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Was Comey asked why his FBI was not allowed to run their own forensics on the server and instead were forced to rely on a report from CrowdStrike paid for by the DNC?
The fundamental contradiction at the heart of James Comey’s testimony
Comey stands by his decision to speak about Clinton’s emails days before the election. But his explanation doesn’t add up.
Comey said he did not consider politics at all when making his decision. He told a story of a young lawyer who asked him, “Should you consider that what you are about to do will help elect Donald Trump president?” Comey said that he appreciated the question, but that he couldn’t consider “for a second whose political fortunes would be impacted in what way.”
Comey’s understanding of his obligations actually contradicts internal Justice Department guidance, which says that, in the days prior to the election, the FBI should seek to do everything possible to avoid having an impact. Comey himself made that point earlier in the hearing. Avoiding having a political impact obviously requires thought about what potential political impacts might result from your actions.
Comey’s contention that political considerations didn’t play a role in his decision also contradicts his broader explanation, delivered minutes earlier, for why he decided to release the letter in the first place.
Comey said he saw “two doors” and “one was labeled ‘speak’ and the other was labeled ‘conceal.’” He said he viewed the newly discovered emails as restarting the investigation “in a hugely significant way” and “potentially finding the emails that would reflect on her intent from the beginning.”
He concluded that disclosing the new investigative steps would be “really bad” since it, as he explained earlier, it violated Justice Department protocols and traditions in the days prior to the election. But, Comey said, “concealing” the new investigative steps would be “catastrophic.”
Comey did not elaborate on why lack of disclosure would be “catastrophic.” There is a good reason why he left this point, which was at the center of his testimony, ambiguous.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-fundam...y-7eb28a0a2fe9
Comey is ing, biased Repug asshole. Trash as sicko PVL so-called Useful Idiot President? Thanks, Comey.
His DC rep as straight shooter is as believable as Ryan's is as an intellectual policy wonk.
Was Comey asked why his FBI was not allowed to run their own forensics on the server and instead were forced to rely on a report from CrowdStrike paid for by the DNC?
Every accused Trump team member willing to testify
Susan Rice declines to testify
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/politi...ussia-hearing/
Susan Rice subpoenaed before any Trump member
The biggest takeaway from this, if you believe Giuliani, is the FBI agents knew they had enough to get Clinton.
... but not enough to get Trash?
Zero evidence has come out against Trump, with Hillary we've been provided with hundreds of instances of the law being broken.... but not enough to get Trash?
President Obama's team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election
During his final year in office, President Obama's team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.
The data, made available this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, provides the clearest evidence to date of how information accidentally collected by the NSA overseas about Americans was subsequently searched and disseminated after President Obama loosened privacy protections to make such sharing easier in 2011 in the name of national security. A court affirmed his order.
The revelations are particularly sensitive since the NSA is legally forbidden from directly spying on Americans and its authority to conduct warrantless searches on foreigners is up for renewal in Congress later this year. And it comes as lawmakers investigate President Trump's own claims that his privacy was violated by his predecessor during the 2016 election.
In all, government officials conducted 30,355 searches in 2016 seeking information about Americans in NSA intercept metadata, which include telephone numbers and email addresses. The activity amounted to a 27.5 percent increase over the prior year and more than triple the 9,500 such searches that occurred in 2013, the first year such data was kept.
The government in 2016 also scoured the actual contents of NSA intercepted calls and emails for 5,288 Americans, an increase of 13 percent over the prior year and a massive e from the 198 names searched in 2013.
The searches ultimately resulted in 3,134 NSA intelligence reports with unredacted U.S. names being distributed across government in 2016, and another 3,354 reports in 2015. About half the time, U.S. iden ies were unredacted in the original reports while the other half were unmasked after the fact by special request of Obama administration officials.
Among those whose names were unmasked in 2016 or early 2017 were campaign or transition associates of President Trump as well as members of Congress and their staffers, according to sources with direct knowledge.
The data kept by ODNI is missing some information from one of the largest consumers of NSA intelligence, the FBI, and officials acknowledge the numbers are likely much higher when the FBI’s activity is added.
"There is no doubt that there was a e in the requests to search for Americans in the NSA database,” a U.S. official familiar with the intelligence told Circa, speaking only on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the data. “It’s simply easier for people to make requests. And while we have safeguards, there is always concern and vigilance about possible political or prurient motives that go beyond national security concerns.”
A top lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which has long raised concerns about the NSA’s ability to spy on Americans, said the rise in searches is a troubling pattern that should concern members of both political parties because it has occurred with little oversight from the courts or Congress.
“I think it is alarming. There seems to be a universal trend toward more surveillance and more surveillance that impacts Americans’ privacy without obtaining a warrant,” said Neema Singh Guliani, the ACLU’s legislative counsel.
“This data confirms that there is a lack of acknowledgment that information is being specifically and increasingly mined about Americans for investigations that have little or nothing to do with international terrorism,” she added.
The ACLU’s concerns were heightened by the release last month of apreviously classified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court do ent that revealed that then NSA has a “potentially very large and broad" collection of data on U.S persons that was never intended under the law.
U.S. intelligence officials confirmed the growth in queries about Americans’ data held by the NSA but declined to explain the reasons, except to say the requests for access grew after intelligence agency officials became more comfortable with Obama's 2011 order.
http://circa.com/politics/president-...-2016-election
"There seems to be a universal trend toward more surveillance"
seems?
TSA must think Repugs will stop and reverse the universal trend
It was Repugs who created the huge, expensive DHS ("small govt!"
the trend is already reversing"There seems to be a universal trend toward more surveillance"
seems?
TSA must think Repugs will stop and reverse the universal trend
It was Repugs who created the huge, expensive DHS ("small govt!"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN17U2OF
FIFY.
How many years until you realize there's nothing to find and it was a smear campaign created by the left?
around the same time you drop pizzagate
you don't drop pizzagate
pizzagate drops you
Feds closing in
djohn2oo8
No one besides Nunes divulges classified info on live TV
TSA needs to get on that Blue whale game making the rounds.
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