The core of Trumplandia, according to The Guardian, is the anti-Clinton NYC FBI “cabal” (hereafter NYC FBI) ( www.theguardian.com/... ) ( www.independent.co.uk/... ) that threw the election to Trump in late October. Ironically, this secretive group (any subgroup of FBI agents is by definition secretive since that is the Agency culture) laid out key elements of their conspiracy in the October 30th Clinton search warrant application ( schoenberg.com/... ), a heavily redacted copy of which was publicly released in December. Building on an insightful diary ( www.dailykos.com/... ) written by Kos diarist Topdog08 ( www.dailykos.com/... ) just before Christmas, a more definitive conclusion is now possible. Sufficient technical evidence in the 10/30 FBI warrant application exists to leave little doubt that the NYC FBI conclusively knew in early October that the Weiner laptop contained at worst only duplicates of emails relevant to the Clinton Secretary of State email investigation. Further, the FBI itself admitted that it had this early information in its 10/30 warrant application.
If the NYC FBI agents knew on October 3rd ( www.nytimes.com/... ) that the Weiner laptop was irrelevant to its earlier Clinton email investigation, why did they delay releasing this information until the Sunday before the election? Before, we conclude, ‘Politics,duh.’, a much more ominous question emerges from an analysis of the likely NYC FBI Weiner email analytical protocol and the NYC FBI/Trump coordinated campaign activities timeline. Specifically, the NYC FBI’s 34-day staged release of Weiner laptop tidbits coordinated as nicely with the WikiLeaks/Russian campaign intervention as with the Trump campaign’s furious final assault on Clinton’s character. Was this a coincidence or a coordinated three party strategy? First, let’s review the technical evidence and the NYC FBI warrant’s admission of a completed analysis of Clinton/Weiner emails in early October.
TECHNICAL EVIDENCE OF FBI ADMISSION OF EARLY OCTOBER KNOWLEDGE OF DUPLICATE/IRRELEVANT EMAILS ON THE WEINER LAPTOP
***************A brief note on my technical qualifications to analyze the FBI Clinton and Weiner laptop computer activities. While I am no email expert, I have a Master’s degree in Computer Science and thirty years of professional experience building large databases and applying data analytics to them. The FBI’s forensic investigation is rather straightforward and easy to understand. Therefore, I am qualified to analyze and describe it. I have also asked several colleagues with similar systems experience to review my conclusions. They agreed, that the following technical email analysis is reasonable. *******************
Kos diarist Topdog08’s ( www.dailykos.com/... ) December 2016 diary ( www.dailykos.com/... ) is important and should be reread by everyone. Building on that piece, my diary argues that the FBI admissions in the search warrant are strong evidence that the NYC FBI: 1) knew of the irrelevance of the Weiner laptop Clinton emails, 2) knew of this irrelevance on October 3rd, 3) misled the Federal magistrate about the necessity of their 10/30 warrant application and 4) were involved in a conspiracy with the Trump campaign and perhaps other anti-Clinton foreign agents (with or without the FBI’s knowledge).
Much has been written about the legal sufficiency of the FBI 10/30 warrant application ( www.usatoday.com/... ). Those issues won’t be discussed here. Rather, this analysis will be confined to the damning technical details contained in this warrant application.
The admission that the FBI reviewed the email header information when they obtained the Weiner laptop (October 3rd) exists in the warrant which states:
“6. In executing the search of the laptop computer (the Subject Laptop) XXXXXX, FBI agents sorted the emails on the Subject Laptop to segregate emails XXXXXX. As a result, the FBI reviewed non-content header information for emails on the Subject Laptop to facilitate its search. In so doing, the FBI observed non-content header information indicating that thousands of XXXXXX resided on the Subject Laptop. Because XXXXXX emails were outside the scope XXXXXX the FBI did not review the content of those emails.
