Watchdog report to fault FBI for Clinton probe delay
Source: Associated Press
By ERIC TUCKER
1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) An upcoming report from the Justice Departments internal watchdog is expected to criticize senior FBI leaders for not moving quickly enough to review a trove of Hillary Clinton emails discovered late in the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with findings.
The FBIs timing has been a sore point for Clinton supporters, who say then-director James Comeys announcement of the review less than two weeks before the Nov. 8, 2016, election contributed to her loss. The agencys findings affirming their decision not to pursue criminal charges against Clinton were disclosed two days before the vote too late, her supporters say, to undo the damage.
Some FBI officials knew in September 2016 of the emails on former Rep. Anthony Weiners laptop but the bureau did not obtain a warrant to review them until the following month. Clinton supporters say the candidates name could have been cleared much faster if the FBI acted on the emails as soon as they knew about them.
An inspector general report examining a broad range of FBI actions during the Clinton email investigation will criticize officials, including Comey, for not moving fast enough to examine the email trove and for a weekslong delay in getting a warrant, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)That IG is now tasked with Turd's political investigation of the investigators who are hot on his tail. He's not gonna like that report either.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)8/2016..the same players as we hear today - Gowdy, Goodlatte, Johnson, Chaffetz etc etc..I saved this article from before the election - someone should have been listening...
http://www.newsweek.com/squalid-case-against-hillary-and-her-emails-492017
John Deans summation -
Bottom line: The charges that Secretary Clinton lied to Congress are baseless. While there may be a few technical errors in her testimony, and there may be information that was discovered by the FBI after she testified, there is absolutely no evidence at all that she willfully and knowingly provided false information to Congress.
Ironically, there are more false statements in the letter from chairmen Goodlatte and Chaffetz to the Department of Justice, which are clearly intentional, than the hours upon hours of testimony given by Secretary Clinton.
If these men were ordinary citizens, they could be arrested for making false statements to law enforcement. They lied and played it for a one-day headline, and in doing so performed at the level of banana-republic legislators, if not lower.
Sadly their actions are consistent with the thinking of the new Republican Party leader, Donald Trump, who would be proud of their effort to Lock her up, Lock her up.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,265 posts)They'll use anything to discredit the FBI. This is just what they needed.
brush
(53,741 posts)brush
(53,741 posts)we all read his book.
The thread is probably still running.
Fuck Comey. His slow moving response to the duplicate emails gave the election to trump.
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)office buddies, (that Kallstrom Mercer Schweizer crowd) and their NYPD buddies.
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/the-conspiracy-theory-about-the-fbi-putsch-against-clinton-and-democracy-1.5457295