FBI Director Comey to Further Investigate Clinton Emails
The following is from a letter to several U.S. Senate Committee Chairs from FBI Director James B. Comey in which the Director states that they will be further investigating emails by Hillary Clinton:
Dear Messrs Chairmen:
In previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s personal email server. Due to recent developments, I am writing to supplement my previous testimony.
In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.
Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony.
Sincerely yours,
James B. Comey, Director
Re. Tom Price (R, GA-6) shared his response to the news via Facebook:
“Secretary Clinton sent emails that contained classified information over an unsecure server. Through her reckless actions, she risked our national security. She put at risk intelligence that may affect American lives and our nation’s most vulnerable security assets.
I’ve been skeptical all along that Hillary Clinton—the former first lady, a former senator and member of the Armed Services Committee, and a former Secretary of State – ‘did not know she was violating the law.’;
Hopefully the FBI reopening its investigation will shed light on the truth and help begin to restore Americans’ faith in our government.”
Rep Buddy Carter (R, GA-1) shared his opinion:
“Today’s announcement is welcome, but long overdue. Months ago FBI Director Comey laid out a case against Hillary Clinton and confirmed she has been lying to the American people then all of a sudden said there would be no charges. The FBI Director himself said if someone else would have engaged in this activity they would face consequences. No one is above the law, including Hillary Clinton, and I call on the FBI to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation.
In light of this announcement today, I look forward to working with Chairman Jason Chaffetz and my colleagues on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to finally reveal the truth for the American people.”
U.S. Senator David Perdue also opined this evening:
“I applaud the FBI’s decision to reopen the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s private email server. It’s clear that Secretary Clinton acted with extreme carelessness while handling classified information. In the U.S. Senate, we have taken several steps to hold her accountable for her actions. Recently, I joined several of my colleagues to introduce the Taking Responsibility Using Secured Technologies (TRUST) Act, which would revoke Secretary Clinton’s security clearance. Additionally, as Chairman of the Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, I will continue to advance the Securing Our Secrets (SOS) Act, which explicitly prohibits all State Department officials from using private email accounts and servers to handle classified information. Ultimately, this type of careless behavior cannot be allowed to continue.”
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Lol! More trouble for The Peddler!?
But….her supporters don’t give a sh$t and really never have. THAT speaks volumes about them!
Personally, Hillary was not my first, second, third, or fourth choice as the next president. However; I would rather take my chances with Hillary (who by the U.S. Constitution can be executed for treason if it come down to it) then put a nuclear code even in the same room with a man-child who can’t be wrong and overacts to everything. The President of the United States should have more impulse control then my 3 year old cousin. Trumps supporters don’t care or even see that as a problem and never will. THAT speaks volumes about them… sad, sad, volumes.
“Personally, Hillary was not my first, second, third, or fourth choice as the next president.”
If she was far down your list then you must have criticisms of her so please list those criticisms. Is it her interventionist foreign policy or what?
Have you not been following along with anything I said in the last 20 months or so? (sigh…)
You did not answer my question but that’s ok
I have no issue with interventionism on a whole. I’m not a the neocon. I would of liked the Bush admin. to stay focused on the intervention in Afghanistan then invade Iraq. I’m not going to get out a pitch fork and demand he be burned at the stake over a truly ill planned end game. I’m not going to forget he was wrong either.
I look at possible presidents as a whole package. Not by party, not by dog whistle subjects. Can they get elected in a General, how close do they line up with key issues I’m not going to bend on very much. How far left/right are they from their base. If elected how much damage can they do to things that effect me both long and short term. What do they have as redeeming qualities that could balance who may or many not be running congress. Would they tip the scale on key laws for me with federal judges and DOJ objectives/appointments. This year I had to add ‘Are they delusional’ to the list.
I’m a cynic. I believe all politicians are going to lie to some degree. It’s not like they can tell us every state secret or point of policy. It’s not a black or white profession. And it is a profession. They need to actually know how government works. I asked a current Georgia congressman what the 3rd amendment is and recited the seventh to me. I believe all politicians get a trill of having some level of power over whatever little piece of the world they rule. If left there long enough, it will go to their head, some faster then others. I also believe it is still a calling. You need to want to be a politician for the right reasons and at the right time.
Sec. Clinton was not one of my top choices because she would have been hard to get elected in a general if this was a typical presidential election year. She has baggage and so long as the House is controlled by the GOP they will be more interested in hunting her down like prey then doing the actual job of governing we elect them to do. She’s just a trophy to the far right, a replacement to their first kill that got away. This will make the system even more dead lock then it is. I can live with that at the moment if it means Trump is not President.
Agreed—“This will make the system even more dead lock then it is. I can live with that at the moment if it means Trump is not President.”
Trump survives on the false equivalence the GOP establishment let become established and can’t control. An eminently qualified candidate with some ethical issues and that has exercised poor judgement as few times over 30 years is exactly the same as an unstable sociopath without out any government or political experience.
