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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Am trying to locate the original source in addition to the above; it's up on Newswire, 4-chan & all over Twitter (in fact ALL over the net!) but can't yet confirm... I'm not holding my breath at this stage!

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Quote Posted by KiwiElf (here)
    Am trying to locate the original source in addition to the above; it's up on Newswire, 4-chan & all over Twitter (in fact ALL over the net!) but can't yet confirm... I'm not holding my breath at this stage!
    Were that it is true. And more to come.

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Also this on 4chan (and I can't verify this as being legit either):

    Name:  4chan Podesta arrested.jpg
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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Quote Posted by Cidersomerset (here)
    Nice ring to the headlines though no actual sign yet on the mainstream
    The story is that Tony Podesta's lawyers are working to keep the government from saying anything about this.

    If so, then no doubt that mainstream media would go along with that line as well ... silence.
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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    Quote Posted by Cidersomerset (here)
    Nice ring to the headlines though no actual sign yet on the mainstream
    The story is that Tony Podesta's lawyers are working to keep the government from saying anything about this.

    If so, then no doubt that mainstream media would go along with that line as well ... silence.
    There is absolutely no legal right, nor ethical and moral reason, to keep this quiet. This either happens or it does not. If it happens, then it should and must be made public. Failure to do so, if it happens, would itself verge on criminal conduct.

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Quote Posted by Satori (here)
    Failure to do so, if it happens, would itself verge on criminal conduct.
    I suspect that potentially criminal conduct is not a serious concern of those on the defensive here, nor of those in the mainstream media accustomed to covering for them.

    The defendents in these cases seem to start worrying about the time that their high priced attorneys start making them choose when and where they will be taken into custody.

    The mainstream media covering for them don't seem to be worrying much yet, other than for loss of employment.
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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Considering FOX seem to be the only ones covering "Uraniumgate" - here in NZ included - I'm not surprised. We may just have to wait this one out (I forget; it's still Sunday for many of you folk; it's Monday midday here in NZ already).
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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    Quote Posted by Cidersomerset (here)
    Nice ring to the headlines though no actual sign yet on the mainstream
    The story is that Tony Podesta's lawyers are working to keep the government from saying anything about this.

    If so, then no doubt that mainstream media would go along with that line as well ... silence.
    Last week, Podesta's lawyers threatened to sue Tucker Carlson & FOX News for even mentioning Tony Podesta had stepped down as CEO. Tucker went ahead anyway. As he said, they can't sue us for telling the truth!

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    John Podesta tweeted this 5 days ago:

    Not bad enough that I was the victim of a massive cyber crime directed by the Russian President (1/3)

    Now I’m the victim of a big lie campaign by the American President (2/3)

    Pizzagate crazies: you can keep it up but it’s 100% false. Watch your man Alex Jones grovel and then get a life bit.ly/2zkIq3M


    https://twitter.com/johnpodesta?ref_...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

    Since then, nothing... (his earlier Tweets are... enlightening )
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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    Quote Posted by Satori (here)
    Failure to do so, if it happens, would itself verge on criminal conduct.
    I suspect that potentially criminal conduct is not a serious concern of those on the defensive here, nor of those in the mainstream media accustomed to covering for them.

    The defendents in these cases seem to start worrying about the time that their high priced attorneys start making them choose when and where they will be taken into custody.

    The mainstream media covering for them don't seem to be worrying much yet, other than for loss of employment.
    No doubt. My point was not that they care, but that we should care. I suppose we do, but we do not know what to do about it that would yield any short term positive results.

