As reported moments ago, in what appears to have been a surprise release, the FBI's Vault twitter account released 129 pages of files related to the FBI's 2001 probe into Bill Clinton's 2001 pardon of Marc Rich.
And while NBC reported that the files were released as part of a normal subpoena, the increasingly paranoid (not without reason) Clinton campaign - and many others - immediately had questions. According to Politico, "Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign raised questions about the timing of the FBI’s release Tuesday of records on a 15-year-old investigation into President Bill Clinton’s pardon to fugitive financier Marc Rich."
The FBI posted the 129 pages of records in its online Freedom of Information Act reading room in apparent response to a FOIA request seeking information on FBI inquiries into the Clinton Foundation. On the website, the release was dated Monday, but an FBI Twitter account flagged the new posting at noon on Tuesday.
As Politico adds, the Clinton campaign, which is already at odds with FBI Director James Comey over his disclosure of new evidence in the Clinton email probe, immediately questioned why Clinton-related records were being released just a week before the election.
“Absent a FOIA litigation deadline, this is odd. Will FBI be posting docs on Trump’s housing discrimination in ’70s?” Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon asked on Twitter.
Absent a FOIA litigation deadline, this is odd.
Will FBI be posting docs on Trump's housing discrimination in '70s?https://t.co/uJMMzX6rtI— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) November 1, 2016
When reached by Politico, spokespeople for the FBI and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to questions about whether there were any lawsuits seeking the newly posted material or whether a judge had set a deadline for its disclosure.
Despite the lack of major revelations in the documents, which constitute only a part of the FBI’s files on the inquiry, the atmospherics in the records are unhelpful to the Clinton campaign. The records repeatedly refer to the probe being handled by the “Public Corruption Unit” and make clear that the FBI was examining claims that Denise Rich’s Democratic Party “donations may have been intended to influence the fugitive’s pardon.”
“It appears that the required pardon standards and procedures were not followed,” the internal FBI memos said.
Indeed, the request for a pardon for Marc Rich and his business partner, Pincus Green, did not go through normal channels at the Justice Department but was sent directly to the White House. However, presidents are free to grant executive clemency outside the Justice Department channel and many presidents have done so.
The investigation was eventually handed off to Comey, who was White's successor as U.S. attorney. Comey elected not to seek any charges in the case.
So purely a coincidence? Or an internal message sent from FBI staffers, and if so addressed to whom: Clinton or Comey?
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For those who missed it, this is what we reported previously on the mysterious appearance of the 129-page, heavily redacted FBI document:
FBI Unexpectedly Releases Documents Related To 2001 Probe Into Clinton Foundation
Update: According to NBC's Tom Winter, the FBI Vault twitter account "released all files pertaining to Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, a few weeks ago. That was response to FOIA" and adds that "the release of WJC FBI files was sent by the FOIA office under normal guidelines. A proper requested was made -Pete Williams rpts.... The account, @FBIRecordsVault started tweeting several days ago after not tweeting for a year. The first tweet.... about Fred Trump's files." And now, it is tweeting about the Clinton Foundation.
NBC News: The release of WJC FBI files was sent by the FOIA office under normal guidelines. A proper requested was made -Pete Williams rpts.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) November 1, 2016
And then, the following choice piece: "the young federal prosecutor who ultimately decided not to charge Clinton or anyone else in "pardongate"... James Comey."
Is it time for Comey to come clean?
And the young federal prosecutor who ultimately decided not to charge Clinton or anyone else in "pardongate"... James Comey. https://t.co/1bTnFvmH9K
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) November 1, 2016
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In what appears to be an unexpected, and very surprising, disclosure, moments ago the FBI released 129 pages of heavily redacted records from its 15-year-old investigation into the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton's 11th hour pardon of financier Marc Rich (less than a week before the election).
William J. Clinton Foundation: This initial release consists of material from the FBI's files related to the Will... https://t.co/Y4nz3aRSmG
— FBI Records Vault (@FBIRecordsVault) November 1, 2016
According to the FBI, "this initial release consists of material from the FBI's files related to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. The bulk of these records come from a 2001 FBI investigation into the pardon of Marc Rich (1934-2013), aka Marcell David Reich, by President Clinton in 2001; it was closed in 2005. The material is heavily redacted due to personal privacy protections and grand jury secrecy rules."
