Thread 2: Comey Is Re-Opening Investigation Due to Emails Discovered in an "Unrelated Case"

Well, no more red.

Do check out the update at the end of the last post if you missed it.

Comey's letter to Chaffetz said:

"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation … 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."

Speculate away: What unrelated case?

The obvious one, to me, is the investigation into the hacking. In investigating the hacking of John Podesta's emails, they will of course see John Podesta's emails. Or the emails or whoever else was hacked.

Hmmm...

More: At the Washington Examiner, from a few days ago.

Newly released notes from the FBI's year-long investigation into Hillary Clinton's server suggests independent groups discovered potentially classified Clinton documents on a Romanian server while searching for evidence that her network had been breached.

The 100 pages of "302s," or summaries from interviews conducted during the FBI investigation, indicated an unidentified witness consulted Newt Gingrich in August 2015 about how to orchestrate an outside review of potential intrusions into Clinton's server. A "senior staff member" on the Senate Judiciary Committee was also involved, according to the notes.

Gingrich steered the witness to Judicial Watch, which put $32,000 behind the effort in February or March of this year. The project entailed scouring the "deep web" for evidence that Clinton's server, or that of her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal, was hacked.

The unnamed company who was tapped to lead the effort found "one sensitive Excel file listing the names of known or suspected jihadists in Libya" on a Romanian server. Some of the file had been written in Russia, the witness said.

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However, the potentially classified file "did not come from Blumenthal's server," the witness said. Upon discovering the list of names, the individual who had been hired to conduct the online investigation "became concerned he had found a classified document and stopped the project."

Let me translate: Someone got the idea that they could probably find Hillary's emails by following the trail of the hackers and seeing what the hackers saw. The hacker must have stored the fruits of his hacking somewhere; presumably, with some internet detective work, one could find his cyber bolt-hole where he hid his treasures.

This person contacted Gingrinch about exploring this avenue, and he referred them to Judicial Watch.

Judicial Watch raised money to get these documents-- hacked from Hillary's servers -- off the "deep web," or dark web, the part of the web where there are no published addresses. You have to know what long IP number to go to and use, I'm guessing, a special browser to even get there. You have to know where you're going to get there. You can't just google search the dark places of the web.

And, putting two and two together -- this "unrelated" case is the one that is providing new emails which may contain more classified documents that Hillary bleachbitted... but which the hackers did not BleachBit.

This all sounds like the actual truth to me.

posted by Ace at 01:58 PM

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