October surprise: FBI opens new Clinton email investigation

October surprise: FBI opens new Clinton email investigation

10/28/16 01:06 PM EDT

The FBI on Friday said it is assessing new emails "pertinent" to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, a stunning and unexpected move that comes over a week before the presidential election.

In a letter sent to lawmakers on Friday, FBI Director James Comey said the bureau has learned of the existence of more emails "that appear to be pertinent to the investigation." The messages were found "in connection with an unrelated case," Comey wrote without further explanation.After being briefed by his team, Comey "agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps" to determine whether the emails "contain classified information, as well as to asses their importance to our investigation."

Comey said he could not predict how long it would take the bureau to assess whether the new emails are "significant," meaning the investigation could hang over Clinton's head through the election.
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The FBI’s surprise announcement jolted the presidential race, thrusting the controversy over Clinton’s use of a private email system for government business back into the political spotlight with just 11 days until Election Day.

Clinton's Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has attacked her over the server, arguing it should disqualify her from being president. He seized on the FBI's decision at a rally on Friday afternoon as he seeks to make up ground in the polls.

"Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before," Trump said to thunderous chants of "lock her up" in Manchester, N.H.

"We must not let her take her criminal scheme into office. I have great respect for the FBI and Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake they made."

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in a statement said Clinton should be denied the classified intelligence briefings that are given to presidential nominees.

“Yet again, Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame. She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information," Ryan said in a statement.

"This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators. I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved."

Yet Comey's brief letter Friday left many things unanswered. Some questioned the timing of the announcement and said the FBI owes the public a fuller explanation.

"Director Comey should give a more complete explanation. Is this reviewing newly found emails? Is this reopening? Too much at stake," tweeted John Weaver, who worked on the presidential campaign of Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R).

The FBI in July finished its yearlong probe into whether the former secretary of State mishandled classified information on her personal server.

Comey at the time called Clinton "extremely careless" but declined to recommend criminal charges to the Justice Department, outraging Republicans who said she should have been indicted.

The FBI director repeatedly said Clinton's use of the server did not rise to the level of criminal behavior because investigators were unable to amass any evidence that she had intended to mishandle classified information. The probe did reveal that some information marked classified at the time passed through her servers.

Clinton has apologized for her use of the private setup, calling it a "mistake."

The FBI investigation has been under fierce scrutiny from lawmakers, Trump and conservative groups who believe Clinton received preferential treatment from the Justice Department under President Obama's administration.

The bureau has made public hundreds of pages of documents related to the probe, including the official summaries of interviews done by investigators, and the State Department is releasing batches of emails uncovered during the investigation.

Critics of the Justice Department's decision not to charge Clinton in the case have seized on individual revelations in these documents as evidence that the investigation was mishandled.

Earlier on Friday, the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced a lawsuit against the FBI, citing "an air of corruption" and seeking records related to its work.

Comey has defended the integrity of the probe.

“You can call us wrong, but don’t call us weasels. We are not weasels,” Comey said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing in September. “We are honest people, and whether or not you agree with the result, this was done the way you want it to be done."

NBC News first reported the existence of Comey's letter on Friday.

The full text of Comey's letter reads:

In previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s personal email server. I am writing to supplement my previous testimony.

In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agree that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether the contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.

Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete the additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony.

Updated at 2:24 p.m.

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FBI under pressure to provide more details

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10/28/16 02:02 PM EDT

The FBI is facing pressure to offer additional details about its decision to launch a new investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Director James Comey’s letter to Congress notifying lawmakers about “emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation” appeared too vague for an announcement sure to shake up the presidential race with less than two weeks until Election Day, critics on both sides of the aisle said.

“Director Comey should give a more complete explanation,” John Weaver, an aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), said on Twitter. "Too much at stake."

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Director Comey should give a more complete explanation. Is this reviewing newly found emails? Is this reopening? Too much at stake.
10:30 AM - 28 Oct 2016 · Austin, TX, United States

John Cornyn (Texas), the No. 2 Senate Republican, appeared to echo the criticism by retweeting an NBC reporter’s question on whether the "public deserve more" and pressing the issue himself.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...ter_normal.jpgJohnCornyn ✔ @JohnCornyn Why is FBI doing this just 11 days before the election?
10:44 AM - 28 Oct 2016

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...man_normal.pngPaul Krugman ✔ @paulkrugman Comey needs to provide full info immediately. Otherwise he has clearly made a partisan intervention, betraying his office.
10:32 AM - 28 Oct 2016


Comey’s letter to several congressional committees on Friday afternoon sent a shockwave through the political world, reopening a vulnerability that Clinton’s presidential campaign has only barely managed to put at bay.

The substance of the new emails appears unclear, as do details of the FBI’s action.

Federal investigators had previously determined that, although Clinton was “extremely careless” with her private email setup, she did not intentionally try to circumvent laws protecting sensitive information and so did not break the law. It’s unclear how the discovery of additional emails might affect that determination.

In his letter on Friday, Comey wrote that the FBI “cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant” and refused to describe how long the additional work might take.

However, it is sure to loom over the remaining 11 days before Election Day, offering Republican nominee Donald Trump ammunition to hammer the former secretary of State.

Comey had previously been the target of criticism from both sides this summer, when he held a news conference outlining the FBI’s decision not to recommend charges against Clinton or her aides and then detailed the thinking repeatedly on Capitol Hill.

Critics accused him of betraying a double standard by refusing to charge Clinton, while some legal scholars warned that he had set a dangerous precedent by outlining evidence against a person who was not charged with a crime.

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Being reported that new information recovered as a result of the Anthony Weiner investigation.

October 28, 2016, 01:46 pm

Speaker Ryan: Clinton's classified briefings should be suspended

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Speaker Paul Ryan blasted Hillary Clinton over the Friday news that the FBI is launching a new review into her use of a private email server while secretary of State.In a statement released minutes after the news broke, the Wisconsin Republican reasserted his call for Clinton to be denied the classified briefings she receives because she is the Democratic presidential nominee."Yet again, Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame. She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information," he said.

"This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators. I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved."

FBI Director James Comey wrote in a letter to Congress released Friday afternoon that the FBI is launching a new investigation after finding "that appear pertinent" in an unrelated probe.

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She has proven that she can't be trusted with classified info......So.....REVOKE HER SECURITY CLEARANCE ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hillary Clinton Campaign Attacks FBI Director James Comey; Demands Transparency

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28 Oct 2016

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign implied that F.B.I. Director James Comey was meddling in the presidential election, after he sent a letter to Congress informing them of new information in Clinton’s investigation into her private email server

“It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election,” Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta said, in a strongly worded statement to reporters.

Podesta argued that Comey did not use the word “reopening” when discussing the new information in the investigation. He reminded reporters that Comey “completed” the case in July, finding Clinton innocent.

Podesta also called into doubt the new information that was discovered, calling for Comey to release it immediately.

“[W]e have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant,” Podesta said.

Podesta suggested that Comey was falling prey to Republicans who repeatedly questioned his investigation, and demanded he release further details.

“The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining,” he said. “We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July.”

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Hillary Clinton Smiles And Waves After Reporters Ask About Reopened Server Investigation

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28 Oct 2016

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ignored shouted questions about the F.B.I.’s decision to reopen an investigation of her private email server. Instead, the former Secretary of State only smiled and waved as she got into a waiting SUV.

Clinton landed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but remained inside the plane for about 25 minutes before deplaning.

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Clinton spent almost 25 mins on plane after it parked in Cedar Rapids, likely trying to figure out what happened while she was in the air
11:08 AM - 28 Oct 2016


Clinton arrived at her rally at about 1:45 CT but did not mention the news after taking the stage.

“It’s a beautiful day in Cedar Rapids!” she said, adding that she was “excited” and “happy” to be in the city.

Reporters traveling with Clinton reported that there was no wi-fi on the flight, but some of them got a cell phone signal as the plane approached the runway.

