Posted on 06/08/2016 1:47:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
FBI agents have confirmed that they recovered records from Hillary Clinton's private server and other electronic devices, but won't reveal any details about those records because that information is being treated as "evidence" in a "pending investigation."
"[A]ll of the materials retrieved from any electronic equipment obtained from former Secretary Clinton for the investigation are evidence, potential evidence, or information that has not yet been assessed for evidentiary value," the FBI said in documents filed with a federal court Monday.
While media reports last year suggested the law enforcement agency had some success pulling potentially deleted emails off Clinton's private server, which it seized in August, the FBI had previously shied away from confirming the existence of recovered records. It also hadn't revealed any details about what was being considered "evidence" in its high-profile investigation.
"Due to the sensitive nature of the investigation, the number of FBI personnel involved in and having knowledge of the pending investigation is limited," the FBI said in the filings.
The FBI argued that disclosing even the number of records it has pulled off Clinton's server, thumb drive or other unnamed devices "could reasonably lead to the public identification and compromising of potential witnesses, as well as defensive actions to conceal activities, elude detection, and/or suppress or fabricate evidence."
The details were revealed through filings in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Vice News against the FBI in search of records related to its investigation of Clinton's private email use.
While the FBI asked a federal judge to allow it to keep information about its probe secret, including a pair of emails sent between FBI and State Department officials, the law enforcement agency did reveal its investigation is focused on a "security referral made for counterintelligence purposes" by the inspector general of the intelligence community.
That detail was the latest to undermine Clinton's repeated argument that the investigation is a routine "security review," and suggests the FBI is looking into the specific mishandling of classified intelligence.
In March 2015, Clinton claimed she had deleted roughly 30,000 emails off her private server because she had deemed them personal in nature. Her legal team submitted another 30,000 "work-related" messages to the State Department in December 2014.
But the FBI's most recent admission may cast further doubt on her claim that every government communication was included in the batch of records she surrendered in 2014.
Evidence of what? That she’s the smartest woman in the world breaking glass ceilings? /s”
Gotta a spare ASP to send? LOL !
It’s an ongoing investigation to see if a pending investigation is necessary...................or vice versa................
Kabuki Theater.........................
Then she will pick Bernie as her Veep?..........................
Indict after the convention. Then let the game begin. . .
She might be the first female president and will be the first female president indicted and sent to prison, hopefully SuperMax.
Did the FBI recover emails Hillary said she deleted? And does Hillary have a copy? If she does, she is in violation of the Federal Records Act and possibly the Espionage Act.
Her purported “tech-ignorance” is sll an act——another lie she thinks people actually believe.
EVEN BEFORE HER INFAMOUS UN PRESSER WHERE THE SMIRKNG HILLARY DENIED EVERYTHING-—Fox has Hillary on video wherein Hillary tells an earlier tech conference in California: “I have, you know, an iPad, a mini iPad, an iPhone and a Blackberry.”
” Where are all those electronics, Hillary”?
Did Hillary delete pertinent e-mails while subject to congressional investigation?
THE NYT REPORTED 3/27/15: Clinton’s review (and erasing?) of her emails did not occur when she was secretary of state ......or even shortly after she left office.
Last October, nearly two years after she left office, the State Department sent her a letter requesting all government records, like emails, she may have possessed. In response, she provided the State Department in December with about 30,000 printed emails that she said were government records. She has said that an additional 30,000 emails were personal.
It appears Clinton still has copies of the emails she deemed public records. Attached to Mr. Kendall’s letter was one sent to him by the State Department this week.
A letter from the under secretary of state for management, Patrick F. Kennedy, said that the department understood that she wanted to keep copies of those documents. Mr. Kennedy said that the agency had consulted with the National Archives, and that allowing her “access to the documents is in the public interest as it will promote informed discussion” as she responds to congressional and other inquiries.
Biden better sleep with his running shoes on and get ready to hook up with his Indian shotgun bride. Bernie the Bridesmaid will be kept from the altar, banging on the window like The Graduate.
In order to understand this statement, it needs to be parsed, as we need to do in all Clinton scandals.
"This is a security review.." What is "this"? Is "this" an FBI probe, an investigation by the State Department IG, or a DoJ investigation?
"...that was requested..." Who requested the "security review"? Hillary herself? The DoJ? The FBI? The State Department? Any number of intelligence organizations?
What Federal agency does a "security review"? Perhaps thje intelligece community, but not the FBI or DoJ.
"....it is being carried out..." What is "it"? Is "it" a formal investigation? Who is carrying "it" out? Specifically, what Federal agencies or Legislative entities are carrying out something along the lines of a "security review"?
"....it will be resolved...." Again, what is "it", how will "it" be "resolved", and what is the final product to demonstrate that "it" is "resolved"? Could "resolved" mean convening a Federal Grand Jury, or selecting a special prosecutor, or going to trial, or getting a conviction, or sentencing someone for a crime?
Where are the so-called investigative reporters at the national level who exercise intellectual curiosity?
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Let's not confuse the ethereal Vast Right Wing Conspiracy with the actual breaking of laws.
Is even the FBI compromised by these LIB criminals who apparently are throughout our criminal government and our country? Time will tell.
Her and El Chapo might get really acquainted..................
Why don’t they audit her taxes? They got Capone that way.
I’d be willing to bet there’s cooked books somewhere.
Seems this way is as fast as an inch worm wearing down a steel ball the size of Earth.
And yet Trump calling a judge “Mexican” is the big news of the past week. Hillary commits felonies? Nothing to see here, even from Republicans and “conservative” news sources. Trump calls a judge Mexican and the world melts down. Priorities, anyone?
the big question; will the obozo pardon the hag before or after the 2016 election? This hag will certainly not be indicted by the other hag at the DOJ. And here we, the law enforcement community and the US Military all sit and watch as our country is conquered by a pack of anti-American NWO commie politicians. Once all American patriots are in shackles, who will be left if the US is to ever be saved?
I don’t have any faith in my current corrupt gov’t this will go anywhere.
Catherine Herridge of FOX had this a long time ago. Methinks Hillary may well be melba. The Democrats may have so things to think about.
Hmm, nah. Her and Huma are bud’s ....close bud’s.
FBI can’t do much now, just in case she does win the election and becomes their main boss.
Clintons and Obama seem to have enough on each other so as to cancel each other’s potential threats.
{insert pic of frog and crane — never give up}
Without Obama’s nod, the FBI can’t do much more than investigate, because Obama still controls the Justice Department who would have to get Obama’s okay to act on the results of the FBI investigation.
Brett Baier is interviewing her shortly. Do you think he might ask her any of those questions? Nah, I didn’t think so. He’s a weenie.
Yeah - it’s all being held in confidence until after the election.
It’s nice to have friends in high places.
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