The commentariat is, in a word, shocked by what this symbolic, and impromptu release means, with some wondering if it is payback for Clinton’s blasting of the FBI.
A day after #HillaryClinton blasted the @FBI, the bureau releases 129 documents from it's 2001 probe into #BillClinton's Marc Rich pardon https://t.co/HacetE5OY0
— Tom Fitzgerald (@FitzFox5DC) November 1, 2016
A cookie for anyone who can offer a cogent defense of the timing here. https://t.co/paRuAQePTf
— Dara Lind (@DLind) November 1, 2016
Some are even calling it the first November surprise:
November surprise https://t.co/F3aTy1IEoe
— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) November 1, 2016
As the Washington Examiner notes, it was not immediately clear what prompted the FBI to publish the files Tuesday. However, the bureau posted the documents on the section of its website dedicated to records released through the Freedom of Information Act.
Is this the FBI engaging in a covert mutiny against the Clintons and the political affiliated Department of Justice? We hope to find out soon.
The full document is shown below:
Remember the recent .gov’s hysteria about the METADATA, how legal and how gewd it is to keep us all “safe and secure”?
Well, while the FBI is searching the contents of Huma’s 650,000 e-mails, how about checking the Metadata too - which IP addresses have been used to access the mailbox HumaAbedin@yahoo.com.
Even without the NSA’s Data Warehouse in Utah, Yahoo, according to its Compliance Guide For Law Enforcement, keeps the information about all Login IP addresses for 12 months (page 5).
I betcha, that mailbox has been accessed from the Saudi Embassy in DC at least once a day, every freaking day for the last twenty years, since Huma had started working for the Clinton Cartel.
Looney
"Clinton campaign questions . . . "
WTF!!!??? is a question and I imagine that was the first one they had.
The proverbial wheels coming off the cart?
makes blaming this on the russians pretty difficult. obvious all these are homegrown leaks
Exactly. They hate her, they hate Comey. She shits all over the Secret Service members every day, she wipes her ass with the law. These people know an evil law breaker when they see one, and she left a long trail of evidence for them to chew on.
Hillary is much like Icarus
If you replace the Sun with a Toilet Bowl, that is.
"I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this message" Cackle cackle cackle
I've said it before and I'll say it again: We're likely seeing a deep state civil war.
HUMA is a spy for the Saudis and the internal FBI knows this and is going to serve both HUMA and Hillary some good old fashioned JUSTICE!
mahmood
The Clinton Crime Family demands what? What authority do they have?
The American people demand Huma release her emails to and from The Mosslim Brotherhood and Saudi tearrists.
And to the Race card, nice attempt to deflect but a Fail Hillary, your team is on the defense and America couldn't be happier.
What's this world coming to when even David Duke is a zionist stooge. http://bit.ly/2fCe2IA
I'm moving to mars.
Me to venus.
Interesting Cuban's network running a "profile" called Citizen Trump right now. I'm sure the timing a week before election is merely coincidence.
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@ Cheap,
Best be sure this is about BENGAZI & arming, training, funding & creating I CIA SIS / ISIS out of Al CIA duh / Alqueda via the 28 pages straight to The Kingdom of SA Wahabbi Scum Fuck Crypto Zionist's.
Look what I saw in August:
Vote up!
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0 Chris Dakota bamawatson Aug 15, 2016 7:56 PMI looked at Huma's chart to see what I could and all over it is sexual attraction to Hillary. Huma's Sun/Moon/Venus on Hillary's Pluto/Saturn/Mars.
Im certian they do S/M sex.
disgusting
Huma however is going to be caught in a big lie and disappearing something. If I knew her birthtime it would be clearer.
Im thinking its a movie...movie, movie, movie came into my head.