A Clinton aide declined to comment about the investigation, according to reporters.
“We’re learning about this just like you all are,” the aide said.

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Of note as we wait for Clinton: plane had no wi-fi today. One adviser after we landed: "We're learning about this just like you all are."

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FBI Revelations Ruin Hillary Clinton’s Big Day in Iowa

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28 Oct 2016

The FBI’s decision Friday to further probe emails related to its previous investigation of Hillary Clinton sent shockwaves through the Democratic candidate’s campaign on what was supposed to be a triumphant day for the candidate campaigning in Iowa.

Clinton landed in Iowa late Friday morning as the letter from FBI Director James Comey to Congressional leaders was made public. According to the Associated Press, Clinton remained on her campaign plane for around 25 minutes before disembarking, after which famed photographer Annie Leibovitz could be seen exiting the aircraft behind her.

The AP reports that Leibovitz was conducting a photo shoot with the candidate “for at least part of the time” that reporters were waiting for Clinton to deplane.

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Clinton delay on tarmac wasn't about the FBI, it turns out. Pool report notes that Annie Leibovitz came off after, likely had a photo shoot.

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Ruby Cramer ✔ @rubycramer Clinton delay on tarmac wasn't about the FBI, it turns out. Pool report notes that Annie Leibovitz came off after, likely had a photo shoot.
11:22 AM - 28 Oct 2016 · Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

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Politico reporter Gabriel Debenedetti wrote on social media Friday afternoon that staffers and reporters first received the news of the FBI letter as Clinton’s campaign plane began descending into cell phone range closer to Iowa. The plane’s Wi-Fi had reportedly been disabled on the flight.

Clinton was scheduled to campaign in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Friday afternoon with a speech geared toward women. Clinton’s childhood friend Betsy Ebeling reportedly accompanied the candidate on the flight to Iowa, and Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards and Emily’s List president Stephanie Schriock were scheduled to appear at the rally.

Clinton did not mention the latest FBI probe in her speech Friday in Iowa, according to the Associated Press. The candidate warned supporters of the importance of voting and of not becoming complacent, calling Trump’s “scorched earth” campaign strategy “the last refuge of a bankrupt candidate.”

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She has proven that she can't be trusted with classified info......So.....REVOKE HER SECURITY CLEARANCE ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Remember she is the one who leaked out how long it takes to trigger our nuclear weapons arsenal at the debates on worldwide television. She can't be trusted with anything. She is a lying, crooked, dishonest incompetent. America must wake up to the fact that we CAN NOT choose Presidents based on their race or gender. We have Bumbling Obama and Crooked Hillary solely because Obama is black and Hillary is a woman. Where has it gotten US? $20 trillion in debt, 94 million Americans out of the work force, millions more on food stamps and Medicaid, tens of millions of illegal aliens roaming the country, and military conflicts all over the world.

This is NOT what we pay these people to do. We pay them to protect the economy, trade, borders, money and peace. These BIMBOS have done the complete opposite. Their experience isn't right, their souls aren't right, their ideologies aren't right, their skill sets aren't right. They're all 100% wrong!!

Donald Trump has all the right experience, the right soul, the right ideology and the right skill set to fix our country and correct the mistakes of these crooked incompetents who created this mess to begin with. And it didn't just start with Obama and Hillary, there is plenty of blame to lay on Bush I, Bush II and Bill Clinton before them. They just made it far worse because they are totally incompetent and didn't know when to quit or cut and run.

Biden: Hillary Didn’t Recognize ‘Gravity’ Of Setting Up Private Email Server

28 Oct 2016

In a preview from and interview that will air on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden defended Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private unsecured email server during her tenure as secretary of state for the Obama administration.

Biden said, “Well, I think it’s a combination of a couple of things. One, I don’t think she understood the gravity of setting it up. She thought it was you know this is okay to do. This woman has been so battered over 30 years. I think then when faced with, ‘This is a problem,’ I think instead of just cutting it and dealing with it immediately, there’s always an inclination to overthink it.”

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Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit Seeking FBI Records on Clinton Email Investigation

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28 Oct 2016

Government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to obtain Federal Bureau of records relating to its “investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a non-government email server during her tenure.”

The lawsuit includes a demand for FBI “302” documents, which are reports of FBI investigation interviews as well as information about the private June meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement:

“FBI Director James Comey’s promise to the American people of transparency about the FBI’s investigation of Clinton was an empty promise – otherwise we wouldn’t be in federal court seeking this information. An air of corruption surrounds the FBI/Justice Department investigation of Hillary Clinton and so, through this lawsuit, Judicial Watch is investigating the investigators.”

Judicial Watch explained what the lawsuit Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:16-cv-02046) is seeking:

The Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit was filed after the Justice Department failed to comply with a July 7, 2016, FOIA request seeking the following:
• All FD-302 forms prepared pursuant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server during her tenure.
• All records of communications between any agent, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding, concerning, or related to the aforementioned investigation. This request includes, but is not limited to, any related communications with any official, employee, or representative of the Department of Justice, the Executive Office of the President, the Democratic National Committee, and/or the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
• All records related to the meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former President Bill Clinton on June 27, 2016.

On Friday afternoon, it was announced that the FBI is re-opening the investigation into the Clinton email scandal after “recent developments.”

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White House says got no advance notice of new FBI Clinton email review

By Nolan D. McCaskill
10/28/16 05:28 PM EDT

The White House found out through media reports that the FBI would be reviewing additional emails related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server as secretary of state, a spokesman said Friday.

“We got it through press reports,” principal deputy White House press secretary Eric Schultz told reporters during a gaggle aboard Air Force One.

FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to congressional committee chairmen earlier Friday informing them of new emails “that appear to be pertinent to this investigation.” He added that the bureau would review the emails to determine whether they contained classified information.

“We had that letter after it was made public,” Schultz said, “so we did not have advance warning.”

Schultz was unable to clarify the exact nature of the FBI's latest review.

“The president’s expectation is that all FBI efforts follow the facts wherever they lead,” he said.

The FBI’s announcement of the inquiry comes just 11 days before Election Day. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta called on Comey to immediately release more details beyond his three-paragraph letter.

“It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election,” Podesta said in a statement. “The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July.”

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The Latest: Obama Silent on New Email Investigation


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSOCT. 28, 2016, 6:37 P.M. E.D.T.


WASHINGTON — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT):

6:25 p.m.

President Barack Obama is staying silent on the FBI director's announcement of an investigation into new emails related to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.

Obama is in Orlando, Florida, encouraging voters — young voters in particular — to take advantage of their opportunity to cast their ballots before Election Day on Nov. 8.

Just before Obama left Washington on Friday, FBI Director James Comey announced in a letter to Congress that his agency will investigate newly found emails.

A U.S. official told The Associated Press that the emails were uncovered during the sexting investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner. Weiner is the estranged husband of one of Clinton's closest aides.

