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Edward Snowden Kills Team Trump's Conspiracy Theory By Explaining How The FBI Can Quickly Comb Through Email (geekwire.com)
FBI director James Comey told Congress Sunday that the further investigation of emails related to Hillary Clinton didn't turn up anything that would cause the bureau to recommend charges against her. The FBI had reviewed over 650,000 emails under nine days. Upon hearing this, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supported started to question whether the FBI could go through all those emails in such a short period of time. We will never know for sure until the FBI explains its process to us all (which is unlikely to happen), so people turned to Edward Snowden over the weekend for answers. And Mr. Snowden didn't disappoint. From a report on GeekWire: How easy would it be to cull out the duplicate emails? Outspoken journalist Jeff Jarvis posed that question to Snowden in a tweet, and got a quick response: "Drop non-responsive To:/CC:/BCC:, hash both sets, then subtract those that match. Old laptops could do it in minutes-to-hours."
... then we still don't know how plausible it is that they reviewed XXXX number of emails in 11 days, after taking months to review 80,000 emails before.
What?
That you elected a lying bitch instead of a lying asshole?
That you elected someone who has no real accomplishments because the other guy has no real accomplishments?
I'm really trying to see what "rubbing" you're gonna do. My guess, if you're voting for Hillary because you like her lies better than the other lies.
I'll respond to any intelligent response. I am not holding my breath.
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The problem is that if de-duping is easy, that means that it could be quickly ascertained if the new mail dump had anything significant in it, which means there was only a brief period of time in which some fantastical new load of Clinton-destroying emails would be found, and if that were the case, then the Trump camp was literally hanging on to a false hope.
So now we have some of the most tech savvy people on the Internet pretending they're simpering halfwits with know technical know-how at all, just so they can keep a faint hope alive. I guess they can keep imagining Clinton impeachment, though they won't have the votes in the Senate, and it may turn out they don't even have the votes in the Senate to do much else but filibuster Clinton nominees.
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You know, it would be refreshing if folks could just understand all of what Trump is saying for what it is.. Politics... You may consider yourself smart because you can see how technically stupid what he's saying is, but let's not forget the other major candidate's stupidity either "Wipe it? You mean with a cloth?" when she clearly knew better. Surely there is plenty of duplicity to go around here. Trump is just saying stuff that he thinks appeals to folks who might be willing to vote for him, and you have to admit that for the FBI this was pretty fast. At this point, with the election nearly here and the obviously narrow margins by which this race will be decided, you say what you need to, and Clinton (and her campaigners) are doing this too.
Trump may not be all that clued in on technology or how a review of 650K E-mail's may have actually taken place in such a short time, but for not being a career politician he's obviously a very quick study. Just think, it was less than a month ago he was doing 3AM twitter wars about stupid stuff and now he's going to win or loose by the skin of his teeth. Not bad...Well Better than I expected anyway...
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Not really. I thought Occupy was an absurd waste of time, and I thought the whole "1%er" nonsense was simply contrived. Not that I don't want to see the wealthy made more accountable, and large corporations brought more firmly under the rule of law, but to imagine a guy like Trump, whose business history has been one of screwing over investors, using every trick in the book to evade taxes, and who is, by definition, one of the Elite, was going to bring the "1%ers" to bear was so ludicrous and laughable that I just have to imagine that most of his supporters are either complete morons or were more likely hoping he'd be so fucking awful that he'd bring the system down (which is absurd, the Founding Fathers built the system to deal with even the most terrible Presidents).
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That still doesn't explain why the FBI boasted that they had 400+ agents working for many months for 33,000 emails and yet magically can go through 650k in just a few days. Either they were lying before, or they are lying now.
There's a third explanation. You don't understand how computers and basic problem solving works.
The 400+ agent review involved someone personally reading and evaluating every email.
The 650k email review involved extracting the small subset of email to/from Clinton, extracting the even smaller subset of emails not in their previous already-reviewed sample, and then reviewing those.
That may have been as simple as going through a few hundred personal emails that weren't part of the initial dump.
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They didn't think he'd do anything to the 1%ers. Any talk of that was just a smokescreen.
