Immunity Given Out Like Halloween Candy in Hillary Email Crime

A source says the immunity offer came after the FBI interviewed Mills when investigators asked to go through her computers to see if it still contained classified information.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/mills-immunity-228580

Top Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills received an immunity deal from the Justice Department in the FBI’s investigation into the former secretary of state’s email server, House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said Friday.
"This is beyond explanation. The FBI was handing out immunity agreements like candy,” Chaffetz said in a statement. “I've lost confidence in this investigation and I question the genuine effort in which it was carried out. Immunity deals should not be a requirement for cooperating with the FBI."

Mills served as Clinton’s chief of staff and counselor during her four years at Foggy Bottom and has previously testified on the matter of her emails. In addition to testifying in a deposition taken by the conservative group Judicial Watch in May, Mills also testified for nine hours in September 2015 before the House Benghazi Committee, and was interviewed by the FBI in May.

The other staffers granted immunity were John Bentel, who was director of the State Department's Office of Information Resources Management, and Clinton aide Heather Samuelson. Bentel was found to have brushed back State employees' concerns about Clinton's email setup, while Samuelson was tasked with determining which Clinton emails would be deleted and which would be retained.
Although the Clinton campaign said the emails were reviewed for any work-related messages, the FBI found that those making the call used search terms in subject lines and body text.
A source familiar with the immunity offers to Mills and Samuelson said they came after the FBI interviewed the two lawyers when investigators asked to go through their computers to see if they still contained classified information.

The source said the offer was not related to their testimony, noting that FBI Director James Comey said there was no evidence of a deletion aimed at frustrating the investigation. The information was disclosed by the FBI on Friday to Chaffetz and Oversight member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

The Clinton campaign attributed the information's release to the proximity of Monday's debate. "Three days before debate, House GOP selectively leaks details from inquiry that was closed months ago w/no charges," spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted.

The Justice Department declined to comment.

Trick or Treat

http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/12/lawmaker-subpoenas-fbi-official-for-all-hillary-case-records-during-house-hearing-video/

“Will the FBI provide to Congress the full file with no redactions of personal identifiable information?” Chaffetz asked Jason Herring, the FBI’s acting assistant director of legislative affairs, during a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing.

“I cannot make that commitment sitting here today,” Herring said.

Chaffetz has sought all of the records related to the FBI’s Clinton email investigation, including all interview notes, which are referred to as 302s. Earlier this month, the FBI released a heavily-redacted report of its conclusions from the investigation.

The bureau also released Hillary Clinton’s 302 to the public. It gave Congress 302s from other witness interviews, but not all of them.

Chaffetz has taken issue with that withholding as well as the FBI’s decision to redact unclassified personally identifiable information in its report.

“I’m going to issue a subpoena, and I’m going to do it right now,” Chaffetz said to Herring after being told that he could not commit to handing over all of the documents.

“I’ve signed this subpoena. We want all the 302s, and we would like the full file.”

“You can accept service on behalf of the FBI?” Chaffetz asked, as an aide sitting behind him on the dais was seen leaving to server Herring.

“Certainly,” the federal official said.

“You are hereby served. We have a duty and a responsibility. You can cite no precedent. Nothing in the Constitution. No legal precedent. You know this is important to us. You now have your subpoena. We would all like to see this information,” said Chaffetz.

Dude . . . . . . give it up for God's sake this is wasted energy . . . . !

When Chaffitz is your standard bearer, ....

.... you have no standards.

She's receiving special treatment. That should piss everyone off.

I will type this very slowly. Again, like the gross negligence standard, you just do not have the requisite knowledge of why immunity is given. It is given to get the higher ups. If anything, this was a full court press by the FBI to go up the ladder and see if in fact Hillary Clinton did something illegal. If this was simply an attempt to do a normal investigation, you are right......the immunity would not be granted, but if you hit a roadblock and your target is up the food chain, you grant immunity. This was a good FBI investigation which found Hillary Clinton guilty of no crime. The house committees only purpose as has been admitted to stop Hillary from being elected President. It is a sad time in America that people do not have the sense to distinguish and understand.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-228607

President Barack Obama used a pseudonym in email communications with Hillary Clinton and others, according to FBI records made public Friday.

The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents from its investigation into Clinton’s private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

The 189 pages the bureau released includes interviews with some of Clinton’s closest aides, such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills; senior State Department officials; and even Marcel Lazar, better known as the Romanian hacker “Guccifer.”

In an April 5, 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin was shown an email exchange between Clinton and Obama, but the longtime Clinton aide did not recognize the name of the sender.

"Once informed that the sender's name is believed to be pseudonym used by the president, Abedin exclaimed: 'How is this not classified?'" the report says. "Abedin then expressed her amazement at the president's use of a pseudonym and asked if she could have a copy of the email."

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57e5cad5e4b0e28b2b5437cc

The judge ordered the U.S. State Department to finish processing 1,050 pages of material for release by Nov. 4, just days before Americans go to the polls, the Wall Street Journal said. The paper said that material was out of what could be as much as 10,000 pages.

Under the schedule set by the judge, there will be also be pre-election releases on Oct. 7 and Oct. 21, and the State Department will process 500 pages per month after that.

