Sigh. Another day, another brain dead unforced error from Mein Furor. There have been several excellent diaries posted reporting on the fact that Orange Julius came right out and asked Russian hackers, or anybody else with the skills to find and recover the “33,000 missing e-mails”. There is only one small problem with this, other than the fact that Der Trumpkopf is trying to undermine National Security.
The problem is that the FBI is not playing along. MSNBC is reporting that the FBI is pushing back on the claim of the 33,000 missing e-mails. They are stating that the majority of e-mails were recovered by FBI teams, analyzed and turned over to the State Department for their analysis.But who needs facts when you’re running a perfect National Enquirer campaign here?
The FBI pushback is not without corroboration. All the way back in September of 2015 the Businessinsider.com reported that;
The FBI has been able to recover deleted emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal server, a source close to the investigation told Bloomberg.
Thgat was in September of 2015, but it didn’t stop there. As recently as July 22 of this year Politico reported that the FBI was sending another dump of recovered e-mails over to the State Department;
In addition to the approximately 2,000 to 3,000 Clinton emails that the FBI found that were not among the roughly 30,000 she turned over to the State Department in late 2014, government lawyers have said the FBI has also recovered emails from Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were stored on the Clintonemail.com system.
According to reporting on MSNBC the majority of the deleted e-mails recovered in 2015 were processed by the State Department, and released under the FOIA request in place. The Politico report also states that the latest e-mails being turned over will also be processed for release under the FOIA order as long as they were not retroactively classified. If the FBI was able to retrieve all those e-mails and forward them on to State, is it too far of a stretch that they also recovered most if not all of the rest of the e-mails, found them to indeed be personal and not business related and not forward them on? I don’t find it all that far out of the realm of possibility.
Don’t get me wrong. It is inexcusable for a Presidential candidate from a major political party to openly invite foreign espionage that will endanger national security. But it’s even worse to invite them to come poking around looking for something that the FBI, who spent over a year tearing that server apart says no longer exists. This two legged stool is freakin’ dangerous!
Thanks as always for reading!