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Keep an eye on what Kim Dotcom is Tweeting - Very important:

    https://twitter.com/KimDotcom?lang=en

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    "Thread Reader is happy to present
    an unrolled Twitter story with 67 tweets
    #UraniumOne #FusionGPS
    2 days ago
    Profil pricture
    Stealth Jeff
    @drawandstrike"

    URL="https://tttthreads.com/thread/926770966226595840"[/URL]
    Quote 1) This started either before Trump announced his run for President, or soon thereafter. Someone who knew what happened told him.
    2) SOMEONE in the IC, likely military intel, sat Trump down & laid out the entire #UraniumOne bribery scheme.
    3) How all across the breadth of the Obama Administration people in high offices took massive bribes to facilitate sell of uranium to Russia
    4) It involved so many people, it compromised so many agencies, the people who did it counted on it never being exposed or prosecuted.
    5) The lengths to which they corrupted our government offices to enrich themselves by selling out our country virtually ENSURED they'd walk.
    6) People knew but nobody could talk, the people involved in the scheme were at the HIGHEST levels of the American government.
    7) So patriots in our gov't had their hands tied. There was nothing they could do to stop the sale.
    8) Even after SOME of the dirty facts behind #UraniumOne became known in 2015, it was easily buried, ignored, passed by.
    9) Somebody took a chance on Trump. They sat him down, walked him through what happened.

    Ponder the impossible task being revealed.
    10) Even if he WINS the election, he'd be taking over a gov't that had been corrupted & compromised by the previous administration to a
    11) degree that was almost unfathomable.

    HOW do you go about restoring the US gov't to what it should be, instead of what it's become?
    12) And Trump and his advisors came up with a plan.

    A brilliant plan. An intelligence operation based on DECEPTION.
    13) It started during the primaries when Trump began taking every opportunity he could to brag about what GOOD FRIENDS he'd be with Putin.
    14) Trump literally could not seem to SHUT UP about how awesomely AWESOME his relationship with Putin was gonna be.
    15) It became a running joke, a campaign feature, engendering much hand wringing & concern among Never Trumpers, including me at the time.
    16) WHY does Trump keep going out of his way to incessantly BRAG about the sweet, sweet deals he & Putin are gonna do together? 🤔
    17) But go back and look. During the primaries, during the general election campaign, what happened EVERY TIME Trump did this Putin act?
    18) He *literally* trolled all the people who took dirty Russian $ to compromise our nat'l security into ATTACKING HIM FOR IT.
    19) And all HE was doing was TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING HE HADN'T DONE YET and would NEVER really do.
    20) Literally ever single time Trump talked about his good friend Vladimir, Hillary 'reminded' him Putin is...NOT our ally!
    21) Obama condescendingly chided Trump for his friendly talk about Putin. Holder was aghast, Lynch was stunned! etc.
    22) They fell right into his trap. He TALKED about doing deals with a guy ALL THESE TRAITORS TOOK BRIBES FROM TO SELL URANIUM TO.
    23) He's talking about hypothetical deals with Russia & people who took massive Russian bribes on the U1 deal rushed to ATTACK HIM for it.
    24) What possible EXCUSE are they going to have when the truth comes out?

    They're not going to have one. He made SURE of that.
    25) Everything Trump does is calculated for effect.

    So now you know why he showed all that 'Putin-Love' during the campaign.
    26) The traitors had no idea what he was really doing & rushed to attack him for merely TALKING about doing deals with Russia.
    27) Then Trump won the election. He and Sessions went to work.

    Now here's something people overlook or don't understand.

    Pay attention
    28) All this stuff about #UraniumOne we're now just finding out?
    Trump & Sessions knew about ALL OF THIS before they were sworn in.
    29) Part of the intelligence operation Trump & Co. are running is you never show what you know, you keep your enemy in the dark.
    30) Trump & Sessions knew about ALL the details of #UraniumOne BEFORE the election.

    Who got how much, from who, all of it.
    31) How much uranium was being shipped to Moscow, who facilitated that shipping, they already KNOW all of this.
    32) They just haven't TALKED about until now. They PRETEND they are just now becoming aware of some of this stuff.
    33) There was NO WAY they were going to come into office in January & tip all these people off "Yeah hey we're going after #UraniumOne!"
    34) Trump & Sessions know what happened with #UraniumOne. All the dark, dirty details. START with that premise, replay the last 9 months.
    35) You need to start an investigation where somebody deep dives into #UraniumOne BUT you can't let anybody outside KNOW that.
    36) So here's where the second part of the intelligence operation begins.

