molova (434 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141610782
Exclusive: FBI still does not have warrant to review new Clinton emails
Source: Yahoo News
FBI Director James Comey wrote his bombshell letter to Congress on Friday about newly discovered emails that were potentially “pertinent†to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server before agents were able to review any of the material because the bureau had not yet gotten a search warrant to read them, three government officials who have been briefed on the probe told Yahoo News.
When Comey wrote the letter, “he had no idea what was in the content of the emails,†one of the officials said, referring to recently discovered emails that were found on the laptop of disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Weiner is under investigation for allegedly sending illicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl.
As of Saturday night, the FBI had still not gotten approval from the Justice Department for a warrant that would allow them to read any of the newly discovered Abedin emails, and therefore are still in the dark about whether they include any classified material that the bureau has not already seen.
Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/comey-wrote-bombshell-letter-to-congress-before-fbi-had-reviewed-new-emails-220219586.html
Nor should Comey get a warrant.
Yes- that will look so good on the evening news.
forest444 (5,758 posts)
1. Had they been incriminating against Hillary in any way, they would have no doubt been leaked.
J. Edgar "Mary" Hoover would be proud.
Are you making fun of transvestites?
Star Member spooky3 (18,114 posts)
9. Misleading headline
There is no evidence that they are "Clinton" emails. I get that the headline writer wants to communicate with non-political-enthusiast readers so that they know which emails the article is discussing. But this practice perpetuates the wrong of Comey's innuendo.
The little DUmpmonkiez are always so sure they know exactly what is going on. Too bad they don't.
Star Member Ligyron (882 posts)
14. Maybe Comey didn't know but some RW agent sure probably did/does.
Not granting him a warrant will slow down the release of any favorable information way past the election, which may be the case anyway but then he would have an excuse for sure.
Right now, people not familiar with how any of this works (most people) assume the worst. I really hope those saying there's no connection to HRC are right, but how do we know this for sure? Because some FBI "source" said so to someone?
As I've stated elsewhere, all the Dems need to go balls out, screaming crazy about how this is unfair, interfering with an election, violation of the Hatch Act from the surrogates on up to the AG and DOJ. File lawsuits, be on TV every second available like the GrOPers do all the time. Being nice has never worked for us and this is an emergency.
OK, DUmpmonkiez.... here is what your good buddy Dutch thinks. Uma was recieving all the hillary e-mails on this device she kept at home. One of several it seems. At some point she switched and Weiner got it to do his porn on. Maybe she 'forgot' to wipe it down or something but the e-mail files remained on the hard drive. Then- when all the shit about e-mails starts making news she wipes all her stuff (forgetting about this one) until the FBI seizes Anthony's devices to investigate his pedo shit. The FBI suddenly take a look and '''''''OH-SHIT!!!!""""
It wouldn't take but a few minutes for them to realixe what they have- all the un altered e-mails from Hillary copied by Uma. Now... maybe there is stuff on there we haven't seen yet because Hillary had effectively destroyed all other copies... and didn't even realize there was this one. Uma sure seemed upset about it... I'm better she forgot too.
OR- she was keeping it as a get out of jail free card just in case she needed to blackmail Hillary at some point.
Who knows... Let's see what the FBI has.
Star Member Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (12,396 posts)
21. So how does he know there are Hillary's e-mails on the computer
Or does he just ass u me this?
TrollBuster9090 (3,261 posts)
23. Ironically, he wouldn't GET a warrant under normal circumstances. He has absolutely no evidence
He has absolutely no probable cause. No evidence that there is anything illegal in Abedin's emails. Congress sent the FBI out to determine if CLINTON sent classified documents from a non-secured server, and they found basically no evidence of that.
That being said, Abedin HERSELF should probably give them permission to look at her emails. Because if they're not looked at, the GOP will continue to claim there's evidence of wrong doing in there.
Hey, DUmbass. They already had a warrant to search the computer for Wiener porn shit... BUT, suddenly they found evidence of another crime unrelated to the original search warrant. THEY HAVE to get another warrant to investigate the new stuff and that they have reasonable suspicion there is evidence of a crime is enough to get a search warrant. This stuff does happen all the time.
Star Member Nitram (4,801 posts)
25. Fire Comey! He had no cause to comment on anything but the fact that they found no evidence to charge Clinton. He now throws a bomb into the election less than two weeks before the vote. This is not the way our democracy works.
Hillary will have him executed...