7. XXXXXX The non-content header information that the FBI agents reviewed on the Subject Laptop indicates that the emails on the Subject Laptop include emails sent and/or received by XXXXXX and at a XXXXXX email account appearing to belong to XXXXXX as well as correspondence between one of both of these accounts and State Department email accounts during and around XXXXXX The FBI’s investigation of the improper transmission and storage on unclassified email systems and servers has established that emails containing classified information were transmitted through multiple email accounts used by XXXXXX including XXXXXX and XXXXXX email accounts.”
Before, we can understand the importance of the FBI’s admission of prior knowledge about the Weiner laptop’s email, we need to review a little technical information on what is contained in an email header. An email header is like an envelope for a letter. It contains the letter so that it doesn’t become mixed with other letters. It displays the to and from address. It may show a reason for the letter, e.g., accounting, to help the recipient properly handle or direct the letter. It also contains postage and a time and date stamp for when the letter entered the delivery system. If these items are put together, they represent a unique identifier for any piece of mail entering a post office box. If one compared two separate photos of the outside of a given envelope, it would not be necessary to look inside a letter to know that they contained identical information.
An example of an email header from my Google account is appended to the end of this diary.
Email headers are composed of keyboard characters, i.e., letters, numbers, and special characters. There is no need to look at computer systems bits and bytes to understand them. They function like the outside of an envelope except they contain far more detailed information. This includes time and date stamped routing information, to/from/reason fields, results of spam scans by the email servers that handled the email, and other relevant software identification (whatismyipaddress.com/... ). It is as if every piece of email contained a unique social security number in its first line. Given this easily accessible information on each email, completing an computer analysis of thousands of duplicate and irrelevant emails would literally take only minutes.
You can investigate your own email headers by going to the following site for instructions: support.google.com/... . You may have your header broken into its component parts by cutting and pasting it into an email header analyzer: ( mxtoolbox.com/... ). This action is similar to the actions of the FBI when they originally analyzed the Clinton private email server emails in 2015 and when they later reviewed the emails on the Weiner laptop (10/3/2016). It takes a fraction of a second to analyze a single header over the internet. Tens of thousands of emails on the Weiner laptop would take the FBI a few minutes to extricate and analyze on the powerful computers they own.
Key points are that email headers are unique and comparing even tens of thousands of them with other email headers to find duplicates or irrelevant documents would take minutes. The FBI warrant states that they already had copies of the Clinton emails in question, including email headers and that their analysis of the Weiner email files commenced on October 3rd.
Further, Director Comey wrote in his 11/6 letter to Congress re-exonerating Secretary Clinton that the scope of the FBI’s determination was based only on emails to or from Secretary Clinton, “Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. During that process, we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton.” www.nytimes.com/...
Based on the FBI’s own sworn admissions and simple analysis of its self-described “forensic analysis”, establishing the irrelevance of the Weiner emails to the Clinton email investigation had to have occurred at the FBI NYC headquarters on October 3rd, within hours of obtaining the laptop. What the NYC FBI was doing for the time between October 3rd and November 6th was more political kabuki than agency investigation.
The FBI’s November 6th letter describing a focused and yeoman’s effort on the Weiner email investigation ignored a NYC FBI pattern of misinformation, disloyalty and duplicity that stretched for 34 of the final 35 days of the Presidential campaign. During this time the NYC FBI was releasing multiple false reports to the media both related to the Clinton email investigation ( www.theguardian.com/... ) ( www.cnn.com/... ) and other Clinton inquiries ( www.vox.com/... ). In this light, the FBI’s deliberately false October/November email leaks on Clinton’s character legitimized the later NYC FBI aspersions about the Clinton Foundation and Mark Rich pardon to make a complete portrait of “Hillary the crook”. The NYC FBI’s smear campaign was: 1) coordinated with the Trumps’ campaign smears, 2) legitimized even the more outlandish Trump allegations and name calling, 3) could not be disproved prior to election day. and 4) very effective.
