FBI asks to make new secret filing in Clinton email case

[babylonsister]

Why all the secrecy if everything is aboveboard?

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/282454-fbi-asks-to-make-new-secret-filing-in-clinton-email-case

FBI asks to make new secret filing in Clinton email case
By Julian Hattem - 06/07/16 09:31 AM EDT


The FBI has asked a federal judge for permission to file a second secret declaration detailing its probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

In the request, which came as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Justice Department offered for the FBI to provide “additional details” about how it “conducted a reasonable search for records” as part of the open records case and “determined that there were no records responsive.”

“These details supplement defendant’s showing that it conducted a reasonable search, but cannot be disclosed on the public record without compromising information that the FBI seeks to protect,” the department said in a filing late on Monday evening.

The FBI currently has possession of the server Clinton used to run her “homebrew” email setup, as part of an investigation into whether classified information was mishandled.

In a separate filing Monday, the Justice Department refused to detail the nature of the FBI probe connected to Clinton’s machine, except that it was based on a “security referral” from inspectors general at the State Department and federal intelligence agencies.

“The FBI is not required to identify a particular federal statute that it alleges has been violated in connection with the pending investigation, or the target(s) of the investigation,” in order to keep the information secret, it asserted.

The filing would the second secret declaration issued as part of the FOIA lawsuit, which was launched by Vice News journalist Jason Leopold.

The Justice Department did not ask for court approval before filing its first secret declaration earlier this year, prompting outrage from Leopold’s attorneys.

Afterwards, Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the department would not also have to provide a redacted version of the filing for the public.

[LoverOfLiberty]

1. Something tells me

that at this time next year, when Hillary is in the White House, you will still be pinning your hopes on those emails.

[okieinpain]

4. +1 n/t.

[arely staircase]

14. For the next 8 years. Under many different names. nt

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Just give it up for heaven's sake...

[One Black Sheep]

3. The plot thickens...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice;

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton

[grasswire]

11. great quote, thanks nt

[Ash_F]

6. A ticking time bomb under the Democratic party.

[arely staircase]

15. You have evidence of this?

Fuck no.

Have fun for the next 9 days.

[Ash_F]

19. What if the FBI does?

As the other poster wrote, why risk it?

It would not just cost the country the first shot at a female president(as well as tarnish the first serious female run in history) but it will damage the entire Democratic ticket all the way down to the dog catcher.


If you think if it would be bad if they charge the before the convention, imagine if they do it a month before the GE, when it is too late to get another Dem on the ballot in most(all?) states.

This whole mess is certainly not fun.

[Juicy_Bellows]

16. Your point, as of now, can't be proven but why the hell risk it?

Miserable candidate is miserable.

[Faux pas]

7. ...

[larkrake]

9. ditto

[grasswire]

12. I will run a rogue foreign policy and hide it from President Obama.

I will use an advisor that Obama has banned from serving the administration and I will pay him from my own slush fund.


The list goes on and on.

[Scuba]

10. In 2007 Hillary referred to Bush "shredding the Constitution" by using "secret email."

[glinda]

17. thanks

[Octafish]

18. Wonder why?

Wikileaks Release Suggests Stratfor Inside Info Plan with Goldman Sachs Exec

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026131945