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Posted on 05/09/2017 7:20:48 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Before President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, the bureau on Tuesday corrected sworn testimony in which Mr. Comey last week told Congress that a top aide to Hillary Clinton had sent “hundreds and thousands” of emails to her husband’s laptop, including some with classified information.
In fact, the FBI said in a two-page letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, only “a small number” of the thousands of emails found on the laptop had been forwarded there while most had simply been backed up from electronic devices.
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That does seem like a distinction without much of a difference. The system they were using was set to back up there.
Uh, that sounds like a distinction without a difference.
Classified emails were on the device. period.
“Classified emails were on the device. period.”
And lots of them. Let’s let Dems dig their way to China.
One is too many. Covering it up should cost Comey his job.
They are deliberately trying to muddy the waters.
I heard a cable talking head (as played back on radio) claim that Comey said it was HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of emails.
So only hundreds or even thousands is already far less.
Never mind that blue dress with a stain.
Classic misdirection.
Comey testified that Huma sent hundreds of thousands of emails to the laptop. Officials corrected that and said that there were a couple of occasions where information was forwarded, but that there were hundreds of thousands of emails that were placed in the laptop. I would wonder if Comey did make an unintentional misstatement.
It actually seems way worse that they were backed up. That is a single act to grab them. The explanation for emailing them was that it was done in the course of work and was only sloppy. Backing them up is way, way worse.
Hundreds OR thousands.
Just remember that just one would put you in prison.
Hillary Clinton Let Huma Abedin Use Anthony the Pedo-Perv's Computer To Make Copies of Classified Documents!
Backup software can’t go to prison.
The fact that they were, one way or another, sent where they don’t belong should suffice I think. It would be impossible one way or another to establish intent, but the bare fact should suffice.
Intent isn’t part of the law no matter how much Former FBI Director Comey the Weasel tries to say it is.
18 US Code 793
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
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As far as I am concerned, Comey’s refusal to enforce this law is all the justification required for firing him.
That still raises the issue of how/why “backups” were directed to the Weiner laptop.
The essential fact is that classified materials were placed in an insecure location where they did not belong, controlled and accessed by someone (Weiner) who had no clearance to view and handle the classified materials.
Comey should have been more precise and accurate, but the problem for Hillary/Huma remains the same.
The laptop was synced with the server. Huma might have sent some emails to Wiener's account but the syncing was her own email account. It's a "backup" only in the sense that it was a backup to her another client on another laptop. Or more likely used for convenience not as a backup in any sense.
Same MO as Hillary. Classified on a bathroom server? Convenient. Classified on a pervert's laptop? Convenient.
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