[The Hill] FBI Director James Comey went against the wishes of Attorney General Loretta Lynch when he sent a letter to lawmakers Friday notifying them that the agency was reviewing new emails "pertinent" to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
A government official who requested anonymity to discuss the matter told The Hill that the Justice Department’s stance was to abstain from taking any actions that could impact the presidential race.
"The AG’s position is consistent with the department’s position not to take investigative steps that would influence an election so close to an election and to not comment on ongoing investigations. Director Comey decided to operate independently of that guidance by sending that letter to the Hill."
The official said that while Lynch and Comey did not discuss the matter directly, "the position of the department was made clear to the FBI."
It has long been the policy to avoid wading into presidential elections.
"Law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing of investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party," a 2012 memo from former Attorney General Eric Holder read. "Such a purpose is inconsistent with the Department's mission and with the Principles of Federal Prosecution."
In a note to staffers that preceded his letter to Congress, Comey wrote: "Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record."
Comey has taken heat from both sides of the aisle for not giving enough information about the new developments in the Clinton case. He said only that FBI was reviewing additional emails found through an unrelated investigation.
Con't.
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I expect the new e-mails will be found to contain nothing incriminating of Clinton, and for that to be announced prior to the election. This is a strategy to make the e-mails seem unimportant to the masses, so their focus can be returned to Trump's boorishness.
Anaheim - Police and fire departments were working with the bomb squad to clear an apartment where the renter was allegedly building homemade fireworks, similar to M80’s, shortly before noon Saturday, police said.
Officers were tipped-off when the renter purchased "a quantity of materials online," said Sgt. Daron Wyatt. "He showed his materials to authorities and they determined that the situation was unstable."
The apartment is located at a senior living community in the 200 block of N. Dale Avenue. Northbound Dale Avenue was closed to through traffic as the bomb squad worked to defuse and dispose the materials, Wyatt said. Some of the surrounding apartments were evacuated to another part of the complex as a precaution. There was no explosion.
Bomb techs were carting boxes of supplies out of the building around 2 p.m. Many residents said they unaware that anything was amiss and wondered what all of the commotion was about.
A one-legged man was wheeled out of the building handcuffed to a gurney and was loaded into an ambulance around 2:30 p.m.
Gene Panter, who lives at the facility, sat in his wheelchair and watched in disbelief. "I know him," Panter said, as the man on the gurney was taken from the building. "I see him every day."
"I heard he was making fireworks ... but I never thought that would happen," Panter said.
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Anaheim police were called around 10 a.m. to the Brookdale Senior Living Facility in the 200 block of N. Dale Ave. where Mark Schimm is a resident, said Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt.
Schimm? Strange that doesn't sound like a Mooselimb name. Maybe just an old guy trying to brighten his golden years.
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"See, Rossi, it's all an illusion:
No moonbases. Not even fusion.
No asteroid mining,
Just wining and dining...
I'm sorry -- the future's Malthusian."
#4
So sad. Gets a promotion at the apex of a long and successful career, and decides on suicide instead. Way too common among younger servicemen of lower ranks and high combat/rotational stress, but rare at his level. Must have had something going on under the surface.
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Flineger, for what it's worth, I'd be about the last person to be amused by self-inflicted death per se. I should've kept quiet, and would have if I'd remembered the Hasan connection before posting.
At last! We've found a way to sabotage the Turk military!
Turkey expects to take delivery of its first Lockheed Martin Corp F-35A fighter jets in 2018 and has decided to order a second batch, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries said on Oct. 28.
It did not say how many more of the fighter jets it planned to order but two U.S. officials familiar with the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the second batch would comprise 24 jets.
The Undersecretariat said it expected the new orders to be delivered in 2021 and 2022. Its statement was released after a meeting of its executive committee chaired by Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım.
A Lockheed representative said the company is "honored" by Turkey's continued commitment to the F-35 program which was further demonstrated by the decision by the DIEC on Oct. 29.
Turkey had placed its first orders in 2014 with two jets and has added another four to that in 2015, according to the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries website. It aims to eventually purchase a total of 100, it said.
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Relax, we'll sell them a bunch of these things and sit back and watch them go nuts trying to troubleshoot the software while they all crash and we can laugh all the way to the bank.
You don't suppose they would get the Iranians to help? I mean the Iranians did get the F-14s to fly after all of the stuff the US tech advisors did to them.
A load of manure was dumped outside the Democratic Party headquarters in Warren County. "Eh? Maneuvers, y'say? Who's maneuverin'?"
"What reasonable person thinks this is OK????" party chair Bethe Goldenfield said in a post in the Greater Cincinnati Politics Facebook Group. "I won't be responding to anyone who thinks this is acceptable behavior. It is ILLEGAL!"
The same thing happened in 2012, Goldenfield noted. The suburban Cincinnati county is overwhelmingly Republican; Mitt Romney got 69 percent of the vote four years ago. It's been almost 40 years since a Democrat was elected to countywide office.
Goldenfield told The Enquirer the Warren County Sheriff's Office called her around 7:45 a.m. Saturday alerting her to the manure pile outside the Lebanon building. "Right in front o' the daggone door?"
Deputies met party officials later to review video. "A-yep. Dat'sa pile o' poop!"
"Hopefully the perps will be held accountable for their actions," she said. Then her lips fell off.
Since a dozen women came forward in recent weeks accusing Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump of sexually assaulting them, following the release of a tape in which the candidate boasts about groping women, many in the Republican camp have turned their backs on him, retracting their endorsements.
Some major donors to the campaign have even asked for their money back.
But Jewish venture capitalist and longtime GOP donor Kenneth Abramowitz, will not back down from his support of Trump for the presidency.
Abramowitz, who describes himself as a rational centrist, told The Jerusalem Post last week he believes Republican figures who have abandoned the candidate were simply "taken back by the allegations of these women and they handled it poorly."
"Even if they are true, when I compare that to all of Hillary Clinton’s evil and corruption and incompetence, that I find so threatening for the future of America, I’m going to overlook these allegations," he told the Post.
Moved to Page 3: Non-WoT at 10:50 a.m. ET, thanks to Anguper Hupomosing9418's update from the New York Times: it was human ashes, not something noxious. But the immediate concern about danger is a mark of the current zeitgeist.
[IsraelTimes]. White powder reportedly dropped on orchestra pit during performance by unidentified audience member
NEW YORK ‐ New York’s Metropolitan Opera was evacuated mid-performance on Saturday after an audience member sprinkled a mysterious powder onto the orchestra.
The leading US opera company was in the intermission of a matinee of "Guillaume Tell" when the suspect approached the orchestra pit and dropped the substance, the Met said.
The Met informed patrons that the performance was finished as New York anti-terrorism police headed into the ornate hall in Lincoln Center.
No arrests were immediately made and there were no reports of injuries. The nature of the powder, reported on social media to be white in color, was not clear.
An audience member, Dylan Hayden, posted pictures of emergency personnel on Twitter and said that seven police vehicles rushed to the scene with a stretcher briefly taken into the hall as a precaution.
The Met said it had also canceled the evening performance of "L’Italiana in Algeri" while authorities investigate.
New York’s prominent institutions are constantly on guard for potential threats in light of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the city and more recently a bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood.
Lincoln Center systematically checks audience members for weapons or other dangerous items.
By MICHAEL COOPER and CHRISTOPHER MELE 10:35 PM ET
The Metropolitan Opera canceled a show before the final act after a man sprinkled a powdery substance into the orchestra pit. The police said it may have been the ashes of the man’s mentor.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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