p******n
发帖数: 2449 | 1 有什么阻力吗？这么久了，一个电邮门都搞成这样，怎么调查基金会呢。
人民要正义。 | l*****o
发帖数: 19235 | | p******n
发帖数: 2449 | 3 有阻力吧。DOJ一直给阻力，这种事情比水门大多了。
这是美国最大的政治危机。
但愿早查清楚，这一看就知道怎么回事。
【在 l*****o 的大作中提到】
: 一直在调查吧，早晨NPR说的，说好几条线
| m****n
发帖数: 2415 | 4 FBI一直在查
http://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-linked-to-hillary-clintons-private-server-1477854957
FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe
Laptop may contain thousands of messages sent to or from Mrs. Clinton’s
private server
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As Hillary Clinton reaches the home stretch of the election well ahead in
polling over Donald Trump, new revelations from the FBI's reopening of the
investigation into the Democratic candidate's emails has shifted the race.
WSJ's Gerald F. Seib discusses how the information could impact both
candidates. Photo: AP
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Updated Oct. 30, 2016 7:59 p.m. ET
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The surprise disclosure that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
are taking a new look at Hillary Clinton’s email use lays bare, just days
before the election, tensions inside the bureau and the Justice Department
over how to investigate the Democratic presidential nominee.
Investigators found 650,000 emails on a laptop that they believe was used by
former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife Huma Abedin, a close
Clinton aide, and underlying metadata suggests thousands of those messages
could have been sent to or from the private server that Mrs. Clinton used
while she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the
matter.
It will take weeks, at a minimum, to determine whether those messages are
work-related from the time Ms. Abedin served with Mrs. Clinton at the State
Department; how many are duplicates of emails already reviewed by the FBI;
and whether they include either classified information or important new
evidence in the Clinton email probe.
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Officials had to await a court order to begin reviewing the emails—which
they received over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the
matter—because they were uncovered in an unrelated probe of Mr. Weiner.
The new investigative effort, disclosed by FBI Director James Comey on
Friday, shows a bureau at times in sharp internal disagreement over matters
related to the Clintons, and how to handle those matters fairly and
carefully in the middle of a national election campaign. Even as the probe
of Mrs. Clinton’s email use wound down in July, internal disagreements
within the bureau and the Justice Department surrounding the Clintons’
family philanthropy heated up, according to people familiar with the matter.
The latest development began in early October when New York-based FBI
officials notified Andrew McCabe, the bureau’s second-in-command, that
while investigating Mr. Weiner for possibly sending sexually charged
messages to a teenage minor, they had recovered a laptop. Many of the 650,
000 emails on the computer, they said, were from the accounts of Ms. Abedin,
according to people familiar with the matter.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets a crowd in Pompano
Beach, Fla., on Sunday. ENLARGE
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets a crowd in Pompano
Beach, Fla., on Sunday. PHOTO: JEWEL SAMAD/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Those emails stretched back years, these people said, and were on a laptop
that hadn’t previously come up in the Clinton email probe. Ms. Abedin said
in late August that the couple were separating.
The FBI had searched the computer while looking for child pornography,
people familiar with the matter said, but the warrant they used didn’t give
them authority to search for matters related to Mrs. Clinton’s email
arrangement at the State Department. Mr. Weiner has denied sending explicit
or indecent messages to the minor.
In their initial review of the laptop, the metadata showed many messages,
apparently in the thousands, that were either sent to or from the private
email server at Mrs. Clinton’s home that had been the focus of so much
investigative effort for the FBI. Senior FBI officials decided to let the
Weiner investigators proceed with a closer examination of the metadata on
the computer, and report back to them.
At a meeting early last week of senior Justice Department and FBI officials,
a member of the department’s senior national-security staff asked for an
update on the Weiner laptop, the people familiar with the matter said. At
that point, officials realized that no one had acted to obtain a warrant,
these people said.
Mr. McCabe then instructed the email investigators to talk to the Weiner
investigators and see whether the laptop’s contents could be relevant to
the Clinton email probe, these people said. After the investigators spoke,
the agents agreed it was potentially relevant.
