# FBI is re-opening investigation into Clinton's email **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 28, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950 "2016-10-28T17:57:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/601 "2016-11-01T18:36:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Upon further review, their Twitter account was silent for a whole year, then lit up on October 30th (Sunday) with a large document dump - including Hillary Clinton’s files, Patraeus’s files, and more. All these tweets were made @ 4am and strongly indicate an automated system (like Hootsuite). > > Very bizarre. > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/FBIRecordsVault) Nikola Tesla: (1856-1943) [https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla](https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla) Da fuq? Fred C. Trump: Fred C. Trump (1905-1999) was a real estate developer and philanthropist. This release consists of… [https://vault.fbi.gov/fred-c.-trump](https://vault.fbi.gov/fred-c.-trump) Da more fuq? ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/602 "2016-11-01T18:41:20Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Oh, I can see all this but it is a jumbling of accusations. She hired lawyers to filter out her personal emails so she could turn over only work email when the government requested them turned over. It has nothing to do with FOIA requests. Sure, maybe that’s why she used it in the first place but it doesn’t fit with the current situation. I think you’re wrong. It has quite a lot to do with FOIA requests. [Hillary Clinton email controversy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy#Freedom_of_Information_lawsuits) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/603 "2016-11-01T18:42:40Z")
Note what they were investigating Trump for, though - donating to a Democrat’s campaign! If you look at the political investigations, it _heavily_ is weighed towards the Left side of the aisle. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/604 "2016-11-01T18:50:39Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > For those of you who pooh-pooh the possibility of the FBI, or people within, looking to sway the election, please note that a mere two hours ago, the FBI [released documents pertaining to (and announced this release) a closed 2005 investigation into Mark Rich and the Clinton Foundation](https://twitter.com/FBIRecordsVault/status/793482749025792000). > > For no apparent reason, really. Just decided to do that. Surely this, too, won’t be construed as trying to sway the election - they’re just keeping Congress informed, that’s all! 🙂 > > The American public is demanding information on Mark Rich. We need to see it. Don’t worry about all that Russian stuff. We need Mark Rich. Am I missing something here? So, now, the FBI is doing everything that they are being accused of doing with the email thing, but without even the thinnest vineer of justification this time for actually doing it? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/605 "2016-11-01T18:55:28Z")
Not so sure. They may just be dumping pretty much anything at hand. You read down the list wherein you find “Nicola Tesla” (da fuq?) and so forth, they are all dated yesterday, then there’s a big gap going back to Oct. _2015_. I’m always pleased when I can examine something quickly and with certainty. I’m _sure_ that I have no fucking clue what’s going on here… ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/606 "2016-11-01T18:56:38Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > For those of you who pooh-pooh the possibility of the FBI, or people within, looking to sway the election, please note that a mere two hours ago, the FBI [released documents pertaining to (and announced this release) a closed 2005 investigation into Mark Rich and the Clinton Foundation](https://twitter.com/FBIRecordsVault/status/793482749025792000). > > For no apparent reason, really. Just decided to do that. Surely this, too, won’t be construed as trying to sway the election - they’re just keeping Congress informed, that’s all! 🙂 > > The American public is demanding information on Mark Rich. We need to see it. Don’t worry about all that Russian stuff. We need Mark Rich. So you’re saying the election is “rigged”? ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/607 "2016-11-01T18:58:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Not so sure. They may just be dumping pretty much anything at hand. You read down the list wherein you find “Nicola Tesla” (da fuq?) and so forth, they are all dated yesterday, then there’s a big gap going back to Oct. _2015_. > > I’m always pleased when I can examine something quickly and with certainty. I’m _sure_ that I have no fucking clue what’s going on here… I’m having a hard time seeing it as a coincidence that this dump starts just before an election. I mean, I have no damn clue what the hell is going on either, but it’s definitely weird. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/608 "2016-11-01T19:01:26Z")
