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Don't Be Fooled: Hillarygate Probe Is Now a Formal Federal Criminal Investigation

American Thinker ^ | 11/1/16 | James G. Wiles

Posted on by milford421

"The NY Times and the Wall Street Journal both reported on Monday morning that an FBI warrant application to a federal judge over the weekend for permission to search Huma Abedin's emails and laptop had been granted. The application was made on the basis of the Clinton email investigation. Necessarily, that application (as required by the Constitution's Fourth Amendment) would have been supported by FBI affidavits."

"Because, not only is the probe reopened, it has been upgraded and expanded. It has been upgraded from a preliminary inquiry to a formal criminal investigation with grand jury power."



(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

TOPICS:

News/Current Events

KEYWORDS:

corruption

crime

hillary

Salient points all quoted from the article: "1) A federal judge supervising a grand jury has now made a finding, based on FBI affidavits which present evidence gathered during the preliminary Hillary inquiry (the one which the FBI director stated had been closed back in July), that there's probable cause to believe that a federal crime was committed in connection with Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server. We still, however, don't know what crime(s) are suspected to have been committed. Or by whom. 2) The FBI can use this new grant of grand jury authority to investigate Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server for the first time to issues subpoenaes to obtain testimony from witnesses and compel the production of documents and things. The Bureau and DOJ can, furthermore, use the judge's probable cause finding to support further warrant applications. 3) The liberal media's reporting that the Hillarygate email server investigation has not, in fact, been "reopened" is totally false. "Because, not only is the probe reopened, it has been upgraded and expanded. It has been upgraded from a preliminary inquiry to a formal criminal investigation with grand jury power." 4) This weekend's development potentially escalates the threat to Mrs. Clinton. While several other procedural steps and processes are necessary, it is a federal grand jury, not the FBI, which issues indictments. The FBI -- using the the grand jury to obtain testimony, conduct searches and compel the production of documents and things - investigates crimes. The U.S. Attorneys, acting though the grand jury, charge and prosecute those persons whom the grand jury finds probable cause to believe have committed those crimes. 5) This weekend's development also means that, for the first time in American history, a candidate for President of the United States is likely now a subject/target of a federal grand jury investigation."



To: milford421

Right. The FBI doesn’t do “security reviews”. They do criminal investigations.



To: milford421

Once this is all done, Comey and the entire senior FBI leadership structure needs to be investigated to the nth as well. Either the corruption gets cut out with a red hot blade, or we, the people, need to start thinking on a replacement for the FBI.



by 3 posted onby Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)

To: milford421

Abedin’s lawyer is former counsel in Obama’s administration and she is the former director of communications for HRC when was in the Senate. This sounds like a blatant conflict of interest for this lawyer. Clinton is trying to insure Abedin doesn’t go rogue and burn her.



To: Lent

I thought that the DOJ attorney now in charge is a Podesta buddy, who just today reassured Dems in the congress that they will make a quick “preliminary determination” in a “few days”. And what do you think they will determine? As to Clinton, this is going nowhere fast.



To: milford421

It appears that the institutional FBI and the institutional Justice Department have shoved their political masters Comey and Lynch aside. The wheels are moving, and the political appointees have lost control of events.



by 6 posted onby Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)

To: Publius

Appearances can be deceiving. We’ll see.



by 7 posted onby tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)

To: milford421

Won’t change a thing: Clinton loyalists are running the USAG office, and their toadies are still running the FBI.



by 8 posted onby FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)

To: milford421

This is a really good point. The press is reporting that the FBI “got” a warrant. But yes, of course, as this author points out, you can’t just get a warrant to search something. You must specifically allege “probable cause” that a crime has been committed. Which raises two fascinating points: 1. It’s demonstrably false that the FBI is just curious about the emails and they’re probably all duplicates anyway. No, they are PROBABLY evidence of a crime, in the opinion of the FBI and the judge who granted the warrant. 2. Huma did not give them permission to search the files. If she did, they wouldn’t need a warrant. So either Huma and Hillary have finally split or it’s demonstrably false that Hillary wants all the information to come out. 3. Even if Huma did think there was bad stuff in her email, why make them get a warrant? It blows Hillary’s cover story that they just want the truth to come out. Unless they’re split OR they both relied on Justice to block the warrant. Which it didn’t. Why not?



To: Lent

The only reason why this may not be the case is that Huma Abandon was the only HRC aide who did not use the same lawyer all the other aides used. That other left a large DC law firm just represent Cheryl Mills ET al, and I don’t for a minute believe Mills or the rest of them were paying their own bills. Huma, on the other hand, had a different lawyer. That told me she was smart enough not to share a lawyer with people she may have to turrun against, or to let her boss (indirectly) pay her legal bills when she may have to end up cutting a deal and testifying against her.



To: Publius

Bullsh!t.



by 11 posted onby FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)

To: edwinland

Excellent post.



by 12 posted onby trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

To: milford421

“”1) A federal judge supervising a grand jury...” A grand jury? Really? I’m not sure I believe that.



To: edwinland

Which it didnt. Why not? Because Preet Bharara's office and the NYPD have also seen the emails.



by 14 posted onby FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)

To: theoilpainter

Correct. She will be cleared by the weekend.



by 15 posted onby FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)

To: FredZarguna

Correct. She will be cleared by the weekend. Impossible. No way for classifications of the emails to be determined so quickly.



by 16 posted onby lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)

To: lodi90

I agree. Comey is a lot of things, but he’s not stupid.



To: lodi90

"Clearing" her in July was "impossible" as well. The same people are running the investigation. I'd love to be wrong, but I'm not.



by 18 posted onby FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)

To: theoilpainter

Yep, the Fixer is in place to control and sanitize the investigation. He’s there to bury all the bad stuff so that it never see’s the light of day.



To: LongWayHome

Comey’s a tool. Not that that needed said...



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