Obama says Clinton is the only candidate who can continue the progress the U.S. has achieved during his presidency.
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6:05 p.m.
The Republican National Committee says Democratic efforts to get emails from it in a voter intimidation lawsuit are an attempt to gather intelligence.
The Democratic National Committee wants a judge to allow it to read any emails between Donald Trump's campaign and the RNC about issues related to ballot security and voter suppression.
A federal judge in New Jersey has scheduled arguments for next week after the DNC accused the RNC of supporting the efforts of Trump's campaign "to intimidate and discourage minority voters" from voting.
A lawyer for the RNC says the DNC's request would bury the committee in document review "at the most critical point of the election cycle." The judge is set to rule Monday.
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5:45 p.m.
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking for a briefing from the FBI after the agency told Congress it is looking for classified information in newly discovered emails that appear to be related to its probe of Hillary Clinton's email practices.
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley says in a statement that the letter "was unsolicited and, quite honestly, surprising." He says it left more questions than answers.
Grassley says "Congress and the public deserve more context to properly assess what evidence the FBI has discovered and what it plans to do with it."
Grassley said at a campaign event in Iowa Friday that he thinks the revelation is "going to be a real problem for the Clintons" but he has to wait for more information.
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5:35 p.m.
Vice President Joe Biden has no plans to serve in the next administration.
That's according to an individual briefed on the vice president's plans after reports that he's on the list of possible contenders for Hillary Clinton's secretary of state, should the Democrat win the November presidential election.
It's unclear how many people are under consideration or whether Clinton herself has asked for Biden to be considered for a job she once held.
A person familiar with Biden's post-White House plans says the vice president has not been contacted by the Clinton campaign. The people familiar with Clinton and Biden's plans both insisted on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal planning.
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5:30 p.m.
Hacked emails show Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman was sent a message in March that said someone utilizing a computer server in Ukraine had obtained his password and was trying to access his Gmail account.
Messages released by WikiLeaks on Friday include the alert to John Podesta and a subsequent exchange with a campaign IT staffer. The staffer told Podesta the email that appeared to be from Google was legitimate and urged him to immediately change his password and take further precautions.
It is not immediately clear how Podesta responded. Hackers later downloaded tens of thousands of emails from Podesta's accounts that have since been posted on the internet.
The hack is among several recent cyberattacks intended to influence the presidential election. U.S. intelligence officials blame them on Russia.
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5:25 p.m.
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee says it is "appalling" that the FBI is saying so close to the election that it will investigate newly discovered emails that appear to be related to its probe of Hillary Clinton's email practices.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she was "shocked" to read FBI Director James Comey's letter to members of Congress in which he said new emails have emerged, prompting the agency to "take appropriate investigative steps" to review information.
Feinstein says Comey's announcement "played right into the political campaign of Donald Trump, who is already using the letter for political purposes."
She says the FBI has a tradition of caution before Election Day, but "today's break from that tradition is appalling."
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5:1o p.m.
Donald Trump is again seizing on the FBI's decision to investigate new messages connected to Hillary Clinton's emails.
Trump opened his Friday rally in Maine by saying he has "great respect for the FBI for righting this wrong."
He says the "the American people fully understand her corruption" and he hopes "justice will finally be served."
Trump, however, did not immediately mention his frequent target, former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner.
The new emails were discovered as part of an investigation into whether Weiner traded explicit messages with an underage girl.
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4:35 p.m.
The chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign says FBI Director James Comey owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what his agents are now examining related to the Democratic nominee.
John Podesta was responding Friday to a letter from Comey informing Congress that the FBI is investigating whether there is classified information in new emails that have emerged in its probe of Clinton's private server.
Podesta says Comey's letter was extraordinary, coming just 11 days out from the presidential election. Podesta says he is confident the new information will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July, when the bureau closed its investigation without f
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4:30 p.m.
Senior Obama administration officials planning the transition to the next president are discussing lines of communication with the President-elect's team.
The White House says the president-elect will appoint teams to work alongside agencies between the Nov. 8 election and the Jan. 20 inauguration. That's what was done during past transitions.
The administration is also preparing agency-specific briefings for the agency teams.
One task the new president must complete fairly quickly is developing a budget for the next fiscal year. It's due on Capitol Hill shortly after the inauguration.
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough convened the White House Transition Coordinating Council to discuss the changeover. Representatives from Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's transition teams attended, along with more than a dozen White House and administration officials.
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4:10 p.m.
A U.S. official says newly discovered emails that have prompted a new FBI review of the Hillary Clinton email investigation came from a separate sexting probe of former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Federal authorities in New York and North Carolina are investigating online communications between Weiner and a 15-year-old girl.
The official said Friday that the emails referenced by FBI Director James Comey surfaced during that investigation. The official was familiar with the investigation but was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Comey told members of Congress on Friday that newly discovered emails believed to be related to the Clinton case were prompting a new review.
The New York Times first reported the connection
—Eric Tucker and Michael Biesecker in Washington
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4 p.m.
The White House says it had no advance warning about FBI Director James Comey's decision to investigate new emails related to a probe of Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Spokesman Eric Schultz says the White House learned of Comey's decision from news reports.
Comey informed Congress in a letter that his agency will investigate new emails in connection with a probe of Clinton's server.
Schultz says President Barack Obama expects the FBI will follow the facts wherever they lead.
Obama ignored shouted questions about Comey's decision as he left the White House to campaign for Clinton in Orlando, Florida.
The FBI closed its criminal investigation into Clinton's use of the email server in July.
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3:20 p.m.
Mike Pence is saluting first-responders around the United States by referencing the work of police and firefighters after his campaign plane skidded off the runway in New York City.
The Republican vice presidential nominee is telling a rally in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, on Friday that emergency personnel "rushed to our plane site almost before the plane stopped rolling."
The first responders surrounded Pence's campaign plane Thursday night, after it landed hard on a rainy runway at LaGuardia Airport and slid sideways onto the grass.
No one was injured, and a calm Pence walked back to the press cabin moments later to say he was fine.
His campaign used a different plane to get to Pennsylvania, and will have another new aircraft for a later flight to North Carolina.
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3:15 p.m.
Donald Trump is holding a roundtable in New Hampshire to discuss America's heroin epidemic.
Trump said at the event Friday in Manchester that it's "a wild day out there." He said there's "nothing more important than solving America's drug problem."
Trump expressed surprise that New Hampshire would have issues with drugs, saying "It doesn't seem to go with the trees and the winding roads."
Trump has outlined a plan to combat opioid addiction that includes trying to fast-track drugs that combat addiction.
He's also reminding the group that the state was his "first victory" in the Republican primaries and that he won in "a landslide" so he feels "a special kinship" with the state.
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3:10 p.m.
Vice President Joe Biden is on the list of possible contenders for Hillary Clinton's secretary of state, should the Democrat win the November election.
That's according to a person familiar with Clinton's transition planning. It's unclear how many people are under consideration or whether Clinton herself has asked for Biden to be considered for a job she once held.
Clinton aides are trying to tamp down speculation that they're already planning for the White House.
A person familiar with Biden's post-White House plans says the vice president has not been contacted by the campaign. Biden has said publicly and privately that he is not interested in serving in the next administration.
The people familiar with Clinton and Biden's plans both insisted on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal planning
—Julie Pace in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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3 p.m.
Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump is trying to keep women, young people and minorities from voting in the November election.
Campaigning Friday in Iowa, Clinton says Trump's "scorched earth" strategy is the "last refuge of a bankrupt candidate."
Clinton has led Trump consistently for weeks and her campaign is worried that her supporters may get complacent and not vote. The Democrat warned the crowd in Iowa that "anything can happen" in the election's closing days.
Clinton made no mention of the FBI saying it will investigate whether there is classified information in newly discovered emails related to its probe of her private email server.
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2:45 p.m.
Mike Pence is applauding the FBI's decision to investigate new emails linked to Hillary Clinton's private email server.
The Republican vice presidential candidate told a rally at a building materials manufacturer in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, that he and Donald Trump "commend the FBI for having the courage to reopen the case."
He also called on the FBI "to immediately release all the emails pertinent to the investigation" adding, "The American people have a right to know."
