Posted on 09/30/2016 10:11:59 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Opinion Columnists Potomac Watch
Jim Comey’s Blind Eye
The FBI director can’t defend immunity for Hillary Clinton’s aides—which says volumes.
By Kimberley A. Strassel Sept. 29, 2016 7:28 p.m. ET
Two revealing, if largely unnoticed, moments came in the middle of FBI Director Jim Comey’s Wednesday testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. When combined, these moments prove that Mr. Comey gave Hillary Clinton a pass.
Congress hauled Mr. Comey in to account for the explosive revelation that the government granted immunity to Clinton staffers Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson as part of its investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton had mishandled classified information. Rep. Tom Marino (R., Pa.), who was once a Justice Department prosecutor and knows how these investigations roll, provided the first moment. He asked Mr. Comey why Ms. Mills was so courteously offered immunity in return for her laptop—a laptop that Mr. Comey admitted investigators were very keen to obtain. Why not simply impanel a grand jury, get a subpoena, and seize the evidence?
Mr. Comey’s answer was enlightening: “It’s a reasonable question. . . . Any time you are talking about the prospect of subpoenaing a computer from a lawyer—that involves the lawyer’s practice of law—you know you are getting into a big megillah.” Pressed further, he added: “In general, you can often do things faster with informal agreements, especially when you are interacting with lawyers.”
The key words: “The lawyer’s practice of law.” What Mr. Comey was referencing here is attorney-client privilege. Ms. Mills was able to extract an immunity deal, avoid answering questions, and sit in on Mrs. Clinton’s FBI interview because she has positioned herself as Hillary’s personal lawyer. Ms. Mills could therefore claim that any conversations or interactions she had with Mrs. Clinton about the private server were protected by attorney-client privilege.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
FBI In Free-Fall Collapse Under Comey’s Lack Of Leadership And Apparent Corruption
Director Comey Suspected of Collusion With Clinton Crime Family
Federal Bureau of Investigation has lost all credibility with its own agents and the American people
TMR Editor’s Note:
The FBI has never operated under such cloud as it has been in the wake of the failure to indict Secretary Hillary Clinton (by the Justice Department).
Director James B. Comey is directly responsible for this unprecedented lapse in carrying out the FBI’s institutional responsibilities.
Read at: http://themillenniumreport.com/2016/09/fbi-in-free-fall-collapse-under-comeys-lack-of-leadership/
Jim’s eyes are fine, but he is a bought and paid for Clinton crony having exonerated them twice before on other matters.
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Used Agents As Pawns To Insulate Hillary, Aides & Clinton Foundation From Prosecutions
Posted on September 25, 2016 by admin
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In mid-summer a wave of panic and despair began to wash over key rank-and-file FBI agents who were doggedly working the Hillary Clinton investigations. Agents reluctantly pondered a potential, brutal reality that was creeping into the fabric of the high-profile case. What if their collective work wasn’t meant to bring this case to a grand jury for indictments and justice? What if they themselves, FBI agents sworn to uphold the law, were being used as intelligence pawns by superiors and higher powers to actually shield Clinton and her inner circle from ever seeing a pair of handcuffs and a jail cell?
“I got a pit in my stomach,” a FBI insider said. “That empty, sinking feeling you get in your gut. I thought we may have unknowingly been parties to this entire mess. It’s a blow to the ego. We’re supposed to see these things coming.”
Agents, along with the country, had just absorbed the troubling optics of Attorney General Loretta Lynch meeting privately with the husband of the investigation’s primary target on a jet tarmac just days earlier. And then hours after that debacle, the FBI announced Hillary would venture to its headquarters, in a matter of hours, to finally answer the bureau’s lingering questions about how she handled classified and top secret emails as secretary of state.
We say Clinton investigations, plural, because there were really two parallel inquiries that unfolded during the year-long FBI probe. There was the public email and home server investigation but agents were also building a pay-for-play criminal case involving Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. And that case was growing serious wings.
The FBI case agents and support personnel are forbidden to “go public” or comment on the record to share their frustrations and dismay because they each signed an unprecedented confidentiality agreement prior to signing onto work the Clinton investigation. Violating that agreement would likely cost them their careers and pensions. Regardless, True Pundit conducted interviews with FBI assets and support personnel who collectively painted a dark insiders’ portrait of the Clinton criminal probe which was commissioned to determine how Clinton and her aides handled, maintained, stored and ultimately botched some of the most sensitive information ever breached in the country’s 240-year history. True Pundit’s interviews and intelligence gathering on the Clinton investigation found:
Allegations of pay-for-play involving the Clinton Foundation were not properly vetted, ultimately white washed
FBI agents were blocked from serving search warrants to retrieve key evidence
Attempts to secure Clinton’s medical records to confirm her head injury were sabotaged by FBI Director James Comey
FBI agents were not allowed to interrogate witnesses and targets without warning
Clinton and aides were provided special VIP accommodations during interviews
FBI suspended standard investigative tactics employed in other probes
FBI agents efforts were often blocked, suppressed by FBI, DOJ brass
Agents lost faith that their superiors and DOJ wanted to see the case reach a grand jury
Visionary Reads the Tea Leaves
The wheels on the federal investigations started coming loose after the New Year, in January of this year.