Given this understanding of the NYC FBI’s rather straightforward and undoubtedly conclusive October 3rd computer analysis of emails on the Weiner laptop, Director Comey’s 10/28 and 11/6 letters to Congress contained obvious fictions:
A. Director Comey’s 10/28 letter contained multiple falsehoods www.nytimes.com/... :
1. Comey wrote, “the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant”. The NYC FBI office knew on October 3rd shortly after the seizure of the laptop that it contained no information relevant to the Clinton investigation.
2. Comey wrote, “we cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work”. The NYC FBI office completed their analysis on October 3rd after about thirty minutes of computer analysis comparing the thousands of emails in their possession for more than a year with those on the Weiner laptop.
3. Comey wrote, “I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation”. The NYC FBI Office knew that the email files on the Weiner laptops were either duplicates of copies they already contained, or contained header/reason field information signifying no confidential material included or were irrelevant to the investigation.
4. Comey wrote, “In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.” The NYC FBI office already knew that the Weiner email files were duplicates or irrelevant and, therefore, not pertinent to the investigation.
B. Director Comey’s 11/6/2016 letter contained additional falsehoods in a continuing charade: www.nytimes.com/...
1. Comey wrote, “Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation.” The NYC FBI Office may have been working around the clock, but they weren’t working on the Weiner emails which they had already determined irrelevant on October 3rd.
2. Comey wrote, “During that process, we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State.”. Here Comey states that this review was always confined to just to/from Clinton SOS emails. This, of course, contradicts all the FBI reports of hundreds of thousands of emails under review. Without any doubt these emails had already been confirmed as duplicates on October 3rd by the NYC FBI Office.
DRIP. DRIP. DRIP. THE NYC FBI/TRUMP STAGING OF THE WEINER LAPTOP INVESTIGATION.
When read in chronological order, the Presidential campaign activities of the NYC FBI, the Russians, and the Trump campaign logically order themselves into a plausible narrative of cooperation. [ A refresher timeline on campaign events in the last five months of the campaign with respected sources is included below in the Addendum, RUSSIAN/WIKILEAKS INTERVENTION IN ELECTION ]
The time between the NYC FBI’s October 3rd completed analysis of the Weiner laptop/Clinton related emails and Director Comey’s November 6th letter closing out the investigation was rich in political coordination. Once the NYC FBI had definitive proof of the benign nature of the Weiner laptop emails on October 3rd, it should have immediately informed Director Comey or the public. This may have created a campaign flare-up, but it would have faded long before election day. Obviously, the Trump campaign did not want this valuable controversy squandered this early.
An analysis of this 34-day delay shows it was composed of several shorter time frames that coincided with significant campaign events/activities. It is critical to note the two relatively long and three short delays where the NYC FBI hid their early October investigative conclusion that Weiner’s laptop contained only duplicates of the Clinton-server emails or irrelevant email items.
To increase the impact of the Weiner laptop findings, the NYC FBI and the Trump campaign needed to maintain the mystery of the emails. They staged the Weiner Clinton email release so that it coordinated with other Clinton attacks and, ultimately, was solved in the last moments of the campaign. Evidence of this is in the string of release delays between October 3rd and the November 6th re-exoneration of Clinton by Director Comey. In short, the NYC FBI could have released their benign findings at any time between October 3rd and November 6th, but they chose delay instead.
The first delay is the time between the October 3rd FBI seizure including same day analysis of Anthony Weiner’s laptop and the NYC FBI agents’ notification to Director Comey on or about October 15th that they might have found in the Weiner case something that could have an impact on the now-closed probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server. This meeting may have been the beginning of a misrepresentation of the Weiner findings to Director Comey himself. For these 12 days NYC FBI staff concealed their knowledge that the laptop contained no relevant emails ( All dates and events are chronologically listed and sourced in the RUSSIAN/WIKILEAKS INTERVENTION section below.).
