FBI Director Comey to make statement, 11AM ET - Updated, no charges.

UPDATE:

Comey:

"No charges are appropriate in this case."

ZeroHedge

As previously reported, over the weekend the FBI interviewed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, one of the final steps in the ongoing criminal investigation into alleged mishandling of classified information. While it is unclear if related to that interview or not, in just over one hour, at 11 am Eastern time, FBI Director James Comey will make a statement from headquarters in Washington D.C.

He will also take questions from reporters.

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Comey at 11:17 a.m.

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-H/T to Wavey Davey

we're gonna have to get used to hearing that...

he is gonna make mince meat out of the "careless" parts of the report.

Will be curious to see if anyone will still vote for her?

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How can anyone vote for a politician who can't pass a security clearance?

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That there is nothing to see here - we should all move on -I don't know... Maybe go shopping!

Hoping no, but will not be surprised to hear that while the FBI took the task seriously, they were able to find Nothing, folks!

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Moriarty. Negative waves....

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
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...some Sandlot.

My message to Comey:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pag7vpOmr08]

Boo on me for my blatant sexist misogyny. BernieBro and such.

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Nail her to the wall!

I really need some good news today.

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Shit or get off the pot. And it better be a potful of indictment, because you know goddamn well she's a criminal and YOU CAN PROVE IT.

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LapsedLawyer's picture

that couldn't jail any of the big bankers. Given $Hillary is in with the big banks, I expect she gets the same courtesy.

Of course, this'll now tarnish Barry given Bill's mile-high-club visit with Loretta Lynch, so it looks like the fix was in all along.

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so I figure it this way: if the Lynch episode on the tarmac was a truly unscripted Bill moment and Obama knew nothing of it beforehand, HRC is indicted.

If we find out later it was planned well in advance, then the fix is in and she skates. And Obama shoots his legacy to hell, but it won't matter because we'll all be screwed anyway.

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The Clinton Foundation will now fund the construction of his LIEbury, and the people around the University of Chicago who oppose its construction there can all go to hell.

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(assuming you're in Chicago? That oppo is a pretty big deal there, from what I've heard)

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Left Chicago long ago, but still have ties there. The Daleys will take care of the opposition to the LIEbury.

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"Ok, Loretta. Today you just say you'll accept whatever the FBI recommends. Then Next Tuesday Comey will recommend no charges. We only need to know your swiss bank account number." Hahahha.

Kidding of course, that could never happen in a Just World.

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Bill: LOL you crack me up. oooh scary, the media's gonna get me. Boo! ha ha ha

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IIRC. Just because the police departments are racist doesn't mean the police officers are racists, ya see how that works?

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I don't see how it works, but I understand that it does work Wink

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Justice."

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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck

While hidden in the White House, is Hillary guilty or not guilty? It's impossible to know.

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The only other alternative is a clear indication of indictment or not.

What will be interesting is if he makes any remarks indicating that Hillary endangered national security, just not in a criminal way, should the statement be one indicating no indictment.

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How can you endanger national security and not be a criminal? Come on Comey! Do the right thing!

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The DOJ would be making the announcement with Comey. Comey has no authority as FBI Director to indict, only the DOJ has that authority.

So unless Lynch or a Deputy AG is at the press conference there will be no announcement of indictment.

What he will have to say at this point I have no idea.

He could say that:

1) FBI is not recommending an indictment against Hillary
2) Announce a timeline re: when his report will be ready.
3) Announce that he has submitted FBI's report to DOJ and it is now in their hands.
4) Who knows?

One thing I can say with confidence is that he will not announce any indictment himself. He doesn't have that authority.

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Can he announce that he is recommending an indictment?

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

Anything short of an indictment is the beginning of the end.

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it's the beginning of the end. Just depends on whether it's the Democratic Party... or us.

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The DemoRat (spelling very, VERY intentional because it IS full of rats) party HAS no future now.

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OLinda's picture

Would it be for Comey to announce the results of the investigation? Wouldn't it still go up the chain? Lynch, even though she has said she would accept it, still has to accept it. Then, she would make an announcement?

Don't know what other subject it would be.

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Redstella's picture

The sealing of it was Bill visiting Lynch and talking about the grandchildren. I am waiting too, but really it is already over..

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

He is announcing that he will not be making a recommendation and will leave it up to Lynch, who as we all know is leaving it up to him so basically there will be no one to indict her and no one to leave fingerprints on that decision

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Steven D's picture

He will either announce that he will be making a recommendation at some future date, or that he isl not recommending an indictment.

His job doesn't allow him to say we are not recommending an indictment, we're just giving our info to DOJ and letting them decide. That is the equivalent of saying there is no recommendation to indict which lets Lynch of the hook, as she has no reason to proceed without a recommendation from the investigating agency.

For one thing, DOJ lawyers have been working with FBI agents on this investigation. Though they won't write the report, he has relied upon those attorneys regarding the legal issues involved in the case and they were likely involve in each of the interviews, including the HRC interviews. But they are not in charge of the investigation - Comey and the FBI are the investigating agency. So, if the FBI makes no recommendation it is game over.

The other thing that might happen is that he may say there is no rec for an indictment on charges related to the server and the emails regarding espionage law, but that the investigation into other matters (i.e., the possible pay to play involving payments to Clinton Foundation) is ongoing.

Admittedly this is all speculation.

My best guess is that this will be a nothing burger today. After all, the HRC interview concluded only July 2nd.

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It should be plain based on the last few days of E-Mail Kabuki Theatre.