Monica Hanley, a veteran Clinton aide who worked for her in the Senate and at State; revealed in her FBI interview that she had no idea where a thumb drive she used to store an archive of Clinton's emails had gone. Hanley searched for the thumb drive, which the FBI described as "something she happened to have laying around the house," several times but was unable to find it.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-228607#ixzz4LC3dTTIL

And there was a laptop.

But it's ok... seagoat can explain why "extreme carelessness" isn't "gross negligence".

So we've got that going for we the people... lol.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/3/hillary-clintons-email-archives-lost-mail-during-b/

Two archives containing Hillary Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state were misplaced shortly after it was revealed that the Democratic presidential nominee used a personal account for official government business, according to notes from the FBI’s investigation into the matter.

The archives were created in spring 2013 by Monica Hanley, a former aide, and were stored on an Apple MacBook laptop and a USB stick for the purpose of having a collection of the emails on file at Mrs. Clinton’s residences in both New York and Washington, D.C.

Ms. Hanley was provided with the laptop by the Clinton Foundation — the organization founded by the White House hopeful and her husband, former president Bill Clinton — and was instructed over the phone how to make the archives by one of Mr. Clinton’s aides.

“Hanley completed this task from her personal residence,” federal investigators wrote in newly released notes published by the FBI on Friday.

Neither the MacBook nor the USB stick ever arrived in its intended location, however. The FBI’s notes reveal Ms. Hanley “forgot” to provide either device after creating the archive, and didn’t work out a way to get the copy to the Mrs. Clinton’s staff until early 2014 when she located the laptop inside her personal residence.

Ms. Hanley tried to remotely transfer the files to no avail, and eventually shipped the MacBook in February 2014 to someone else who was able to back up the emails and transfer them to a server on behalf of the Clinton camp. After the emails were uploaded, the unidentified person who assisted in the matter said they deleted the emails from the laptop and shipped it to someone else on the Clinton team using either the U.S. Postal Service or United Parcel Service, according to the FBI.

But the intended recipient “told the FBI that she never received the laptop,” the notes reveal. Neither Ms. Hanley nor another unidentified person implicated in the matter were ever able to identify the whereabouts of the laptop or thumb drive, “and the FBI does not have either item in its possession.”

But it's ok... seagoat can explain why "extreme carelessness" isn't "gross negligence".


I gave you the Supreme Court case which clearly set forth that the statute in right wing propaganda would be unconstitutional if the Justice department and FBI did not go to the intent standard. The FBI has reviewed everything, and found zero criminal intent. This is over, but it is interesting that the release of information is coordinated over an election.........you have your panties in a wad, like the entire Republican congressional witch hunt team......they are in panic........soon to be irrelevant. You just do not know the law, and are completely fooled by the propaganda that having a private email server is illegal. It is not. Was it a good choice by SOS Clinton, she has said it was a mistake. However, this entire fraud and waste of American tax dollars have nothing to do with wrong doing......it has everything to do with not being able to win at the polls.

No one... during a single minute from the discovery of her server... to the "fix" perpetrated by the FBI claimed:

"You just do not know the law, and are completely fooled by the propaganda that having a private email server is illegal."

It's impossible to discuss anything with you anymore when you just make shit up on the fly. Stop it.

Nobody is fooled.

The only people fooled are the fools who still think that Hillary Clinton did something criminally concerning her private email server. You for two years you have tried to convince us with absolute nonsense that Hillary Clinton committed a crime. She did not. I said she did not. Who is the fool?

Each criminal statute you introduced and claimed she broke the law, I methodically renounced your uninformed superstition being spewed by the anti Hillary propaganda. I did not have to make anything up. The FBI did not have to make anything up. The funny part is that even Gomer has slithered back under a rock, because even this third rate legal mind knows that Hillary did not break the law and the new clown from Utah wants to attack the credibility of the FBI who gives immunity to move up the food chain........I mean it is utter ignorance.....nobody has to make up anything.......utter stupidity with a year of being wrong in every thread......NOTHING

The State Department said Friday it likely has more than 2,800 new emails former Secretary Hillary Clinton never turned over but were recovered by the FBI, and will begin releasing them in batches beginning next month.

But only a small percentage will be processed before the election, the department said in court, arguing its resources are stretched too thin to get them done.

Remember this when Hillary's use of a private server to conduct sensitive govt business was made known?

Obama said he found out at "the same time everybody else learned it, through news reports."


That's now known to have been a demonstrable lie... not that anyone cares except racists and nazis.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/09/clinton-email-release-foia-228674

I'm still amazed that the national archivist has had nothing to add. Hillary acted in direct conflict with nara. Both in proper retention/storage/compliance to deliver and the classified protection then the destruction. She basically thumbed her nose at the entire check in place. These belong to US... period.

http://www.archives.gov/about/laws/

Ahem ...



FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday his investigators looked very intently at whether there was obstruction of justice in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email account, but concluded they could not prove a criminal case against anyone.

"We looked at it very hard to see if there was criminal obstruction of justice," Comey said at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, under questioning by Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)

"We looked at it very hard. We could not make an obstruction case against any of the subjects we looked at," Comey said. He did not identify those whose conduct the FBI investigated for potential obstruction.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/09/clinton-email-probe-obstruction-fbi-228790

What he's saying here is that the Bureau exerted a lot of effort into discovering the truth, including handing out immunity like "Halloween candy", but they came up empty, because Clinton and her staff did nothing criminal.

And, once again Pkrbum finds himself chowing down on another nothing burger.