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EXCLUSIVE: Comey memo to FBI staffers says election, timing required disclosure of renewed probe
Fox News Politics ^ | October 28, 2016 | Malia Zimmerman and Adam Housley

Posted on 10/28/2016 6:41:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

FBI Director James Comey told his bureau he broke with custom in alerting lawmakers that the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server was being reopened because of its political sensitivity.

In an internal memo obtained by Fox News, the beleaguered director noted that the FBI typically would not communicate with the public when reopening a case, according to a Department of Justice source. But Comey said he had to in this case because Clinton is seeking the White House in an election on Nov. 8.

“Of course we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed,” Comey wrote. I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record.

“At the same time, however, given that we do not know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, I don’t want to create a misleading impression,” Comey’s letter continued....

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comey; dickileaks; duplicate; hillary; huma; weiner
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To: FreedBird

If this was a NYPD SVU case, they most likely either got a warrant for all the electronic computers, phones, etc, or he turned them over voluntarily. The only thing he could leverage is direct testimony of 1st hand knowledge of wrong doing supported or corroborated by documents/recording, or Huma, or someone as yet unknown. If he’s smart, and there no evidence that he is, he saved or recorded a get out of jail free card fir his protection.


21 posted on 10/28/2016 7:16:08 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Comey had enough the first time. Now he has letters that come from Weiner ( I mean Huma Aberdien) and he wants to save face.

I say put him in the cell next to the biotch

22 posted on 10/28/2016 7:18:51 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Comey knows that Trump is going to win and is in ass covering mode. He knows how dirty he and his merry band are and that they could go to jail.


23 posted on 10/28/2016 7:19:36 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Lawgvr1955

“Anyone putting any faith in Comey will be disappointed...again. Once bit, twice shy!”

I agree—can’t trust this guy. I hope Trump starts saying “we’ll see” instead of expressing faith that the FBI is going to make things right.


24 posted on 10/28/2016 7:33:15 PM PDT by MyDogAteMyBallot
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To: MyDogAteMyBallot

Wiener is hanging out there all by himself now. He’s separated from Huma and hasn’t got a friend in the world. I’ll bet he’s thinking seriously about cutting an immunity deal with Congress to give testimony. Otherwise his goose is cooked, and he may end up in the park where Vince Foster was found.


25 posted on 10/28/2016 7:37:13 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP Rocks!)
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To: MUDDOG
we do not know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails [wrote Comey] What you mean "we," Kemo Sabe? The agents on the case (and/or the NYPD investigating Weiner) know the significance. That's why you were forced to send the letter to Congress.

You bet they know the significance. If it was a bunch of emails about yoga they would keep their traps shut. No need to say anything. The fact is it was going to be made public and they have to cover their butts in the fbi when it does.

26 posted on 10/28/2016 7:41:47 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Assange pushed him to it. Assange is releasing something tomorrow that would put comey in deep crap if he did not do what he did today. He is trying to save his own skin.


27 posted on 10/28/2016 7:47:49 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: politicianslie

dopey will never go to jail. The rest of the cabal, maybe so but dopey never.

Even if Trump is elected. He can’t afford to tear the country apart in prosecuting dopey. He knows better. I think it would be necessary to let him go. He would also privately or my other means quietly tell dopye to STFU of he will go to jail. He would have to prosecute and jail the rest of the cabal. Not Trump personally but the new justice department.

The klingoons are crooks and need to go to jail. A deep, dark, damp, rat infested jail but that will never happen.


28 posted on 10/28/2016 7:52:10 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Sequoyah101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePtSE3DWKE


29 posted on 10/28/2016 8:03:26 PM PDT by Ozark Tom (History rhymes--like it's July 1789.)
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To: flaglady47
"Wiener is hanging out there all by himself"

Ewww...that's not a good visual 😝
30 posted on 10/28/2016 8:14:50 PM PDT by MyDogAteMyBallot
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To: MyDogAteMyBallot
"Ewww...that's not a good visual 😝" LOL, you're right, it isn't.
31 posted on 10/28/2016 8:18:09 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP Rocks!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The REAL memo to employees was probably something like:

"Anything about Hillary is now under my own personal investigation, and any agent discussing anything about her to reporters or anyone else will be prosecuted. I'll get back to you all in a few years with the results of my investigation, in the meantime, shut your traps!"