    You convince people it's TRUMP & HIS TEAM being investigated.
    37) All the traitors who facilitated the #UraniumOne deal were on high alert after the transfer of power. Will they be sniffed out?
    38) Well not to worry. Almost IMMEDIATELY the new President & his team end up being embroiled in a very public scandal.
    39) Trump asks Comey to back off of Flynn, then fires Comey, who leaks memos to the NYT's & DEMANDS appointment of a Special Counsel.
    40) With a President who bragged about doing deals with Russia, an advisor caught on the phone with the Russian ambassador.....
    41) ...everybody AGREES: yeah, great idea! Let's appoint a special counsel to investigate RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE in our election! So be it.
    42) Jeff Sessions then recuses himself from the Russian investigation. [But remember: HE ALREADY KNOWS EVERYTHING ANYWAY]
    43) Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein then appoints Bob Mueller & tasks him with investigation Russian interference in the 2016 election.
    44) MUELLER AND ROSENSTEIN *both* already know that Trump & Sessions BOTH know all the details of #UraniumOne.

    Got that?
    45) Everybody involved in this ALREADY KNOWS. Everybody was in on this from the start. Trump, Sessions, Mueller & Rosenstein.
    47) A lot of scenarios go wrong because they start by assuming Trump was clueless, didn't know any of this, Sessions didn't either or
    48) was part of the #UraniumOne coverup. Same with Mueller & Rosenstein, whom many assume to be dirty, trying to HIDE the evidence.
    49) An intelligence operation based on deception calls for putting the enemy at EASE because they don't understand what you're REALLY doing.
    50) So: what do the #UraniumOne traitors & DNC Media & Democrats THINK has been going on for the last 8 moths?
    51) Trump has been STAGGERING on the ropes in desperate trouble trying to avoid a KNOCKOUT BLOW as Mueller relentlessly stalks him!
    52) The reality? Mueller has been digging even deeper into #UraniumOne & into #FusionGPS & the Trump dossier.
    53) He *has* found Russian interference in the 2016 election.

    Do you know what it was?

    Shall I tell you?
    54) He found a MASSIVE Russian bribery scheme involving 1 of the Presidential candidates in which she compromised US nat'l security.
    55) He *also* found this selfsame candidate illegally funding solicitation of info from Russian gov't sources to smear the OTHER candidate.
    56) And to compound THAT offense, this candidate also tried to HIDE her funding of this dossier by using a law firm, which is illegal.
    57) The investigation is mostly over. Most of the indictments from the grand jury/juries have been made, sealed.
    58) You're all about to witness something that was deemed to be an impossibility.
    59) A previous administration that was so corrupt across so many agencies with so many people involved, it made it invincible....
    60) is about to be rolled up.

    Dozens of people are going to prison. And you know most of the names.
    61) Not until the hammer actually falls & all the indictments are unsealed will most people figure out what Trump & his team did.
    62) DNC Media never had a chance to compromise/thwart the investigation of #UraniumOne & #FusionGPS because they fell for the COVER STORY.
    63) It's literally too late at this point to stop what's coming. That window closed weeks ago.
    64) Examples will be made out of these people. When Trump & Sessions are done, NO ONE will ever try this kind of treason again.

    /end.
    unroll
    40a)...and who briefly for 3 months hired a guy known to be 1 of the SLIMIEST and DIRTIEST Russian-connected people in DC as his manager.
    40b) [of course, now we know after the election it was actually JARED KUSHNER running the campaign behind the scenes]
    Link Here
    40c) while Kelly Anne Conway was handling the public PR & media chores.

    Manafort was brought in as ANOTHER reason to investigate Trump!
    dunno , just found it seemed to address some dots
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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Hi bluestflame - interesting ... all ties in with the earlier 4chan leaks - will you crosspost it here?