Chants of "Lock her up!" came even before Pence referenced the FBI investigation. When he mentioned it being reopened, that drew a roar from the crowd.
The FBI closed the criminal investigation into Clinton's use of the email server in July. But it's now investigating whether newly found emails contained classified information
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2:25 a.m.
Hillary Clinton isn't saying anything yet about the FBI decision to investigate new emails linked to her private email server.
Clinton ignored shouted questions from reporters about the FBI investigation as she walked off her plane Friday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
She smiled and waved to reporters gathered on the tarmac, but made no comments.
Clinton spent about 25 minutes on the plane after it landed before she emerged. Following Clinton off the plane was famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. She was shooting photos of the candidate for at least part of the time reporters were waiting for the candidate.
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2:05 p.m.
Tim Kaine isn't weighing in yet on news that the FBI is investigating new emails linked to Hillary Clinton's private email server.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee says he's "got to read a little more." Kaine was responding to a reporter's question while stopping by an early voting site in Tallahassee.
The FBI closed the criminal investigation into Clinton's use of the email server in July. It is now investigating whether newly found emails contained classified information.
It's not clear yet where the new emails came from.
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2 p.m.
Donald Trump says the political system "might not be as rigged as I thought" now that the FBI has decided to investigate new emails found in the probe of Hillary Clinton's private server.
At a rally Friday in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump praised the FBI, saying "I think they are going to right the ship, folks."
That's a new tune for Trump, who has repeatedly complained that the Washington establishment has rigged the political system against him.
Trump added that he was "very proud" of the FBI, an about-face after weeks of being critical of the bureau's decision not to recommend charges against Clinton.
The Republican nominee, who began his remarks discussing the FBI decision, then joked that the rest of the speech was "so boring"
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1:45 p.m.
Donald Trump is praising the FBI's decision to investigate new emails found in the probe of Hillary Clinton's private server.
The Republican nominee said Friday that "perhaps finally justice will be served." He was addressing a roaring crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire shortly after news broke of the FBI decision.
Trump said that "Clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before" and said that "we must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office."
Trump said he had "great respect" for the FBI's decision. He had previously been very critical of the FBI and Department of Justice for the earlier decision not to bring charges against the Democratic nominee.
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1:30 p.m.
The FBI informed Congress Friday it is investigating whether new emails that have emerged in its probe of Hillary Clinton's private server may contain classified information. The FBI said in July its investigation was finished.
The disclosure raises the possibility of the FBI reopening the criminal investigation involving the Democratic presidential nominee just days before the election, although it is not clear if that will happen.
Clinton's campaign didn't immediately respond to request for comment.
In a letter sent to congressional leaders, FBI Director James Comey says that new emails have come to light recently that have prompted investigators to take another look at the sensitive government information that flowed through the private email sever Clinton used while serving as secretary of state.
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1:15 p.m.
President Barack Obama will spend most of next week, the final week of the presidential campaign, rallying voters in battleground states for fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Clinton's campaign says Obama will return to Ohio on Tuesday and to North Carolina on Wednesday. On Thursday, he heads back to Florida to headline a pair of Clinton rallies.
The race between Clinton and Republican Donald Trump is close in all three states.
Obama will urge voters in all three states to take advantage of the opportunity they have to cast their ballots before the Nov. 8 election.
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12:55 p.m.
Hillary Clinton's campaign says the Democratic presidential candidate will campaign in Arizona on Wednesday.
Communications director Jen Palmieri says Clinton will urge voters in the traditionally Republican state to take advantage of early voting. She'll also make stops in Ohio, Florida and North Carolina next week.
Only one Democratic presidential candidate has won the state since 1948. But controversies surrounding Trump's campaign have created opportunities for Democrats in Republican-leaning states, especially those like Arizona that have large minority populations.
Polling now shows a tight contest in the state, with Clinton and Trump in a virtual tie. Her aides are also eager to help Democrats win a competitive senate race.
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12:20 p.m.
Donald Trump has wired an additional $10 million to his campaign after the release of new financial reports that show rival Hillary Clinton with far more cash on hand.
That's according to Trump campaign spokeswoman Jessica Ditto. She said the contribution was made Friday morning.
The Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly promised that he would spend at least $100 million of his own money. Yet the latest campaign filings showed him $44 million short of that promise. That figure did not include the latest $10 million contribution.
Campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told Fox News on Friday that Trump will continue to make investments into his campaign.
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11:25 a.m.
Hillary Clinton is airing ads in Wisconsin for the first time in the general election campaign.
Clinton's Wisconsin campaign director Jake Hajdu said Friday that the ads will begin airing in Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay on Monday.
On Tuesday, Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine will campaign in the state, his first appearance in Wisconsin since August. Clinton has yet to make a general election campaign stop.
Polls have consistently shown Clinton with a lead over Donald Trump in the state.
Hajdu said in a statement that the ads were also designed to help other Democrats on the ballot, including former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold. He's in a rematch against Republican Sen. Ron Johnson.
The ad buy was at least $100,000. Clinton's campaign did not release the exact amount.
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11:15 a.m.
Mike Pence is getting back in the air on a new plane the morning after his campaign plane slid off the runway at New York's LaGaurdia Airport.
The Republican vice presidential candidate, his staff, U.S. Secret Service agents and reporters are flying from Newark, New Jersey to Trenton, Pennsylvania. Pence will also campaign in North Carolina later Friday.
Pence's entourage is traveling in an Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800, operated by a private charter company. It doesn't feature the names of Pence and Donald Trump, nor the slogan "Make America Great Again."
Those were stenciled on Pence's regular 737-700 plane, which slid sideways off the runway and onto the grass after a rough landing in the rain Thursday.
No one was injured.
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10:25 a.m.
The Democratic National Committee wants a federal judge to allow it to see any emails between Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee about issues related to ballot security and voter suppression.
A federal judge in New Jersey on Thursday scheduled arguments for next week.
The DNC claims presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign is trying to intimidate and discourage minority voters and the RNC is supporting his efforts. It has cited Mike Pence's comments that the campaign and the RNC are working closely with state governments "to ensure ballot integrity."
The RNC has called the DNC's filing "completely meritless." Its response is due later Friday. The judge has said he will decide Monday which requests he'll allow.
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9:05 a.m.
President Barack Obama is telling voters in a new ad that a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to uphold his legacy.
Obama says in the ad that "all the progress we've made these last eight years is on the ballot." He's citing equality, justice, tolerance and respect for women as values he says Clinton would continue to promote.
It's a sharp contrast from two years ago, when Obama was unpopular and Democrats winced when he occasionally said his policies were on the ballot in the midterms.
Clinton's campaign says the ad is airing nationally, but mostly in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Carolina. Obama holds a rally for Clinton in Florida on Friday evening.
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8:20 a.m.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence says there's "strong evidence" and "significant intelligence" indicating that Russia is behind the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign staff.
The comments are in contrast to assertions by his running mate, Donald Trump, who claims the U.S. has "no idea" who is behind the email hacks. The U.S. intelligence community has blamed Moscow, stating that "based on the scope and sensitivity" of the hacking, "only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities."
In an interview Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Pence said "there's certainly strong evidence (to) that effect."
He said if he and Trump are elected, they would "follow the facts." Pence added: "Certainly there's going to be very strong consequences if any state actor is involved."
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7:30 a.m.
Republican Mike Pence says he's grateful for the "quick action" of his pilot and first responders when his campaign plane slid off a runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
No one was injured in the incident Thursday. Pence told ABC's "Good Morning America" that he felt the plane fishtail after a hard landing.
He said, "just for a few seconds, you could feel us bouncing off. And with mud splattered up on the windows, we figured we were off the runway."
Pence said first responders were "on the scene at LaGuardia before the aircraft even came to a halt."
The plane was coming to New York from Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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3:40 a.m.
Hillary Clinton has turned to popular first lady Michelle Obama to rally voters in North Carolina, part of the effort to deliver a knockout blow to Donald Trump.
For his part, the New York billionaire is denouncing both Hillary and Bill Clinton as creatures of a corrupt political system, who would use the Oval Office to enrich themselves at the expense of American families.
New fundraising reports show that Trump is facing a sizable deficit that could cripple his final efforts to win on Election Day.
Clinton entered the final stretch of the race with a resounding cash advantage over Trump. As of last week, her campaign and Democratic partners had $153 million in the bank, more than double what Trump's side had available.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016...he-latest.html