Trump's campaign was about racism first and foremost. He made subtext into text. Look how evangelicals just fucking love the guy, despite him being the literal opposite of the only evangelical president we've ever elected - a man who builds houses for the poor with his own bare hands instead of putting his name on ostentatious housing for the rich). And that's because the religious right was not about a "moral majority" or even abortion, it was founded on racism (the last time the national conversation included the phrase "religious freedom" was when we were talking about Bob Jones university and was the catalyst for the rise of the religious right). Hell, the southern baptist convention (single largest organization of evangelical churches with millions of members) was created so slave-owners could still be part of a baptist convention. It was only 20 years ago that the SBC officially denounced slavery and segregation. Yeah, only 20 years ago, WTF! right?
And when you are racist, nothing else really matters. For decades the republican party has been telling these people "you may be poor, but at least you are still white." But now with a black president and the general population on the verge of no longer being a white super-majority just being white isn't enough of a consolation any more.
So all the nonsense that Trump''s said during the campaign. It simply did not matter if it was realistic, or even true because it was just a distraction. He was selling a reinvigoration of white supremacy and as long as he kept up that message, they were happy with him.
We need to get off of this "false equivalence" BS. To quote Seth Meyers:
“I mean, do you pick someone who’s under federal investigation for using a private email server, or do you pick someone who called Mexicans ‘rapists,’ claimed the president was born in Kenya, proposed banning an entire religion from entering the U.S., mocked a disabled reporter, said John McCain wasn’t a war hero because he was captured, attacked the parents of a fallen soldier, bragged about committing sexual assault, was accused by 12 women of committing sexual assault, said some of those women weren’t attractive enough for him to sexually assault, said more countries should get nukes, said he would force the military to commit war crimes, said a judge was ‘biased’ because his parents were Mexicans, said women should be ‘punished’ for having abortions, incited violence at his rallies, called global warming ‘a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese,’ called for his opponent to be jailed, declared bankruptcy six times, bragged about not paying income taxes, stiffed his contractors and employees, lost a billion dollars in one year, scammed customers at his fake university, bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself with money from his fake foundation, has a trial for fraud coming up in November, insulted an opponent’s looks, insulted an opponent’s wife’s looks, and bragged about grabbing women ‘by the pussy.’”
> The point is that Trump's supporters have no solid evidence that there was not enough time to review the emails.
That's just silly. People are still finding new things in the Podesta emails. Our evidence comes from having experience DOING the same task on another set of email. By that, we know that lot of things were hidden in attachments on emails with silly subject lines like "Congratulations." Tell me, why would someone reply to a weeks-old email saying "Congratulations" about something to send an attachment with incriminating stuff and not, say, send a new email or respond to another thread that was recent & relevant? There are also various code names to worry about (Diane Reynolds = Chelsea Clinton, Evergreen = Hillary Clinton, etc.) that will confuse naive grepping.
Saying that a computer could hash and search 650k emails in a few minutes is just silly. We can already do that with the Podesta dumps via search engines, but we find new things and make new connections every day. It's not a very easy task to parallelize, either. People are only making connections about the Clinton Foundation selling influence by connecting the dots across many emails.
So sure, they can "review" 650k emails in 8 days, but how you can have 650k dupes from 33k emails is not well-explained and anyone who has actually read /r/wikileaks would know that most of the good stuff is deliberately hidden in binary attachments under ridiculous subject lines that won't be found by mere grepping. We know because it took us weeks to catch onto the methods.
But yeah, sure, feel free to assume they've done a thorough review of 650k emails by running a handful of greps, secure in the knowledge that computers can search quickly and that makes it all easy, because that's what you wanted to hear.
What specific lie did she state about the email server? An actual quote please, so we can verify context.
I'm genuinely interested to know if there really is something specific she could be prosecuted for, of the FBI's conclusion is correct.
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No, it's a double standard for even investigating her for things that her predecessors did without any accusations of impropriety, let alone criminal investigation.
And after all the investigation, Comey just said that if one of his employees did the same thing it would be grounds for discipline, not prosecution. So if he would recommend prosecution for her but wouldn't for one of his own employees, that would create a double standard, which he was not willing to do.
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