Hillary on FBI Investigation: ‘I Can’t Control What the Republicans and Their Allies Do’

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[Sub-Driver]

Hillary on FBI Investigation: 'I Can't Control What the Republicans and Their Allies Do' Katherine Timpf

Hillary Clinton says she “not concerned” about the FBI investigation into her handling of highly classified material “because I know what the facts are.” Appearing this morning on Meet the Press, Clinton blamed Republicans for the latest reports her server contained material beyond top secret.

“I never sent or received any material marked ‘classified,’ I cannot control what the Republicans leak and what they are contending,” Clinton said.

She then echoed her campaign manager, Brian Fallon, who said the intelligence community’s inspector general is conspiring with Republicans to bring down her campaign:

And I thought it was interesting, Chuck, you’ll as a political observer understand why, back a couple months ago Kevin McCarthy spilled the beans that the Benghazi investigation was all about bringing me down, something that I suspected but I went ahead, testified for 11 hours, answered all their questions and even they admitted there was nothing new. Now, Senator Grassley shows up at a Trump rally yesterday in Iowa. He’s the chairman of the Judiciary Committee who has — and his staff have been behind and pushing a lot of these stories, and announces he’s there for the simple reason, to defeat me. I can’t control what the Republicans are doing. But I know what the facts are and I will just keep putting them out there. This is something that I think is very clear about what happened and I know it will be over and resolved at some point but I can’t control what the Republicans and their allies do, but I think it’s important for voters to know what are they doing.

[meatloaf]

You’re right. She’s limiting her contact time while campaigning. The Iowa show and tell where she talked for five minutes after making people wait for over an hour isn’t getting her votes.

She’s over the hill. She fold if she makes it past the primaries. I’m not certain she has that much time left. Using Willy and Chelsea as proxies wasn’t smart. That looks like desperation.

[lacrew]

The media are pretty skilled at willful ignorance.

[DaveA37]

“Same ole sh*t”.........

Yes, but it seems to work quite well for the Clinton’s.

[Graybeard58]

Will the FBI kill its credibility by protecting Hillary?

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The FBI won’t. The Justice dept. will.

Hey Lorettie!

[DaveA37]

Those message must have been wiped clean long before she got them....Ok, now would you like to purchase a couple acres in Florida’s swamplands?

[jetson]

ping

[Verginius Rufus]

Taking office as Secretary of State she decides to have all of her email on a private server, knowing full well that her office will require constantly handling classified information. How dumb does she think the public is?

Obama must be torn. He hates Hillary, but needs for a Democrat to be his successor to protect his "legacy." So does he tell Lynch to prosecute or not?

[meatloaf]

I still have an option on a bridge. Thanks anyway.

[GOPJ]

The FBI knows they can’t make a mistake on this or the corrupt MSM will tear them to shreds...

The FBI is right on this...

[GOPJ]

The FBI knows they can’t make a mistake on this or the corrupt MSM will tear them to shreds...

The FBI is right on this... They also know if what they have is leaked out slowing the Clinton’s with do their ‘old news’ routine...

My guess is they’ve got to have enough stuff to overwhelm the liars and elites in DC... the corrupt ones have a dog in this fight and the dog’s name is Hillary.

[USNBandit]

I am sure all of the material she sent and received had the classifications stripped from them as part of a scheme. That however means absolutely nothing. As an originating authority and head of her department she should immediately be able to recognize classified material and question its arrival by unclassified means. Instead of doing her sworn duty she was doing the opposite. She orchestrated a conspiracy with her staff to circumvent the all of the protocols and safeguards for handling of that material.

I have never liked the removable secret drive type of computer because it makes it too easy to commit these types of criminal acts. I prefer those computers to be contained within a secure facility. None of this discussion, however would affect the TS/SCI/SAP data that was found on Clinton's email. The presence of that data indicates a complete compromise of the DoS handling of that level of data. If DoS cannot explain how that data got out of its physical safeguards the other departments should stop sharing that level of information with State. That should include having some other organization take over their management of TS/SCI/SAP for some period of time until State demonstrates the ability to manage their own security program.

It is scary that SAP and SCI data can be handled so carelessly. That is how info get leaked to the enemy and people, like ambassadors, get killed.

[GreenHornet]

Excellent analysis!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“Classified? You mean like newspaper advertisements?”

Here the implicit dare is that her boss is untouchable. Because if she was doing what is reported - what the reported evidence shows - then Barak Obama is at fault for

1. hiring her and,

2. not finding out about her unprotected server and firing her.

Somebody should take the gloves off and go after Obama on grounds that trusting Hillary proves his incompetence.

[DoughtyOne]

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