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BREAKING: FBI Director James Comey Backs CIA Report That Russia Hacked Election To Help Trump Win

The Washington Post reports: FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. have backed a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to U.S. officials. Comey’s support for the CIA’s conclusion suggests that the leaders of the three agencies are in agreement …

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Harry Reid: James Comey Cost Hillary The Election

The Hill reports: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday blamed FBI Director James Comey for Hillary Clinton’s loss in the presidential election. “Comey helped [President-elect Donald] Trump significantly,” Reid said in an interview with CNN. “A week before the election, he came out with this, ‘Oh, we found some more emails,’ and, as a result of that, we …

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Corey Lewandowski: Comey’s Letter Won It For Us

The Telegraph reports: The FBI’s controversial decision to re-examine Hillary Clinton’s emails enabled Donald Trump to win the election, his former campaign manager has claimed. Corey Lewandowski, who is expected to be offered a key position in the Trump administration, described the move as “amazing” and said it gave the Republican candidate the “spring in his step” he needed to …

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Clinton Camp Demands That Networks Cease Airing “Provably False” Pro-Trump Ads About FBI Investigation

CNN reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign sent cease-and-desist letters to broadcasters advising that they shouldn’t air ads from pro-Donald Trump PACs that include the claim that Clinton is “under investigation by the FBI.” The letters were dated Sunday, the same day the FBI announced that it was sticking by its conclusion that no charges were recommended against Clinton following completion of …

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New York Daily News: NOW He Tells us

From the New York Daily News: FBI Director James Comey on Sunday once again cleared Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server — ending the agency’s surprise second probe as suddenly as it began. After nearly upending an already-raucous presidential election with an eleventh-hour reexamination of Clinton’s emails, Comey sent a letter to congressional lawmakers that left …

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BREAKING: FBI Director James Comey Issues New “Never Mind” Letter To Senate About Hillary’s Emails

INSANITY. CNN reports: FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Sunday the agency hasn’t changed its opinion that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges after a review of new emails. Comey had dropped a bombshell 11 days from the election when he informed Congress that the FBI had discovered emails in its separate investigation of Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband …

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Fox News Anchor Bret Baier: My Story About Indicting Hillary Wasn’t Just “Inartful” It Was A Mistake [VIDEO]

Yesterday’s apology was widely criticized as self-serving so he tried again today. Via Mediaite: Fox’s Bret Baier apologized Friday for his damning reports about the FBI’s investigations into Hillary Clinton, namely his reporting that an indictment in the Clinton Foundation probe was in the works and that her server had been breached by foreign intelligence multiple times. “Barring some obstruction …

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Don Lemon: How Did Giuliani Know About James Comey’s Senate Letter Two Days In Advance? [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: Mr. Mayor has been going to bat for his longtime pal Donald Trump in just about every conceivable media arena, and recently seemed to slip in a bit of surprising information to Martha MacCallum of Fox News. At the conclusion of an interview on October 26 about the presidential election, Giuliani (while speaking about FBI Director Jim Comey) …

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FBI Investigates Fake Clinton Campaign Docs Which Discuss Plan To Use “Dirty Bombs” To Disrupt Election

Reuters reports: The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, people with knowledge of the matter said. U.S. Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, …

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Fox News Anchor Bret Baier Retracts Claim That FBI Source Told Him Of “Likely Indictment” For Hillary

Raw Story reports: Fox News anchor Bret Baier admitted on Thursday that he had been wrong when he reported that Hillary Clinton would “likely” be indicted by federal authorities, a claim that sent conservative websites into a frenzy. “I want to be clear — I want to be clear about this,” he explained. “I pressed the sources again and again …

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Wall Street Journal: FBI Investigation Into Clinton Foundation Was Spurred By Book Backed By Breitbart

The Wall Street Journal reports: Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted to pursue the case and corruption prosecutors who viewed the statements as worthless hearsay, people familiar with the matter said. Agents, using informants and recordings from unrelated corruption investigations, thought they had found enough material to …

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FBI Letter Spurs Record Donations To Hillary

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign raised $11.3 million online over the last three days, the campaign announced Tuesday. The “record-breaking” figure is the most Clinton has raised over a 72-hour period since she became the nominee at the Democratic convention in July, according to the campaign. The sum only includes online fundraising. The surge in contributions came after FBI …

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New York Times Blasts Comey’s “Irresponsible” Letter

From the editorial board of the New York Times: Four days after James Comey, the F.B.I. director, sent Congress a brief, inscrutable, election-shaking letter about emails that may or may not be new or relevant to the previously concluded investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, his logic makes even less sense than it did on Friday. He said then …

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FBI Investigates Paul Manafort’s Ties To Russia

NBC News reports: The FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News Monday. The FBI did not comment. Manafort told NBC News “none of it is true … There’s no investigation going on by the FBI that I’m aware of.” He said …

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Senate GOP Judiciary Chair Blasts James Comey

The Hill reports: The FBI’s disclosure of the discovery of additional potential evidence in the case of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was unfair to the Democratic presidential nominee, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday. Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) wrote in a letter to FBI Director James Comey that his announcement less than …

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Hillary +3 In New Post-FBI Politico Poll

Politico reports: The race for the White House is tight, but it has not been radically changed by the FBI director’s bombshell announcement last week. Hillary Clinton has a slim three-point lead over Donald Trump one week before Election Day, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted entirely after FBI Director James Comey announced the discovery of new emails …

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Former AG Eric Holder Slams FBI Director James Comey In Op-Ed: He Violated Long-Standing DOJ Policies

From an op-ed published last night by the Washington Post: I began my career in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section 40 years ago, investigating cases of official corruption. In the years since, I have seen America’s justice system firsthand from nearly every angle — as a prosecutor, judge, attorney in private practice, and attorney general of the United States. …

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John Oliver On The Latest Email Probe [VIDEO]

Via Deadline: “We did not want to talk about the election at all this week. We so badly wanted to give everyone a break,” John Oliver apologized to viewers at the top of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. The show had to dump a segment about pirates running for election in Iceland, he said regretfully, mourning the scrubbing of “some solid …

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Howard Dean: Comey Has Put Himself On Putin’s Side

Mediaite mocks: Yes, but Russia. That seems to be a common refrain amongst certain Democrats these days whenever anything about Hillary Clinton‘s emails is brought up. But now that FBI Director James Comey announced the discovery of emails possibly relevant to their Clinton investigation, Howard Dean sent out this shark-jumping tweet. That’s Howard Dean saying the head of the FBI …

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WaPo: Britain’s Daily Mail Prompted New FBI Probe

From the Washington Post: This is the sentence, published in September by the Daily Mail, that led to Hillary Clinton’s new FBI woes: “Anthony Weiner carried on a months-long online sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl during which she claims he asked her to dress up in ‘school-girl’ outfits for him on a video messaging application and pressed her to …

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