New emails under review in Clinton case emerged from Weiner investigation

USA TODAY 5:46 p.m. EDT October 28, 2016

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Hillary Clinton is ignoring the FBI's decision to examine more emails in the controversy over
her private email server. At an Iowa rally, she hammered Donald Trump, saying he's trying to
depress the vote in the upcoming election. (Oct. 27) AP

WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey said Friday that investigators had found new emails related to the bureau's previously closed inquiry into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, restarting a long-simmering debate over the Democratic nominee's conduct as secretary of State in the closing days of a presidential campaign that Clinton appeared to be putting away.

In a letter to senior lawmakers explaining his decision, Comey said "the FBI cannot yet assess" whether the information is "significant" nor could he offer a timetable for how long it will take investigators to make an assessment.

But an official familiar with the matter said Friday that the new materials, perhaps thousands of emails, were discovered in the ongoing and separate investigation into sexually charged communications between former New York congressman Anthony Weiner and a 15-year-old girl. Comey was briefed on the findings in recent days, resulting in the director's notification to Congress, said the official who is not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The emails were discovered in a search of a device or devices used by Weiner, who is separated from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Abedin also had access to the same device or devices.
The official said it was not likely that the FBI's review of the additional emails could be completed by Election Day.

Responding shortly after during a speech in New Hampshire, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gleefully discussed the "breaking news announcement."

"Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before," Trump said, and her "criminal scheme" should not be allowed in the Oval Office.
"Perhaps justice will be done," the GOP nominee said of the development.

Clinton did not address the matter during a Friday speech in Iowa. But campaign chairman John Podesta demanded that the FBI director "provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter'' to lawmakers.

"Upon completing this investigation more than three months ago, FBI Director Comey declared no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with a case like this and added that it was not even a close call,'' Podesta said in a written statement. "In the months since, Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

"We have no idea what those emails are and the director himself notes they may not even be significant,'' Podesta said. "It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election."

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One Friday, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said nothing had "surfaced to change the president's opinion and views of Secretary Clinton.''

"He's going to be proud to support her from now until Election Day," Schultz said.

In July, Comey announced that while Clinton and her aides during her tenure as secretary of State had been "extremely careless" in the way they'd handled classified information, he recommended that no criminal charges be filed.

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Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Oct. 28, 2016.
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Soon after, the director testified before skeptical Republican lawmakers to explain the bureau's recommendation, which had been adopted by Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

“We’re mystified and confused by the fact pattern you laid out and the conclusion you reached," House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told Comey.

Comey, however, was unequivocal in maintaining that the conclusion of investigators was not a close call.

“There is no way anybody would bring a case against John Doe or Hillary Clinton for the second time in 100 years based on those facts," he told the House panel on July 7.

Trump has cited the closed FBI probe as evidence that the election was "rigged" against him, and at a recent debate the GOP nominee said that, if he's elected president, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton.

Following Comey's announcement Friday, Republicans blasted the Democratic presidential nominee.

"Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame," said House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

"This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators," Ryan said in a statement, adding that he was again calling for Clinton to no longer receive classified briefings, a traditional courtesy afforded major-party presidential nominees.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said the timing of the decision, so soon before the election, demonstrated "how serious this discovery must be."

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., in a statement said the decision "reinforces" what his committee "has been saying for months: the more we learn about Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server, the clearer it becomes that she and her associates committed wrongdoing and jeopardized national security."

Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, wrote on Twitter that "a great day in our campaign just got even better."

Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said in a statement that "without knowing how many emails are involved, who wrote them, when they were written or their subject matter, it’s impossible to make any informed judgment on this development."

She added: " The FBI has a history of extreme caution near Election Day so as not to influence the results. Today’s break from that tradition is appalling.”
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of attempting to "misrepresent'' the FBI's work.

"Sadly but predictably, Republicans are doing their best to ... warp the FBI’s work to serve their partisan conspiracy-mongering against Hillary Clinton,'' Pelosi said.

The uncertainty of what the new FBI review will yield, and when it will be completed, leaves open the question of how much of an impact it will have on the presidential campaign, as Trump looks to mount what would be a historic comeback, as polls show him trailing nationally and in key battleground states.

"Unless the FBI closes this new investigation one way or the other next week, the likely impact will be to cut into Clinton’s margin, with the bigger effect being on down-ballot races than on the outcome of the presidential election," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, in an emailed statement.

Whatever the long-term impact, the short-term jolt to Trump and his supporters, at least, seemed clear.

In his New Hampshire speech, the GOP nominee suggested the rest of his message for the day would no longer matter as much, given the FBI announcement.
"The rest of my speech is going to be so boring," he joked.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...tion/92889594/

She doesn't recognize the "gravity" of not helping our 4 Americans in Benghazi, she doesn't recognize the "gravity" of funding "rebels" who are part of ISIS in Syria, she doesn't recognize the "gravity" of the Iran deal, she doesn't recognize the "gravity" of open borders, TPP, and admitting Syrian refugees. She doesn't recognize the "gravity" of the situation we're in.

When you don't understand these grave issues, she doesn't understand the gravity of anything she does or has done, because she's a Sociopath who when called to account asked Congress "at this point, what difference does it make?" This is how Sociopaths think. "Yeah, I killed them, so what?" Sociopaths have no conscience which is why they kill and harm with complete ease. Sociopaths have no remorse, they're incapable of it, because they're Defective Freaks.

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“The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining,” he said. “We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July.”

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I actually agree with Podesta. The FBI has an obligation to the American people and must release all information pertaining
to Clinton's investigation so a corrupt criminal is not elected to be President.

Why would Comey do a complete about face when he did not care about what people thought when he did not prosecute Hillary and just stated she was careless with US Secrets. Something or someone has gotten to him or there is something really big in what they found in Weiner and his wife's computers. Also why would Hillarys campaign manager delete his Twitter profile half an hour after the story was released on Friday. Looks suspicious to me. I think there is a lot more to this story.......

If she is elected, especially by voter FRAUD and the corrupt Electoral Votes...what is this ongoing investigation going to cost US...the taxpayers? Billions?

Can she pardon herself of all crimes?

What about our National Security? The Clinton's have sold us out.

What about the FOREIGN countries who have donated millions in the Clinton "pay for play" scheme? The extortion involved?

Where do WE as a Nation, and WE the people, stand on all the Clinton Corruption?

Someone needs to blow the lid off of this and the Clinton's need to be stopped now...along with Soros!

More importantly Beezer what if a criminal is elected that is more horrifying....Never mind the billions of our taxpayer dollars that flow out of this country everyday! One thing I am sure of is that Trump voters are more motivated to vote as they are pissed off about what is happening to our country and our way of life.

Emails in Anthony Weiner Inquiry Jolt Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

OCT. 28, 2016

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Hillary Clinton called on the F.B.I. to clarify the details of its investigation, saying voters deserve to get the “full and complete facts.”
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date October 28, 2016. Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times. Watch in Times Video »

WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement officials said that emails pertinent to the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server were discovered on a computer belonging to Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide.

In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said the emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, which law enforcement officials said was an F.B.I. investigation into illicit text messages from Mr. Weiner to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Mr. Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from New York, is married to Huma Abedin, the top aide.

Mr. Comey's letter said that the F.B.I. would review the emails to determine if they improperly contained classified information, which is tightly controlled by the government. Senior law enforcement officials said that it was unclear if any of the emails were from Mrs. Clinton’s private server. And while Mr. Comey said in his letter that the emails “appear to be pertinent,” the F.B.I. had not yet examined them.

By the end of a day that brought stinging criticism of Mr. Comey from both Democrats and Republicans, he appeared on the defensive, saying in an internal email to bureau employees that he had felt obligated to inform Congress, and “we don’t know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails.’’

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Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton on the campaign’s plane on Friday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

The new development in the saga over Mrs. Clinton’s handling of classified information came months after the F.B.I. closed the investigation without charging Mrs. Clinton. The announcement, less than two weeks before the election, left Mrs. Clinton’s team furious and scrambling for explanations while bolstering the spirits of Donald J. Trump after a wave of controversies and Republican defections had led many to write him off.

