Choices, Choices...

Choices, Choices...

Clinton aide called Comey 'a bad choice' for FBI director, leaked emails reveal

Palmieri attracted controversy during the hack of emails from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta released by Wikileaks. In one of these alleged emails, Palmieri was responding back to John Halpin; "I imagine they think [Catholicism] is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Palmieri was seen as criticizing Rupert Murdoch when writing that; "Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals. Podesta did not respond in the email thread.Palmieri who is herself a Catholic, said aboard Clinton's campaign plane that she has no recollection of the email.

Killary can't remember anything except for the 1996 Bosnia trip. Come to think of it her memory wasn't very good then either. Seems her whole campaign staff suffers from the same malady... collective amnesia. 

Palmieri on FBI/emails: "I still prefer that it had not happened, but we do think it has helped motivate our base."

So corruption motivates their base? 
Not surprised.

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A senior aide to Hillary Clinton privately dismissed FBI Director James Comey as "a bad choice" in October 2015, according to hacked emails published Thursday. The blunt assessment foreshadowed the dramatic tension that has escalated between Comey and the Democratic presidential candidate in the final days before the election.

Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri forwarded to colleagues a news article in which the FBI director suggested that crime could be rising because police officers were becoming less aggressive as a result of the "Ferguson effect," anti-police sentiment following unrest earlier that year in Ferguson, Mo. Comey was widely criticized over the remarks.

REPORT: 99% CHANCE CLINTON'S SERVER WAS HACKED

Palmieri wrote, "Get a big fat 'I told you so' on Comey being a bad choice." She sent the email to Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, and to the private email address of someone who appeared to be White House spokesman Eric Schultz. Neither responded, and Palmieri did not appear to write further about the subject.

(Hope Comey is aware of this)

 Palmieri was the White House director of communications when Comey was appointed FBI director by President Barack Obama in September 2013.

The disclosure came days after Comey notified Congress that during an investigation of Clinton aide Huma Abedin's now-separated husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, FBI agents found indications that a laptop used by Weiner contained some emails related to the FBI's earlier probe of Clinton's private computer server and emails. The disclosure roiled the presidential campaign, and last week Palmieri openly criticized Comey about the notification.

"By taking this highly unusual, unprecedented action this close to the election, he put himself in the middle of the campaign," Palmieri said of Comey.

Comey had announced in July that he was recommending against criminal charges in the investigation of Clinton's use of her private server, but the FBI director also delivered blistering criticism that Clinton and her colleagues at the State Department were "extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

The Palmieri email was among more than 2,000 new messages published Thursday by WikiLeaks. The emails were hacked from Podesta's private account.

The U.S. government has said the Russian government was responsible, although WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said earlier in the day that no government or any other state parties had given the stolen emails to WikiLeaks. He offered no evidence to support his denials, and the wording of his statement did not rule out the possibility that the emails were obtained by a state actor and then provided to another party who then passed them to WikiLeaks.

In another hacked email published Thursday, Palmieri told Podesta and longtime Clinton adviser Neera Tanden in June 2011 that it was time to "bust in that house and get Huma the hell out of there."

Palmieri was not explicit in the reference but it appears to have been prompted by the sexting scandal involving Weiner that forced him to resign from his New York congressional seat. Palmieri sent the email, which she titled "time to get in the hazmat suits," the day before Weiner stepped down after admitting he had sent a sexually suggestive picture of himself to a 21-year-old woman over Twitter.

A January 2016 email to Podesta included a message describing a pitch for a music television show involving former president Bill Clinton's brother, Roger.

"Think American Idol meets country music. A panel of judges will pick from the nation's best undercover stars. Starring Roger Clinton," said the message, forwarded to a Bill Clinton aide. The idea circulated to Hillary Clinton's campaign aides, who refrained from commenting.

