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The attorney who filed the petition, after previously filing an unmet FOIA request, says that the judge who signed the search warrant to look into Weiner's computer for documents pertinent to the Clinton investigation should have done so on the basis of "probable cause." The search turned up nothing, so the attorney wants to know what the "probable cause" was -- and to see who might have been lying to the FBI to get them to ask for this search.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/federal-judge-wants-to-see-clinton-emails-search-warrant/2016/12/13/30effe78-c16e-11e6-92e8-c07f4f671da4_story.html?postshare=8911481696183237&tid=ss_fb-bottom&utm_term=.d3c11a0e2f62
Justice Department lawyer Jennie Kneedler told Castel that the government opposes Schoenbergs request and noted that Schoenberg had not demonstrated that a need for secrecy that existed before was no longer relevant. She said the government wants to show why the unrelated ongoing criminal investigation is relevant to whether the public has a right to access any search warrant application materials related to Clinton.
There are things we would like to make your honor aware of, Kneedler said.
The judge said the case is different, in part, because FBI Director James Comey announced Oct. 28 that the FBI had learned about the emails and that they appeared relevant to its already-completed investigation of Clintons personal email server. He noted that Comey two days before the election updated Congress by saying the FBIs review of the new emails had not changed its conclusions that she should not face charges.
Castel said he plans to rule quickly. He rejected a government request to delay its submission of materials by a day. He also told Schoenbergs lawyer to notify attorneys for Clinton, Abedin and Weiner about the request to make documents public.
http://gothamist.com/2016/12/13/doj_clinton_documents.php
A federal judge this afternoon indicated that he is inclined to unseal documents related to FBI Director James Comey's protocol-breaching announcement of a new angle on the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server 11 days before the election. The judge's statements in court came in response to a records-access lawsuit filed in parallel with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking the search warrant and supporting documents that the FBI and Justice Department used to review the Clinton-related emails of aide Huma Abedin. The emails were found on Anthony Weiner's computer, during a separate investigation into his reported sexual online messages to a teenage girl in North Carolina.
Instead of demanding that the FBI produce the documents, lawyer Abraham Hassen explained, the suit heard today asks the court to turn them over. Hassen's client, E. Randol Schoenberg, a Los Angeles attorney who specializes in the recovery of Nazi loot, believes that because the FBI investigation into Clinton was again shelved two days before the election, the documents that the FBI prepared to get a judge to sign off on the search warrant for Abedin's computer may show some funny business, by overly zealous conservative FBI agents, Trump surrogates feeding the FBI bad information, or even the Clinton camp.
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Judge P. Kevin Castel gave the government, as well as Weiner, Abedin, Clinton until Thursday to make arguments as to why he should not unseal the documents, or what should be redacted. Castel made the decision over the objections of federal lawyers who traveled up from Washington, D.C. to argue at the hearing, according to Hassen.
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"I think this one is a little bit more urgent," he said. "Ifand this is obviously a huge leapif there was some illegal activity that led to this failed search warrant and that traces back to the Trump campaign, that could have huge ramifications with Congress and the electoral college."
we need all the information we can get.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)This may take years, but piece by piece the regime will corrode away.
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)end up suicided before we have a chance to find out who set him up to it.
RegexReader
(416 posts)one way ride on a Chinook like Pinochet gave out.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)This could be explosive. The house of cards is tumbling down and scattering all over the place.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,670 posts)No doubt this was a party-inspired hit. I'll bet there is evidence of it, as well, But without committee head privileges, no hearings will be held.
lindysalsagal
(20,670 posts)They would have never let her be president: It would have been constant BS like this, times a billion.
I have to wonder if, in private moments, she's almost relieved they're off her case, now.
Blue Shoes
(220 posts)but I expect nothing to come of it. Even if it was tied to the campaign, it would need to implicate Trump himself to stop the inauguration.
Stuart G
(38,416 posts)brer cat
(24,559 posts)K&R
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,920 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)before they put him in prison!
Vinca
(50,261 posts)Cha
(297,149 posts)hopefully they'll pick up speed!
TY pnwmom
Ford_Prefect
(7,886 posts)Cha
(297,149 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,886 posts)world wide wally
(21,740 posts)There are just too many coincidences of happenstance falling into Trumps hands in the last stages of this election. The GOP meme, now reduced to saying, "but none of this can be proven to have effected the vote", is a pretty good indication shenanigans being in play.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)When will the Republican deceptions finally collapse completely?
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)Both of his letters to the public were misleading. The FBI did not have any "new" emails. The email resides on the server and the FBI already had that. What they discovered was a back-up file. When Hillary deleted 25,000 emails she said were personal it was after this back-up file was taken so what Comey was really seeking was some of those deleted emails. And, indeed, they found some. Comey even gave an example of where Hillary discussed what to wear to an upcoming event. So what this showed was that what Hillary deleted was personal in nature so it confirmed what she had been claiming. Damningly, Comey knew what the outcome would be when he wrote the first letter. The only "new" email that there could be is email that was later deleted, as Hillary had already testified to. Comey was looking to file perjury charges days before the election but the data instead exonerated Hillary. That is the true story of what is happening here. The grounds for seeking the warrant was an obvious lie.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)The reporter at the Daily Mail.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028266940
Did Alana Goodman time her Daily Mail story about Weiner for an October surprise?