32 posted on 10/28/2016 8:22:31 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I can't help but think this was Obama's October surprise. For many years I've seen two camps in the democrat party. One is the Clinton camp, the other is the Kennedy camp. Obama was Teddy's hand picked choice - his 'face man' while he (Teddy) would wield power from behind. That plan went out the window when Teddy died. To salvage it, Biden, Kerry, and maybe Dodd and Leahy had to prop up O. After the election, O. kept his enemy Hillary close.

Fast forward to today and O. wielded his power to destroy the Clinton camp forever.

The new world order in the democrat party will be O. bashing Trump relentlessly for the next 2 years, after which Michelle will announce her candidacy for 2020.

From O.'s perspective, he crushes the Clinton camp forever, get's 2 years of vacation and wealth accumulation, spends 2 years organizing for Michelle's 2020 run, then get's back into the WH to resume his agenda.
33 posted on 10/28/2016 8:25:09 PM PDT by Dissident1 (And liberty she pirouette, when I think that I am free)
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To: Dissident1

Disagree, at first I thought Obama might be behind a lot of this, but there is chance he could be implicated. He did email Hillary to the unsecured server.

Me thinks Comey sees the writing on the wall with Trump and chose the lesser of two evils, that is reduce his jail time with Trump and fore go his loyalty to Obama.


34 posted on 10/28/2016 9:37:54 PM PDT by Psycho_Runner (I never voted for change, I prefer folding money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Interview with Joe diGenova who said two interesting things:

1. Laptops (Mills, etc.) were NOT destroyed (per sources he has)

2. Huma was NOT one of the folks who got an immunity agreement

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Joe diGenova (Radio Host on DCs WMAL): Clinton Laptops not destroyed! FBI agents refused to do it! (Audio)
http://newyorkcityguns.com/2016/10/joe-digenova-radio-host-on-dcs-wmal-clinton-laptops-not-destroyed-fbi-agents-refused-to-do-it-audio/


35 posted on 10/28/2016 9:45:57 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for. The God I worship died for mewww.freerepublic.com/f. [Franklin Graham])
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To: shotgun
The only thing that makes sense would be that whatever is in this email would be coming out anyway, either via WikiLeaks or internal rogue FBI or NYPD, etc, and Comey would be charged with obstruction.

OR the other possibility is that whatever is in the documents is SO bad that other agents were threatening to blow this open. And I'm talking Julius and Ethel Rosenberg bad.

36 posted on 10/28/2016 11:43:12 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: headstamp 2

He’s having a harder time ‘splaining how he swept the first one under the rug.

This could get real interesting.


37 posted on 10/29/2016 12:56:34 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Sequoyah101

“Even if Trump is elected. He can’t afford to tear the country apart in prosecuting dopey. He knows better. I think it would be necessary to let him go. “

I say you know nothing about The Donald. Whatever he does won’t be blatantly in your face, but Dopey is already on record he is going to be out there to put his crap on steroids to keep his little America destroying game alive. Actually, even into hyperdrive because there will be no accountability and he will have the full support of the media in his subversive campaign.

Of all the actors, Obama must be the one to be sweeping the floors of Alcatraz with a tooth brush but we know he will find instant refuge in some UN non-extraditing country from which to spew his poison. As for his benefactor, Jorge Schwartz (Soros), there is no fate too despicably suited for his ultimate demise, and his demented kids too. I see Trump making it possible for outside actors in countries where he is wanted to finally gain access to him and his empire. Soro’s empire is his only power and in such, the only way to take him down.

I’m sure his disdain for the western world is that they defeated the Nazi empire of which he sold his Jewish soul to so many years ago. I have no idea how he has escaped the Mossad up to now, but Eichmann ghost will be visiting him soon.


38 posted on 10/29/2016 3:30:27 AM PDT by mazda77 (The solution: Vote Trump)
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