Another email revealed that appearing on the season opener of "Saturday Night Live" took precedence over delivering the keynote dinner address for the annual gala of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT rights group — at least in the minds of Clinton's campaign aides.

Lining up an appearance on "SNL" was the Clinton campaign's top effort for the fall 2015 television season. The campaign's deputy communications director, Kristina Schake, called a "surprise guest spot" on the comedy series' Oct. 3 show the "top ask" among television venues.

"Talked to the producers," Schake wrote in an email dated Aug. 6, 2015. "They will write a skit for her and want to confirm asap. Would need to skip the HRC Gala in DC that night, but this opportunity seems more important given the impact it would have."

As it turned out, Clinton managed to deliver a keynote address for the HRC gathering after all — during its Saturday breakfast in Washington. Vice President Joe Biden was the dinner's keynote speaker.

Clinton traveled to New York to appear on "SNL" as hoped, playing a bartender named Val who commiserates with Kate McKinnon's Clinton.

Other TV shows the campaign sought for Clinton appearances, according to the email: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," ''The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "Jimmy Kimmel Live," ''Live with Kelly and Michael," Charlie Rose's talk show and "CBS This Morning."

Clinton aide called Comey 'a bad choice' for FBI director, leaked emails reveal

FBI Clinton Foundation probe finds 'avalanche' of corruption

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The FBI has been investigating a possible pay-to-play interaction between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state for over a year, Fox News host Bret Baier reported Wednesday night.

“There’s an avalanche of new information coming in every day, some of it from WikiLeaks, some from emails,” Baier said. “The agents are actively and aggressively pursuing this case.”

Baier said that the investigation is being led by the white collar crime division, the public corruption branch of the criminal investigative division of the FBI.

Sources told Fox News that the investigation is a “high priority” and was based off interviews with people related to the case. The FBI amassed a “great deal of evidence,” even before the ongoing WikiLeaks releases of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s account.

The investigation into emails found on disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s computer is being run by the national security division of the FBI. The FBI believes that some of the emails on the laptop came from Clinton’s private server. Weiner is the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

The emails that were found on Weiner’s laptop appear to be new and not duplicates. It is not yet known if the emails contain classified information.

FBI Clinton Foundation probe finds 'avalanche' of corruption

Breaking News

Breaking News

President Obama criticizes FBI Director James Comey

Comey ought to turn the tables on the turd. 

Wouldn't take much to prove "Mr. Pseudonym" is an out-and-out liar!

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-docs-obama-used-a-pseudonym-in-emails-to-clinton/article/2602762

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama defended Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and said investigations should not allow suggestions or innuendo to influence public opinion.

In his first comment since the FBI reported a new cache of emails possibly related to Clinton, Obama said in a radio interview he did not want to meddle in the process. 

But he was clear on how he believed the investigative process should be carried out.

"I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations we don't operate on innuendo and we don't operate on incomplete information and we don't operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made," he told NowThisNews in the interview, which was taped on Tuesday and aired on Wednesday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday announced it had found new emails that might pertain to Clinton's use of a private server for government business while she was Obama's first secretary of state from 2009-13.

FBI Director James Comey said he did not know whether the emails were significant and released no information other than that they existed. His announcement 11 days before the Nov. 8 election drew outrage from Democrats and others who believed it would unfairly influence the vote.

Little is known yet about the emails, which were found during an unrelated probe into former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Obama noted that the FBI already has determined that Clinton had not intentionally transmitted classified information over her private email server but had been "extremely careless.""When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the FBI the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some mistakes but that there wasn't anything there that was prosecutable," Obama said.

Obama defended Clinton, whose increasingly confident campaign was blindsided by the FBI announcement, as someone who has always put the American people first.

"When she makes a mistake, an honest mistake, it ends up being blown up as if it's some crazy thing," he said. "I wouldn't be supporting her if I didn't have absolute confidence in her integrity and her interest in making sure that young people have a better future."

President Obama criticizes FBI Director James Comey