Republicans push to re-open Clinton email case after FBI document drop

[Pudfark]

Donald Trump’s campaign and congressional Republicans are pushing to re-open the Hillary Clinton email case – at the Justice Department, as well as in the court of public opinion – in the wake of newly released FBI documents which are fueling claims her team may have destroyed evidence.

The latest call came Tuesday from former New York City mayor and top Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani, who urged the FBI to review its own findings and the department to appoint a special prosecutor to take over the case.

“She acted with criminal intent,” Giuliani said – a charge Clinton’s team denies.

On a conference call with reporters, Giuliani said a special prosecutor should also investigate allegations that Clinton Foundation donors got special access to the State Department during and after Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, which the Clinton campaign also denies.

“I don’t trust the Justice Department to review the pay-to-play foundation scandal or the national security [email] scandal,” Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, said in response to a question from FoxNews.com. “This is [the kind] of case in which attorneys general have appointed a special prosecutor.”

Giuliani specifically has cited FBI revelations that Clinton server emails were deleted using special software and that at least a couple mobile devices were destroyed by being broken in half or hit with a hammer.

Meanwhile, the Republican chairman of the House committee investigating Clinton's email practices asked a federal prosecutor Tuesday to determine whether Clinton and others working with her played a role in the deletion of thousands of her emails by a Colorado technology firm overseeing her private computer server in 2015. The written request by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, asked the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Channing Phillips, to look at whether they illegally destroyed records or covered up evidence.

Clinton and her longtime aide and lawyer, Cheryl Mills, told FBI investigators during questioning they had no knowledge of the technology company's deletions.

In a separate letter, Chaffetz -- the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman -- warned the Denver-based tech firm, Platte River Networks, that one of its engineers who deleted Clinton's electronic files last year could face federal charges of obstructing evidence for erasing the material. That's because the congressional inquiry into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, had issued a formal order to preserve such records.

Despite the Clinton campaign’s bid to downplay the revelations, FBI notes from the investigation and the bureau’s interview with Clinton – released Friday before the long holiday weekend – have fueled Republicans’ criticism of her and her team’s conduct.

Perhaps most striking was a section in the FBI files showing that a Platte River engineer told agents "he believed he had an `oh, sh-t' moment," and deleted archived emails sometime during the last week of March 2015. The FBI report said the engineer used a program BleachBit to delete the files in ways thought to make them unrecoverable.

According to the FBI, Mills had instructed the engineer in December 2014 to delete all emails from the server older than 60 days old. But the engineer apparently forgot to delete the files and didn't realize his mistake until March 2015, the FBI said. That was three weeks after Clinton's email revelation and the House Benghazi committee's order that Clinton and her tech consultants retain all of her email records.

The report said that the engineer "was aware of the existence of the (Benghazi committee) preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton's email data on the PRN server."

On the conference call Tuesday, Giuliani said the new details from FBI lay out “probably the strongest case I’ve ever seen for criminal intent.”

He said the FBI should review its conclusion not to seek criminal charges “for its own good and the sake of its reputation.”

Separately, the Trump campaign on Monday called for the FBI to “make all of the relevant information surrounding the wiping of Clinton’s server public, including witness accounts from employees of Platte River Networks, which carried out the deletions.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09 ... -drop.html

Old Pudfark sez: " When ya first get a whiff of that shit smell, check yer shoes and then yer shorts and if'n ya don't find anything, check yer neighbor. "

[callmeslick]

sure, I'm sure the 53rd investigation will surely find something.

[Pudfark]

Well, the evidence is out there......you should'a wished for a trial. Then double jeopardy would'a applied.

Then again, it's really funny watching you and Hillary trying to cover up that elephant turd....in the cat box.

[Reservoir_Dog]

sure, I'm sure the 53rd investigation will surely find something.

Fer sure!
The repubes are looking to blow another 500 million while they piss into the wind. But don't worry, the tax payers will cover it.

[Pudfark]

sure, I'm sure the 53rd investigation will surely find something.

Fer sure!
The repubes are looking to blow another 500 million while they piss into the wind. But don't worry, the tax payers will cover it.

speaking of cat boxes....along comes R_D with a scratch n sniff....post.