“We are calling on the F.B.I. to release all the information that it has,” Mrs. Clinton said adamantly in an evening news conference that took issue with Mr. Comey for making the disclosure so close to the election. “Let’s get it out.”

Mr. Trump was ebullient. “Perhaps, finally, justice will be done,” he declared at a campaign rally in New Hampshire.

A senior law enforcement official said that tens of thousands of emails belonging to Ms. Abedin were on Mr. Weiner’s laptop, which the F.B.I. had obtained as part of its investigation into Mr. Weiner. About a month ago, a person familiar with the investigation said, F.B.I. agents seized the laptop as well as Mr. Weiner’s iPad and cellphone.

Mr. Comey said in his letter to Congress that he did not know how long it would take to review the emails. Law enforcement officials said they did not know whether any were duplicates of emails discovered in the earlier investigation.


Mr. Trump has fallen behind Mrs. Clinton in most national polls and in many key states. Polls have been tightening in recent days, however, as Republicans have started returning to their party roots during the final stretch of the race.

An emboldened Mr. Trump seized on the F.B.I. action on Friday at his rally in New Hampshire. To cheers of “lock her up” from his supporters, Mr. Trump said:

“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”

After deriding the F.B.I. for weeks as inept and corrupt, Mr. Trump went on to praise the law enforcement agency.

“I have great respect for the fact that the F.B.I. and the D.O.J. are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made,” Mr. Trump said, referring also to the Department of Justice. “This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understand. It is everybody’s hope that it is about to be corrected.”

The Clinton campaign called on Mr. Comey to provide information beyond what was put forth in the letter.

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Anthony Weiner at the Democratic National Convention in July. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

“Director Comey’s letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the director himself notes they may not even be significant,” said John D. Podesta, the chairman of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.

He added: “It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election.”

Asked in an interview on CNN about Ms. Abedin’s involvement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, demurred.

“The facts of the matter is stuff that is unknown to us,” Mr. Fallon said.

The “October surprise” confounded leading Democrats who suddenly found themselves on the defensive.

“This is particularly troubling since so many questions are unanswered,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California. “It’s unclear whether these emails have already been reviewed or if Secretary Clinton sent or received them. In fact, we don’t even know if the F.B.I. has these emails in its possession.”

Donna Brazile, the interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, demanded more information from Mr. Comey about his next steps and expressed concern about the agency interfering with the election.

“The F.B.I. has a solemn obligation to remain neutral in political matters — even the faintest appearance of using the agency’s power to influence our election is deeply troubling,” Ms. Brazile said.

For Republicans who have struggled to defend Mr. Trump amid his comments about women and conspiracy theories about a rigged election, the opportunity to revisit a controversy that has dogged Mrs. Clinton was a welcome gift.

The Republican National Committee cheered the new attention on Mrs. Clinton’s emails as a potential turning point in the race.

“The F.B.I.’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” said Reince Priebus, the Republican committee chairman, arguing that the Democratic nominee should be disqualified from seeking the presidency. “This stunning development raises serious questions about what records may not have been turned over and why, and whether they show intent to violate the law.”

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Donald J. Trump at a campaign event in Manchester, N.H., on Friday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who has been critical of Mr. Trump, assailed Mrs. Clinton and said that she should no longer be allowed to receive classified briefings.

“Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame,” Mr. Ryan said in an emailed statement. “She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information.”

After defending her email practices for months, Mrs. Clinton sought to put the issue behind her this year, eventually apologizing and acknowledging that using a private server was a mistake. During the presidential debates with Mr. Trump, she tried to avoid the subject and accused Mr. Trump of putting national security at risk by inviting Russian hackers to meddle in the election.

Mrs. Clinton and her staff expressed relief in July when Mr. Comey announced that the F.B.I. had closed the investigation after determining that no one should face criminal charges. But he did criticize Mrs. Clinton and her aides for what he termed the “extremely careless” handling of sensitive information, leaving an opportunity for Republicans to continue hammering her for bad judgment.

The involvement of Ms. Abedin and Mr. Weiner in Mrs. Clinton’s case was an unforeseen twist. Several weeks ago, top Justice Department officials decided that prosecutors in Manhattan would handle Mr. Weiner’s case. After seizing the devices, investigators have been combing them for information.

It remained unclear whether Mr. Comey would reveal more about the contents of the newly discovered emails. In his memo to the F.B.I. staff, it was evident that he is keenly aware of the fraught political backdrop that he faces.

“We don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed,” Mr. Comey wrote. “I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record.”

Ms. Abedin separated from Mr. Weiner in August after it emerged that he was exchanging lewd messages with a woman on social media. Such behavior had destroyed his congressional career and his 2013 mayoral campaign.

Mr. Trump has pointed to Mrs. Clinton’s association with the couple as an example of her bad judgment.

“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information,” Mr. Trump said in August. “Who knows what he learned and who he told?”

Correction: October 28, 2016
An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported when the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, announced that the bureau had closed its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email use. It was in July, not September.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/us...ton-email.html

US election 2016: Clinton 'confident' on new FBI email probe

• 18 minutes ago
• From the section US & Canada

Hillary Clinton says she is "confident" a new FBI probe linked to her emails will not change its original finding that she should not be prosecuted.

The Democratic presidential candidate called on the FBI director to explain the new inquiry to the American people.

James Comey earlier said the FBI was looking into newly found messages.

The latest emails came to light during a separate inquiry into top Clinton aide Huma Abedin's estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Devices belonging to Ms Abedin and Mr Weiner were seized in an investigation into whether he sent sexually explicit emails to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

"The American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately," said Mrs Clinton.

"It's imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay."

She highlighted that Mr Comey had said he did not know the significance of the new emails, adding: "I'm confident (that) whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached in July."

Mrs Clinton's Republican rival Donald Trump, however, described the FBI investigation as "the biggest political scandal since Watergate", referring to the 1970s scandal that engulfed Republican President Richard Nixon.

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"It's everybody's hope that justice at last can be delivered," he told supporters at a rally in Iowa.

"The FBI would never have reopened this case at this time unless it were a most egregious criminal offence."

Mr Comey said the FBI would investigate if the newly discovered emails contain classified information.

The FBI chief said in a letter to Congress that investigators had discovered the emails "in connection with an unrelated case... that appear to be pertinent to the investigation".

He said he "cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work".

How big is this? Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington

It could be nothing. It could be everything. And it almost certainly won't be resolved before Americans head to the polls in just under two weeks.

The letter from Mr Comey to Congress is frustratingly vague. There's no information, for instance, or how many emails are in question. That will only fuel the rampant speculation already breaking out, with leaks from "government sources" in the coming days sure to fan the flames.

Mrs Clinton's critics will go on the attack, using the latest news to support their claims that the former secretary of state engaged in malfeasance. Her supporters will spend the next few days in a defensive crouch, trying to assess how bad the damage could be.

What's certain, however, is that whether this turns out to be a big deal or not, it places the spotlight on all the wrong places for the Clinton campaign. It all but guarantees that even if she wins White House, the early days of her presidency will be dogged by this long-running political imbroglio.

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The FBI has already established the Democratic candidate had classified information on a private email server.
In July, Mr Comey said Mrs Clinton's handling of sensitive material during her 2009-13 tenure as secretary of state was "extremely careless", but cleared her of any criminal wrongdoing.

The revelation that she handled sensitive information while breaking federal rules by running her own email server out of her upstate New York home has dogged her campaign since last year.

With Clinton team - Chris Gibson, BBC News

What a difference a plane journey makes. When we left Westchester, New York, on Hillary Clinton's campaign plane, spirits were high amongst her staff.

Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, came to the back of the plane and told reporters that early voting was going in their favour and that Mrs Clinton would even campaign in Republican-leaning Arizona next week.