During this time (10/3-10/15), the NYC FBI and the Trump campaign were keeping their Weiner/Clinton email investigation powder dry to allow other attacks to proceed. Principle among these was the Russian/Wikileaks release of tens of thousands of hacked Clinton campaign emails commencing on October 7th several hours after the Trump sexual assault tape broke. It was clear that the Russian/WikiLeak campaign contingent were carrying the ball at this critical time as thousands of additional emails were posted over the next few days. This provided some distraction from the Trump tape damage and successfully drove a wedge between the Clinton campaign and Sanders supporters. Of course, this Russian intervention was well known and labeled as such by the Obama administration and the Director of National Security (10/7 and 10/8).
Trump himself followed up the Russian/WikiLeaks initiative during the national Presidential debate two days later. Trump also gave an acknowledgement to his campaign’s collaborating NYC FBI agents sitting on their faux bombshell during the second debate when he said, “When I speak, I go out and speak, the people of this country are furious. In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers at the FBI are furious.”) In this one debate, Trump was able to accomplish three important objectives: 1) conflate the Clinton email server SOS emails with the Russian/WikiLeaks Clinton campaign emails, an equivalence that was critical to magnifying the damage of the 10/28 Comey letter, 2) freshly infuriate the Sanders supporters and 3) acknowledge his endorsement of the NYC FBI’s covert campaign role in front of millions and legitimize their disloyal activities as justifiable in his eyes, e.g., the coming President.
The second delay is the time between their notification to Director Comey (‘the Weiner laptop could have an impact’) on October 15, and October 24th, the date that Trump campaign members began to publicly pre-release Comey’s bombshell letter. During this nine-day delay, and the NYC FBI and Trump campaign began to prepare for the information’s release and the Third Presidential debate was held on 10/20. During the debate, emails (leaked and otherwise, a distinction without a difference to Trump) were front and center. "She has no idea whether it’s Russia, China, or anybody else," said Trump, after both candidates called each other puppets.
The third delay was the time between October 24th and the October 28th release of the Comey letter. During this delay, Trump family members (Lara Trump 10/24) and senior campaign staff (Giuliani, 10/25) tipped the press about a big revelation coming shortly. Further, Republican congressional leaders were briefed on the coming FBI letter. Interestingly, Rep. Jason Chaffetz was informed about the faux FBI email bombshell on 10/26 the day before Director Comey was briefed (10/27) by his NYC FBI agents and two days before Rep. Chaffetz himself received the official Comey letter notifying him of the dramatic turn in the case. A not so dramatic notification for Rep. Chaffetz since he already knew about the coming Comey bombshell. This delay gave Rep. Chaffetz time to switch his un-endorsement of Trump back into the endorsement column now that Trump’s electoral success was more likely.
Let’s think about this for a moment. The disloyalty of the NYC FBI was manifest not only in its refusal to follow Agency directives to adopt an apolitical posture in the final months of a campaign. This disloyalty extended to their own Director who was given a misleading Weiner-Clinton laptop briefing, after Republican Congressional leadership were brought into their loop with the actual story of deceit. With the prerelease trailers in the hopper and the end of the campaign approaching, it was time for the NYC FBI to take center stage with the 10/28 Comey letter to Congress.
The fourth delay is the mysterious two-day delay between the 10/28 letter and the 10/30 request for a warrant to analyze ‘electronically stored information on the subject laptop’. On its face, this 48-hour delay was unnecessary. The requested analysis had already been completed on October 3rd and a mostly boilerplate warrant application was likely completed in a couple of hours. This delay may have been necessary to get the NYC FBI closer to the November 6th date where the final Clinton email headlines would be hatched.
The fifth delay was the seven-day period between the FBI’s receipt of the Weiner laptop warrant on 10/30 and the 11/6 release of the second letter from Comey stating the laptop contained nothing new. While there was a constant stream of FBI leaks about the yeoman effort they were making to complete the analysis, this was political smoke covering an already completed analysis. This allowed the NYC FBI and the Trump campaign a final dramatic window to release leaks on the Clinton foundation (11/1), Mark Rich’s pardon (11/1), and supposed coming Clinton indictments (11/2).
