Comey: No New Charges!

[JimL]

What would be the reason to go against protocol, announce to Congress you found a batch of new emails not knowing what the emails even contain, take heat from the public, the DOJ, and even Obama for doing it, then close the case a week later? It doesn't make sense. If you argue Comey was being political and trying to help Trump, this obviously backfired since he exonerated her before election. Arguing he announced it to initially help Hillary doesn't make sense either because he initially exonerated her the first time, thus taking all this heat was unnecessary. It doesn't make any sense as not a conspiracy lol.

If it was a conspiracy at all, which i don't believe it was, it certainly wasn't done to help Hillary. Prior to the notification to Congress she had a bigger lead in the polls but more importantly so did Congressional democrats and that lead has evaporated. You should be happy about that.

[demi-conservative]

Comey: No New Charges!

[Mountain Man]

All I know is that if this doesn't prove the system is rigged then nothing will.

[Bill the Cat]

If it was a conspiracy at all, which i don't believe it was, it certainly wasn't done to help Hillary. Prior to the notification to Congress she had a bigger lead in the polls but more importantly so did Congressional democrats and that lead has evaporated. You should be happy about that.

She's a hero with 1 day to go. It'll be the last thing on peoples' minds. Not that she mishandled classified information. Not that she broke some 18 laws and regulations. Not that she lied through her teeth about it. Not that her "I apologize for it" is merely her apologizing for getting caught. Just that the collusion between Lynch and Comey resulted in no charges being brought.

[Bill the Cat]

Apparently a lot of the e-mails were just copies of the previous ones. You can use a computer to find all the duplicates, which could reduce the workload dramatically and leave far fewer e-mails that need to be manually looked at.

Not in a matter of days. Compare scripts take time, and comparing 650,000 records individually to 35,000 others takes some tremendous computing power and quite some time.

Honestly though, I don't think there's a conspiracy here. They looked at the e-mails, didn't find anything more incriminating than they had before. However incorrect someone may think the original decision not to indict Hillary was, if there's not anything extra to substantiate an indict, the original decision stands.

For now. Should an independent counsel get involved and reopen the investigation, they could bring charges against her. As long as she hasn't been tried once for them, the window is never truly closed.

[Mountain Man]

She's a hero with 1 day to go. It'll be the last thing on peoples' minds. Not that she mishandled classified information. Not that she broke some 18 laws and regulations. Not that she lied through her teeth about it. Not that her "I apologize for it" is merely her apologizing for getting caught. Just that the collusion between Lynch and Comey resulted in no charges being brought.

And what's being under-reported is that the investigation into the Clinton Foundation is still ongoing. Some people think that was Comey's real goal when he ostensibly reopened the investigation, to distract people from the "pay-to-play" scandal that is brewing.

[Bill the Cat]

It was in direct conflict with the policies of the DOJ, of whom he answers to.

Actually, no. The Director of the FBI serves at the President's leisure, and answers to him alone.

[shunyadragon]

I'd like to know how Weiner got all those e-mails, though. Sounds suspicious on his part. He's a pretty suspicious guy all around.

Weiner did not necessarily get nor read the emails, unless he knew his wife's password. Weiner's computer was likely used to access his wife's email account by her. Regardless of the emails being on the computer, because they were opened on the computer, you cannot access the the emails unless you know the password.

[Bill the Cat]

Weiner did not necessarily get nor read the emails, unless he knew his wife's password. Weiner's computer was likely used to access his wife's email account by her. Regardless of the emails being on the computer, because they were opened on the computer, you cannot access the the emails unless you know the password.

I can access every profile on my home computer. You are making several assumptions here that you are ignorant on, Frank.

[shunyadragon]

I can access every profile on my home computer. You are making several assumptions here that you are ignorant on, Frank.

We ar enot talking about profiles here, we are talking about email accounts. You cannot access an email account without the password.

[rogue06]

Actually, no. The Director of the FBI serves at the President's leisure, and answers to him alone.

They get appointed to a ten year term but the President can remove them as Bill Clinton did to William Sessions when he dismissed him for using an FBI plane to visit his daughter and having a security system installed in his home at government expense when he was five and a half years into his term.

[shunyadragon]

All I know is that if this doesn't prove the system is rigged then nothing will.

Well . . . at present there is nothing to demonstrate the election is rigged now nor when Bush beat Gore. It can be easily justified that our election system is highly flawed, because of the Electorial College system, but rigged?!?!?!, that is a bogus challenge of the likely poor looser. It is mathmatically possible that the election will be under Solomon's cleaver in the end, and controversial as in the Bush-Gore race.

Of course, if Trump wins by a narrow margin he will no longer claim the election was rigged.

[Bill the Cat]

We ar enot talking about profiles here, we are talking about email accounts. You cannot access an email account without the password.

Just shut up Frank. You don't know anything about computers.

[shunyadragon]

Just shut up Frank. You don't know anything about computers.

[Bill the Cat]

Ok. Just to show AGAIN that you're an idiot...

If they were merely talking about an email account, those are not stored on the local computer. There were 650,000 emails STORED on the laptop, which means they were already downloaded to the local computer, which eliminates the necessity to access the email account at all. At best, it was an Outlook profile .pst file, which is still accessible without a password

So just stop. You are frustratingly ignorant, and unwilling to acknowledge facts from those who know better.