Comey, Clinton, McCabe and Lynch Officially Referred For Criminal Investigation
Eleven House Republicans have sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray officially referring Hillary Clinton, fired FBI Director James Comey, fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for criminal investigation. FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who were caught sending hundreds of anti-Trump text messages during the Clinton investigation, have also been referred for criminal investigation. U.S. Attorney John Huber, who was tapped by Sessions a few weeks ago to investigate the FBI's handling of the Clinton email probe, was copied on the request.
“Because we believe that those in positions of high authority should be treated the same as every other American, we want to be sure that the potential violations of law outlined below are vetted appropriately,” lawmakers wrote.
As the letter outlines, Comey is under fire for allegedly giving false testimony to Congress last summer about the FBI's criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's repeated mishandling of classified information. Specifically, lawmakers cite Comey's decision to draft an exoneration memo of Clinton months before FBI agents were done with their work and before Clinton and key staffers were interviewed for the probe. They're also going after him for leaking classified information to a friend, which Comey admitted to under oath.
"It would appear that former Director Comey leaked classified information when sharing these memos with Professor Richman. Accordingly, we refer James Comey to DOJ for potential violation(s) if: 18 USC 641, 18 USC 793, and 18USC 1924 (a)," the letter states.
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch is being referred for allegedly "threatening with reprisal the former FBI informant who tried to come forward in 2016 with insight into the Uranium One deal."
"With regard to top counterintelligence FBI agent, Peter Strzok, and senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page, we raise concerns regarding their interference in the Hillary Clinton investigation regarding her use of a personal email server," the letter states.
McCabe has been referred for perceived violation of three different codes after a DOJ inspector general report released last week showed he lied under oath multiple times to FBI and OIG investigators.
As far as Clinton's referral, lawmakers argue she should be held accountable for "disguising payments to Fusion GPS on mandatory disclosures to the Federal Election Commission."
Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis, who signed the letter, spoke about the referrals during an interview with Fox and Friends Wednesday morning. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/04/18/republicans-call-for-criminal-investigation-into-comey-clinton-and-fbi-officials-n2472202
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If they want to investigate, let them cobble together another team and do it themselves. I'm sure they have the authority and can spend time and money to do that.
No, Congressional investigations can only ask questions and as you know, have no power to prosecute. We will go this way.
investigation? LOL we want military tribunals for treason.
the entire cabal must fall
hillary and friends are going first.
the left can take a shot at trump after jan2025
Hillary lost, Comey and McCabe were purged and Ms. Lynch is no longer AG, so the point of this is?
Laws were broken, procedures were ignored, the Constitution was ignored, and you want to know what the point of all of this is? Are you that blind? Hillary Clinton should have been at least charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917's Negligence Clause; but because of semantics was not. The FBI's report laid out a Gross Negligence case; but they excused it as being unintentional. Negligence, according to the Espionage Act of 1917, does NOT require intent to be violated. Comey and Lynch both broke FBI and DOJ procedures during the entire investigation from Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac just a couple days before Hillary was supposed to be interviewed by the FBI to Lynch supposedly telling Comey to treat the investigation as a "matter" not an investigation to Comey telling everyone that Hillary was cleared and then publicly reopening the case then stating what he had said before just a couple weeks before the election. Shouldn't you want to have these things investigated and possibly pursued as criminal matters so that YOU don't find yourself being persecuted by law enforcement due to their willingness to violate their own procedures in the future? If the top officials of the FBI and DOJ are willing to violate their procedures to get a desired result, then they must be punished for it as it violated EVERYONE'S Constitutional Rights and their trust in the top law enforcement agencies in the country.
Please be sure to report your legal findings to the DOJ as soon as possible. I'm sure they'll be very interested in your opinion.
So, you think there is nothing to see here. The irony is that the DOJ IG has found enough irregularities to pursue punishing McCabe for his actions in regards to Hillary Clinton. Therefore, the DOJ has already been notified of my interpretation; but that only focuses on McCabe not his bosses (Comey, Lynch, and Obama).
Apparently Trump's DOJ agrees.
You don't know whether they agree or not; because they have said nothing yet, and the evidence could be so corrupted by all of the actions taken by McCabe and Comey along with Page and Strozk that they may feel that any prosecution could be ineffective and a waste of taxpayer money should they decide to try to prosecute Hillary. But, a case can be made that Comey and McCabe did their level best to cover up Hillary's misdeeds regarding her government emails and private email server. And, if you don't believe that, then you really have not been paying attention to anything other than Stormy Daniels...
So I take it you're pro-Trump and anti-Hillary, basically the opposite of Strozk, though he wasn't exactly pro-Hillary, just anti-dipshit aka Trump. Now you assume that because he didn't like Trump he must have corrupted any work he performed while at the FBI. Should I assume the same of you? That if you worked for the FBI it would be impossible for you to look at evidence impartially? That you'd always conclude Hillary is guilty of something so you'd alter the evidence to make the facts fit your desired outcome? Should we assume because you're anti-Hillary that you cannot be honest? It appears that's the assumption you're making of Strozk without any evidence of any actual altering of anything. Are we to split our FBI up along partisan lines putting anyone who ever voted for a Democrat in one category and everyone who ever voted for a Republican in the other and fire them all for being "too partisan" because they had their own political views? Are all judges who have ever voted for a Democrat to be fired along with any who have voted for a Republican? Do we have to find Americans who have never voted in order to trust they could be impartial in their jobs? Is that really what it will take for Republicans to accept the simple facts about their candidate? Really?
In fact the DOJ already investigated and found that Clinton had done nothing illegal. Comey told Congress that the decision not to recommend an indictment was unanimous among the investigative team. So your desire to have her prosecuted for *something* is merely a right wing fantasy.
