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Chapter 10 delves into Comey and the Clinton emails. The first sentence starts with - "I HAVE NEVER MET Hillary Clinton, although I tried." 5 words capitalized.

I've gone through quite a few books and the only other book that does this is Bourla's thriller "Moonshot."
Which has 4 words capitalized.

Page 450 in Fauci's book "On Call" he says that he has worked 54 years.
4/5= Bill Gates.

Speaking of Billy why is he selling his yacht for specifically $645 million? I can see the 69 and the connection to his age.-

https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/real-estat...-for-645m/

#645 Jan 29, 2018 11:47:54  No. 80
JC Tweet Translation.

Here's Comey's dog comms.

https://x.com/Comey/status/1062853932576321538

Timestamp 4:44 P.M.  Nov. 14, 2018.

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Comey felt it was very odd that Hillary Clinton would not meet him when he became the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.  It's very odd how he just dismisses events and actions by people.

I'm currently on the fence if he is really unable to connect the dots. It is an obvious no brainer that if his office was investigating Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive oil trader Mar Rich and his partner Pincus Green, that Hillary may be actively avoiding him.

Comey thought that there was some serious weirdness around this. 

First pardoning a fugitive had never been done before. Bill had bypassed the DOJ and went through Eric Holder who was Deputy Attorney at the time.

There was no input from prosecutors or agents who knew the ins and outs of the case.
It doesn't help that Marc Rich's ex-wife made contributions to Bill's Presidential library.

Mary Joe White [another link to #459] opened up a case to investigate this. Comey inherited it from her.

Just guess- he of course closed the case. Nothing to see here.

Now for the Clinton emails.

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Hillary Clinton emails.

Some real oddness here. The FBI case was opened July 10, 2015.

"As with hundreds of other investigations, the case was opened at the FBI far below my level, and I learned about it when my deputy director briefed me on it."

Wut? Someone of her status and he's the last to know?

Comey says the facts are straight forward:

"For the first few months of her tenure, she had used a personal AT&T BlackBerry email address before switching to a Clintonemail.com domain." < Comey never questions why she switched.

"The criminal investigation was NOT , his bold- centered on the fact that Secretary Clinton decided to use nongovernmental email to do her work."

"Our investigation required us to answer two questions.
1. Whether classified topics were discussed outside of a classified system.
2. If so, the second question was what was Clinton thinking when she mishandled that classified information."

How can anyone possibly prove what she was thinking.

They discovered 36 email chains that discussed topics that were designated as Secret. The Secret designation meant "that could cause serious damage to national security."

There were 8 that were Top Secret- which is "exceptionally grave."

"What was she thinking when she did this? Was it sloppy or was there criminal intent? Could we prove that she knew she was doing something she shouldn't be doing?"

We should keep in mind how he treated Martha Stewart.

They named the team investigating the emails Midyear Exam. So off they went searching for a smoking gun email- someone telling her that doing this was wrong.

Now this may just be me but this 20 + team was not vetted in any way as to what their political position around this was.  The team may have been very skewed to favor Hillary and influence the outcome.

Page 172*- "But in early 2016, there was a development that threatened to challenge that effort significantly: 

A DEVELOPMENT STILL UNKNOWN TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO THIS DAY.  AT THIS TIME, WE WERE ALERTED TO SOME MATERIALS THAT HAD COME INTO THE POSSESSION OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. THEY CAME FROM A CLASSIFIED SOURCE- THE SOURCE AND CONTENT OF THE MAATERIAL REMAINS CLASSIFIED AS I WRITE THIS. HAD IT BECOME PUBLIC, THE UNVERIFIED MATERIAL WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE BEEN USED BY POLITICAL OPPONENTS TO CAST SERIOUS DOUBT ON THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S INDEPENDENCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE CLINTON INVESTIGATION."

Consistent theme I am seeing is that there is no attempt to verify the information.

