BREAKING: Comey Says Email Investigation Over, Hillary Will Not Be Charged
How’s that for a November surprise? FBI Directory James Comey has written a letter to several members of Congress, saying that the FBI has completed its review of additional emails relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton. Comey says “we have not changed our conclusions” from July, when Comey said he would be recommending against prosecution.
Breaking – new letter from FBI Director Comey says conclusions re Clinton server from July have not changed pic.twitter.com/QxAMSMah1H
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 6, 2016
And so, with two days to go in the election, Hillary Clinton is, once again, officially off the hook.
Donald Trump is about to go ballistic. I wonder if his handlers will be able to restrain him any further.
UPDATE: To be clear, Comey did not officially say the investigation is over, and technically it could always be reopened. However, with this announcement, make no mistake: it’s over. There’s no reason to pull any punches about what this means, as a practical matter; hence the headline.
[Cross-posted at RedState.]
I wonder if this helps Hillary or hurts her.
The RIGGED! component of the reaction to this will be very, very strong.
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:17 pmanother nail in the coffin. A big extended middle finger to the justice system, national security and the American people.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:18 pmApparently Rev. Wright got his wish…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:19 pmThey wanted Comey to say that. The FBI was rushing to automate its examination to come up with something, But the classified aspect of the e-mail is not the critical thing anyway.
The real thing is the way the e-mail was examined and yet oot examined.
Sammy Finkelman (6d2ca9) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:21 pmI’m try to summarize later what was new in the Thursday Wall Street Journal (also conculting the Monday one) and Fox aboutthe Clinton Foundation investigation.
Now they want to investigate the leakers. We’re seeing this already in the form of letters from Democratic members of Congress.
Sammy Finkelman (6d2ca9) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:23 pmSo the July comments by Comey that Maudie was ‘wreckless‘ and ‘careless‘ with classified information stands.
leep well. Ourt nuke codes are safe with her….. and the maid.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:28 pmI know this was mentioned in Dana’s post, but it seemed like it probably merited its own post.
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:30 pmI’m not sure this plays to her advantage.
Keeps her main scandal in the headlines just before the election.
Reinforces the RIGGED! narrative.
No poll can possibly tell us by Election Day what this means.
The old saw “The only poll that matters is the one on Election Day” is truer than ever.
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:32 pmHow can being ‘careless’ and ‘wreckless’ with classified information not be anything but an advantage to Maudie?!!
After all… in her universe, ‘What difference does it make.’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:36 pmThe FBI can’t fix it for us. If a near-majority of us wishes to elect this person, after everything we know about her, the problem is us and not the FBI.
Gabriel Hanna (c791b9) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:38 pmMaudie has more crutches than every ER in America.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:41 pmMaudie in Cleveland today: “We have so many assettes…”
And how.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:43 pm“Donald Trump is about to go ballistic. I wonder if his handlers will be able to restrain him any further.”
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Instead of focusing on the obvious criminality which Comey is still covering for, Patterico’s focus is on the potential reaction by Trump.
That’s beyond #NeverTrump.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:50 pmIt’s #MaybeHillaryWon’tBeSoBad.
Did she and her inner circle break the law? 0h, EFF yes.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 1:59 pmThe FBI can’t fix it for us.
Exactly. There are far too many overlapping and converging interests with a sincere need to preserve the status quo. The risk to any individual, even corporation, is too great. There will only be positive change with the People’s — and perhaps our [unplanned] Posterity’s — choice. Americans are on trial.
n.n (521b83) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:00 pm#13
I don’t see it that way… the real fun will start when Trump starts working this into his latest appearances. I think Trump will go hypersonic, and that will be fun to watch.
steveg (5508fb) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:03 pmHe can explode away at rigged systems and how the cronies in Washington just closed ranks against the people.
It’ll be fun
100 emails investigated/minute.
AMartel (a99e2c) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:09 pmDid Comey’s letter state that the criminal investigation of Clinton is over? Probably not.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:09 pmIt’s almost like the Allied’s misdirection before the D Day landings.
Because Trump is literally Hitler.
