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FBI says not enough interest in Clinton probe...
PacMan
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/29/fbi-lack-public-interest-emails-justifies-withhold/
I'm completely beside myself (I do know better) about this. This is total BS at the highest level in (what's supposed to be) our government. Clinton has our military blood on her hands and I want her and everyone held accountable. This is BS from the FBI and our government. I'm sick of this crap!
Best part of this is we can't do a damn thing about it.
So son/daughter, you want to serve our today's military....
C&P
Hillary Clinton?s case isn?t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI?s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury.
Ty Clevenger has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal attorneys disbarred for their handling of her official emails during her time as secretary of state. He?s met with resistance among lawyers, and now his request for information from the FBI?s files has been shot down.
?You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public?s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,? FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.
?It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public?s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA,? Mr. Hardy wrote.
Mrs. Clinton, is the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, former chief diplomat, former U.S. senator, and former first lady of both the U.S. and Arkansas.
Her use of a secret email account to conduct government business while leading the State Department was front-page news for much of 2015 and 2016, and was so striking that the then-FBI director broke with procedure and made both a public statement and appearances before Congress to talk about the bureau?s probe.
In the end, the FBI didn?t recommend charges against Mrs. Clinton, concluding that while she risked national security, she was too technologically inept to know the dangers she was running, so no case could be made against her.
The FBI says it will only release records from its files if a subject consents, is dead, or is of such public interest that it overrides privacy concerns.
Mr. Clevenger said he thought it would have been clear why Mrs. Clinton?s case was of public interest, but he sent documentation anyway, pointing to a request by members of Congress for an investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton perjured herself in testimony to Capitol Hill.
?I?m just stunned. This is exactly what I would have expected had Mrs. Clinton won the election, but she didn?t. It looks like the Obama administration is still running the FBI,? Mr. Clevenger told The Washington Times.
?How can a story receive national news coverage and not be a matter of public interest? If this is the new standard, then there?s no such thing as a public interest exception,? he said.
The FBI didn?t provide comment Tuesday when asked how it balances public interest versus privacy in open-records requests.
Seeking to clear up any confusion over the level of public interest, one person forwarded to The Washington Times a petition started on the White House website to demand release of the documents.
?The assumption made by Mr. Hardy that such a release is not in the public interest is invalid and the FBI should immediately release these documents,? said the petition, started by user ?C.S.?
I'm completely beside myself (I do know better) about this. This is total BS at the highest level in (what's supposed to be) our government. Clinton has our military blood on her hands and I want her and everyone held accountable. This is BS from the FBI and our government. I'm sick of this crap!
Best part of this is we can't do a damn thing about it.
So son/daughter, you want to serve our today's military....
C&P
Hillary Clinton?s case isn?t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI?s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury.
Ty Clevenger has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal attorneys disbarred for their handling of her official emails during her time as secretary of state. He?s met with resistance among lawyers, and now his request for information from the FBI?s files has been shot down.
?You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public?s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,? FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.
?It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public?s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA,? Mr. Hardy wrote.
Mrs. Clinton, is the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, former chief diplomat, former U.S. senator, and former first lady of both the U.S. and Arkansas.
Her use of a secret email account to conduct government business while leading the State Department was front-page news for much of 2015 and 2016, and was so striking that the then-FBI director broke with procedure and made both a public statement and appearances before Congress to talk about the bureau?s probe.
In the end, the FBI didn?t recommend charges against Mrs. Clinton, concluding that while she risked national security, she was too technologically inept to know the dangers she was running, so no case could be made against her.
The FBI says it will only release records from its files if a subject consents, is dead, or is of such public interest that it overrides privacy concerns.
Mr. Clevenger said he thought it would have been clear why Mrs. Clinton?s case was of public interest, but he sent documentation anyway, pointing to a request by members of Congress for an investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton perjured herself in testimony to Capitol Hill.
?I?m just stunned. This is exactly what I would have expected had Mrs. Clinton won the election, but she didn?t. It looks like the Obama administration is still running the FBI,? Mr. Clevenger told The Washington Times.
?How can a story receive national news coverage and not be a matter of public interest? If this is the new standard, then there?s no such thing as a public interest exception,? he said.
The FBI didn?t provide comment Tuesday when asked how it balances public interest versus privacy in open-records requests.
Seeking to clear up any confusion over the level of public interest, one person forwarded to The Washington Times a petition started on the White House website to demand release of the documents.
?The assumption made by Mr. Hardy that such a release is not in the public interest is invalid and the FBI should immediately release these documents,? said the petition, started by user ?C.S.?
Comments
Don't spend too much time reading the Moonie times. You'll go crazy.
Not on Blaze, CNS, Drudge, or Breitbart, it is probably fake news.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
The Clintons will not have to pay for their criminal activity. Neither will the guy born in Kenya . They are all untouchables , and above the law.
The truth is they could live very comfortable and gifted lives while still doing their duty to the American people, but that's not enough. They want complete power and control, as well as extreme wealth.
A major problem is that they are all corrupt . Likely wouldn't have but a handful of these SOB's left in Washington if they were made accountable for their crimes.
The Clintons will not have to pay for their criminal activity. Neither will the guy born in Kenya . They are all untouchables , and above the law.
The truth is they could live very comfortable and gifted lives while still doing their duty to the American people, but that's not enough. They want complete power and control, as well as extreme wealth.
That's why piss off nationalist have to go after all you make trouble for the rest of us while we consolidate our two party system into The NWO. It all started with 9/11 on a grand scale and will not end until the 1st and 2nd amendment get eerr modified by The United Nations!
serf
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/26776-after-charlottesville-un-demands-u-s-quash-first-amendment
We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,? said Anastasia Crickley, Chairperson of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in a news release.
In a decision issued under its 'early warning and urgent action' procedure, the Committee, which monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, stated ?there should be no place in the world for racist white supremacist ideas or any similar ideologies that reject the core human rights principles of human dignity and equality.?