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Congress Opens Probe Into FBI's Handling of Clinton Email Investigation (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two House committees announced Tuesday that they would conduct a joint probe into the FBI's handling of the Clinton e-mail investigation. The Clinton investigation concluded with no charges being levied against the former secretary of state who was running for president under the Democratic ticket. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said in a joint statement that they are unsatisfied with how the probe into Clinton's private e-mail server concluded. Among other things, the chairmen want to know why the bureau publicly said it was investigating Clinton while keeping silent that it was looking into President Donald Trump's campaign associates and their connections to Russia.
"Our justice system is represented by a blind-folded woman holding a set of scales. Those scales do not tip to the right or the left; they do not recognize wealth, power, or social status," Goodlatte and Gowdy said in a joint statement. "The impartiality of our justice system is the bedrock of our republic, and our fellow citizens must have confidence in its objectivity, independence, and evenhandedness. The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight."
"Our justice system is represented by a blind-folded woman holding a set of scales. Those scales do not tip to the right or the left; they do not recognize wealth, power, or social status," Goodlatte and Gowdy said in a joint statement. "The impartiality of our justice system is the bedrock of our republic, and our fellow citizens must have confidence in its objectivity, independence, and evenhandedness. The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight."
You're reading this wrong. The article isn't about why wasn't Clinton prosecuted, but rather why of the two FBI investigations into the leading presidential candidates, how come only one (Clinton) was talked about widely whereas the other one (Trump) was kept quiet until after the election.
Given the short-sightedness and willingness to accept double-standards on the Trump side however, had the FBI publicly announced they were looking into Trump, he would have claimed he was the underdog and that "The Man" was out to persecute him and probably have increased his voter base.
Yeah, I gotta think this committee's going to uncover some stuff they weren't intending to uncover. Kinda how the Lewinsky affair took out several high ranking GOP congresscritters as collateral damage.
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Yeah, I gotta think this committee's going to uncover some stuff they weren't intending to uncover.
Actually, some of the evidence against Hillary was collateral damage from the investigation of Anthony Weiner's sexting. The laptop he used for sending penis pics had emails between Hillary and Huma Abedin.
Congress claims ignorance that they didn't know that we had troops in Niger.
Simply put, any Senator that states they didn't know is either full of shit or has no idea what they are doing at a very, very important job. The United States, among other countries, have been in a variety of different African countries since 2003 in the "War on Terrorism". Niger hosts US and French troops publicly, but it's no stretch of the imagination that other countries are operating there too in less public operations. African countries have become a boon to recruitment in terror organizations.
Basically if you are living in a first world nation and your government is worried about global terrorism, then it is safe to say that your country more than likely has a shit load of special units in Africa doing all kinds of really risky stuff. Every Senator is basically given that general overview before diving deeper into the details.
Our military is being squeezed harder for troops than many people realize. The recent string of Navy crashes were due to ships being moved to skeleton crews. All branches are spread so thin that the huge amount of mercenaries being brought in still isn't enough. There's going to be no way to continue without either a draft or funneling more money to mercenary groups. Nothing good is going to come from either of those. The best option for the country seems to be the one none of the politicians are talking about.
Answer to first question: You grew up and realized it was a fairy tale.
Investigations only _start_ when the opposing party gets control of the process. Even then, the mutual dirt they have on each other keeps the serious stuff by the powerful out of the light of day. Like teenage kids with MAD dirt on each other, nobody is going to be the first.
Which is why the RNC is afraid of Trump. He isn't in on it. He will send Hillary to prison, even if it ultimately sends half of DC to prison. We can only hope.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Or we could pay actual soldiers the rates we offer mercenaries. Then the soldiers would stop leaving the military to do the same job at higher pay and triply inflated profit margin to the contracting agency.
Added bonus, more experienced soldiers stay on.
Destruction of evidence and lying to congress is considered to be criminal acts, and there seems to be an increasingly amount of evidence of that occurring. The immunity deals, the refusing to seize laptops as evidence, the allowing key witnesses to attend Clinton's unrecorded 'interview', needs to be examined under greater scrutiny. Of course the biggest question is why he declared the decision to not press for indictment occurred at the end of the investigation, and not months prior as the internal memo seems to indicate.
Maybe if we're lucky, we'll get another outburst of "We're not weasels!" from Mr.Comey after his mask of false sincerity begins to crack under pressure.
I know you're trolling with your CNN propaganda, but could you be less lazy about it?
We had the attorney general of the united states, meet with the spouse of a subject under active FBI investigation in a private meeting that lasted half an hour, and then refused to recuse herself afterwards. We have a director of the FBI who leaks his own internal memos, seemingly purposefully ignores evidence on laptops and celphones, ignores the destruction of the devices, and then claims that there was insufficient evidence of intent when that isn't even a factor to be considered under the statute.
We have immunity deals handed out, with witnesses like Cheryl Mills being proved a liar when she claims ignorance of the server, witnesses being allowed to serve as legal aid to Clinton during interviews, and even more oddities. There's other questions, such as if the donations to the campaign to Comey's wife may have had a bearing on how this investigation was handled.
But according to you this hearing is all to be a smokescreen for nothingburger TrumpRussia, for a news media that sat on the Urianium One story for over five years. Go peddle your bullshit elsewhere.
I might think you are a diddler. I might even be looking into it. Maybe I could hold a press conference stating that you are being investigated for diddling. I might think the same of your neighbor, but he's 'special' so I won't tell anyone until I'm done. I sure hope my investigation exonerates you. I would hate for anyone to have the wrong impression just because I said you were being investigated for diddling.
How is cutting the subsidies good? He just buttfucked a whole lot of sick elderly people. And for what? So rich white people can get richer. That's literally his goal in every single move he makes.