[NYP] Newly released FBI documents detailing the bureau’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails reveal the aide who would likely follow her into the White House as chief counsel was central to a cover-up of evidence sought by investigators.
Yet despite signs Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills obstructed efforts by investigators to obtain Clinton’s emails, the FBI invited Mills to attend Hillary’s interview at FBI headquarters as one of her lawyers.
"It’s absolutely outrageous," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
"The FBI saw massive document destruction and clear intent to withhold material evidence," he added, "and they just ignored that obstruction, and even let her sit in on the interview."
The smoking gun is on page 16 of the FBI’s 47-page report. It details how Mills ultimately made the determinations about which emails should be preserved before she and Clinton decided to delete the rest as "personal." Clinton conducted both government and personal business using a personal email account -- clintonemail.com -- tied to an unsecured server set up in the basement of her New York home.
The FBI makes clear the procedure Mills used to sort out the emails was suspicious.
For starters, Mills was the one who ordered the server host to move the emails from the server to a laptop where she could screen them. She told investigators she could "not recall" if emails with non-gov addresses were included in the transfer. It’s unlikely they were, because an aide who helped her search told the FBI she only screened for emails sent to or from Clinton with .gov and .mil -- not .com -- addresses.
That means messages involving government business between Clinton and her then-deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin -- the only aide who had an email account on the clintonemail.com system-- were not likely captured. Nor were messages sent between Clinton and Mills and other aides using personal email addresses.
#4
There are numerous Federal laws broken here; destruction of government records, obstruction of justice, perjury, etc. When does the enforcement of the law proceed? After all, if these people are not subject to the laws of our land then no one is. If individuals are allowed to decide what laws are obeyed, the fabric (law) that keeps our society together will have been destroyed. The anarchy which they have created may come around to bite them in the arse in the future.
#5
Giuliani said this morning that as a prosecutor he had read possibly as many as 5,000 FBI '302 reports' and after reading the one released last week on Clinton, said it cried out for prosecution. I'll take him at his word as a legal authority and expert.
Players are not only Mills, but Lynch, very possibly Obama, Holder and ValJar. The motivation for doing nothing is beginning to look clear. It's not just letting the clock run out on Clinton, but the Obama administration and the Obama legacy as well.
Thanks you FBI Director Comeny. You've certainly done a fine job.
#6
I wonder at the 13 devices. How many (more?) were actually lost, left behind or forgotten while still active retaining content and configured for direct access.
#7
During the Bush administration the Republicans in Congress would can any Republican who did anything unethical.
The Dems would let their crooked colleagues off the hook.
That was the Republicans fault for not enforcing integrity throughout Congress. Now both parties are corrupt.
And the American people on the right just sit on their asses and say things like "this may come back to bite them on the arse." Just like the Republicans sat back and said under Bush.
#8
The fix was in even before the alledged investigation started. That's why Hillary and company were never worried about it. That's why Hillary lied under oath - she knew any investigation would be 'taken care of' and she would never be charged no matter what.
#10
Electing President Trump is your only hope now to save your country because if you elect Hillary after this amount of corruption everybody will know that the political system does not even have to pretend to be clean.
however bad it has been it will be 10x worse if that is allowed to happen.
Mr Trump will clean this shit out
If you haven't started campaigning for him, please do so now, talk to your social networks and use your email and facebook like your own private newspaper
get the news out about what is going on as the MSM is downplaying Hillary scandals and being silent instead of reporting them.
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