Don't Be Fooled: Hillarygate Probe Is Now a Formal Federal Criminal Investigation

American Thinker ^ | 11/1/16 | James G. Wiles

[milford421]

"The NY Times and the Wall Street Journal both reported on Monday morning that an FBI warrant application to a federal judge over the weekend for permission to search Huma Abedin's emails and laptop had been granted. The application was made on the basis of the Clinton email investigation. Necessarily, that application (as required by the Constitution's Fourth Amendment) would have been supported by FBI affidavits."

"Because, not only is the probe reopened, it has been upgraded and expanded. It has been upgraded from a preliminary inquiry to a formal criminal investigation with grand jury power."

[William Tell]

be-baw said: "A grand jury? Really? I’m not sure I believe that."

I've wondered the same thing.

If a law enforcement officer presents an affidavit to a judge outlining probable cause that a crime has been committed and that search and seizure of certain specific evidence will further the investigation of such crime, then I think a judge can issue a search warrant.

I don't think that a grand jury finding is required.

I vaguely recall that O.J. Simpson's lawyers wanted a speedy trial, no doubt in order to catch the prosecution unprepared to make their case. They waived the requirement for an indictment and had a hearing before the judge to decide whether sufficient evidence existed to allow the prosecution to go to trial. The judge decided there was and the trial proceeded.

Prior to the trial probably several search warrants were obtained, including one which allowed taking blood from O.J.

[UCANSEE2]

The problem is that someone could write a book about how many of the politicians in our government participated in these child sex ring parties for YEARS... and no one cared.

That book could show how the FBI and DOJ covered up this scandal, and continued to cover it up to this day.

Nobody still would pay attention. If only there was such a book, and had been such a SCANDAL.

oh... wait.

The FRANKLIN SCANDAL is the story of a nationwide pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful. The ring’s pimps were a pair of political powerbrokers who had access to the highest levels of our government. Nebraska legislators attempted to expose the network in 1989 and 1990, but the legislators' efforts were followed by a rash of mysterious deaths and the overpowering responses of federal and local law enforcement, including the FBI and Justice Department, which effected an immaculate cover-up of the trafficking network.

(now you know what was in those 900 FBI files Hillary so desperately wanted to read)