BREAKING: Hillary has an email problem.
Ya know, there’s a decent chance this is already baked in to people’s minds. Today, like yesterday, this race is between the qualified woman with a history of email problems VS. a wholly-unqualified man with a history of misogyny, race-baiting, sexual assault and shady business practices. Those that were against her will be like “See?! See?!” and those that are for her will be like “Nothing to see here” and the increasingly-shrinking populous on the fence very well may jump to Trump’s side. But it’s possible that at this point those people don’t matter as much as they think they do.
It does change the media narrative for a while, which is why the Trump campaign and Republicans have been so giddy. But for better or worse, the narrative is largely driven by eyeballs and clicks, so the question is whether this topic is baked-in so much that people just aren’t interested enough to truly take the focus off Trump’s heinousness between now and Election Day.
Way ahead of you, I do expect the Republicans to waste a lot of time, money, but also political capital in their quest for the white whale in a reckless impeachment effort.
CBS is not a foreign outfit BTW. And you keep forgetting that not all voters are for Trump, even when the emails were much prominent in the radar of the voters.
BBC is not CBS, fyi. And CBS still doesn’t get a vote.
Anyway, she’s asking for the FBI to just spill the beans already which is the way she should go.
eta: And it’s already over. Wow she really doesn’t like press conferences.
On viewing a fuller image of the letter, it appears to have also been addressed to the ranking Democrat on the various committees. This is fairly standard practice, I believe, so as not to turn something into a political football.
Just as a couple of random side notes, the markets reacted badly today to the news; the S&P which was doing well earlier was sent plummeting and though it recovered somewhat it closed down almost 7 points. Trump may pretend to be “Republican” but the markets don’t seem to look favorably on lunatics having an increased chance of winning the Presidency. Imagine how markets would react if the idiot actually won the election!
The question also sometimes arises why dang furriners like me, a Canadian, are interested in US elections. One obvious answer is that it’s enormously entertaining. The other answer is hinted at by the following factoid I just happened to hear on the news: if Trump is elected and implements even a fraction of the trade policies he’s talking about, estimates are that it will cost Canada some 700,000 jobs, and given the bilateral benefits of NAFTA, the impacts will probably be equally bilateral, or worse.
After a few hiccups, Canada has just finalized CETA, the trade agreement with the EU, so that may offset much of the impact as trade benefits flow between Canada and the EU while the US languishes in TrumpLand. But the fact remains that a Trump victory would be enormously negative up here in almost every measurable way, even if the moron doesn’t start a global conflict that vaporizes all of us.
I don’t know how many times I have the will to tell you it doesn’t matter what you want to call it. OK, "America was shocked to find out today that the FBI has started compiling a new supplement to its email investigation ". Go back to sleep everyone, Gigobuster and CBS assures you it’s only a supplement!
So, according to the AP, it’s got nothing to do with Clinton’s server -
And according to NBC, these emails weren’t withheld from the previous investigation:
So, you know - tell us again why it was so desperately important to Comey to put everyone on blast today about how he’s going to investigate something about “emails to Hillary” but he can’t give us any details or even promise that it’s important.
Whatever you call it, they were done looking into things and now aren’t done because they have new things to look into. But I really don’t think they’ll find anything that they want to take action on. I expect it’ll be more yawnfest like the wikileaks ones. But that may just be my e-mail fatigue showing. And that doesn’t mean it can’t hurt her when it comes time for people to vote.
And this isn’t from her server and she’s not the sender for any, right? Any indication she’s a recipient or just Huma? I mean, do we have any idea how these are connected to her at all?
I was indeed referring to you not having your way on this silly item, give it up, I was indeed talking about CBS and the BBC among other media outlets. Your retort about the BBC would had been accurate if I had cited just them. But you were wrong. Just as it is missing about that “supplement” word that is clear that was very important.
I prefer to be more accurate than falling for cheap spin by the Republicans in congress that have a reason to be so misleading. If a lot of media are mistakenly reporting this, it is clear that it is because of the pressure of the Republicans that are demanding that the media “be fair”. But it is very hard to think that are serious when the Republicans are the ones using speculation as fact.
Several people seem to have said this, but I don’t know where they got it. Certainly not from Comey’s letter. Is it really so hard for you guys to imagine that HRC sent an email, or lots of emails, from her private server to Huma and that when the FBI was digging through Huma and Anthony’s device, they found some email(s) from HRC? Perhaps some of the ones she declined to turn over because her lawyers deemed them “private”?
I asked because I’d heard other people say so and wanted confirmation about it. I didn’t make it up whole cloth because I refuse to believe Clinton would send any emails to Huma.
Do you really need an example? I have no idea what’s in those emails, but it isn’t impossible that something could be really damaging to Hillary while not originating on her server. For example:
From: Huma
To: Hillary
Subject: Disposal of sensitive data
Hi, Hill. Just wanted to let you know that Sidney took care of those ‘extra’ emails, and we are assured that there will be no way to tell that the messages were scrubbed after the subpoena date…
Heck, they don’t even have to be sent to Hillary to be a problem. A letter from Huma to Sidney Blumenthal asking that he make sure that records were wiped properly could do it.
Of course, none of us have any idea. This could be a big deal, or nothing. My intuition tells me that if this looked innocuous the FBI would not risk making a big deal out of it right before an election. There would have to be at least a suspicion of new damning material. But maybe it was just Comey following his reporting requirements and there is nothing there. And in 2016, it appears that anything is possible, it’s the Year of the Jackpot, apparently. (Heinlein Reference)
It is not hard for me, because it can also be easily said that perhaps they are just as mundane as many others. Or that they are also ones that needed to be classified after the fact.
Certainly Comeys’s letter also did not mention anything different regarding what was found already about Clinton’s handling of the emails. In a way I do think that since the investigation was not really closed (meaning that the original spin about “re-opening” was wrong to begin with) the point to not miss here is that as part of the overall investigation Comey and the FBI decided that there was no reason to recommend a Clinton indictment. The point here is that since the investigation was really ongoing the big chapters were already revealed as far as Clinton goes.
Because this is, so far, a supplement. One has to realize that this is, as far as the letter reveals, mostly a continuation of checking emails that should had been clasified and how to prevent this issue in the future.