Pinandpuller (dd360c) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:09 pmIt pretty much did, as to the emails. De facto vs. de jure.
Clinton Foundation still under investigation.
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:13 pmOh, please. That ship sailed in July and you KNOW I was all over him.
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:14 pm“Clinton Foundation still under investigation.”
Okay, so play for pay is a part of that and the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton continues.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:20 pmThe United States is now officially a banana republic.
Rusty Bill (ad1f26) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:21 pm#21 Patterico,
That’s great that you were all over Comey in July, but it’s two days before the election, and right now you’re all over Trump’s reaction to Comey’s corruption rather than all over Comey’s corruption.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:26 pmIt’s just my observation.
Oh, please. That ship sailed in July…
Was that the USS Wreckless or the USS Careless? So many classified ships at sea these days.
“If you can’t get what you want, you damn well better settle for what you can get.” – Mary Treadwell [Viven Leigh] ‘Ship of Fools’ 1965
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:27 pmUPDATE: To be clear, Comey did not officially say the investigation is over, and technically it could always be reopened. However, with this announcement, make no mistake: it’s over. There’s no reason to pull any punches about what this means, as a practical matter; hence the headline.
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:32 pmI don’t see it as “corruption” and never did. I see it as wrong-headed. And right now I think Trump’s reaction is more interesting. YMMV and apparently does.
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:33 pmHowever, with this announcement, make no mistake: it’s over. There’s no reason to pull any punches about what this means, as a practical matter; hence the headline.
Unless another laptop full of emails shows up down the road. Check the maid’s room. And the maid’s maid.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:34 pmIt’s essential that Maudie begin all her remaining televised lectures to Americans before the polls open by reminding voters:
“I have been cleared by the FBI yet again!”
Well… maybe not.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:39 pm“We were always confident nothing would cause the July decision to be revisited. Now Director Comey has confirmed it,” tweeted Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon.
Yes, that’s why the Democrats and the Democrats with by-lines aka teh Media had opened an offensive – an assault on all flanks – against Comey and the FBI.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:50 pm
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:52 pmDemocratsDouchebags#27 Patterico,
Oh, Jee-zus, please.
It wasn’t corruption by Comey?
In July, he basically said she broke the law.
But he reached the “conclusion” that no prosecutor would prosecute — wut?
That’s not Comey’s effing job description to proclaim.
The DoJ is supposed to make that analysis — all Comey’s supposed to do is provide the info.
Barack didn’t want the optics of his lackey Loretta Lynch to stand out there at the podium and say she wasn’t going to prosecute, so they coerced Jimmy Comey to do their dirty work — c’mon, this is so elementary. (LOL)
When will #NeverTrump finally admit that they’re #SlightlyForHillary?
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/6/2016 @ 3:03 pmEveryone should read the letter a bit more closely. IMO, with 23 years experience behind me in dealing with the Bureau, there are clues in there that all is not as it seems — it does get her past the election, but it doesn’t end her exposure.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 11/6/2016 @ 3:05 pmHow long now before the entirety of the judiciary in the USA adopts Comey’s standard of 100% certainty of motive, opportunity, and evidence, (before referring a case to a prosecutor), before issuing a search warrant on favored individuals and corporations?
We are now a society demanding equality of outcome, not opportunity. It is only a natural progression that we have a system of justice driven by preferred outcome, not fact.
Ed from SFV (3400a5) — 11/6/2016 @ 3:10 pmThis whole thing was a rope-a-dope from the start. Trumpophiles, you’ve been grubed…again. The very pillar of trump’s campaign against Hillary has been undermined in the past week as the Grubes4Trump eagerly took the bait from the Clinton Machine. I stand amused.
Denny Elrod (2d0eb0) — 11/6/2016 @ 3:50 pmactually it validates his campaign, denny, thank you for playing,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/6/2016 @ 3:54 pmWe’ll see what WikiLeaks gives us tomorrow…
Agreeing to destroy laptops after only a narrow search is not evidence of corruption?
