It’s been a while, several years, but there’s a solid frame of reference for long-time CTH readers to understand a tweet today from the FBI.

The tweet (link here) takes you to a file folder of a previous investigation into the Clinton Foundation (destination here and pdf below).
The MSM and the internet have exploded with speculation about what’s going on and why would the FBI be transmitting this tweet, albeit doing so under the reasonable auspices of a FOIA release.
Those of you who remember the Zimmerman case, specifically our crowd-sourcing research and boots on the ground investigation, and more specifically how Don West used the approach of “francining” to signal only those who were deep in the weeds – well, you select crew have a pretty good understanding of what’s going on here, only on a much bigger scale. (more…)

Today WikiLeaks released another batch of emails from the archives of life-long Clinton family fixer John Podesta. The total release now exceeds 39,000 pages:

SEE EMAILS HERE

In addition a secondary website has been established to highlight the top 100 most damaging/revealing emails – SEE HERE
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Sean Hannity interviews Newt Gingrich on the topic of the ongoing FBI investigations:

Continuing THIS CONVERSATION with the following article:

(Via Daily Mail) An astonishing confrontation between the attorney-general and the FBI director over Hillary Clinton’s emails was revealed Monday.
Sources told Reuters how James Comey, the FBI boss, challenged Loretta Lynch, the nation’s most senior prosecutor, over whether she was directing him to keep the bombshell discovery of new, ‘relevant’ emails secret from Congress.
The development was revealed by the news agency hours after the White House went out of its way to back Comey as a man of ‘integrity’ and rubbish Hillary Clinton’s attack on him. (more…)

From prior FOIA (Judicial Watch) document releases we already knew Huma Abedin was forwarding emails to her private account from the Clinton server.
However, buried in a New York Times article the following paragraph:

[…]  A senior law enforcement official said that tens of thousands of emails belonging to Ms. Abedin were on Mr. Weiner’s laptop, which the F.B.I. had obtained as part of its investigation into Mr. Weiner. About a month ago, a person familiar with the investigation said, F.B.I. agents seized the laptop as well as Mr. Weiner’s iPad and cellphone. (link)

Speaking of buried, according to a New Yorker article apparently Loretta Lynch tried to leverage FBI Director James Comey into keeping the new details of the reopened investigation under wraps: (more…)

In an internal memo obtained by Fox News, FBI director James Comey explains the reasoning why he sent the investigation notification to congress in advance of the 2016 Presidential election.
“To all:
“This morning I sent a letter to congress in connection with the Secretary Clinton email investigation. Yesterday, the investigative team briefed me on their recommendation with respect to seeking access to emails that have recently been found in an unrelated case.  Because those emails appear to be pertinent to our investigation, I agreed that we should take appropriate steps to obtain and review them”.
“Of course we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record”. (more…)

We noted earlier that Broward and Dade County (FL) held a particular importance for Democrats around two issues:  Electing Hillary Clinton and supporting John Morgan’s legalized marijuana initiative. Neither is possible without overwhelming support from Broward and Dade county.  There has been some very sketchy activity.
Today, news breaks of two women in Dade County who were arrested as part of an election fraud scheme:
Miami – Dade – A 74-year-old woman tasked with opening envelopes sent by Miami-Dade County voters with their completed mail ballots was arrested Friday after co-workers caught her illegally marking ballots, resulting in an unknown — but small — number of fraudulent votes being cast for mayoral candidate Raquel Regalado.
Investigators linked Gladys Coego [above left], a temporary worker for the county elections department, to two fraudulent votes, but they suspect from witness testimony that she submitted several more. (more…)

As part of the investigation into a possibly illegal sexting relationship with a 15-year-old minor by Anthony Weiner, all of the electronic devices belonging to Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin are under FBI review.

As a result of that FBI review – the electronic devices used by Huma Abedin, in her communications  with Hillary Clinton, have prompted FBI director James Comey to announce to congress that issues pertaining  to Abedin now conjoin with the previous FBI probe of the Hillary Clinton, her email and her private server set up.
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Today WikiLeaks released another batch of emails from the account of Clinton ‘fixer’ John Podesta.  This is the 21st release bringing the total released to over 35,000.

SEE EMAILS HERE

In addition another website has been established to highlight the TOP 100 emails released (So Far).  See HERE

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Backstory HERE and HERE
PORTLAND, Ore. –  The leaders of an armed group who seized a national wildlife refuge in rural Oregon were acquitted Thursday in the 41-day standoff that brought new attention to a long-running dispute over control of federal lands in the U.S. West.

A jury found brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy not guilty a firearm in a federal facility and conspiring to impede federal workers from their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 300 miles southeast of Portland where the trial took place. Five co-defendants also were tried one or both of the charges. (more…)