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Comey and Lynch had a meeting and they had to deal with the fact that the public knew that the FBI was conducting a criminal investigation into the Clinton emails, but up until this point they had refused to confirm this.

The plan was for him to finally confirm this on October 1st and Lynch agreed, but than told him to call it a "MATTER" rather than an investigation. The Clinton Campaign was pressuring different people to use semantics to downplay the seriousness.

July 23, 2015 the NYT published a story that the FBI was considering opening a criminal investigation. The Clinton team pushed back hard and forced the NYT to walk back the story, now changing "criminal referral" to "security referral".

Oddly Comey points out that he did not contact the NYT to validate their initial story.

Obama also plays a starring role as he waded into the affair. By going on 60 Minutes and then on Fox News claiming that her actions were careless- Comey notes- 
"If the president already decided the matter, an outside observer could reasonably wonder, how on earth could his DOJ do anything other than follow his lead."

After examining all the evidence Comey was considering using the term "GROSSLY NEGILIGENT", which he than sites a 1917 law dealing with this.

"One part of that 1917 law made it a felony if a person 'through gross negligence permits [classified] material to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed."

According to Comey she didn't fall under this so we know how this ended.

Why wasn't a special prosecutor outside of the political firestorm appointed? Oh I know, I just like to ask it.

Now for the deleted emails. Originally there were 60,000 emails and her lawyers provided half to the FBI and then deleted the rest.
This just made matters worse because the FBI Midyear Exam team  now wanted the lawyers laptops. Of course the lawyers refused because they had other clients information on them. A dodgy crowd- now its potential violation of attorney- client privilege.

Comey could see that this was dragging out things much too long and raised the specter of the Special prosecutor to his boss Sally Yates. Amazing what that threat did. Suddenly poof, they got access, but to what exactly?

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Chapter 7
CONFIRMATION BIAS  Page 100-
It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure [that just ain't so]

This chapter deals with "Torture".

In April 2004 stories and pictures surfaced of prisoner mistreatment at Abu Ghraib and this was just 6 months before the presidential election.

Jack Goldsmith, the head of their "Supreme Court" [Office of Legal Counsel] was still working out the final details of NSA's surveillance program legality and now this came up on the radar.

We have the same legal issues that occured with Stellar Storm. "He had completed his analysis and knew that the Justice Department's opinions could not stand. As with the Stellar Wind program, he found that the earlier legal work supporting the interrogation program was deeply flawed. And as in Stellar Wind, he believed the agency was going beyond even what the flawed opinions allowed."

"Someone had leaked a classified draft of the DOJ guidance on torture." 

The CIA also had black sites where they were operating clandestine operations where they also engaged in serious torture. "In the summer of 2002, the CIA turned to the DOJ to determine the limits of what they could do, legally, while interrogating these suspected terrorists in their custody."

[Page 101 has a line on the bottom of the page.]
 
"After the 911 attacks the CIA wanted to use coercive tactics to get captured Al Qaeda leaders to turn on other terrorist leaders..."
Addington, the one responsible for Stellar Storm, once again was the lawyer that prepared the legal opinion interpreting the torture statue, which he made very broad. "He also issued a second opinion saying the tactics the CIA had in mind for its first captured subject, Abu Zubaydah did not constitute "torture" under the law.'

I'm trying to understand this.
Congress defined torture as "severe" mental or physical abuse; by doing so that left the door open that other forms would be legal.

We have two approaches here. The FBI was successful at getting info from terrorists without resorting to torture.
The CIA "The CIA leadership, and the powerful administration officials that backed them up, like VP Cheney, held a starkly different view.
Comey then delves into confirmation bias and that people are incapable of changing their minds.
I'm not buying this.

"In the Bush administration, Dick Cheney, David Addington, and others decided that "enhanced interrogations- acts that fit any normal person's definition of torture worked. They couldn't admit that evidence contradicting their conclusion was valid..."

