Hillary's E-Mail (Breaking News: Smoking Gun Officially Announced)

Your comment shits on many mentally challenged kids. Well, of course not but that's the reasoning you used with what you posted to tirk, jerk.

 

He is a bit slow. Just doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. Very few have access to the emails now.

 

Sorry, thought you could see a "freebie" or two.

ENLARGE
FBI Director James Comey at a July 7 House committee hearing. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

By
KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Aug. 18, 2016 6:48 p.m. ET
1160 COMMENTS
As for the suspicion that there is one standard for the Clintons and one for everyone else, witness the FBI’s interaction this week with Congress over Hillary Clinton’s agency file. The G-men are back to being G-men—at least now that the Democratic nominee is off their hook.

FBI Director James Comey gets credit for agreeing to Congress’s demand for documents related to the bureau’s investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email server. The FBI shares such files only on the rarest of occasions. Yet given the cloud surrounding this affair, not to mention Mr. Comey’s stated interest in “transparency,” he would have been hard-pressed to deny Congress’s request.

It’s the manner in which lawmakers are getting access to the documents that is more interesting.

Bear in mind what the FBI investigation revealed: We know that Mrs. Clinton for years emailed top secret information willy-nilly over a home-brew server that lacked security. We know that this classified information leached into the private email accounts of those with whom she communicated. We know that she cavalierly used her private email while in hostile countries, making it possible that those countries gained access. We know that Mr. Comey nonetheless chose not to prosecute Mrs. Clinton for her “extremely careless” behavior.

Compare that standard with the one the FBI is now imposing on Congress, where the Clinton files are being guarded at a level that brings to mind the Vatican Secret Archives. Aides from an array of House committees described to me the extraordinary limits that have been placed on who can see the files and under what circumstances.

The FBI has provided just one set of Hillary files to be accessed by both the majority and minority members (and their staffs) of the House Oversight, Appropriations and Judiciary committees. That’s a single set of documents for hundreds upon hundreds of people. The files are being held in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) underneath the Capitol, a secure room reserved for viewing the highest-level secrets. That room is under lock, key and guard, and viewing is by appointment only.

Many of these lawmakers and aides hold some of the highest clearances available to Congress, yet they are nonetheless barred from examining vast portions of the record. The FBI in some cases redacted entire documents, presumably at the request of various intelligence agencies, and to protect national security. Initially, visiting congressmen and staffers were not allowed to take any notes. After intense negotiations, the FBI on Thursday relented, but only on the condition that all notes remain behind in the SCIF.

Some of this is as it should be. These are, after all, national secrets. Yet the process highlights not only the absurdity of Mrs. Clinton’s claim that her server was no big deal, but also the irresponsibility of the FBI’s decision not to prosecute. Duly elected members of Congress are traversing layers of security and guards, clearances in hand, to view a few top-secret documents. Ask Mr. Comey why what is demanded of them was not demanded of Hillary.

But the contradiction gets even more extreme. The FBI has placed additional, and unnecessary, strictures on the Hillary file. It warned lawmakers against publicly sharing any information from the documents—even unclassified information. So the FBI chief won’t prosecute Mrs. Clinton for spreading secrets across the globe, but he bars Congress from talking about unclassified issues that potentially get to the heart of today’s presidential race. One might wonder why.

Nor does the double standard end with Mrs. Clinton. Oversight Committee aides who have seen the documents note that some of the redactions look to have come at the demand of the State Department (rather than the intelligence community). Indeed, the FBI allowed the State Department to review portions of the file before handing it to Congress. This is the same department that essentially served as a co-conspirator in the operation of Mrs. Clinton’s secret server and which has spent more than a year stonewalling investigations and making excuses for its former boss.

One doubts that Mr. Comey has ever previously allowed an accomplice in bad behavior to tidy up evidence. Then again, Mr. Comey was not until recently in the habit of waiting until the last days of an investigation to interview the target. Mr. Comey’s past procedure has been to interrogate immediately, the better to catch perjury later on. Mrs. Clinton got special treatment.

The entire spectacle—from the investigation to this week’s handover of files—demonstrates how much damage Mr. Comey has done to the FBI’s credibility. It’s good to see the bureau now taking national security seriously. Yet the director’s willingness to ignore those standards for Mrs. Clinton has sent the message that Americans can’t expect equal treatment under the law.

That’s why Republicans shouldn’t hold out hope that the FBI will go after Mrs. Clinton for lying under oath. Politics trumps. If your name is Clinton, it outranks justice, Congress, everything.

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I thought I posted this earlier this morning, just noticed it was still waiting for a "post reply." Sorry for delay!

 

Yeah @Tiger in NC that seems like only 3 portion marked emails. What a joke

 

I'm not the one that said gov dependency causes the shit in that video. Gov dependency saves old people, kids and vets, ahole. The shit in that video is not caused by gov dependency, it ain't that simple, but a lot of people stop trying to figure it out and stick with the old bigoted line.

 

Franklly I'm with you on being puzzled as to what tirk meant was related to gov't dependency in that video. I just didn't see where it had anything about vets, etc. either.

 

WHAT?

 

Have you ever considered the fact that maybe, just maybe the FBI doesn't want itself thrown into a Presidential election any more than it already has been? Let's be honest here, Republicans in congress aren't interested in the truth. If they were they would be happy to gain the access either way. If there is something damning in the 302s then we would have heard all about it by now. The fact that the FBI has insisted on making the documents accessible only in a controlled environment is a clear indication that they also know Republicans are only trying to politicize the e-mail thing more than they've already done. So yes....3 portion marked e-mails

 

Yes it's politicized but that doesn't excuse the fbi for not following through with an indictment that was clearly warranted. The fact they didn't made the situation even more politicized than it was before.