Last Act: Clinton/Lynch Tarmack meeting
Lynch hasty 'interview' with Jonathan Capeheart(less)
Says she will follow recommendation (because she already knows no indictment)
POTUS campaigns with HRC in NC
Comey announces no indictment

Its just coincidence, right?

There was never a chance that she was going to be indicted.

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thought my own disappointment over the loss of "Hope & Change" was the worst - this is the closing act and none of us are invited to the theater.

Worse than corrupt - EVIL.
The only way out is to DEFEAT them.
DEFEAT them.
CUT THEM LOOSE ( that's Bob Herbert speaking, years ago, oh why didn't we listen!)

Bernie or Bust.

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Calm, Cold, Coordinated Refusal. This is our only play now.

Call your Congress-critter and let them know about it. Refusal for
HRC and anyone who supports her.

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OLinda's picture

10 minutes.

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reflectionsv37's picture

but I guess I can stay up for another 10 minutes. Seems very, very strange that this is top news on major news stations. Makes me wonder what this is all about. Tendering his resignation? Or no indictments. Seems to fast to announce indictments are recommended. Guess we'll find out in couple of minutes.

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I wish I'd gone to bed!

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"Update on investigation."

Will tell what they found and what they are recommending.

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What we did, what we found and what we recommend.

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He already said she deleted several thousand work related emails.

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no evidence they were deleted for wrong reasons. Not intentionally deleted to hide, but in normal upkeep of email.

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It's odd the way he keeps phrasing things and putting in "outs" for Clinton.

What happened to just presenting the facts and not speculating on what her motives were?

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This has to be indictable, right?

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OLinda's picture

Any reasonable person... should have known ... no place for that conversation.

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Sounds pretty scathing so far.

"extremely careless," etc.

basically, political powers won't allow us to anything about this, but there's plenty of really fucked up shit about this case.

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FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
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Would NOT be planning to appear with her today

She will get a mild tongue lashing.... And that's about it

And a recommendation that future SOSs will be forbidden to use private servers ever again

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and that she should have known better in her position than to have such conversations on a private server.

I should have just waited to read a summery, this is killing me trying to read him, lol! He is a tough one to get a bead on...

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gained access to Sec. Clinton's personal email account.

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"No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case" - Comey

[Edited to show that was a direct quote.]

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Redstella's picture

Unreasonable prosecutors, if Comey is an example of a reasonable one.

What this country needs are new prosecutors - incorruptible ones.

We are so screwed.

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Is there a better link? the one in the OP is laggy and broken, advertisement seems to freeze up the whole thing

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

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for you. The blockquote is all that was said. It was just an announcement of the presser with nothing known at the time. Probably on a lot of news pages now.

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This is such bullshit. Tell the people in jail that no prosecutor would bring charges.

Guess Bill's meeting did the trick.

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Right.

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whom Comey basically called incompetent, is a fucking idiot.

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Alphalop's picture

Trump.

Brace yourself for 4 years of a Trump presidency and lets get to work on 2018/20.

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I had a TS/SCI clearance. If I had done what Comey said Clinton did, with even one piece of TS information, I would be in jail.

Tool.

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you'd lose your job and be ineligible for any position requiring the handling of classified material - like, of I don't know, the Presidency?

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and don't people who go to work for the State Department get oriented on how to handle classified material so that "extreme carelessness" doesn't happen?

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Except, I think I said, 'prison.'

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Leavenworth, in fact.

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she fucked up, but because of her position, and because people like Barack Obama received email that they should have known it was from an unprotected source if it was from her, she gets to skate.

Fucking wrong.

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Short version: "Hellery acted stupidly, but not criminally."

It was interesting that Comey made the point that Hellery and her lawyers took active steps to delete email evidence in such a way that it could not be recovered. That should help with Hellery's Trust Issue.

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Anybody who can't recover data from a server that hasn't been ZeroWiped multiple times, is just not trying. We know damn well that outside agencies (outside the country, even) were quite successful in said recovery. Just hope they let us peons know what they found out! Blum 3

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have power. "No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case." What about the Foundation?

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such a case" after a 30 minute meeting with the former President sitting on the ramp in Phoenix on a hot summer day.

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Not surprised. But every time they prove again how totally unfair and hierarchical our justice system is, I get pissed. And this time I'm unbelievably pissed.

ANYONE else doing this? Pretty sure they'd be in jail. Oh, but she said she didn't intend to do anything bad - well then! (Don't most criminals say that? Are we going to take them all at their word now?)

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I walked out of the room when he said "no reasonable prosecutor..."

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any FBI recommendation. Case closed. Everyone go back to the business of looting the taxpayers.

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Lenzabi's picture

He looks pained as he goes through the babble on video

No intentional misconduct? that is a HUGE out for Killary, but he seems to indicate she and her staff were incompetent. So great, the dems are gonna force a Idjit as presidential candidate down our throats.

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

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"Clinton Extremely Careless" "Should have known better" etc. etc.

Then clips of her admitting to all her "Mistakes" like her Iraq war vote.

It's gonna leave a mark.

She is an incredibly weak candidate trying to achieve something that has only happened TWICE in the Democratic party since the 1830's, winning back to back terms.

The last 4 out of 5 possible attempts failed.

The Democratic party is about to consign itself to the Dust Bin of history alongside the Whigs.

But it's gonna take some work to make it happen on our part too.

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to happen at strategic point in this election. Comey admitted that it is almost a certainty that skilled hackers (ie nations) could have gotten into her servers with no residue left behind.

Putin may yet exact his revenge. Hahaha.

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