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:11 pmOr is that corruption of the DOJ, not FBI?
it wouldn’t pass muster in a grisham thriller, md, specially with the latest email concerning dubai, that huma forwarded,
another carrier of the risotto.
https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/795320719848701952
narciso (d1f714) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:14 pmMad those deals were all made by DOJ, and the agents’ determination to continue forward was done in spite of those deals.
Shipwreckedcrew (a217ed) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:18 pm“The very pillar of trump’s campaign against Hillary has been undermined in the past week as the Grubes4Trump eagerly took the bait from the Clinton Machine. I stand amused.”
Denny Elrod (2d0eb0) — 11/6/2016 @ 3:50 pm
If that’s all you’ve gleaned from this, that look on your face is not one of amusement, but more the look of a simpleton, all too ready to eagerly lap up the trail of excrement left in the wake of the Grifter Twins.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:22 pm@35.
Except it doesn’t.
“There are mistakes and mistakes. The margin for error is narrow here. There’s too much loss of life and property damage possible.” – Captain DeVries [Tom Tully] ‘The Caine Mutiny’ 1954
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:23 pm“Oh, please. That ship sailed in July and you KNOW I was all over him.
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/6/2016 @ 2:14 pm”
Can you point me in the direction of the “all over him”. I searched “James Comey” back to time of the original announcement. This is what I came up with:
https://patterico.com/2016/10/13/career-fbi-and-doj-personnel-not-happy-about-refusal-to-charge-clinton/
“Someone’s lying here, and I hate to say it, but I think it might be Comey”
Matador (051e87) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:24 pm“Wrong-headed” hmmm… sounds like a good plea that every criminal should use as a defense to mitigate a potential conviction and lengthy sentence!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:27 pm“PAY NO ATTENTION TO THOSE EMAILS BEHIND THE CURTAIN: “A spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s campaign said Sunday that if Wikileaks were to publish a bombshell email in the final two days of the election, it would likely not be authentic.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/248499/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:30 pmone is reminded by my alaskan friend, that when the stevens indictment turned out to be a fraud, they subsequently did slap the wrist of the prosecutors, one of whom went on to prosecute jeffrey sterling,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:37 pmbut they practically drove out of the bureau, the whistleblower against william allen, the chief witness,
Even if the emails on Weiner’s laptop were duplicates, how is it not a huge problem that they were on it in the first place?
Dana (d17a61) — 11/6/2016 @ 4:56 pm@Colonel Haiku:if Wikileaks were to publish a bombshell email in the final two days of the election, it would likely not be authentic.
Ho, ho! They must be kicking themselves for not saying that three weeks ago. 🙂
Gabriel Hanna (c791b9) — 11/6/2016 @ 5:01 pm@Dana:how is it not a huge problem that they were on it in the first place?
So we know that Anthony Weiner had unauthorized access, and we know the housekeeper had unauthorized access to the SCIF(!).
But she’s been “cleared” twice now by the FBI so we can be assured there is nothing to worry about.
Gabriel Hanna (c791b9) — 11/6/2016 @ 5:03 pmThanks, as always, SWC
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/6/2016 @ 5:38 pmyes, you have provided great insight,
http://therightscoop.com/al-franken-gives-ridiculous-defense-qatars-1-million-birthday-gift-bill-clinton/
only someone elected by fraud, could be this dense,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/6/2016 @ 5:56 pmTo any reasoned thinker this whole thing proves Trump’s points on corruption.
And the reaction to it should be revulsion.
Hi ho hi ho (42bad1) — 11/6/2016 @ 5:59 pmI agree with Clinton that Trump is not fit to be president,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/6/2016 @ 6:06 pmand I agree with Trump that Clinton should be in jail.
I’m wondering why he specifically referred to the fact that they reviewed all the emails “to and from Hillary Clinton”, but announced only that their prior conclusions were unchanged with regard to “Secretary Clinton.”
We know from reporting that there were emails on Weiner’s computer from the Clinton Email Server but from accounts other than Hillary Clinton’s. So there were other emails not “to and from Hillary Clinton”.
And we know that she continued to use the Clinton Email Server after leaving her post as SOS.
So why is only “Secretary Clinton” exonerated??
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 11/6/2016 @ 8:06 pm