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Obama’s Comments on Clinton Emails Collide With F.B.I. Inquiry (Agents angry with Obama)
Check out article and # 17 , # 18 .
Thanks, Wildhighlander57.
Posted on 10/16/2015 3:55:08 AM PDT by kristinn
Federal agents were still cataloging the classified information from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal email server last week when President Obama went on television and played down the matter.
“I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” Mr. Obama said Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” He said it was a mistake for Mrs. Clinton to use a private email account when she was secretary of state, but his conclusion was unmistakable: “This is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered.”
Those statements angered F.B.I. agents who have been working for months to determine whether Ms. Clinton’s email setup had in fact put any of the nation’s secrets at risk, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
Investigators have not reached any conclusions about whether the information on the server had been compromised or whether to recommend charges, according to the law enforcement officials. But to investigators, it sounded as if Mr. Obama had already decided the answers to their questions and cleared anyone involved of wrongdoing.
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But Mr. Obama’s remarks in the Clinton email case were met with particular anger at the F.B.I. because they echoed comments he made in 2012, shortly after it was revealed that a former C.I.A. director, David H. Petraeus, was under investigation, accused of providing classified information to a mistress who was writing a book about him.
“I have no evidence at this point, from what I’ve seen, that classified information was disclosed that in any way would have had a negative impact on our national security,” the president said at a 2012 news conference, as the F.B.I. was trying to answer that very question about Mr. Petraeus.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sometimes, it’s not what you see going on that is important. It is what is NOT going on that is important.
The reference to Petraeus is interesting. Obama was correct — national security was not harmed directly by Petraeus’s actions. But that did no prevent Petraeus from being charged and ruined.
I think Obama instinctively engaged in shallow political spin about Hillary, saying something that sounded moderately favorable to her but is actually irrelevant. Lower level FBI might read this as a signal to their corrupt bosses, but I think it means zip, especially after the walk-back by Josh Ernest, who said something like “Obama meant, based on what is known publicly”. That comment should have raised a lot of questions.
No doubt in my mind, Joe is IN.
It may be that the Muslim is playing games with her, knows she is going down, and is pretending to give her support.
BTTT
Same article?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3349380/posts
Yep. I am pretty sure that this one was posted first but it’s not a big deal. Sometimes people forget to check and things get double posted. It happens.
That section you quoted applies not only to a certain prospective office holder, but to the one in the office now.
IMPEACH!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3349297/posts?page=17#17
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3349297/posts?page=18#18
Liz, thanks for the posts!
Lucyt, for your pinglist!
“That section you quoted applies not only to a certain prospective office holder, but to the one in the office now.
IMPEACH!”
Use the law as intended, and do a thorough house cleaning now.
And what if a sitting president had done it?
IMHO high crimes and misdemeanors....
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Obama’s Comments on Clinton Emails Collide With F.B.I. Inquiry (Agents angry with Obama)
Check out article and # 17 , # 18 .
Thanks, Wildhighlander57.
That's not the way I read it. The law says that putting DEFENSE information at risk is a crime, with no reference to classified information. This was in a thread here yesterday.
Here is the reference to yesterdays post that says “defense information”-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3349508/posts
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According to the FBI agent, the investigation being conducted by the bureau centers on whether or not she violated the laws within the Espionage Act, specifically, “18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information.” The law applies to “any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense’ – even if it’s not considered classified.”
But not mad enough to out him as ineligible.
Think and fast
Leaks come at last!
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