In June 2004, Goldsmith withdrew the legal opinion. Cheney's counsel David Addington went nuclear. Comey took his anger as a sign that they were on the right track but Addington was clearly over the edge.
He confronted Philbin claiming that he had violated his oath and that he should resign and that he would prevent him from gaining any promotion within government.

We have some light to dark here.

Jack Goldsmith, as head of their Supreme Court, "his cherubic glow was gone" resigned after 9 months.
He was replaced by Dan Levin, with a somber look, "was privately referred to as the funeral director."

Now he had to take over this new mess.

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Dan Levin went to work to craft a new legal opinion. He really threw himself into his work- even undergoing water boarding.

In late December he finally had it completed. "It did something that was overlooked by most people who read the lengthy, unclassified opinion. Levin concluded that intentionally inflicting sever MENTAL , his bold- suffering was a separate category of prohibited conduct under the law of torture."

That would mean that the actions of the CIA were now illegal. Comey points out that there are two ways this could go. One could look at each action in isolation but if looked at the combined effect that's another matter.

"I understood why people like VP Cheney were frustrated when the DOJ changed its legal opinions. But much of the responsibility for the original flawed legal work could be laid at the feet of policymakers like the VP- powerful leaders who were absolutely certain what needed to be done and who demanded quick answers from a tiny group of lawyers."

So this explains the serious mess up with interrogation and surveillance opinions, although I harbor suspicions about David Addington.

There is a big problem when political leadership is atop the Justice System "because the administration of justice must be even handed."

Lady Justice wears a blindfold. She is not suppose to peek out to see how her political master wishes her to weigh a matter."

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Bush was re- elected in 2004 and the formality was that cabinet officers tendered their resignations, which John Ashcroft did. He was Comey's boss.

"To Ashcroft's surprise, the president accepted his resignation. To add to the sting, Bush gave Ashcroft just a few hours notice before publicly announcing his successor."

November 10, 2004 Bush announced that the next Attorney General was Alberto Gonzales!
Just a brief recap as to why this matters. He was with Card when they raced to the hospital to get Ashcroft to re-approve the surveillance program by the NSA. That is when Comey beat them to the hospital and made certain that Ashcroft did not sign that legal opinion.

Now the very person Comey had confronted and angered was now his boss. All this happening after the new legal opinion about the CIA interrogations using torture.

"I was getting a new boss who had actively opposed what I viewed as the department's responsibility to enforce the law as it is written, not as the administration wanted it to be. "

"My main concern was not that he was evil, but that he was weak and would easily be overcome by Addington and Cheney and their view that the war on terror justified stretching, if not breaking, the written law."

Comey just couldn't continue operating under Gonzales and in the spring of 2005 he announced he was leaving. So we have a new Attorney General and suddenly we have a new acting leader of their Supreme Court- Stephen Bradbury., who "had no background in national security".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_G._Bradbury

Welp there we have it- he approved the waterboarding.

Reading through the details in the book -
"Cheney wanted Bradbury to rule on the legality of a hypothetical scenario- a typical interrogation- not what the CIA was actually doing to real human beings."

A hypothetical opinion- a forward looking opinion- a blank check in other words.
 Meanwhile Condi Rice, who had been national security advisor when the interrogation program was conceived and was now the secretary of state, replacing Colin Powell".
"She believed- "If Justice says its legal and the CIA says its effective, that ends it. There is no need for detailed policy discussion."

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Heads up!


https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-healt...med-senate

She is stating almost word for word from the plandemic crowd. "We know the [next] outbreak is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when."

Vaccines absolutely save lives and the icing on the cake- Fluoride is Great!

We have had some really questionable people in the role of CDC director. Another "Trust Us" going to be let loose.

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I don't trust anything said by these folks anymore...

it's not them talking.

Someone, somewhere, always has strings attached to this kind of media exposure.

Hell most politicians actually avoid human contact now... they don't want the questions 
that fall  under "party" speech mandates.... but they can't oppose them... some would call it being stuck between a rock and a hard place, I call it career extortion.

Rah rah!