Clinton camp panic mode full#

“On the merits, Ms. Clinton erred by using a private email server for her official communications as secretary of state - though as we have previously argued, the matter has been greatly overblown.”īut Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein disagrees: The Washington Post refers to Clinton’s illegal use of a non-government server an error and reminds readers that this whole failure to secure classified documents has been wildly overblown: “People a long time ago made up their minds about the emails,” she said. Hillary spoke with reporters on Friday and tried to downplay the email scandal. When asked about the new evidence Clinton campaign chief John Podesta said, “it’s had to see how this amounts to anything.” Podesta added that “the more explanation that comes out the more overblown it all seems.” In obvious attempts to limit the damage the FBI investigation may do to Hillary’s campaign, her staff and the media again collude to soften the blow. Loretta and Huma are team players so it’s unlikely that’s going to happen.

FBI agents cannot investigate, much less release to the public, the evidence until either Huma gives them permission or the DOJ issues a search warrant. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is holding back a search warrant for the evidence the FBI has found. The tactic has two main objectives: Make Comey appear to be hiding something and to make Hillary appear to have nothing to hide – except, the DOJ and Huma Abedin are hiding lots of somethings for Hillary. The media, Clinton’s campaign staff, and others repeated the call for the complete and immediate release of the new evidence. And so we call on Director Comey to explain everything right away,’ Hillary said and that Comey needs to “put it all out on the table.”

Clinton camp panic mode full#

‘Voters deserve to get full and complete facts. Hillary immediately came out and demanded that Comey must release everything he’s found. I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record.” Comey should reveal everything immediately (even though we’re preventing it behind the scenes…) “We don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. To suddenly reopen the case and fail to inform Congress may have opened him up to perjury, lying to congress or a multitude of other legal dangers.

Comey had previously informed Congress that he was no longer investigating Hillary. The spin-meisters also attack Comey for having informed Congress of the reopened investigation. Imagine the fallout if he had sat on this new, possibly criminal, evidence until after the election and voters ignorantly went to the polls and put a to-be-indicted Hillary Clinton into the White House? Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new charges against Bush in the Iran-Contra probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a “culture of corruption.”Ĭomey, in an FBI memo, not only stated that the timing was an issue, but that it is THE issue.

That’s because 24 years ago, as former President George H.W. In fact, the Clintons piled-on when a special prosecutor raised charges against Bush the weekend before the election: In fact, it’s not just strange it is unprecedented and it is deeply troubling.” Hillary Clinton said at one of her lightly-attended rallies.įirst, it’s not unprecedented. “It is pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election. The next task is to portray Director Comey’s letter to Congress as a partisan hit job by attacking the timing of the announcement. When that tactic fails, O’Malley then redirects the criminality to the server and Weiner. Wholly spin-crafting Batman! Why Now Mr. O’Malley stunningly tries to make the case that the FBI isn’t doing a criminal investigation as if the FBI does any other kind of investigating. Tucker: “The front-runner in this race is under criminal investigation by the FBI.” Failed democratic candidate for president Martin O’Malley went on Sunday morning talk shows to argue that the subject of the FBI’s investigation is a server and/or Weiner, but not Hillary.