FBI Completes Review of Clinton Emails, No Change in Conclusion

NBC News ^ | 11/6 | Julie Pace, Lisa Lerer and Jill Colvin

[nickcarraway]

FBI Director James Comey announced the development in a letter to Congress that was made public Sunday afternoon, just two days before Election Day

FBI Director James Comey abruptly announced Sunday that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges related to newly discovered emails from her tenure at the State Department, lifting a cloud of uncertainty that has shadowed the final days of her presidential campaign.

In a letter to congressional lawmakers two days before Election Day, Comey said the FBI has worked "around the clock to process and review a large number of emails" obtained from a device belonging to Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman and estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Comey said the review has not changed the bureau's assessment from earlier this year that Clinton should not be prosecuted for her handling of classified information at the State Department.

In the FBI's review of the thousands of emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop, a senior law enforcement official confirmed to NBC News that nearly all were duplicates of emails seen by the team investigating Clinton's server. Although some emails did forward documents previously identified as containing classified information, it did not change the total number of classified documents investigators found on the server.

U.S. Intelligence sources have confirmed they're preparing for possible hacks affecting electricity, the internet, social media and transportation next Tuesday. (Published Friday, Nov. 4, 2016) There were unseen emails, the official said, but they were unrelated to government business.

Clinton's campaign welcomed the FBI announcement.

Trump landed in Minnesota for a rally moments after Comey's announcement. He made no direct mention of the FBI decision and continued to insist —without evidence — that Clinton would be under investigation during her potential presidency. "She's protected by a rigged system," he said. "She shouldn't even be allowed to run for president." Pence, Ryan Urge Republicans to 'Come Home' for Trump The FBI began investigating the handling of classified material on Clinton's private server in New York shortly after she announced her bid in April 2015. Last July, in an extraordinary public statement on an ongoing case, Comey announced he was not recommending criminal charges against Clinton and called the decision "not even a close call." But he also delivered blistering criticism of Clinton, calling her and her team "extremely careless" with her handling of national secrets.

Clinton had appeared to be heading for a sweeping victory before the FBI review, but Comey's announcement blunted her momentum. Since then, national polls and battleground states have tightened, though Clinton still appears to hold an edge over Trump in the campaign's last moments.

During remarks at a black church Sunday morning, Clinton urged voters to choose "unity over division" as she sought to close a caustic presidential campaign on an uplifting note. She warned that President Barack Obama's legacy is on the line, part of her strategy to shore up black voters who may be less enthusiastic about her than the president.

"If we come together with the common vision, common faith, we will find common ground," Clinton declared.

Clinton also planned to campaign alongside basketball superstar LeBron James in his home state of Ohio and appear in New Hampshire with Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who delivered a stinging indictment of Trump at the Democratic convention.

Her high-wattage allies also fanned out across the country, including President Barack Obama, who was joined by musician Stevie Wonder at a rally in Florida.

As the campaign's final weekend drew to a close, more than 41 million Americans had already cast their ballots in early voting.

Trump opened a furious day of campaigning in Iowa, the battleground states where he appears in the strongest position. He also planned to make stops in Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania, three states that have reliably voted for Democrats in presidential elections, as well as Virginia, a state Clinton's campaign believes it has a solid hold on.

Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told reporters Sunday that Trump planned to keep up the breakneck campaign pace through Election Day. After voting in New York Tuesday morning, Trump was expected to return to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and New Hampshire later in the day, Conway said.

The businessman was also facing criticism for a new ad that asserts the "establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election" and features photos of billionaire George Soros, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, all of whom are Jewish. The National Jewish Democratic Council said the ad's use of anti-Semitic stereotypes is "shocking and dangerous."

[Art in Idaho]

Mr. Comey, your announcement befuddles my grandson. He says, "Grandpa, all those 18 U.S. Code violations. . Don't they mean anything?"

The overwhelming evidence along with plenty of intent reminds me of what I heard the other night, some guy stating, "It's the server stupid." Just setting up a private server conveys an intent to deceive, or as any 5th grader would say, "She was trying to hide something."

And how's this for intent?:

Did she intend to conceal emails/documents?

Did she intend to remove emails/documents?

Did she intend to mutilate and destroy emails/documents?

Did she intend to obliterate and falsify emails/documents?

