O'rly? https://t.co/chrH4AlBli
— WhigsnTwigs (@WhigsnTwigs) May 3, 2017
At a hearing today, FBI Director James Comey testified that Huma Abedin had forwarded a bunch of Hillary Clinton’s emails — some of which contained classified information — to Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Just for Weiner to “print out,” or something:
Comey says Huma Abedin had a regular habit of emailing emails, including classified material, to Anthony Weiner to print out.
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) May 3, 2017
Comey says they have not yet interviewed Weiner. He says Abedin forwarded emails to him to print, but he doesn't think he read them
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 3, 2017
Guess that’s supposed to be good enough for us, because Comey went on to say that the FBI would not be prosecuting Abedin:
Comey said FBI could not prove that Huma Abedin had any kind of criminal intent in forwarding those emails.
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) May 3, 2017
Comey on Abedin: 'We didn't have any indication that she had a sense of what she was doing was in violation of the law.'
— Byron York (@ByronYork) May 3, 2017
Comey says he couldn't prove criminal intent of Abedin forwarding classified e-mails to Weiner for HRC
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 3, 2017
WUT? Comey says Huma had no criminal intent when she repeatedly forwarded classified emails to Anthony Weiner, so no prosectution
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) May 3, 2017
Because of course.
Our intelligence sources say they have "the rules beaten into them" and that if they had done this they would have been prosecuted 4 same
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 3, 2017
I have close friends & relatives who have held / now hold TS clearances (I've only held Secret) – they are furious over this double standard
— Брюс Вебстер (@bfwebster) May 3, 2017
Yeah, well, next time someone tries to tell you that Hillary and her people don’t live under a different set of rules, feel free to mention this.
https://twitter.com/winningatmylife/status/859809489029025793
So only way Comey would indict is if Abedin wrote in email "hey I think we're breaking law" This is absolutely ridiculous app of standard
— CMM (@carolfoxlover) May 3, 2017
This is completely absurd. https://t.co/9DJTadEQCl
— Federalist Musket?? (@Patriot_Musket) May 3, 2017
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Update:
Some food for thought:
Let me tell you what would happen to anybody not named or protected by a Clinton if they’d sent “hundreds of classified emails”… 1/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
… to a non-cleared spouse, via an undisclosed and insecure private server “to be printed” from an unapproved laptop at an insecure site. 2/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
First, the original sender’s computers—all of them—would be confiscated. Once the scope of the transfers was known, everything… 3/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
… in their office or home with a memory—phones, drives, discs—would be seized under court order. Ditto all paperwork, for examination. 4/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
The sender would be arrested on the spot. The receiver would probably be arrested. The admins and owner of the server would be… 5/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
… at a minimum under Federal investigation and in dire danger of arrest. The server and every computer that touched it would be seized.6/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
That’s all in the first week, tops, after authorities found out about the illegal transfer, storage, possession, etc. 7/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
Then things would really get ugly. Everyone involved would be subjected to a full-on espionage investigation. Bank records seized… 8/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
… all travel scrutinized, every document they’d ever touched searched for possible unauthorized transfers. 9/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
The very “best” outcome would be a plea bargain for a few years and a gigantic fine. Lifetime ban from getting a clearance is a given. 10/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
There is No. Way. anyone not protected from on high would survive that with their lives intact. They would be tried, convicted, jailed.11/11
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
An addendum: this doesn’t even touch on how that classified got from either SIPRNet or JWICS (or elsewhere) and onto Huma’s computer. 12/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
Clear implication is that people on Hillary’s staff were copying classified from secure sources onto their insecure phones/laptops… 13/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
… and sending that info over the insecure internet via Hillary’s insecure server to other insecure computers. HUGE violations all over. 14/x
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
Career-ending, freedom-ending, Leavenworth-worthy violations. Comey is just flat out lying about not being able to prosecute them. 15/15
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2017
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