John Giacalone was the supervisor of the bureau’s National Security Branch and also the FBI brains and genesis behind the Clinton email and private server investigation. He first approached Comey in 2015 for the green light to probe how the former secretary of state operated her private email server and handled classified correspondences. Rumors had been swirling in intelligence circles. Once approved, Giacalone spearheaded the investigation, and helped hand select top agents who were highly skilled but also discreet. Many of those agents were concerned when Giacalone abruptly resigned in the middle of the investigation....
Question:
A lawyer who is, or is very likely to be witness in a case should not take the case in the first place and, if their role as witness only becomes apparent after being retained, shoulx step aside, especially for a trial. Another question for Comey is why he bought Mills’ attorney client argument. This seems especially so when the lawyer and client are, or should both be suspects in the crime under investigation AND their is ample reason to suspect a conspiracy between them to obstruct justice.
Martha Stewart should find out where to go to get her time in prison back?
Was the Fix in on FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton’s Emails?
Posted By Roger Aronoff On September 30, 2016
The more that details about the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email practices come to light, the more their efforts appear to have been a sham designed to exonerate her of wrongdoing from the very beginning. As we wrote, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) failure to indict Hillary, based on the recommendation of FBI Director James Comey, has moved the United States closer to banana republic status [1].
The Clinton family’s ongoing corruption and Hillary Clinton’s pay-to-play as secretary of state have also created a precedent which could encourage other politicians to enrich themselves at the expense of the integrity of their office. The FBI’s light touch also has created a double standard on national security, where high-profile figures such as Mrs. Clinton walk free while others lose their security clearance or are fined or jailed.
Yet some on the left are unhappy with Comey’s investigation because of the comments he made publicly characterizing Mrs. Clinton as “extremely careless” with classified information. “What Comey should have done…was handle the Clinton probe like any other routine inquiry: provide confidential recommendations to prosecutors, release a strictly factual statement noting that the investigation would be closed, and resist external pressures to inappropriately air the FBI’s findings outside a court of law,” argues [2] Riley Roberts, former speechwriter for former Attorney General Eric Holder, in Politico Magazine.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/was-the-fix-in-on-fbi-investigation-of-hillary-clintons-emails/print/
Very very disgusting...
Thank you.
Comey said, “...often you can get things faster with informal agreements...”
That statement is true. Did he even ask Hillary Clinton to cause Mills to cough up the laptop? Did any of the Congressgeniuses think to ask him?
Hillary Clinton made multiple public statements about how much she wanted to cooperate with the “security review”. If after a private request, Hillary didn’t deliver, why couldn’t Comey publicly call her on it with a simple announcement:
“Cheryl Mills refuses to surrender a laptop computer that contained Hillary Clinton’s emails, based on an assertion of Attorney-Client privilege, as Hillary Clinton’s attorney. The laptop is crucial to the investigation. If Cheryl Mills is her attorney, HC can easily direct Mills to turn over the laptop immediately. We have asked her privately to do this, with no result. So I am publicly asking her to cause us to receive the laptop by tomorrow morning. Otherwise, she will be deliberately obstructing our investigation, and she will have proved her public statements about cooperating to be lies.”
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What Comey has done (or not done) is indefensible. He has violated his oath and as diGenova says, his presence in the directorship of the FBI is an insult to everyone in the FBI and Federal Law Enforcement.
A side note - diGenova says Comey is called “The Cardinal” within the ranks of the FBI & word has it Comey heard there’s a vacancy in the Holy Trinity & he’s applying for the job.
So he's a molester?
I think it has to do with putting on airs & being “holier than thou” .... diGenova said he’s a big guy, tall & imposing, he knows it & he ‘uses’ it. The point is, he’s arrogant & (per diG) as equally as brazen with what he’s doing with his farce of an FBI investigation as Hilly is with her lies about what she did.
Good one. LOL
Let me point out that in the graphic at the right, it says “Hillary Lied to the Country”. Well, yes. But more to the point is that she lied to the FBI, to officials of the State Department and to Congress. In other words, she did what Martha Stewart did in terms of the criminal act, plus so much more.
Joe Di Genova really ripped Comey to shreds!
If they stay, then they are aiding and abetting. They don't get to weasel.
Let me simplify it for you, "FBI insider".
You're part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice, which is a felony.
You're as much a felon as the "felons" you get a paycheck for pursuing.
LOL! Concerned?
You're ALL felons now, boys & girls. :)
Actually, everyone in the FBI is part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice - because they know about this, and refuse to blow the whistle.
They're all felons.
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