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Bad intel from Russia influenced Comey's Clinton announcement: report
thehill.com ^ | 5/24/17 | Katie Bo Williams

Posted on 05/25/2017 6:11:55 AM PDT by ColdOne

Former FBI Director James Comey’s controversial decision to detail the FBI’s findings in the Hillary Clinton email case without Justice Department input was influenced by a dubious Russian document that the FBI now considers to be bad intelligence, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The secret document, which purported to be a piece of Russian intelligence, claimed that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information would go nowhere.

But according to people familiar with the matter, by August the FBI had come to believe the document was unreliable — and in fact may have been planted as a fake to confuse the FBI.

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


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KEYWORDS: comeyhillary; hillaryemails
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To: sdthree

Pardon my ignorance, but who or what is DWS?


81 posted on 05/25/2017 8:23:40 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

DWS=Debbie Wasserman Schulz


82 posted on 05/25/2017 8:26:42 AM PDT by sdthree
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To: Steve_Seattle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.d234024a590b

The document, obtained by the FBI, was a piece of purported analysis by Russian intelligence, the people said. It referred to an email supposedly written by the then-chair of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and sent to Leonard Benardo, an official with the Open Society Foundations, an organization founded by billionaire George Soros and dedicated to promoting democracy.

The Russian document did not contain a copy of the email, but it described some of the contents of the purported message.


83 posted on 05/25/2017 8:28:18 AM PDT by sdthree
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To: ColdOne

84 posted on 05/25/2017 8:29:37 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: sdthree

It was a real communication from DWS to the Soros guy, reassuring the Soros guy that Lynch was taking care of the email investigation so that it would not lead to an indictment.


It does appear DWS is the decided fall guy, and she’s earned 150% of that job.


85 posted on 05/25/2017 8:54:21 AM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: sdthree

Now if they can pin all Podesta’s/Palmieris wetwork with Seth Rich on her, then that’s a mighty good BINGO.


86 posted on 05/25/2017 8:58:12 AM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: txhurl

It shouldn’t matter if they can or cannot prove the Rich murder. The Justice Department just needs to prove two things:

1) Seth Rich leaked the documents to Wikileaks
2) Russia was not the source of the leaked emails, therefore was not colluding with Trump
3) Obama, Lynch, Comey, Clinton, DWS and others colluded with each other to create the Russian/Trump collusion narrative in order to wage a coup against an elected President.

Those three things should be easy to prove, and would be enough to put them all in jail.


87 posted on 05/25/2017 9:07:15 AM PDT by sdthree
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To: sdthree

Sorry, meant 3 things


88 posted on 05/25/2017 9:07:47 AM PDT by sdthree
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To: sdthree

You know, you should post the above in its own thread. It really is breaking news.


89 posted on 05/25/2017 9:11:59 AM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: ColdOne

This is Billary, Inc. using the deep state Comey (their good friend) brought into the FBI and that deep state’s co-Clintonistas in the media to manufacture after-the-fact “facts” to cover how Comey was always operating on an agenda for Billary, Inc.


90 posted on 05/25/2017 9:13:51 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Jane Long; musicman; hoosiermama; Cboldt; Army Air Corps

Check this out, this DWS email to Soros about Lynch clearing HRC.

Explains a lot if true.


91 posted on 05/25/2017 9:14:32 AM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: sdthree

Thanks.


92 posted on 05/25/2017 9:19:39 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: sdthree; txhurl; hoosiermama

So, where’s the email? Wonder if DOJ has a copy?


93 posted on 05/25/2017 9:24:33 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

Maybe it’s on that laptop the DCPD won’t fork back over to DWS, forcing her to threaten their budget.


94 posted on 05/25/2017 9:27:30 AM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: ColdOne

Comey had, has, the facts needed to indict Hilary and he failed to do so. Intel had nothing to do with his failure. There are laws that charge LE for intentionally failing to do their sworn duty. Maybe Comey has violated one of them. If so, go after him.


95 posted on 05/25/2017 9:29:40 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: txhurl

Curiouser and curiouser.


96 posted on 05/25/2017 9:32:12 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

Someone has it, most likely Russian intelligence, which I am sure is what triggered the document that the Washington Post now claims was forged.

DWS was absolutely frantic yesterday about trying to get her laptop back. They DC capitol police have her laptop while they investigate her IT people. The smoking gun email (or ways to find it) are on that laptop. But the Justice Dept needs to see the laptop, and examine it beyond what the DC Capitol police are looking at.


97 posted on 05/25/2017 9:33:04 AM PDT by sdthree
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To: sdthree
From the WaPo story: "Moreover, Wasserman Schultz, Benardo, and Renteria said they have never been interviewed by the FBI about the matter."

One wonders why not? The article is full of assertions and counter assertions as to whether the FBI trusted the document - some apparently did, and some didn't. If there was significant doubt about the document, why did Comey not withhold judgment, instead using it as a justification for his going public with the status of the email investigation?

If nothing else, this whole affair raises questions about both the competence and the impartiality of the FBI. WHY WERE THESE PEOPLE NOT INTERVIEWED???!!! They've been interviewing everyone in the Trump campaign, yet here we have possible legal and ethical violations in the DOJ and DNC, and they AREN'T interviewed!
98 posted on 05/25/2017 9:34:04 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Bulwinkle

“..the sources were Russian ...”

I understood the report was complete fabrication - a product of someone’s imagination.


99 posted on 05/25/2017 9:34:17 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

“...One wonders why not?...”

I understand the FBI wanted to investigate the alleged Russian hack and related matters but DNC refused.


100 posted on 05/25/2017 9:37:50 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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