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New Secrets Revealed From Clinton Probe

<p class&equals;"p1">42 redacted FBI documents reveal how the agency mishandled the Clinton email investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Several of the&nbsp&semi;documents were deemed &ldquo&semi;grand jury material&comma;&rdquo&semi; revealing how serious of an investigation it was&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">However&comma; the former FBI director James Comey shut down the probe first in July and then reopened it in October for a short time before announcing its official close&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">It looks like Obama&&num;8217&semi;s Justice Department and Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s camp made it very difficult to conduct the investigation&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;One redacted exchange reveals a back and forth subpoena response to the FBI from one of Mrs&period; Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s private attorneys&comma; Katherine Turner&comma; a partner at Washington DC powerhouse firm Williams &amp&semi; Connolly&period; In the document&comma; Turner agreed to turn over one of Mrs&period; Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s non-secure Apple iPads and two of her BlackBerrys to the FBI&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes <em>Fox News&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">However&comma; most of these devices were never handed over&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;We are presuming there are still 13 devices at issue&comma;&rdquo&semi;said Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Clinton allegedly used or instructed her aides to use non-secure BlackBerrys to answer government-related emails&period; Some of these BlackBerrys were order to be destroyed by Huma Abedin in 2013 after Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal&&num;8217&semi;s email was hacked&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Clinton did hand over two BlackBerrys and one iPad six days before her Benghazi hearing in 2015&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Another unusual occurrence referenced is Cheryl Mill&&num;8217&semi;s involvement and why she was allowed to be in a the FBI interview&comma; even though she was a potential witness&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;Mills&comma; who was Clinton&rsquo&semi;s chief of staff and counselor at State&comma; received immunity for her cooperation into the email investigation was permitted to be in the room while Clinton interviewed by the FBI in July 2016&period; Comey would later admit publicly that he had never heard of a potential witness representing the subject of an FBI investigation to be present during an interview with investigators&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes <em>Fox News&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Another Clinton aide&comma; Attorney General Loretta Lynch&comma; who was Comey&&num;8217&semi;s boss at the time&comma; suspiciously met with Bill Clinton on a tarmac in Phoenix&comma; Arizona during the investigation&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Lynch was short and cold when Comey pushed for the reasons for their meeting&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">In a <em>New York Times<&sol;em> article from April&comma; it states the one of the FBI documents gave the account of an &&num;8220&semi;Democratic operative who expressed confidence that Ms&period; Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">In late June&comma; the Senate Judiciary Committee said they were looking for evidence proving that Lynch intervened&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Lynch&&num;8217&semi;s spokesman said that she would &&num;8220&semi;cooperate fully with this inquiry and respond directly to the Senate Judiciary Committee&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Ultimately&comma; Comey said that Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s team was &&num;8220&semi;extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive&comma; highly classified information&&num;8221&semi; and dropped the investigation&period; 22 emails were not released because of their &&num;8220&semi;top secret&&num;8221&semi; nature&comma; but Clinton didn&&num;8217&semi;t see the need to keep these exchanges on a secure server&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">But&comma; then Comey turned around and purposely leaked classified memos about the Russia investigation to the media&period; He admitted to this after he was fired&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media&period; That is so illegal&excl;&&num;8221&semi; tweeted Trump&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">It&&num;8217&semi;s safe to say that Comey has proven time and time again that he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t follow protocol&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Because of how poorly managed the Clinton investigation was&comma; there has been an outcry for the new administration to do an audit&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;They &lpar;the FBI&rpar; were played by Mrs&period; Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s lawyers and didn&&num;8217&semi;t care&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Fitton&period; &ldquo&semi;The Trump Justice Department needs to audit this mess and figure out if the Clinton matters need to be reopened or reinvigorated&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">In the recent FBI dump&comma; 325 pages have been cited as &&num;8220&semi;total deleted pages&&num;8221&semi; and the readable 42 pages have 177 redactions&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p2"><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> We need a fresh set of eyes on the Clinton email investigation&period; Likely there&&num;8217&semi;s case that can be made to&nbsp&semi;prosecute Clinton&comma; but it just needs to be properly uncovered&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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