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Eliot Rosewater

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Wed May 24, 2017, 07:15 PM May 2017

How a dubious Russian document influenced the FBIs handling of the Clinton probe

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Source: Washington Post

A secret document that officials say played a key role in then-FBI Director James B. Comeys handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation has long been viewed within the FBI as unreliable and possibly a fake, according to people familiar with its contents.

In the midst of the 2016 presidential primary season, the FBI received what was described as a Russian intelligence document claiming a tacit understanding between the Clinton campaign and the Justice Department over the inquiry into whether she intentionally revealed classified information through her use of a private email server.

The Russian document cited a supposed email describing how then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the email investigation would not push too deeply into the matter. If true, the revelation of such an understanding would have undermined the integrity of the FBIs investigation.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.47c16e74c747



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Election is not valid, at all.

I dont care if there is no mechanism for that, we need to make one.
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