If I were to look for a nefarious motive, my first thought would be hiding an obscure but potentially damaging detail in a massive avalanche of other details. But no clue, here. I mean, _Tesla_? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/609 "2016-11-01T19:01:52Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > So you’re saying the election is “rigged”? No, I said that the FBI, or elements within, are trying to sway the election. Bless your heart: we know that reading is hard, but do try to keep up! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/610 "2016-11-01T19:02:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > If I were to look for a nefarious motive, my first thought would be hiding an obscure but potentially damaging detail in a massive avalanche of other details. But no clue, here. I mean, _Tesla_? Huh? It’s the fuckin’ coils. Driving everybody crazy this election, I tell ya! “I know what’ll really fuck 'em up!” “What?” “Remember that 1938 investigation we had on Tesla?” “Who?” “Never mind. Just put the damn Tesla investigation on the release list.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/611 "2016-11-01T19:04:12Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > So you’re saying the election is “rigged”? Not likely, **JohnT** is from Texas, and we eschew exaggeration. Quiet modesty is our preferred mode. ---
**Author:** ![ThisIsTheEnd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisistheend/32/4713_2.png) [@ThisIsTheEnd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsTheEnd)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/612 "2016-11-01T19:11:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > If I were to look for a nefarious motive, my first thought would be hiding an obscure but potentially damaging detail in a massive avalanche of other details. But no clue, here. I mean, _Tesla_? Huh? Well, 2016 IS divisible by 3. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/613 "2016-11-01T19:33:27Z")
It’s funny how much Comey was praised by the Hillary supporters when he told the AG not to prosecute yet now he’s trying to sway the election. It’s almost as if they care more about their candidate than they do with justice. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/614 "2016-11-01T19:35:46Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > Pretty sure we agree that it was incredibly stupid and naive. As Sanchez put it, “[F]ortunately for all politicians—not every act of stupidity is a federal crime.” This one was. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/615 "2016-11-01T19:35:46Z")
It’s almost as if people could have two different views about two completely different events. ---
**Author:** ![ThisIsTheEnd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisistheend/32/4713_2.png) [@ThisIsTheEnd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsTheEnd)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/616 "2016-11-01T19:40:36Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > It’s funny how much Comey was praised by the Hillary supporters when he told the AG not to prosecute yet now he’s trying to sway the election. It’s almost as if they care more about their candidate than they do with justice. It’s funny how only eleventy billion people have said this in the FOUR DAYS since it happened. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/617 "2016-11-01T19:42:38Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > It’s funny how much Comey was praised by the Hillary supporters when he told the AG not to prosecute yet now he’s trying to sway the election. It’s almost as if they care more about their candidate than they do with justice. I had a quite good opinion of Comey, apparently an opinion shared by the President. I liked how he stood up to Bush/Cheney. I thought maybe, at long last! an honest conservative. I kept that opinion for a while after the report on Hillary. But then I started to think on it, wondering why he thought he was authorized to editorialize on his opinion. Thinking that maybe because the facts would not give the Republican what they wanted, maybe he was trying to give them the next best thing. He wasn’t tasked to determine reckless or careless. He was tasked to determine legal or illegal, prosecutable or no. He took on the role of scold on his own, that was his idea. Still, willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, partly because I have been waiting so long to finally see an honest and impartial conservative. I didn’t change my mind, he changed it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/618 "2016-11-01T19:46:27Z")
This just in: Comey has announced that the FBI is going to open an investigation into Bill Clinton’s sex life. And any emails he may have ever sent or received. No, not really, but I would not be surprised at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/619 "2016-11-01T19:53:16Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > It’s funny how much Comey was praised by the Hillary supporters when he told the AG not to prosecute yet now he’s trying to sway the election. It’s almost as if they care more about their candidate than they do with justice. Actually, I found Comey’s little speech last July to be unnecessary. He could have just told his boss that Ms Clinton should not be prosecuted. Instead, he gave a speech explaining that she had been a \*very \*bad girl. The whole FBI is looking worse & worse, with its obvious political infighting & inability to conduct investigations confidentially. Aren’t there more serious matters threatening the republic? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/620 "2016-11-01T20:24:00Z")
Comey’s testimony to Congress last July was necessary because the AG got caught meeting with Billy boy on a airline runway. I’m sure they had a wonderful talk about the weather. :rolleyes: Making it awkward for the AG or her underlings to absolve Hillary. I strongly suspect Comey got pressured into testifying. That backfired when Comey realized last Thursday that a new laptop full of emails was waiting to be investigated. That laptop couldn’t be ignored. He wasn’t going to be part of a cover up and hide that from the Congress or the public. Even Obama has Comey’s back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950.md?page=32)