Let's review a few other 18 U.S. Code violations:

"1. 18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information 18 U.S. Code § 798 - Disclosure of classified information"

"2. U.S. Code § 1924 - Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material"

"3. 18 U.S. Code § 2071(b) -- Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally"

"4. 18 U.S. Code § 641 - Public money, property or records"

"5. 18 U.S. Code § 1505 - Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees"

"6. 18 U.S. Code § 1519 -- Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations"

"7. 18 U.S. Code § 1031 -- Fraud against the United States 18 U.S. Code § 1343 - Fraud by wire, radio or television 18 U.S. Code § 1346 -- Definition of "scheme or artifice to defraud" 18 U.S. Code § 371 - Conspiracy to defraud the United States"

"8. 18 U.S. Code § 371 - Conspiracy to commit a federal offense

With each law broken multiple times, there are indictable offenses galore. According to Rudy Giuliani, there are at least 16 separate felonious violations of U.S. Federal Code, and many multiple counts therein.

So, to review, Mr. Comey, did Hillary Clinton remove, conceal, mutilate, or destroy any email or document?

So, Mr. Comey, do we have Intent yet? It's obvious she broke at least 16 laws and not one charge? What's going on?

Mr. Comey, per 18 U.S. Code A 2071, is Hillary Clinton "Disqualified from holding any office under the United States?" A sincere question from a citizen who assumes we are a nation of laws.

American Patriots want to know tomorrow.

The law is the law. The Beltway, not just Comey, Lynch and Congress - the whole Beltway is complicit in this criminal enterprise and ignoring the rule of law. This has to stop.

We're either a nation of laws or we are not.

Tell Hillary Clinton she's Guilty on November 8!

Vote for Trump/Pence!

[digger48]

Comey already had enough damning emails to indict the first time around.

It wouldn’t matter if all 650,000 said “Yes, I killed that fa**ot and the other 3 in Benghazi to cover up my gun running to Islamic Extremists”.

1 email as evidence or 650,000 had no bearing on his decision

[Art in Idaho]

[MNJohnnie]

This is actually very bad new for Clinton. This feeds the view that DC thinks itself above the law.

[DoughtyOne]

General Petraeus, sorry about that...

[DoughtyOne]

Seriously shocking...

[Rockitz]

I speculated that the initial letter to Congress was a courtesy to the Clinton Camp by Comey to allow Hillary and the MSM time to smooth it out prior to the election.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3486027/posts?page=178#178

650K e-mails read and processed???

The government has never done anything that fast in recorded history.

[Unam Sanctam]

Ok so the fix is back in again.

[WildHighlander57]

rodguy911 wrote:

“Here is what I was told is really going on. If Comey gave all the info he has on all the bad guys from hillary, bubba, ozero, Carlos danger, huma the list is endless to the DOJ— Lynch/Obama Jarrett they would have sat on it and it would have gone nowhere.

Either that or they would have destroyed the evidence.

So, instead, Comey gave it to congress!All 650k e-mails.So now congress has it all.

More important however is the fact that there are already five federal grand jurys empaneled in NYC that the NYPD has to use for whatever purposes and they can not be stopped.So it’s likely that they will indict as many of the criminals they want and probably do it sooner rather than later.

If yo watched trumps recent speech where the drivegby journalists were all salivating for Trump to go rogue again get non-presidential and start talking about just how corrupt everything is yet he didn’t its because he knows everything he should and then some.He ruined their day. So that’s basically where we are.”

Rodguy,

—VERY— good points!

Comey’s letter was just about the server AND only the emails to/from illary.

Says —nothing— about the other 4 investigations.

[advertising guy]

Link this to whoever is the last poster on the Trump thread please

[independentmind]

As I understand, there are computer programs that can do much of the searching. I read one estimate that a certain kind of software could do a prelim art search in about 3 days.

[jazminerose]

Actually, Soros is a naturalized citizen.

[Grimmy]

For such a programed search to have any use at all, you’d have to first know what to look for.

You can’t know what’s in the emails worth seeing until you’ve read them with a Mark 1 Eyeball.

[PGalt]

James Commie ALERT!

[henkster]

I thought Comey was going to apply the whitewash on Thursday. What took him so long; waiting for the check to clear?

[WildHighlander57]

Which Trump thread was it, where the DBM were waiting for Mr Trump to go off-track?

[WildHighlander57]

Gldngun,

Add to this, that Mr Trump was gaining momentum before the announcement of the reopening.

And the momentum was always there; the MSM skewed polls wer so far off, they were in la-la land.

[rodguy911]

see post #88

[rodguy911]

see post #88

[jerod]

"...officials confirmed to NBC News that nearly all were duplicates of emails seen by the team investigating Clinton's server.".... Nearly all, so not all??? Comey better hope that Hillary wins, or he's going to jail.