The irony here about the right-wing's obsession with Clinton's email server is that her server appears to have been far more secure than the FBI, the DoD and the State Dept servers......all of which were significantly compromised during the period in question.
No, Comey investigated and found Hillary did nothing illegal, which is part of the reason for the recommendation. There is enough evidence that Comey, McCabe, and Lynch worked to hide Hillary's violations of the Espionage Act of 1917's Negligence Clause, since there is evidence she transmitted Classified materials over unsecure lines and that her email server was not approved for government use. It doesn't need to be proven that she intended to send that material in a way unauthorized personnel could access it, only that she did so. That seems to be where you lack education of: knowing what Gross Negligence is.
Feel free to whine to the DOJ. Also be sure to warn them that Hillary is running a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizzeria which lacks a basement, and that she strangled Vince Foster with her bare hands.
Actually, I have always been quite impartial. My dislike for Hillary is because I see enough evidence and know that she violated the Negligence Clause of the Espionage Act of 1917 and should have been charged under that law. Had there been no such clause, then I would have said it is a nothing burger. I am very, very wroth that the FBI under Comey became a PAC for the Democratic Party. He took a law and twisted it so it didn't say what it says. He wrote his memo clearing her BEFORE Hillary was interviewed. That's not how investigations work; they work on interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence, then get referred to a prosecutor whom decides if there is enough evidence to charge someone. There is Hillary's own admission that she transmitted a classified document through unsecured means, because she "didn't know that 'c' stood for 'Classified'." That right there is a violation of the Negligence Clause, since it does not require intent and she ADMITTED IT!
LOL.
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Maybe Trump will nominate you as AG after Sessions resigns or gets fired. That way you can pursue fantasy charges to your heart's content.
It is not surprising that the bearers of this nonsense are the crackpots Katie Pavlich and Infowars.
Perhaps the silliest "charge" is that Comey committed a crime by preparing a preliminary assessment of the Clinton e-mail case before all the interviews were over. They had been investigating the case for a year and he had seen all the relevant physical and documentary evidence by that point.
It's sad that the rest of the nation has to listen to this deceitful drivel from the tea party clowns in the republican congress.
So What? A dozen backbench right wingnut crackpots signed a letter asking for an investigation of Obama, Clinton and just about everyone in the last administration. Again, who cares? It isn't like they have any new evidence of wrongdoing. This is a mere diversion from Russiagate. Besides, Trump's own AG olde Jeff Sessions recently told those same loopy gop yahoos in Congress, "It takes credible evidence of a crime to trigger an investigation". The gop has none, zip, zero, nada. How many times does the gop plan on going back and looking at the same lack of evidence? The Obama administration having been investigated to death by successive gop congressional committees is now a year and a half over and dong and not one ranking Obama campaign or administration official has ever been or ever will be indicted for malfeasance in office. Not a one. Also, not one US Senator signed this nutty letter and neither did ninety five percent of the other goppers in the House. Why you might ask? Well, because this stunt is a mere diversion. Daily more evidence comes to light regarding the illegitimacy of the Trump administration and the multitudinous crimes that landed us here. The Steele Dossier is proving to be 100% correct. So, move along. Nothing here. There is real news out there so go check it out. Do not feed trolls...
This shit is so funny! 11 House members with their heads so far up Trumps ass they can smell Putin's cock are gonna bring down Obama & Clinton? Hahahahahahaha! Which of these 11 are up for re-election in "shit-hole" Trump districts?
My first thought as well. They need some sort of scandal to help in the upcoming elections.
11 out 435 is 2.5% of the House. This has very little traction to be moving anywhere... just a squirrel trying to get his nuts.
It's just the rabid squirrels desperately trying to deflect the topic from Russia.
Especially when the signer is Ron DeSantis, a Republican that even his own party disdains. He openly admits that he lives in a beachfront condo owned by lobbyists and doesn't care that everyone knows. This is not a politician with his hand out because his hand couldn't hold the load, he pushes a wheelbarrow.
This desperate republican obstruction of the Russia investigation will hopefully bring them into the investigation and possible charges. Nunes is one of the most compromised, but when it all hits the fan the party apparatus will likely be right in the middle. Republicans in AZ are blatantly refusing to shine the light on the dark money that comes into their campaigns. Likely Russian money included. The RNC is in this up to their necks, hence their panic and defense/protection of Trump, they are also trying real hard to cover their own ass.
Yeah well. A portion of the electorate is fixated on gawd, mirages and all though this, Putin smiles at their gullibility.
Doesn't matter. Trump knows what he was, always has been and is now. For one who proclaims he is not culpable and is so purely innocent, his protestations are simply too obvious. And, those who carry 'his' water are even more obvious.
Article locked until the seeder can return and moderate his seed
11? Eleven? 10+1? Out of 435?
I love it...
Nothing more than..."Hey, look over there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". Typical pathetic lying bottom feeding motherfucking republicans trying to do something, ANYTHING to get the focus off the fat worthless lying POS trump.... It's really astonishing that there are still people supporting that worthless asshole....... Oh, and it gets better... They are clutching their bibles and screaming, "Praise Jesus for TRUMP!!!!", (the guy that cheated on all of his wives, and paid 130k to a porn star to not talk...) This president is an EPIC failure, in every way possible... The only people still singing the praise of trump are the idiots, the bottom feeders and cousin humpers. What a complete shitshow this potus is.
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But yea, lets go after Clinton, again, because after 20 years of investigations, you morons charged her with....nothing. Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unless they are accused of doing anything criminal that carries a prison sentence, what is the point of this? Just about all of them are out of public service. Sounds like a waste of my tax $s to me.