Posted on 09/19/2020 6:19:04 PM PDT by Magnatron
New details have emerged about 2016s "October Surprise," during which the FBI found emails belonging to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on disgraced New York Rep. Anthony Weiners laptop, with the FBI official who found the emails speaking out for the first time.
FBI agent John Robertson, who worked in its New York offices child sex crimes unit and was later cited (though not named) in Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitzs 2018 report on the handling of the investigation of Clinton's unauthorized private email server, spoke with the Washington Posts Devin Barrett for his upcoming book, October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election. Robertson unearthed tens of thousands of Clinton emails in late September 2016 on the laptop belonging to Weiner, the husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, in a sex crimes case involving underage girls, but for weeks after being alerted, top FBI leaders (including fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, fired FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap) took little to no action to investigate.
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The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come down, Robertson said he later told Justice Department investigators. Why isnt anybody here? Like if Im the supervisor of any [counterintelligence] squad
and I hear about this, Im getting on with headquarters and saying, 'Hey, some agent working child porn here may have [Hillary Clinton] emails. Get your ass on the phone, call [the case agent], and get a copy of that drive, because thats how it should be. And that nobody reached out to me within, like, that night, I still to this day dont understand what the hell went wrong.
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I think it’s BS. Millions of people weren’t going to vote for Hillary anyway.
As far as Comey goes, he did what Clinton needed, within a week declared that there is nothing to see here move on. Standard Clinton tactic-and necessary once it became clear that someone was preparing to spill the beans.
Every time I see this story it annoys me because it offers very little in the way of new information. I believe that 99% of what was on that laptop has been covered up forevermore. And my guess is that the evidence has already been destroyed.
Isn't it also comforting to know now that the FBI lacks the resources to pursue TWO possible counter-intelligence cases at the same time. All our enemies have to do is plant TWO agents in the U.S. in order to breach our security? Imagine the damage if they planted a dozen or two agents.
Strzok finds himself in the unenviable position of having to portray himself as stupid and incompetent. The alternative would make him a very dangerous enemy of the nation.
I hate the corruption. Unfortunately the corruption is on both sides, in the SES civil service, and widespread in DC. Selling out your country and its citizens for money, perversion, power and another day in the shadows is demonic.
#11. It may be four years too late but just in time for the November election.
If this claim is true and possibly proved by the revealing/publishing of such documents, then it undermines all those ex-DOJ/FBI officials/agents who said that Trump was guilty of “Russian collusion” and should be impeached.
The Truth can be a two-edged sword. You just have to know how to handle it (I was a fencer) and when to thrust it up the ass of these fools, incompetents and traitors.
I just read about that. Could barely sleep for days.
Just think of how deep the deep state really is. Control of the media is a must and destroying evidence is common place. Controlling those around you with force, extortion and ruination is also essential
Sadly this will not get any notice. The SCOTUS nomination will suck the oxygen out of all of these kind(s) of stories until it is over or the election happens.
SPILL ALL THE BEANS NOW, Mr. Robertson...NOW! SAVE THIS COUNTRY!
OMG!! NO WONDER THE CREEP, ROBERTSON is still alive!!!~
Wasn’t RBG the controlling factor of all legal entities in the NE court/legal system and was able to keep a lid on many things?
Comey was able to give 2 public reports on Clinton\server investigation, but....
Barr can’t give a report on the Durham investigation?
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The know-it-all Muslim Abedin-—Hillary’s top aide-—told us insignificant infidels that SHE put the emails on her husband’s laptop.
Said she wanted to copy them.......as if Obama’s billion dollar State Dept had no copiers available and no staff to do the copying.
The buzz is Secy Hillary’s communiques were all linked to the Clinton Foundation, so BillyBoy would know who to shakedown next.
ARCHIVES: JUDICIAL WATCH REPORT——Dec 2016
FR Posted by jazusamo
New Documents Show Clinton Conflicts of Interest
Further confirming the need to clean house on the Clinton corruption scandals, we just uncovered 508 pages of new documents thanks to our historic Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking information about possible conflicts of interest involving the Hillary Clinton State Department and Bill Clintons various activities.
More than 440 pages of the documents were redacted either in full, or with only minor notations remaining. The documents were released as a result of a federal court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department on May 28, 2013 ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-00772)).
