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FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com)

An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from Fox News: Immunity deals for two top Hillary Clinton aides included a side arrangement obliging the FBI to destroy their laptops after reviewing the devices, House Judiciary Committee sources told Fox News on Monday. Sources said the arrangement with former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and ex-campaign staffer Heather Samuelson also limited the search to no later than Jan. 31, 2015. This meant investigators could not review documents for the period after the email server became public -- in turn preventing the bureau from discovering if there was any evidence of obstruction of justice, sources said. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee fired off a letter Monday to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking why the DOJ and FBI agreed to the restrictive terms, including that the FBI would destroy the laptops after finishing the search. The immunity deals for Mills and Samuelson, made as part of the FBI's probe into Clinton's use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state, apparently included a series of "side agreements" that were negotiated by Samuelson and Mills' attorney Beth Wilkinson. The side deals were agreed to on June 10, less than a month before FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency would recommend no charges be brought against Clinton or her staff. Judiciary Committee aids told FoxNews.com that the destruction of the laptops is particularly troubling as it means that the computers could not be used as evidence in future legal proceedings, should new information or circumstances arise.

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  1. Good. Hopefully destruction of evidence will... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    stop all of the conspiracy garbage since there's no more evidence.

  2. Irregularities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At first the immunity deal for Combetta was for destruction, to get him to talk to the FBI after using BleachBit on the server. This is unusual, because he could already have been prosecuted for this since an order was issued which doesn't allow for this. Clinton and her people asked him to do this, which means they could also be prosecuted. Furthermore, I'm genuinely confused why the other 4 immunity deals were offered. Were the 4 others granted immunity because they had a hand in the private server, or were they offered because the DOJ was looking out for them? I'm also confused why they fucking include a provision to destroy laptops (that apparently weren't subpoenaed or seized via warrant like in every other case) as intense scrutiny of this case is going on and Congress is attempting to force further investigation even though the DOJ and FBI are trying to stonewall it.

    There's just too much smoke here for anyone to claim that there isn't a fire.

    1. Re:Irregularities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The drives were under Congressional subpoena, not from the FBI. The FBI had no jurisdiction to tell them deleting anything was acceptable.

      Mills lied to the FBI during the investigation after she was given immunity and not charged for lying during an investigation (Remember Scooter Libby?)

      Not only do we have examples of this happening in the RECENT past, like Scooter Libby, and this not being handled the same way. We have evidence of this being much worse in just about every single possible way. Remember Libby got a year for misquoting something while being questioned, not for what they originally went after him for, which turned out to not be a crime in his specific case. So he got a year of jail for a misstatement on an investigation of something that wasn't a crime.

      In this case we have multiple people lying under oath, multiple times. even after given immunity, destruction of evidence, and ACTUAL mishandling of classified information. Not a single charge.

      The FBI = shit
      The DOJ = shit

  3. Re: Needs to stop by ArtemaOne · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've heard that a vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Trump, from the Clinton camp. I've heard that a vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Clinton, from the Trump camp. And a vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Gary Johnson. It's the best deal on the market, three votes for one!

  4. Re:Trump versus Clinton by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hillary has repeatedly admitted that using a personal email server was a mistake.

    Which is, as you know, a completely BS thing to say. She didn't "make a mistake" (other than in the sense that she didn't understand the inevitability of being caught), she deliberately and purposefully set out to get around federal rules and laws regarding record keeping and the handling of sensitive information. That wasn't a mistake, it was completely deliberate. And her incessant lying about it ever since makes that very plain. You don't dole out immunity like candy to her staff over "a mistake."

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  5. Re:Desperate Donald, there's no point... by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I honestly doubt Trump gives a shit about slashdot, so you'd have to explain better how it's relevant in any context. Furthermore, some AC posts are pretty good, and sometimes there are good reasons for regular users to post as AC. I recall one time a self confessed pedophile posted as AC to explain that even though he was attracted to children, he had never attempted to have sex with one, which if you ask me is a sane thing to do because it doesn't matter whether or not one abuses children, if they confess to even thinking about that then their life is pretty much over, and for no good reason.

    Hell, I've posted as AC myself to make some decidedly un-PC jokes that I just don't want associated with my regular identity here. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with that. Sure, some twats get offended, but that's their problem, especially the times when those posts get modded +5 funny.