Mr. Comey was given an update, decided to go forward with the case and
notified Congress on Friday, with explosive results. Senior Justice
Department officials had warned the FBI that telling Congress would violate
policies against overt actions that could affect an election, and some
within the FBI have been unhappy at Mr. Comey’s repeated public statements
on the probe, going back to his press conference on the subject in July.
The back-and-forth reflects how the bureau is probing several matters
related, directly or indirectly, to Mrs. Clinton and her inner circle.
New details show that senior law-enforcement officials repeatedly voiced
skepticism of the strength of the evidence in a bureau investigation of the
Clinton Foundation, sought to condense what was at times a sprawling cross-
country effort, and, according to some people familiar with the matter, told
agents to limit their pursuit of the case. The probe of the foundation
began more than a year ago to determine whether financial crimes or
influence peddling occurred related to the charity.
New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin,
attended a news conference in New York in 2013. Mr. Weiner had attempted to
revive his career with a bid for New York City mayor, but that effort was
doomed after a website published lewd photos that he had evidently sent to
another woman. ENLARGE
New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin,
attended a news conference in New York in 2013. Mr. Weiner had attempted to
revive his career with a bid for New York City mayor, but that effort was
doomed after a website published lewd photos that he had evidently sent to
another woman. PHOTO: ERIC THAYER/REUTERS
Some investigators grew frustrated, viewing FBI leadership as uninterested
in probing the charity, these people said. Others involved disagreed sharply
, defending FBI bosses and saying Mr. McCabe in particular was caught
between an increasingly acrimonious fight for control between the Justice
Department and FBI agents pursuing the Clinton Foundation case.
It isn’t unusual for field agents to favor a more aggressive approach than
supervisors and prosecutors think is merited. But the internal debates about
the Clinton Foundation show the high stakes when such disagreements occur
surrounding someone who is running for president.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Mr. McCabe’s wife, Jill
McCabe, received $467,500 in campaign funds in late 2015 from the political-
action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime ally of the
Clintons and, until he was elected governor in November 2013, a Clinton
Foundation board member.
Mr. McAuliffe had supported Dr. McCabe in the hopes she and a handful of
other Democrats might help win a majority in the state Senate. Dr. McCabe
lost her race last November, and Democrats failed to win their majority.
A spokesman for the governor has said that “any insinuation that his
support was tied to anything other than his desire to elect candidates who
would help pass his agenda is ridiculous.”
Dr. McCabe told the Journal, “Once I decided to run, my husband had no
formal role in my campaign other than to be” supportive.
In February of this year, Mr. McCabe ascended from the No. 3 position at the
FBI to the deputy director post. When he assumed that role, officials say,
he started overseeing the probe into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email
server for government work when she was secretary of state.
FBI officials have said Mr. McCabe had no role in the Clinton email probe
until he became deputy director, and by then his wife’s campaign was over.
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But other Clinton-related investigations were under way within the FBI, and
they have been the subject of internal debate for months, according to
people familiar with the matter.
Early this year, four FBI field offices—New York, Los Angeles, Washington
and Little Rock, Ark.—were collecting information about the Clinton
Foundation to see if there was evidence of financial crimes or influence-
peddling, according to people familiar with the matter.
Los Angeles agents had picked up information about the Clinton Foundation
from an unrelated public-corruption case and had issued some subpoenas for
bank records related to the foundation, these people said.
The Washington field office was probing financial relationships involving Mr
. McAuliffe before he became a Clinton Foundation board member, these people
said. Mr. McAuliffe has denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyer has said the
probe is focused on whether he failed to register as an agent of a foreign
entity.
Clinton Foundation officials have long denied any wrongdoing, saying it is a
well-run charity that has done immense good.
The FBI field office in New York had done the most work on the Clinton
Foundation case and received help from the FBI field office in Little Rock,
the people familiar with the matter said.
In February, FBI officials made a presentation to the Justice Department,
according to these people. By all accounts, the meeting didn’t go well.
Some said that is because the FBI didn’t present compelling evidence to
justify more aggressive pursuit of the Clinton Foundation, and that the
career anticorruption prosecutors in the room simply believed it wasn’t a
very strong case. Others said that from the start, the Justice Department
officials were stern, icy and dismissive of the case.
“That was one of the weirdest meetings I’ve ever been to,” one
participant told others afterward, according to people familiar with the
matter.