Altogether, the NYC FBI withheld exculpatory information on Clinton for thirty-four days while its agents staged a public drama that cast aspersions on a major party presidential candidate at the very end of a two-year campaign. While Democrats and the Clinton campaign were screaming for a speedy conclusion to their investigation, the NYC FBI was pretending to hasten an analysis of hundreds of thousands of emails on the Weiner laptop under dramatic conditions. The FBI’s role in the campaign closed with a crescendo of CLINTON EMAIL headlines on November 6th. This deadline was necessary because the conclusion of the FBI’s faux investigation needed to precede both election day and November 7th. The Russian /Wikileaks/Trump campaign arm released a final spasm of thousands of Clinton campaign emails on November 7th, the day before voting. All of this culminated in a decisive spasm of outrage and election day voting by low information, low interest members of the Republican base across the country.
Once we acknowledge the NYC FBI knew of the Clinton email duplicates in early October, the behavior of Director Comey and his agents in October/November makes much more sense and incites hair raising questions about FBI/Trump/Russian campaign actions. Who was ultimately directing this intricate delayed release public relations campaign: the NYC FBI, the Trump campaign or the Russians? How was the drip by drip release orchestrated? It is clear that there was coordination between the Trump campaign and the FBI ( www.dailykos.com/... ). Current investigations are ongoing about the links between the Russians and the Trump campaign ( www.cbsnews.com/... ).
Although their anti-Clinton actions and goals aligned nicely, there is to date no definitive information on direct coordination between the NYC FBI and the Russians. Nevertheless, the staging of the NYC FBI and Russian campaign activities are like a slow, close dance. Were these disloyal NYC FBI agents simply taking orders from the Trump campaign and innocent of their Russian teammates? Or, did they have suspicions that the early October delay made room for the Russian/WikiLeaks 10/7 Clinton campaign email release and their 11/6 Comey letter set the stage for the penultimate 11/7 Russian/WikiLeaks final Clinton email release? It is, of course, possible that they did not know they were being duped into complicity with treasonous actions by the Trump campaign. It is also possible that the NYC FBI agents duped Director Comey. In the background, the FBI was investigating the Russian election hack itself. While it is possible that the disloyal NYC FBI agents were insulated from this, it represents another question that should be pursued and disposed.
Finally, one must question the role of Representative Chaffetz, the Chair of House Oversight & Government Reform Committee who was read into the NYC FBI/Trump/Russian scheme no later than 10/26/2016 in time for him to re-endorse Trump. Was he aware of the Russian election involvement? Almost certainly. Did he know about the NYC FBI/Trump collaboration? Obviously, since he was briefed by them. Was he aware of three way coordination among the WikiLeaks/Russian contingent, the NYC FBI and the Trump campaign? This is unknown, but is a question that needs to be asked. Finally, how much of this was known to Republican Congressional leadership?
RECOMMENDATIONS
There are two Congressional investigations of the Russian election hack about to commence. A deep analysis of the three-way coordination between the NYC FBI agents, the Russians and the Trump campaign is warranted. Obviously, the FBI should take necessary steps to isolate the NYC FBI from this investigation until all complicity questions have been put to rest. While informed citizens can remain suspicious of such investigations, at least two other investigative lines of inquiry should be pursued: 1) the media, including organizations devoted to investigative journalism, should also focus on these questions and 2) NYC Mayor DeBlasio should establish an independent investigation into the role of NYC police in inciting or supporting the anti-Clinton NYC FBI agents.
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ADDENDUM
RUSSIAN/WIKILEAKS INTERVENTION IN ELECTION
6/14/2016 Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach. www.washingtonpost.com/...
7/22/2016 Wikileaks publishes the first ( 19,252 ) in a series of hacked emails taken from the DNC. The leaks come from seven key figures in the DNC and Wikileaks promises more to come. abcnews.go.com/...
