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1. HRC private email server investigation 2. Clinton Foundation investigation 3. Anthony Weiner investigation It's a very long story, so I won't tell it in c
by gragas 10y ago
1. HRC private email server investigation
2. Clinton Foundation investigation
3. Anthony Weiner investigation
It's a very long story, so I won't tell it in complete detail.
It all started back in 2012 when the US Embassy in Benghazi (in Libya) was attacked and four Americans were killed. At this time Hillary Clinton was the US Secretary of State. Her political motives were to make her tenure as Secretary of State a successful period for US-Middle East relations. Around this time, the Arab Spring was in full bloom around the Arab world. Egypt, among many other countries, was essentially in the midst of a revolution. For months leading up to the Benghazi incident, the US Ambassador to Libya and other members manning the embassy called for increased security. Hillary Clinton failed to ever call in reinforcements, despite repeated pleas.
But that's not the crux of the Benghazi story. Immediately after the attack on the Embassy took place---an attack which killed four Americans including the US ambassador and other foreign service officers--Hillary Clinton and her close friends (I'll refrain from using the word crony just yet) told the world that a video in Egypt incited the violence before talking to any officials. There are now-public emails from Hillary Clinton to her aides in which they discuss how to spin the attack to make it look like it wasn't her fault while the attack was still taking place. This, of course, is outrageous. "At the behest of the CIA, top U.S. officials initially described the attacks as the results of a spontaneous protest triggered by recently released anti-Muslim video."
So, in the following weeks after this whole incident took place, a committee was formed by the House to look into the matter and determine if there was any wrongdoing. This was called the House Select Committee on Benghazi. You can find all of it---and many really good trimmed versions---on YouTube. [Here's one of my favorites](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1jeJmeeMjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1jeJmeeMjs). You can also read the final report of this committee. They essentially found, and you can determine this for yourself, that HRC and her aides are extremely evil and unethical, and deliberately committed what many deem to be atrocities to her country. There wasn't enough evidence to prove that her misconduct caused the deaths of four Americans. But there was more than enough evidence to prove that she committed extremely unethical deeds all in the name of political gains. I really wish everyone would watch the House Committee before voting, because it really shows how much of a corrupt psychopath (she has no empathy or remorse) Hillary Clinton is, and that's not even the tip of the iceberg.
But here's the best part: during the House Committee's investigation, they discovered that HRC was using a private email server. So, being thorough investigators, they asked for all her emails. This is when shit really started to hit the fan. HRC and her cronies knew that they had a bunch of extremely illegal/corrupt emails on her server (including some from President Obama). So, Hillary being Hillary decided to delete all the emails---33,000---which she determined the committee should not see before turning over the rest. This obviously led to outrage and spun off into investigation (1). That investigation was led by James Comey, the director of the FBI.
Just a few weeks ago, James Comey recommended to US attorney general Loretta Lynch that HRC should not be prosecuted on the grounds that: although what she did displayed extreme incompetence and ignorance, no intent to break the law could be established. The main question of the investigation was: did she or did she not send and receive classified information on a private server. The answer is yes, she did. Numerous times, in fact. Nonetheless, Comey stated that no intent could be established. This was very controversial. Democrats praised Comey for weeks.
Then, just last week, Comey announced that the team investigating Anthony Weiner for child pornography---investigation (3)---stumbled upon uninvestigated HRC emails. Why did Anthony Weiner have these emails? Because he was married to Huma Abedin, who is Hillary Clinton's Cheif of Staff. Huma had used Weiner's laptop to communicate with Hillary. Even though she deleted many emails on her own device, she forgot that the auto-sync feature was enabled on Weiner's device before she divorced him. This left Weiner with more than 650,000 of Huma's emails. But wait! There's more! There are many leaked emails (from the Podesta leaks) which show Huma responding from Hillary's email address. So there is much speculation that Huma could have been signed-in as Hillary on Weiner's device. This means that the notorious 33k emails from investigation (1) could still be on his laptop! And the FBI now has all of them!
You might be wondering how investigation (2) comes into play. Investigation (2) was unknown to the public until a few days ago, when an FBI assistant director said in an interview that there is currently a separate third team that is investigating the Clinton Foundation. So all in all, here's a really brief timeline:
A few years ago: investigations (1) and (3) are opened.
A few weeks ago: FBI director James Comey formally closes (1).
Just last week: FBI director announces that information (650k emails) pertinent to investigation (1) were discovered by the investigation (3) team. During a news interview with a top FBI official about the reopened case, the official stated that a third team---investigation (2)---was investigating the Clinton Foundation.
I tried to be as brief as possible. There is much more to this story. All of it is extremely damning to Hillary and her pals. I wouldn't be surprised if she is arrested before 2017.
- sanswork 10y agoWhat I don't see what any of that has to do with "undermining the democracy and freedom of the American people". That is the part I was hoping you could clear up.