Despite Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations August 23, 2018 When then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton email investigation for a second time just days before the 2016 election, he certified to Congress that his agency had “reviewed all of the communications” discovered on a personal laptop used by Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, and her husband, Anthony Weiner. At the time, many wondered how investigators managed over the course of one week to read the “hundreds of thousands” of emails residing on the machine, which had been a focus of a sex-crimes investigation of Weiner, a former Congressman. Comey later told Congress that “thanks to the wizardry of our technology,” the FBI was able to eliminate the vast majority of messages as “duplicates” of emails they’d previously seen. Tireless agents, he claimed, then worked “night after night after night” to scrutinize the remaining material. But virtually none of his account was true, a growing body of evidence reveals. In fact, a technical glitch prevented FBI technicians from accurately comparing the new emails with the old emails. Only 3,077 of the 694,000 emails were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges. “Most of the emails were never examined, even though they made up potentially 10 times the evidence” of what was reviewed in the original year-long case that Comey closed in July 2016, said a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation. Yet even the "extremely narrow" search that was finally conducted, after more than a month of delay, uncovered more classified material sent and/or received by Clinton through her unauthorized basement server, the official said. Contradicting Comey’s testimony, this included highly sensitive information dealing with Israel and the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas. The former secretary of state, however, was never confronted with the sensitive new information and it was never analyzed for damage to national security. Even though the unique classified material was improperly stored and transmitted on an unsecured device, the FBI did not refer the matter to U.S. intelligence agencies to determine if national security had been compromised, as required under a federally mandated “damage assessment” directive. The newly discovered classified material “was never previously sent out to the relevant original classification authorities for security review,” the official, who spoke to RealClearInvestigations on the condition of anonymity, said. Other key parts of the investigation remained open when the embattled director announced to Congress he was buttoning the case back up for good just ahead of Election Day. One career FBI special agent involved in the case complained to New York colleagues that officials in Washington tried to “bury" the new trove of evidence, which he believed contained the full archive of Clinton's emails — including long-sought missing messages from her first months at the State Department. RealClearInvestigations pieced together the FBI's handling of the massive new email discovery from the “Weiner laptop.” This months-long investigation included a review of federal court records and affidavits, cellphone text messages, and emails sent by key FBI personnel, along with internal bureau memos, reviews and meeting notes documented in government reports. Information also was gleaned through interviews with FBI agents and supervisors, prosecutors and other law enforcement officials, as well as congressional investigators and public-interest lawyers. If the FBI “soft-pedaled” the original investigation of Clinton’s emails, as some critics have said, it out-and-out suppressed the follow-up probe related to the laptop, sources for this article said. “There was no real investigation and no real search,” said Michael Biasello, a 27-year veteran of the FBI. "It was all just show — eyewash — to make it look like there was an investigation before the election.” Continued at: https://www.realclearinvestigations...k_of_weiner_laptop_emails_never_examined.html
Lying to congress or the American people seemed to be a requirement to work in the Obama administration. Clapper lied, Brennan lied, Susan Rice lied, Comey appears to have lied repeatedly, Hillary lied but that is like announcing the sun rose in the east this morning, Loretta Lynch lied and then lied about that, Holder lied, when he wasn't just giving congress the finger. Of course the biggest liar of all was President "If you like that health plan, you can keep it" himself. It's patently obvious the FBI whitewashed the Hillary email investigation. Even the democrat IG appointed by Obama said it was badly mishandled. What are the chances things like the Clinton Slush Fund got an honest investigation? And if Russians can be indicted for "defrauding our democracy", which appears nowhere in the criminal code, why is it ok for the DNC to rig the primaries in favor of Hillary? Which had a bigger effect? Republicans display their typical timidity in addressing these outrages. They know the democrats will howl and the media will accuse them of ...gasp...politics if they do start prosecuting people. It's a lot easier for Sessions to defy Trump than the media. Meanwhile republican officeholders who happened to support Trump are being indicted on nebulous charges just before the midterms.
FBI agent who discovered weiners emails details how Comey, McCabe and company tried to look the other way as long as they could until it blew up on them. Swamp 101. As I have said several times in several scenarios and will say again: The dems love a whistleblower and treat that person as being sacred and patriotic and they bow to him as though he is the Dalai Lama. When the whistleblow has shiite on Trump that is. Otherwise, they see nothing and hear nothing, just like Sgt. Shultz. And yes, the tards will pipe up and say that Comey eventually disclosed them. But that was because someone in the field office in the Southern District sent emails to McCabe saying that they had them and they were nervous about holding on to them and they had been sitting on them for a month- and when Comey dismissed the case against Hillary he promised congress that he would come back if there was anything new. And now there was a paper and email trail of it that he could not make go away. So he scrambled to release them as awkward and damaging to Hillary as it was. Otherwise, he and McCabe tried to ride it out and bury them. FBI agent who found Hillary Clinton's emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop calls agency's handling of case 'immoral' and reveals how he fought for weeks to have them investigated https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...mail-whistleblower-tells-frustration-FBI.html