The documents included an undated, unsigned memo entitled Private Sector Opportunities for WJC [William Jefferson Clinton]. The memo provided capabilities analysis of three companies with major investment interests in Haiti: Tetra Pak, Seaboard, and Cemex .
The documents also include a lengthy March 2009 email from Clinton Foundation Director of Foreign Policy Amitabh Desai to former Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro and subsequently forwarded to top Clinton aide Jake Sullivan containing the names of nearly 200 then-current and former heads of state to be invited to the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. The list includes dignitaries from Saudi Arabia, which gave $14.5 million to the Clinton Foundation; Kuwait, which gave between $5 and $10 million; Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar all of which donated between $1 and $5 million over the years. In February 2015, the Washington Post reported, A third of foundation donors who have given more than $1 million are foreign governments or other entities and foreign donors make up more than half of those who have given more than $5 million.
In July 2014, Judicial Watch released more than 200 conflict-of-interest reviews by State Department ethics advisers of proposed Bill Clinton speaking and consulting engagements during Hillary Clintons tenure as secretary of state. The documents show that Mr. Clintons office proposed 215 speeches around the globe. And 215 times, the State Department stated that it had no objection.
The Washington Examiner published a report by Judicial Watch Chief Investigative Reporter Micah Morrison and Examiner Senior Watchdog Reporter Luke Rosiak which notes that Mr. Clinton earned $48 million while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton Foundation during Mrs. Clintons tenure as Secretary of State.
It is a scandal that the Obama administration stalled the release of these smoking gun documents for over five years. These documents show that Hillary and Bill Clintons machine sought to shake down almost every country in the world, from Saudi Arabia to desperately poor Haiti.
Again, all the more reason for President-elect Trump to launch a serious criminal investigation of the Clinton cash machine.
Still we know very little about what shocked certain NYPD personnel to the core.
Then-FBI Director James Comey outright lied----he insisted that the agency had reviewed all of the communications discovered on the Weiner laptop......some of which were designated "top secret." The FBI examined just 3,077 of the 694,000 emails on Weiner's which was used by his wife Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, a report said.
DID COMEY STOP LOOKING B/C HE WAS AFRAID HE WOULD FIND EVEN
GREATER OUTRAGES PERPETRATED BY HILLARY AND HER CRIMINAL CREW?
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Huma Abedin, a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, routed sensitive information through Yahoo multiple times.
Huma Abedin forwarded sensitive State Department emails, including passwords to government systems, to her personal Yahoo email account before every single Yahoo account was hacked, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of emails released as part of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch shows. Abedin, the top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, used her insecure personal email provider to conduct sensitive work.
This guarantees that an account with high-level correspondence in Clintons State Department was affected by one or more of a series of breachesat least one of which was perpetrated by a state-sponsored actor.
The U.S. later charged Russian intelligence agent Igor Sushchin with hacking 500 million Yahoo email accounts. The initial hack occurred in 2014 and allowed his associates to access accounts into 2015 and 2016 by using forged cookies. Sushchin also worked for the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital, which paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 for a June 2010 speech in Moscow.
A separate hack in 2013 compromised 3 billion accounts across multiple Yahoo properties, and the culprit is still unclear. All Yahoo user accounts were affected by the August 2013 theft, the company said in a statement. Abedin, Hillary Clintons deputy chief of staff, regularly forwarded work emails to her personal humamabedin@yahoo.com address. She would use these accounts if her [State] account was down or if she needed to print an email or document. Abedin further explained that it was difficult to print from the DoS system so she routinely forwarded emails to her non-DoS accounts so she could more easily print, an FBI report says.
Abedin sent passwords for her government laptop to her Yahoo account on Aug. 24, 2009, an email released by the State Department in September shows. Long-time Clinton confidante Sid Blumenthal sent Clinton an email in July 2009 with the subject line: Important. Not for circulation. You only. Sid. The email began CONFIDENTIAL Re: Moscow Summit. Abedin forwarded the email to her Yahoo address, potentially making it visible to hackers.
The email was deemed too sensitive by the government to release to the public and was redacted before being published pursuant to the Judicial Watch lawsuit. The released copy says: Classified by DAS/ A/GIS, DoS on 10/30/2015 Class: Confidential. The unredacted portion reads: I have heard authoritatively from Bill Drozdiak, who is in Berlin.
We should expect that the Germans and Russians will now cut their own separate deals on energy, r
What difference, at this point, does it make? /s
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