7/24/2016 Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns from her position as DNC Chair amid email revelations that party officials were trying to undermine the candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders. abcnews.go.com/...
7/24/2016 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook tells ABC News that their researchers (Crowdstrike) believe the Russians are responsible for the attack. Dmitri Alperovitch, a co-founder of firm CrowdStrike, told ABC News in June he knew "definitively" that the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, was behind the cyber attack and that he was "less confident in but [had] reason to believe" Russia's Federal Security Service also took part. abcnews.go.com/...
7/25/2016 The FBI announces it is investigating the hack. abcnews.go.com/...
7/25/2016 The Democratic National Convention begins with a DNC apology to Senator Sanders. abcnews.go.com/...
7/27/2016 During the DNC at a news conference at his golf club in Doral, Florida, Trump tells reporters that is Russia is behind the DNC hack that they most likely accessed her deleted emails from her tenure as SOS. “By the way, if they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 emails. I hope they do…Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you are able to find the 33,000 emails that are missing.” abcnews.go.com/...
7/28/2016 During the DNC, Donald Trump in an interview with Fox News clarifies that “of course” he was being “sarcastic” with his comments about Russia hacking into Clinton’s deleted emails. abcnews.go.com/...
8/2016 Podesta has also alleged that Donald Trump ally Roger Stone — and therefore the GOP nominee’s campaign — must have had advance notice of the contents of the WikiLeaks dump. In August, Stone had tweeted, “Trust me, it will soon the Podesta's time in the barrel.” Also in August, in an appearance on Alex Jones’ Infowars, Stone said he had made contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about its then-upcoming release on Clinton and that his computer had subsequently been hacked.
Sept 22, 2016 Prosecutors in the office of US Attorney Preet Bharara have issued a subpoena for Anthony Weiner's cell phone and other records, according to law enforcement officials. The FBI and the New York Police Department have opened preliminary investigations of allegations that the former New York Democratic congressman exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a purportedly underage girl. www.cnn.com/...
September 26, 2016.The first presidential debate occurs. When Clinton mentions the hack, Trump continues to express doubt. "I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China," said Trump. "It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?” www.chron.com/...
10/3/2016 FBI obtains Weiner’s laptop and begins analysis of emails. www.nytimes.com/...
10/6/2016 DC Leaks Publishes some hacked DNC emails. abcnews.go.com/...
10/7/2016 Beginning on October 7, WikiLeads publishes the first in a series of 50,000 emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta abcnews.go.com/...
10/7/2016 Director of National l Intelligence finding on Russian involvement in the election: www.dni.gov/...
10/7/2016 Thousands of hacked emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta turn up on WikiLeaks beginning late Friday. The site has so far released 6,519 out of the more than 50,000 emails it says it obtained from Podesta, meaning that at this rate it could release a batch every weekday until the election and still have more than 12,500 emails left. www.politico.com/...
10/8/2016 Signaling a low-point in Washington-Moscow relations perhaps not seen since the Cold War, the Obama administration on Friday ended months of speculation and blamed Russia for deploying its hackers to meddle with the U.S. election. www.politico.com/...
10/9/2016 The second presidential debate occurs. Again, Trump expresses skepticism: "Maybe there is no hacking. But they always blame Russia and the reason they blame Russia is because they think they are trying to tarnish me with Russia."
www.chron.com/...
10/9/2016 Trump debate quotes “unlike the Bernie Sanders race where you won, but not fair and square, in my opinion. And all you have to do is take a look at WikiLeaks and just see what they said about Bernie Sanders and see what [Democratic National Committee chair] Debbie Wasserman Schultz had in mind, because Bernie Sanders, between superdelegates and Debra Wasserman Schultz, he never had a chance and I was so surprised to see him sign on with the devil.” (Politico, 10/10/2016) archive.is/...