But Mr Mook added that they weren't taking anything for granted. He said: "Hillary is superstitious."
When we landed and wifi internet was restored, the Clinton team first learned the news of a reopened FBI investigation.

She was right to be superstitious.

As we got off the plane, one of her advisers told us: "We are just learning about this at the same time as you are."

Mrs Clinton stayed on for far longer than usual. Her team were digesting the news and working out how to respond.

When she did walk off the plane, she smiled and ignored shouted questions from the media on the tarmac about the long-running email saga.

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Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta criticised the FBI's "extraordinary" timing.

The revelation comes just 11 days before Americans go to the polls in the presidential election.

Mrs Clinton is five points ahead of Mr Trump, according to a Real Clear Politics average.

Paul Ryan, the highest-ranked elected Republican, called the FBI decision "long overdue".

The House of Representatives Speaker renewed his call for the Director of National Intelligence to halt classified briefings for the Democratic candidate.

"She was entrusted with some of our nation's most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information," he said.

The former secretary of state's private email server was first revealed in March 2015 by the New York Times.

She did not immediately express regret, and said the main reason for her "hdr22@clintonemail.com" address was "convenience".

Soon after that she apologised in an interview with ABC News, and has since said sorry to voters a number of times.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37805525

Weiner STROKING GUN in CLINTON Criminal Investigation: FBI Found “Tens Of Thousands Of Emails” Belonging To Huma Abedin On Weiner’s Laptop

October 29, 2016

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The new Clinton emails were found during the Anthony Weiner sexting probe. Investigators got their hands on Huma Abedin’s emails when they searched a laptop that she jointly used with her husband, Anthony Weiner. Weiner allegedly used the laptop to exchange sexually explicit messages and photos with an underage teen in North Carolina. Investigators have been looking into Weiner’s relationship with that 15-year-old girl.

Of course, what makes this doubly enjoyable, succulent even, is that Huma and Hillary’s wedding scheme to Anthony Weiner (the beard marriage), led to their undoing. They were too cute by half, and their menage a trois blew up, blew them all up.

Yes, I am enjoying this because for years I have watched the Clintons get away with murder (literally) while the enemedia worked furiously to install that wretched traitor in the Oval Office.

Huma’s direct ties to terrorist groups should have been Hillary’s undoing. Clinton Foundation pay-for-play should have been Hillary’s undoing. Hillary’s Russian uranium deal should have been Hillary’s undoing. The Clinton Foundation’s historic robbery of Haitian donations should have been Hillary’s undoing. Hillary’s hand in the murder of our people in Benghazi should have been Hillary’s undoing. And on and on and on ….. but I’ll take this, much the way the USG got Capone on tax evasion. If it works, I am all in.

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Their stooges have been outed — especially FBI Director James Comey:

It appears the FBI agents investigating Anthony Weiner for sexting an underaged girl have done the job that the FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information didn’t or weren’t allowed to do.

Agents reportedly found thousands of State Department-related emails ostensibly containing classified information on the electronic devices belonging to Weiner and his wife and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The discovery has prompted FBI Director James Comey to, on the eve of the election, reopen the Clinton case he prematurely closed last July.

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The two special agents who interviewed Abedin on April 5 noted as much in their 302 summary of their interview, which took place at the FBI’s Washington field office and notably was attended by the chief of the FBI’s counterespionage section.

On page 3 of their 11-page report, the agents detail how they showed Abedin a classified paper on Pakistan sent from a State Department source which she, in turn, inexplicably forwarded to her personal Yahoo email account — an obviously unclassified, unencrypted, unsecured and
unauthorized system. The breach of security was not an isolated event but a common practice with Abedin.

“She routinely forwarded emails from her state.gov account to either her clintonemail.com or her yahoo.com account,” the agents wrote. Why? “So she could print them” at home and not at her State Department office.

Abedin contended that she “would typically print the documents without reading them” and “was unaware of the classification.” Uh-huh.

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The FBI also pointed out that “the only person at DoS (Department of State) to receive an email account on the (clintonemail.com) domain was Abedin.”

“Multiple State employees” told the FBI that they considered emailing Abedin “the equivalent of e-mailing Clinton.” Another close Clinton aide told the

FBI that “Abedin may have kept emails that Clinton did not.”

In her April interview with the FBI, Abedin incredulously maintained that she “did not know that Clinton had a private server until about a year and a half ago, when it became public knowledge.” The clintonemail.com server was set up in the basement of the Clinton family residence in Chappaqua.

However, another witness told agents that he and another Clinton aide with computer skills built the new server system “at the recommendation of Huma Abedin,” who first broached the idea of an off-the-grid email server as early as the “fall (of) 2008.”

(NYP)

TRUMP CALLED IT MONTHS AGO: Anthony Weiner threatens national security

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FBI Found “Tens Of Thousands Of Emails” Belonging To Huma Abedin On Weiner’s Laptop, By Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, October 29, 2016:

With furious Democrats – and the Clinton Campaign – now openly blasting the FBI’s reopened investigation (as Republicans take delight for once in having a government agency reinforce their side of events), the question turns to just what emails were found on Weiner’s laptop, and how damaging their contents are for the FBI to take the unprecedented step of “intervening” in a major political event just days before the national election.

We first laid what was the most likely explanation yesterday, when we showed several examples of Huma Abedin emails being sent from her work email account to her personal account at humaabedin@yahoo.com, courtesy of a Judicial Watch FOIA release. Of the more than 160 emails in the latest Judicial Watch release, some 110 emails – two-thirds of the total – were forwarded by Abedin to two personal addresses she controlled.

The Washington Times reported in August 2015 that the State Department had admitted to a federal judge that Abedin and Mills used personal email accounts to conduct government business in addition to Clinton’s private clintonemail.com to transact State Department business.

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One email from May 15, 2009, was sent by Abedin from her State Department email to her personal email. Abedin was archiving in her personal email account an email Hillary Clinton sent her from Clinton’s private email server at HDR22@clintonemail.com. Abedin was asked to print out attachments to an email Mills sent via a private address the previous day to Clinton involving “timetables and deliverables” for her review via Alec Ross, a technology policy expert who then held the title of senior adviser for innovation to Secretary Clinton.

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However, while forwarding Hillary’s emails to her personal email server for “convenience” is one thing, what is more troubling is the amount of redaction involved in these emails which migrated to the open email account, which as we now know ended up in Anthony Weiner’s computer: in the above example, the two pages of timetables and deliverables attached to the email were 100 percent redacted, with “PAGE DENIED” stamped across the first redacted page.

An argument can be made that the extensive redaction confirms confidential material was part of the transmission.

This is a nuanced point being pushed by Hillary Clinton supporters such as Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald, who in an article yesterday tried to make a case citing “sources” (even though the FBI said that nobody has seen the content of the Weiner/Abedin emails), that “no emails being examined by FBI were to or from Clinton.”

It remains to be seen just what is in the emails, although whether Hillary sent emails with confidential content herself, or directed, or simply allowed her closest aide, Huma Abedin to forward such emails to her outside unsecured email address (where they subsequently ended up on Anthony Weiner’s notebook), is what this latest case will be all about and how it will be defended and prosecuted in the media, by the water coolers and perhaps, in court.

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However, we do know one thing: according to the NYT, the number of Huma emails that made their way to Weiner’s PC was staggering:

The F.B.I. is investigating illicit text messages that Mr. Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from New York, sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The bureau told Congress on Friday that it had uncovered new emails related to the Clinton case — one federal official said they numbered in the tens of thousand

Which brings up two more critical questions: i) when she was questioned by the FBI over the summer, did Huma reveal and admit the existence of these “thousands” of emails located on a personal, home computer, and ii) will the FBI be able to comb through everything in the next 10 days ahead of the election?

If the answer to the second question is no, will the US presidential election really take place with one candidate currently under FBI investigation, one which could potentially lead to impeachment proceedings within weeks or days of her being elected president?