Anticorruption prosecutors at the Justice Department told the FBI at the
meeting they wouldn’t authorize more aggressive investigative techniques,
such as subpoenas, formal witness interviews, or grand-jury activity. But
the FBI officials believed they were well within their authority to pursue
the leads and methods already under way, these people said.
About a week after Mr. Comey’s July announcement that he was recommending
against any prosecution in the Clinton email case, the FBI sought to refocus
the Clinton Foundation probe, with Mr. McCabe deciding the FBI’s New York
office would take the lead, with assistance from Little Rock.
Director James Comey testified before the House Judiciary Committee in
September on a variety of subjects including the investigation into former U
.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server. ENLARGE
Director James Comey testified before the House Judiciary Committee in
September on a variety of subjects including the investigation into former U
.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server. PHOTO: WIN MCNAMEE/
GETTY IMAGES
The Washington field office, FBI officials decided, would focus on a
separate matter involving Mr. McAuliffe. Mr. McCabe had decided earlier in
the spring that he would continue to recuse himself from that probe, given
the governor’s contributions to his wife’s former political campaign.
Within the FBI, the decision was viewed with skepticism by some, who felt
the probe would be stronger if the foundation and McAuliffe matters were
combined. Others, particularly Justice Department anticorruption prosecutors
, felt that both probes were weak, based largely on publicly available
information, and had found little that would merit expanded investigative
authority.
According to a person familiar with the probes, on Aug. 12, a senior Justice
Department official called Mr. McCabe to voice his displeasure at finding
that New York FBI agents were still openly pursuing the Clinton Foundation
probe during the election season. Mr. McCabe said agents still had the
authority to pursue the issue as long as they didn’t use overt methods
requiring Justice Department approvals.
The Justice Department official was “very pissed off,” according to one
person close to Mr. McCabe, and pressed him to explain why the FBI was still
chasing a matter the department considered dormant. Others said the Justice
Department was simply trying to make sure FBI agents were following
longstanding policy not to make overt investigative moves that could be seen
as trying to influence an election. Those rules discourage investigators
from making any such moves before a primary or general election, and, at a
minimum, checking with anticorruption prosecutors before doing so.
“Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated
investigation?” Mr. McCabe asked, according to people familiar with the
conversation. After a pause, the official replied, “Of course not,” these
people said.
For Mr. McCabe’s defenders, the exchange showed how he was stuck between an
FBI office eager to pour more resources into a case and Justice Department
prosecutors who didn’t think much of the case, one person said. Those
people said that following the call, Mr. McCabe reiterated past instructions
to FBI agents that they were to keep pursuing the work within the authority
they had.
Others further down the FBI chain of command, however, said agents were
given a much starker instruction on the case: “Stand down.” When agents
questioned why they weren’t allowed to take more aggressive steps, they
said they were told the order had come from the deputy director—Mr. McCabe.
Others familiar with the matter deny Mr. McCabe or any other senior FBI
official gave such a stand-down instruction.
For agents who already felt uneasy about FBI leadership’s handling of the
Clinton Foundation case, the moment only deepened their concerns, these
people said. For those who felt the probe hadn’t yet found significant
evidence of criminal conduct, the leadership’s approach was the right
response.
In September, agents on the foundation case asked to see the emails
contained on nongovernment laptops that had been searched as part of the
Clinton email case, but that request was rejected by prosecutors at the
Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn. Those emails were given to the
FBI based on grants of partial immunity and limited-use agreements, meaning
agents could only use them for the purpose of investigating possible
mishandling of classified information.
Some FBI agents were dissatisfied with that answer, and asked for permission
to make a similar request to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to
people familiar with the matter. Mr. McCabe, these people said, told them
no and added that they couldn’t “go prosecutor-shopping.”
Not long after that discussion, FBI agents informed the bureau’s leaders
about the Weiner laptop, prompting Mr. Comey’s disclosure to Congress and
setting off the furor that promises to consume the final days of a
tumultuous campaign. | f***y
发帖数: 452 | 5 一个纽约的三哥在调查。
【在 p******n 的大作中提到】
: 有什么阻力吗？这么久了，一个电邮门都搞成这样，怎么调查基金会呢。
: 人民要正义。
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