Six years after Obamacare in a campaign for the Presidency the health care policy is: “[Obamacare’s] gotta go. Repeal and replace with something terrific.” Ignorant can be added to unstable and sociopathic.
Ok. Your criticism is that “she has baggage.”
Bring on the Kaine Train! Make America Boring Again!
Seriously though, governing is boring. Why we’ve created these media companies who’s sole purpose it is to over-analyze every nuance of politics and nothing of actual governance baffles me.
Tim Kaine is thoughtful, pragmatic, and boring….and he’s just what America needs.
Unfortunately, it’s almost a given that if/when he were to ascend to the presidency he and his whole family will become Enemy #1 within the Vast RW Conspiracy media empire.
I was going to say that I am already feeling sorry for his family, but his wife has been around this sort of thing her whole life and surely knows what she is getting into. And one of their kids is a Marine so he’s probably OK. So the other kids would have good support when the poo hits the fan.
I disagree, B! The Repubs have nothing against Kaine. If it cones to pass, they’ll simply run against him in 2020. He isn’t hated. He’s not a bad guy.
Perhaps you don’t remember Hillarycare, and the infamous Bill Kristol memo. That (in my observation) was the beginning of the fight-to-the-death strategy against the Clintons.
um..
Poster does not have to justify his decisions. To you or anyone else.
Another scintillating comment! Your bong awaits…
…and it turns out it’s a big ol’ nothing burger: They found three e-mails, on some other device, and not from Clinton or her private server. They weren’t withheld by Clinton. The FBI informs Congress so they aren’t perjuring themselves with previous testimony. And they’re not “reopening” the investigation. But Tom Price, Jason Chaffetz and co. want you to think they are. (And the FBI is wildly irresponsible to drop this 11 days out from an election with no context up front, but shit tons of back door leaking to walk it back). And you all fell for it. Great job, gang!
You keep whistling past that graveyard, Dave…
…and it turns out the device is from a separate investigation of… drumroll please… Anthony Weiner’s sexting! (Which almost guarantees that they’re personal e-mails, not anything related to anything military/foreign policy/intelligence). Seriously, the biggest fallout from this ‘scoop’ is going to be some great covers to the NY Tabloids tomorrow.
Yea David, the FBI under a dem pres re-opens an investigation into the dem nominee 11 days before an election for no reason.
I thought you thought Comey was a secret donk and a hack who deserved investigation himself.
Not sure about your description, but I wholeheartedly disagree with his politically motivated, premature decision to not prosecute. Let’s see how it plays out, maybe he got a big ol case of CYA upon seeing so much spilling out from Wikileaks.
“Not sure about your description”
OK, Comey was politically motivated and premature then but now he’s a freedom-loving public servant, right? You hear what you want to hear.
Do you ever actually look at the news and comment on it? I know it’s much easier to just make stuff up to attack another contributor, but every so often you should see if you can carry on a dialogue based on a given topic. In this case, the FBI director decided to re-initiate an investigation into a presidential candidate 11 days before an election. I hear fear.
Hold up a minute. What am I making up? I quoted your words and wondered why Comey has changed from pariah to paragon in your eyes. It seems natural to wonder why if he was political then he isn’t political now. If that’s an attack I don’t see it.
ACP, you can pick nits all you want. The FBI has investigators investigating emails found on some device(s) that may or may not be classified and may or may not pertain to their recently completed investigation. In other words, after further review, Comey found additional information to be investigated relating to HRC’s “extremely careless” use of emails. Chaffetz is a douche no doubt, but many others interpret it the same way including Cong Tom Price and Cong Buddy Carter as noted above.
Says the guy who has access to absolutely none of the information..
But Drew, I thought it was all those rascally Russians who were to blame??? Hmmmm??? Are your fingernails bitten down to the quick yet??? Time for more Jiffy Pop!!
Quote from the FBI director’s letter to congress today,
“In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.”
Yea, nothing there. Just the potential of a pervert exposing classified information as he shows his junk to underage girls with his son in bed next to him. Nothing to see here. Huma better lawyer up, Clintons will not hesitate throwing her to the wolves.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/28/fbi-letter-to-congress-on-clinton-email-probe.html
Sez you…
Must be pretty worrying to respond on a Friday night! Lol!
Trump just finished his speech in Iowa. Those were the words of a true statesman! Bless Donald Trump!
Is she likely to get bunk beds at Danbury Federal Prison? Hopefully for her bunk mate, not the top one! Images of The Skipper and Gilligan come to mind!
This just in: J. Edgar Comey’s testicles finally descended! Nation rejoices!!
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/james-comey-broke-with-loretta-lynch-and-justice-department-tradition
Step down, Mrs. Clinton.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-hillary-clinton-emails-kass-1030-20161028-column.html