10/9/2016 Trump debate quote includes an admission that he had contact with the disloyal NYC FBI anti-Clinton cabal, “When I speak, I go out and speak, the people of this country are furious. In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers at the FBI are furious. There has never been anything like this, where emails… and you get a subpoena, you get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena, you delete 33,000 emails, and then you acid wash them or bleach them, as you would say, very expensive process.” ) archive.is/...
Mid October 2016 Comey learned investigators in the Weiner case might have found something that could have an impact on the now-closed probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server, according to one law enforcement official. archive.is/...
October 20, 2016 The third presidential debate occurs. "She has no idea whether it’s Russia, China, or anybody else," said Trump, after both candidates called each other puppets. www.chron.com/...
10/24/2016 When Lara Trump [ Eric’s wife and Trump’s daughter-in-law ] was asked by an interviewer on October 24th whether she thought Donald Trump was finished in this election, she bragged that “There’s still a couple days left in October,” making clear that she believed something was specifically coming within the next few days. And if that alone wasn’t incriminating enough, she went on to brag that she knew something would be coming at the end of October because “We’ve got some stuff up our sleeve.” Lara went on to brag that the release would be the nail in Clinton’s coffin. www.dailynewsbin.com/... thehill.com/...
10/25/2016 That morning, Giuliani said, “I think he’s [Donald Trump] got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.” This prediction about Comey’s behavior predated Comey’s supposed own decision by three days. Surprise 1 is the 10/28 Comey letter. Surprise 2 in the 11/6 Comey letter d5cc407ba79f#.4uun6w85b
10/26/2016 Jason Chaffez who unendorsed Trump on 10//8/2016 after Trump’s sexual assault admission on tape, re-endorses him at 9PM telegraphing the Comey FBI Clinton investigation letter to him 36 hours later. twitter.com/...
10/27/2016 The New York Times further reveals that Comey was only briefed about the emails the day before, and they have not yet been closely examined. “A senior law enforcement official said that tens of thousands of emails belonging to Ms. Abedin were on Mr. Weiner’s laptop…” However, “Senior law enforcement officials said that it was unclear if any of the emails were from Mrs. Clinton’s private server.” It is also unknown how many could be duplicates of previously known emails. (The New York Times, 10/28/2016)
10/28/2016 Comey letter is released to Congress containing multiple falsehoods www.nytimes.com/...
10/28/2016 In a representative sample of the press hysteria after Comey upended the election, Carl Bernstein says the FBI’s announcement must mean there is a “real bombshell” in the newly discovered evidence. www.realclearpolitics.com/...
10/30/2016 FBI submits warrant application to investigate Weiner emails to Nathan Fox, Federal Magistrate. Fox approves application that day. www.washingtonpost.com/...
11/1/2016 FBI release material on Clinton Foundation from a long dormant twitter account. www.theguardian.com/... twitter.com/...
11/1/2016 Washington (CNN)The FBI on Tuesday -- one week from Election Day -- released heavily redacted files from its 2001 investigation of President Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. ( www.cnn.com/... )
11/2/2016 The Wall Street Journal reported in the week leading up to the election that unnamed sources told the Journal that the FBI had enough evidence “to begin an aggressive investigation into a pay to play scheme with the Clinton Foundation but were overruled by superiors”. www.wsj.com/...
11/3/2016 The Thursday prior to the election Fox News anchor Brett Baier reported that informed sources had told him that an indictment of Clinton was likely. While Fox eventually walked back the report, Trump himself and the blogosphere lit up repeating this falsehood. While Fox News later backed off the story, it really didn’t matter because it had already helped rev up the right-wing base. money.cnn.com/...
11/4/2016 Trump reports that Clinton is likely to be indicted. money.cnn.com/...
11/6/2016 Comey Second letter to Congress www.nytimes.com/...
11/7/2016 WikiLeaks releases second batch of thousands of DNC emails. abcnews.go.com/…
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