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Here We Go: DOJ Still Hasn't Approved FBI Warrant (trunc.)
Townhall ^ | October 30 2016 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/30/2016 9:15:16 AM PDT by Washi

On Friday afternoon FBI Director James Comey announced that due to new findings, the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server had been reopened.

The new information was found inadvertently during a separate, unrelated investigation of former Congressman Anthony Weiner's sexting with an underage girl. Emails related to Hillary Clinton's case were found on a laptop belonging to Weiner and ex-wife Huma Abedin, who is a longtime aide for Clinton.

As a result, requests for search warrants to read through the new information were submitted to the Department of Justice. They still haven't been approved. Yahoo News has the exclusive:

As of Saturday night, the FBI was still in talks with the Justice Department about obtaining a warrant that would allow agency officials to read any of the newly discovered Abedin emails, and therefore was still in the dark about whether they include any classified material that the bureau has not already seen.

“We do not have a warrant,” a senior law enforcement official said. “Discussions are under way [between the FBI and the Justice Department] as to the best way to move forward.”

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; comey; corruption; doj
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To: Washi

A crime family never accepts members unless they are corruptible or are already corrupt.


41 posted on 10/30/2016 9:38:23 AM PDT by RetSignman
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To: Washi

This is a planted story by the Clinton campaign. They were all quoting it this morning. It’s complete garbage.


42 posted on 10/30/2016 9:38:58 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Washi

Go to a judge and get a warrant like actual criminal investigators do every day.

Screw the Justice Department.

Take them out of the loop. Don’t tell them a damned thing either. When you’ve got a case, take it to a court and try the case.


43 posted on 10/30/2016 9:39:12 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Lost in Space / the Democrats are Dr. Smith and the rest of us are the Robinsons...)
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To: Travis McGee

The parachute he thought he grabbed was a hikers tote sack. He’s still going to hit hard.


44 posted on 10/30/2016 9:39:47 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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To: Flick Lives

Tell the Dems to vote on November 9th. If you actually want to “get these bastards out,” you’d better vote on the 8th.


45 posted on 10/30/2016 9:42:37 AM PDT by moonhawk (My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
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To: Washi

If they have the laptop, why do they need a warrant? I think this whole thing will turn out to be nothing.


46 posted on 10/30/2016 9:43:11 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: B4Ranch

I remember that joke.


47 posted on 10/30/2016 9:43:25 AM PDT by Rebelbase (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Washi

If they have the laptop, why do they need a warrant? I think this whole thing will turn out to be nothing.


48 posted on 10/30/2016 9:43:57 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Washi

This is a “straw” the Democrats are holding onto hoping to fool some people. The important data came to light in a legal investigation of Wiener’s sexting activities. When the NYPD Sex Crimes Unit came across it in plain sight, as officers of the court they HAD to turn it over to the proper authority which in this case was the FBI.


49 posted on 10/30/2016 9:45:37 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Flick Lives

8


50 posted on 10/30/2016 9:46:27 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: DoughtyOne

I am not sure, but the FBI are the investigators, and the DOJ are the prosecutors. This needs to go till after January to get this prosecuted...unless there is a pardon.


51 posted on 10/30/2016 9:47:20 AM PDT by usual suspect
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To: Washi

How about this. ...
Humma and weiner in divorce. ...
So they get half of the computer each
.
Just cut it in half with a skillsaw.


52 posted on 10/30/2016 9:52:47 AM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: Washi

Considering the visibility of this case, the ONLY thing that would preclude the DOJ from approving this request and seeking a warrant from a Federal Judge...is if the emails implicate Obama in a serious national security crime.


53 posted on 10/30/2016 9:53:52 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: plain talk
They have read ALL the emails and know what they contain. They were incidental evidence in another properly executed warrant.

They seek ANOTHER warrant specific to those emails to ensure an unquestioned path to prosecution.

54 posted on 10/30/2016 9:58:06 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: BenLurkin

Warrants are ad hoc devices. You don’t get to serve a warrant and then just start looking for things unrelated to the original investigation.


55 posted on 10/30/2016 10:01:01 AM PDT by stormer
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To: spokeshave

56 posted on 10/30/2016 10:02:48 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: Flick Lives

Yes - tell your Hillary friends it’s Nov 9th!

And tell the REST of Trump leaners/voters - vote on NOV 8TH!


57 posted on 10/30/2016 10:05:24 AM PDT by time4good
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To: stormer

Got it.


58 posted on 10/30/2016 10:12:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I have no worries about this. The case is too high profile and out in the public. They will get what they need. And with people in the FBI in near revolt, they will have to do something this time.


59 posted on 10/30/2016 10:24:08 AM PDT by gswilder
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To: Washi

Isn’t a warrant only needed if access to search is refused? Mr. Wiener handed over his laptop and gave permission for the FBI to search.


60 posted on 10/30/2016 10:30:15 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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