FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email (dailydot.com)

blottsie writes from a report via The Daily Dot: The Romanian hacker known as Guccifer (real name Marcel Lehel Lazar) admitted to the FBI that he lied to the public when he said he repeatedly hacked into Hillary Clinton's email server in 2013. FBI Director James Comey testified before members on Congress on Thursday that Guccifer never hacked into Clinton's servers and in fact admitted that he lied. Lazar told Fox News and NBC News in May 2016 about his alleged hacking. Despite offering no proof, the claim caused a huge stir, including making headline news on some of America's biggest publications, which offered little skepticism of his claims. "Can you confirm that Guccifer never gained access to her server?" asked Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold. "He did not. He admitted that was a lie," Comey replied. Lazar is currently imprisoned in Alexandria, Virginia, following his extradition from Romania.

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[MightyMartian]

Hillary Clinton is hardly the first Secretary of State to use back channels for communications and intelligence. Her method had some serious security issues, to be sure, and she's been rightly vilified for that, but to imagine that Secretaries of State since the office was instituted haven't used various means of varying degrees of (il)legality is absurdly naive.

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[TheGratefulNet]

what the history books will remember about the clintons and this era:

something about a blowjob, and something about email.

I wonder what history will write about the bush gang? something tells me history will not be so kind about all the actual trouble they started.

perspective, people. keep things in perspective. I could care less about the little shit. if that's all the R's have, that's fucking pathetic. sad and pathetic.

Only the data

[Ol Olsoc]

That suits your white hot hatred of the Clintons, from the party of financial prudence spending millions of my tax money to uncover a blowjob. to your now claiming that the FBI is an integral part of the conspiracy, well, it's pretty clear that the Clinton haters are completely unhinged, from your leader Trump trying to reopen the idea that Hillary killed Vince Foster. And that Benghazi was the worst incidences ever, while disreagarding the multitudes of attacks and people killed in embassy attacks during the first 8 years of this century.

If it was you who were involved in what happened, you'd be issued a security violation. But you hate Hillary, so she needs to go to jail.

And this is where the Republicans need to get a grip. It's easy to see that you are throwing every piece of shit you can find against the wall and hoping it will stick. It is you who are eroding the rule of law as you base your concept of the law on emotion.

So you'll go on believing that Bill Clinton sent his Arkansas state police bodyguards to Waco Texas to be killed in the assault on the Koresh compound, You'll still believe that Hillary had Foster killed, You'll still be all atwitter over a consensual blowjob, you'll still ignor the Bush Administration's record on protecting Embassies and focus on Benghazi and a security violation level problem is worthy of criminal prosecution, and now that the fellow who said he hacked the servers is lieing now, but not when he said he did - meaning that you now are calling the FBI as complicit in the Great Clinton conspiracy number 1,000,000.

You are really going to have to face the fact that your nonstop vendetta has placed you in the category of kooky background noise.

Now get back to proving that the terror baby was actually born in Kenya.