Still, the biggest irony in this latest debacle is that it was largely predicted by Donald Trump himself back in August of 2015.

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FBI racing to sift through Clinton emails before Election Day


October 30, 2016 | 10:24pm | Updated

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The FBI got a warrant to search Anthony Weiner’s laptop for new evidence in the Hillary Clinton email scandal, setting off a mad dash to try and finish the massive job before Election Day, law-enforcement sources told The Post Sunday.

Weiner shared the laptop computer with his now-estranged wife, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and the feds believe there are around 650,000 emails stored on it, with many from Abedin’s accounts, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“FBI agents are reviewing the emails as we speak,” one source told The Post.

Metadata found on Weiner’s laptop computer — seized as part of an investigation into his explicit, online relationship with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina — suggest it may hold thousands of emails sent to or from Clinton’s private server, sources said.

It was unclear how long the search would take, but an official briefed on the matter told The Post that the job would extend past Nov. 8, when the vast majority of Americans go to the polls.

“There are too many emails to sift through before the end of the election and that is why [the Department of Justice] was cautioning [FBI Director James Comey not to make the announcement,” the official said.

“The FBI won’t be able to look through them all and now they risk looking political.

“Many of these emails appear to be redundant. That’s to say that since Huma was on Hillary’s staff, she was apparently copied on a lot of them. Investigators have probably seen them before. Now will all of them be redundant? No, that won’t be the case for all of them,” the official added.

Agents have probable cause to search only those that relate to the Clinton probe, and they’re only expected to seize a portion of the huge cache, a law-enforcement source told The Post.

Hours earlier, Clinton opponent Donald Trump — who’s previously blasted Weiner as a “pervert” and a “major, major, major sleaze” over his sexting habit — publicly hailed the disgraced ex-pol for inadvertently reviving the FBI probe.

“We never thought we were going to say thank you to Anthony Weiner,” the Republican presidential nominee told thousands of cheering supporters at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.

Trump crowed about Weiner’s potential new role in the Nov. 8 election as a new ABC/Washington Post poll showed him just 1 point behind his Democratic opponent, who held a 12-point lead in the same poll last Sunday.

The Abedin emails were discovered several weeks ago, with agents in New York alerting FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the bureau’s second-in-command, about their existence, sources told the Journal.

McCabe has recently come under fire from Republicans in Congress over the failed 2015 Senate candidacy of his wife, Dr. Jill McCabe, which got $467,500 in contributions from the political action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton loyalist.

Senior FBI officials decided that the agents investigating Weiner should further examine the metadata and report back, and a member of the Justice Department’s senior national-security staff asked for an update during a meeting early last week, according to the Journal.

Officials then realized no one had sought a warrant to examine the emails, and McCabe ordered that investigators figure out if the laptop’s contents could relate to the Clinton email probe — and they determined they might, The Journal said.

Amid the controversy over her emails, Abdedin abandoned the campaign trail and took a back-bench seat at Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn on Sunday while the candidate stumped for votes in the battleground state of Florida.

Meanwhile, Clinton campaign director Robby Mook revealed that Clinton — who on Friday demanded that the FBI “release all the information it has” from Weiner’s computer — hasn’t asked Abedin what’s in her emails.

But Mook refused to say why when pressed six times by anchor Chris Wallace, who at one point asked, “Why on earth wouldn’t Hillary Clinton say to her closest personal aide: Was there any stuff on your laptop, and what was it?”

“Chris, again, I appreciate your question because people want answers. There’s nothing about Huma Abedin in the letter that was sent out [on Friday by FBI Director Jim Comey],” Mook replied.

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“Many of these emails appear to be redundant. That’s to say that since Huma was on Hillary’s staff, she was apparently copied on a lot of them. Investigators have probably seen them before. Now will all of them be redundant? No, that won’t be the case for all of them,” the official added.

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Hmmmm.

So Hillary Clinton carbon copies government business from her own private email server to Huma's private email.

How does this make it better instead of far worse?

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In her April interview with the FBI, Abedin incredulously maintained that she “did not know that Clinton had a private server until about a year and a half ago, when it became public knowledge.” The clintonemail.com server was set up in the basement of the Clinton family residence in Chappaqua.

However, another witness told agents that he and another Clinton aide with computer skills built the new server system “at the recommendation of Huma Abedin,” who first broached the idea of an off-the-grid email server as early as the “fall (of) 2008.”

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One lie after another - abedin probably feeds everything to muslim brotherhood too.
OUTRAGEOUS! No wonder why we lost men in Benghazi, radicals knew every move they made, where they were at all times. Even more galling is the 600 requests for more security that was not provided & the stand down order before sending anyone there to combat this attack.

hillary and her crew of lying imbeciles have no right to be in the wh.

Dems should blame Hillary, not Comey, for the ‘October surprise’

October 31, 2016 | 8:27pm

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Before Democrats burn James Comey in effigy, they should think about how the FBI director came to have an outsized influence in the election in the first place.

It’s not something Comey sought or welcomed. A law-enforcement official who prizes his reputation, he didn’t relish becoming a hate figure for half the country or more. No, the only reason that Comey figures in the election at all is that Democrats knowingly nominated someone under FBI investigation.

Once upon a time — namely any presidential election prior to this one — this enormous political and legal vulnerability would have disqualified a candidate. Not this year, and not in the case of Hillary Clinton.

The country has clearly lowered its standards in this election, and Donald Trump’s madcap candidacy provides evidence of that almost every day. But Hillary’s nomination was itself an offense against American political norms and an incredibly reckless act.

And the Democrats were supposed to be the party acting rationally.
Clinton effectively locked up the nomination in June and wasn’t cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the FBI until July. What if she had been indicted?

Would Democrats have run her anyway? Would they have substituted in a 74-year old socialist who had lost the nomination battle, or someone else who hadn’t even run? Any of these circumstances would have been unprecedented, but Democrats risked it.

They did it, in part, because they could never bring themselves to fully acknowledge the seriousness of the e-mail scandal and, relatedly, the ethical miasma around the Clinton Foundation. They considered it all another desperate trick of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

Clinton henchman David Brock demanded that The New York Times retract its initial report of Clinton’s exclusive use of a private e-mail account in March 2015. A parade of Democratic operatives pooh-poohed the whole thing, from Clinton spokesman Karen Finney (“a politically motivated series of attacks”), to James Carville (“not going to amount to a hill of beans”), to Howard Dean (“hooey”).

When they first got on a debate stage together last October, Bernie Sanders, the only man who had a chance to stop Clinton, pleased the crowd with a ringing denunciation of interest in her e-mails.

Democrats bought the just-so stories offered up by the Clinton campaign. The FBI investigation was just a “security review.” The FBI wasn’t investigating Hillary, but only her server. Anything to deflect from the seriousness of the matter.

While Democrats willfully looked the other way, they put Comey in an impossible position. An indictment would change the course of American history.

That was all on him. He ultimately blinked. But he also put on the record the recklessness of Clinton’s practices as secretary of state in an attempt to create public accountability.

Comey’s conduct is open to criticism, but there’s no way to please everyone when handling a case with such high political stakes.

His notification to Congress last weekend is another case in point. All that can be said is that if Democrats didn’t want the FBI to have any part in the election, they could’ve considered that before nominating Clinton.

Trump may be a deeply flawed candidate, but he caught a wave of popular fervor; Hillary, with her astonishing vulnerabilities, is a production of the Democratic elites who did everything to get her over the finish line.

Just how vulnerable is she? If it weren’t for the new trove of Huma Abedin e-mails, the blockbuster news this week would come via a Wall Street Journal report that the FBI is investigating the Clinton Foundation — although Fox News reported the same thing at the beginning of the year, and
Hillary, of course, dismissed it as an “unsourced and irresponsible claim that has no basis.”

The e-mail scandal and Clinton Foundation will dog Hillary until Election Day and, should she win, into her presidency. For this, she has no one to blame but herself — and her irresponsible enablers.

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