BS. They are all highly political and impeachable.
Andy attributes way too much honor and integrity to people like Comey and Patrick Fitzgerald, the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson/Scooter Libby special prosecutor just because he once worked with them. He shouldn’t judge them on his memories but on what they actually did or are doing. Or not doing. Since they left Andy’s company they have behaved without honesty or integrity. That diminishes the value of Andy’s insight or opinions.
Yes! Don’t read this, everybody! Because Cruz, or something.
Still wallowing in the BS, I see.
Your point about intent is 100% correct, and Comey's interpretation of intent as it obtains in the law is a mistake that a first year law student would not make, let alone a lawyer of Comey's experience. He got away with it because he was trying the case in the court of public opinion, and most people don't understand the law.
The principle of mens rea doesn't require that the accused intended to break the law. It requires that volitional actions resulted in violating that which the law forbids. Whether colloquial intent and legal intent are the same or not can be subtle and depends on the law: To be guilty of first degree murder, you must show both kinds of intent. However, to be guilty of other forms of homicide, it only need be shown that the actions you performed were volitional and resulted in a person's death.
Hillary made false exculpatory statements, which any decent prosecutor would take to a jury as evidence of intent.
Similarly, Comey has made a number of statements that he knew could -- and would -- be used by Hillary as evidence that she was somehow "cleared."
Such as? "We found a small number of classified emails." The statement is technically true in some mathematical sense, but it is false in every legal way: a) the number of emails that were classified is immaterial to the prosecution of the act. b) by Comey's own admission, he did not recover most of the emails, which were destroyed.
Or what about this howler: "We found no evidence that her server was hacked?" One hopes that the FBI has at least a few people in its cyber-crimes division who guffawed out loud at this ridiculous claim. First, the best hackers -- especially state actors -- would leave no trace whatsoever of their intrusion behind. It's very doubtful that even the best people at NSA could have detected an intrusion by Russia or China unless they discovered it in real time. Second, whatever traces of hacking may have been done there was no way the FBI could possibly have recovered them even if they had been performed by the clumsiest blackhats in the world: the server was reformatted to the metal and the OS components were reinstalled. OFC the FBI didn't find any evidence of hacking.
Comey is a dirty cop. Period.
Comey sent the letter of intent to Congress because it was the best outcome for Hillary!® of a universe of horrible alternatives. As damaging as the fallout from his letter has been, it would be nothing compared to dozens of FBI agents publicly resigning and holding a press conference announcing that they had quit because candidate Clinton was guilty as Hell, and there was a conspiracy to obstruct justice at the highest levels of the FBI and the DOJ.
The Republic is now balanced on the edge of a knife: Either Hillary wins, and all evidence of her crimes and the crimes of her accessories are completely destroyed, and with them, the rule of law. Or, Hillary loses, and Loretta Lynch and a great many other career people at DOJ and a few at the top of the FBI are tried, convicted, and imprisoned.
"A Republic, if [we] can keep it."
Can we?
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