And look at this leak from NYPD
All of the following information was given to us by our insiders who have specific first-hand knowledge of the Hillary Email scandal. It seems that things are about to heat up. We are told that of the 662,871 emails lifted from Weiner’s computer, 11,112 emails are Huma… and pay to play- including Saudis and Israeli’s. Meaning Huma was the one Hillary USED to communicate with foreign leaders via email for inside information and deals via Huma’s computer.It has been established through many avenues, but mainly through Wikileaks, that the Clinton Foundation was just a farce set up in order to perform Pay-to-Play games with multiple entities, including foreign nations. Pay-to-play nations include: Israel, Saudis, Turks, Qatar, kazakhstan, and the Ukraine. An NYPD insider said the content they viewed did include State Department TOP SECRET emails. One file was called “Life Insurance”. The second email was titled “DNC Nuclear arsenal”.
There is no doubt, none at all, that ISIS is a CIA frankenstein, and while a Qatari pipeline was never going to be built in a failed jihadi state, preventing one by Iran surely helps Israel.
http://www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala130914.htm
https://www.sott.net/article/282900-Former-Al-Qaeda-commander-ISIS-and-A...
I would hope that no one responsible at CIA be arrested and go to trial.
I prefer they be hunted down and killed in their own kitchens.
You guys should give me my due and apologize for ridiculing me about astrology.
I told you a year ago pluto mid capricorn (now) that all the masks come down and these who run the world shall be mocked, howled at and eventually destroyed.
Its happening!
Yeah Chris, I've been meaning to ask - what is the source of your astrological knowledge? I know you once mentioned you found it in an old book. Can you mention the title?
I've always been skeptical but I remember back when it came out that Nancy Reagan was into astrology. There always comes a time when you just have to acknowledge that the weird shit simply does not go away. We can try and ignore it and pretend it is a one-off or whatever - and then it happens again. The weird shit simply does not go away. Sooner or later we have to admit that ignoring evidence is no way to run an investigation.
Thanks for throwing the occasional spanner in the works. Keep us on our toes. Errr, that was supposed to be a compliment, not a back-handed one. Hope it came out right. Keep it coming. Thanks.
You do understand, I hope that the gravitation force falls off as the inverse square of the distance between two bodies I hope. That means the force of any planet or moon is so small that it can have no effect on a human body mass. That's why we ridicule and will continue to do so any "astrological explanation" of anything involving a human size body mass. Now of course, an earth size mass is influenced by the gravitation of other planets and moons.
Superstition is still superstition, whether organized (religion) or not (pagan).
Speaking for myself, I know the science, I know the maths (statistics, positive re-inforcing feedback loops et al), I know the psychology eg confirmation bias ... I guess I'm just a sucker for punishment with too much free time on his hands.
I will tell you that the weird shit does not simply disappear. I hope you get to experience this at least once in your lifetime (but if it only happens once then you will simply write it off as a fluke). Needless to say, we should chase down the scientific explanations first, including the use of mysticism as a cover for more mundane explanations but I, for one, ... well, in language you could understand, I guess I just have too much free time on my hands.
In regards to the greater mysteries, such as Astrology, whatever "it" is, Gravity has nothing to do with "it".
Astrology is like Statistics. It will tell you anything you want if you spin it hard enough.
Personally, I prefer the Magic 8 Ball, especially when it tells me "signs point to yes."
Update:
I just asked the Magic 8 Ball if the Cubs will win the World Series...
"it is decidedly so."
True, most astrology and other mystic crap is exactly as you describe. But the residual remains.
I appreciate getting your astrological comments from time to time. It's not the kind of thing I would vote up or down, however. So far, our ideas of science are those that arose from observation of the material world. The friend who mentioned gravitation is stuck at that level. If we ever get a top-down view of the material world as an aspect of the world-psyche -- and we should in the next century or so -- we will get a proper idea of the place of astrology. The late great A K Ramanujan, professor of South Asian studies at Chicago, once took an American friend to one of the special astrological centers one can go to in India and ask about one's fate. Since they know your're coming, your document is ready in advance. The American friend was read his fate, and at the end the priest read out, "The subject is sitting with his legs crossed. He should uncross them now." I agree with graviation friend. It is causally incomprehensible. So maybe we should look for a deeper level of understanding than space-time-causation?
Hillary meets with Black Lives Matter leader, notice her stealth fist.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hillary+meets+black+lives+matter&biw=192...