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...39#post1189139

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    admin can if they want i'm really befuddled and have heard from a lot of people reporting same deep tiredness that just doesn't go away , many blaming it on " energy upgrades and downloads " but i suspect that's cover to hide the tech interference


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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    LOL Same here - I'm taking frequent "nanny naps" lately with bizarre dreams to go - if you have no objection, I'll copy your post #553 to that thread with credit to you...
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    Donna Brazile Won't Shutup About Seth Rich Server Coverup



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    Hannity: The fix is in with every single Clinton scandal



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    The Democratic Party is in complete and total
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    I found this to be very interesting but do not know if this site is reliable or not.
    https://www.searchquarry.com/namesea...pe=Arrest&type

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    Default Re: FBI quizzes Hillary Clinton on emails 2 July 2016 // Hillary Lied Under Oath.....

    Early draft of Comey statement on Killary email case accused her of being 'grossly negligent' in handling classified info

    JOHN SOLOMON The Hill
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    An early draft of former FBI Director James Comey's statement closing out the Hillary Clinton email case accused the former secretary of State of having been "grossly negligent" in handling classified information, newly reported memos to Congress show.

    The tough language was changed to the much softer accusation that Clinton had been "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information when Comey announced in July 2016 there would be no charges against her.

    The change is significant, since federal law states that gross negligence in handling the nation's intelligence can be punished criminally with prison time or fines.

    Spokesmen for the FBI and Clinton did not immediately return phone calls or emails seeking comment.

    The draft, written weeks before the announcement of no charges, was described by multiple sources who saw the document both before and after it was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee this past weekend.
    "There is evidence to support a conclusion that Secretary Clinton, and others, used the email server in a manner that was grossly negligent with respect to the handling of classified information," reads the statement, one of Comey's earliest drafts from May 2, 2016.
    The sources who had seen the early draft, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said the draft statement was subsequently changed in red-line edits on or around June 10 to conclude that the handling of 110 emails containing classified information that were transmitted by Clinton and her aides over her insecure personal email server was "extremely careless."

    The documents turned over to Congress do not indicate who recommended the key wording changes, the sources said.

    Memos show that at least three top FBI officials were involved in helping Comey fashion and edit the statement, including Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, General Counsel James Baker and chief of staff Jim Rybicki.

    The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday evening sent a letter to current FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding the FBI identify who made the changes and why.
    "Apparently, as of May 2016, then-Director Comey and other FBI officials believed the facts fit that gross negligence standard until later edits were made," Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to Wray in the letter demanding more information.
    While Comey told Congress last year that he would never have prosecuted Clinton without proof she intended to violate a law, the editing of his statement suggests there might have been dissent within the FBI about that decision.

    Sources who had seen the draft said they are certain to renew interest among congressional Republicans into Comey's decision making.
    "The red-line history clearly shows the original statement was designed to allege Clinton committed gross negligence and then someone changed it to extreme carelessness," one source said. "Clearly there was a difference of opinion on the term derived right from the statute."
    When Comey announced the decision to not bring charges against Clinton in July 2016 - shortly after Clinton had secured the Democratic nomination to run for president against Donald Trump - he said agents decided not to pursue criminal charges under the statute because they could not prove she intended to violate laws like the Espionage Act.

    But he harshly criticized Clinton for setting up a personal email server outside the State Department's security apparatus and then using it to transmit classified information.
    "Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of the classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," Comey said at the time.
    "There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about the matters should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation," he said.
    Comey's decision to not to seek criminal charges has been controversial since it was announced, with politicians and legal scholars alike debating whether intent was necessary to pursue criminal charges.

    Section 793 of federal law states,
    "Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer - shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."
    Some legal scholars have argued Comey's analysis of the law was correct, citing a 1941 Supreme Court ruling saying the gross negligence statute was not constitutionally vague as long as prosecutors showed there was "intent or reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the United States."

    But other scholars noted that prosecutions have been brought since the 1941 case in the military courts where intent wasn't required.

    Comey argued in testimony before Congress that while he was aware of the gross negligence statute, he did not believe any federal prosecutor would pursue that standard.
    "I know the Department of Justice, I know no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case. I know a lot of my former friends are out there saying they would. I wonder where they were in the last 40 years, because I'd like to see the cases they brought on gross negligence. Nobody would, nobody did," he said.
    But Comey also conceded in public statements that the FBI also found some evidence of criminality during the email probe.
    "Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case," he explained.

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