The same group that marched in NYC chanting "Kill the Pigs"
so NYPD is the the one to take her and the rest of them down.
The cosmic laugh~
Will they investigate Trump for housing discrimination? Maybe- did someone pardon him with the exchange of a bribe?
If not, then shut the fuck up, Hillary camp.
That all you got- really????
The class action against many landlords that Trump was caught up in during the 70s is more relevant now than who the Clinton Crime Syndicate sold favors to in the last decade because many of those voting for Clinton were actually still alive in the 70s.
if Trump ever discriminated against black people, he was most likely discriminating against poor people, which makes him a snob, not a racist
I'm Brian Fellon/ows?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3EBKOMCQg
Pure shit for brains, chief.
Shit. For. Brains.
I think you mean "actually were alive".
"actually still alive in the 70's" does not indicate that they are still alive today to vote.
Er, wait. Democrats. Their votes are counted in five POTUS elections post mortem. Supernatural delegates.
The stupidity never ends.
exactly,,,,DNC has evidence that 45 years ago, Mr. Trump rented to people based on their financial ability to actually pay rent.....which today, has been deemed discriminatory. lol
Ya think?
After all, this is Merica.
Justice only in the movies
Humarous, maybe. Hillaryous, definitely!
how ironic is it.....that the criticism coming out of the Clinton camp is about the "timing" of the FBI release.
Let me interpret.
"I thought we (the republican fraternity and the clinton sorority) had an "agreement" to protect eachother when it got close to elections....and fight after the election to make ti appear that there's two clubs.....when there's really only one"........the corrupt Washington Club
Anyone notice how much worse the corruption is since Women entered politics?
Just sayin'.
Fair observation, though I can't say if I agree.
For the nay-sayers, let me offer a couple of plausible, yet "innocent", explanations:
1. Women are new to this, so haven't quite learnt to cover their tracks as well as the men.
2. Experienced men are putting women up front to use as a shield - if anyone accuses her then we'll just call them "sexist", just like anyone who accuses a non-white is automatically declared "racist". And I'm quite sure there are many plans in place to promote poofters to powerful public puppet positions so their accusers can be declared "poofterist" and so on.
3. Roughly speaking, deep down women still expect men to "open doors" for them. They might have the power to nag their boyfriends into ignoring evidence and logic, but all the other men in the world never put up with that crap. For all you feminists out there, there is a reason why in an older post I drew similarities between Hillary Clinton and the character Amelia Jane from the Enid Blyton book series. At least Amelia Jane was actually caught and punished, but then the other toys felt sorry for her and comforted her. Any male parallel to that action in any form ever?
4. So few women in power that any amount corrupt stands out like dog's balls - a statistical anomaly. But it is not just one corrupt woman, it is several. Hence the reason for eb's comment. I wouldn't agree until I did a proper statistical analysis.
I'm thinking the first two explanations as most likely, and in that order, followed closely by the third.
I think its her dim wit husband they are more concerned about.
That's really interesting. I've been trying to wrap my brain around the shitstorm and the only explanation is a total deep state breakdown. Either somebody lived that should have died or somebody didnt pay or get paid.
I disagree. I think it's law enforcement finally having enough. They know what's going on, they see through the bs, and have been powerless to do anything about it. Now, they are recruiting the American people to do something about it by putting it all out there. Now it's up to the people to make sure this happens the right way.
IMO, it's more of a matter of too many chiefs and not enough Indians. The deep state is too big for there to not be competing interests, and now that things are getting rickety when it comes to finances and with corruption being the norm, there are bound to be some real knock-down drag-out fights.
@ El Vaquero,
Spot on. At the highest compartmentalizations levels the Criminal Alphabet Agencies are Criminal. It's the NSA Vs. CIA.
However, in the case of the Criminal FBI. There seems to be lower level Agents which may have a Soul/s.
They don't trade Intel. And, there's No missing, deleted emails. They all have it. In one form or another.
Today was a VERY Historic Day, time to rejoice. Spread the word !
http://thevictoryreport.org/the-hillary-clinton-takeover-of-the-united-s...
For sure, if this were truly the mafia, there'd be dead bodies everywhere. And it may still end up that way before the story's fully written.