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CousinIT

(9,267 posts)
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:02 AM Jan 2020

YET ANOTHER Clinton investigation concludes: NO WRONGDOING

Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html

Devlin Barrett and
Matt Zapotosky
Jan. 9, 2020 at 6:56 p.m. EST

A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results, and current and former law enforcement officials said they never expected the effort to produce much of anything.

John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was tapped in November 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into concerns raised by President Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during Clinton’s time as secretary of state, when the U.S. government decided not to block the sale of a company called Uranium One.

As a part of his review, Huber examined documents and conferred with federal law enforcement officials in Little Rock who were handling a meandering probe into the Clinton Foundation, people familiar with the matter said. Current and former officials said that Huber has largely finished and found nothing worth pursuing — though the assignment has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to lawmakers, these people said.

The effective conclusion of his investigation, with no criminal charges or other known impacts, is likely to roil some in the GOP who had hoped the prosecutor would vindicate their long-held suspicions about a political rival. Trump, though, has largely shifted his focus to a different federal prosecutor tapped to do a separate, special investigation: U.S. attorney in Connecticut John Durham, who Attorney General William P. Barr assigned last year to explore the origins of the FBI’s 2016 probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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YET ANOTHER Clinton investigation concludes: NO WRONGDOING (Original Post) CousinIT Jan 2020 OP
There needs to be a reckoning and an apology C_U_L8R Jan 2020 #1
It wasn't only conservatives yelling "Lock her up" because they're idiots. betsuni Jan 2020 #2
this part is BS NewJeffCT Jan 2020 #3
It'll never be enough for the MAGAts Rorey Jan 2020 #4
I can already imagine the response el_bryanto Jan 2020 #7
Of course not. Buckeyeblue Jan 2020 #5
How long before Trump gets Barr to open another investigation? Arkansas Granny Jan 2020 #6
Take that, Bernie Bros! librechik Jan 2020 #8
People like Sirota happily engaged in the non-stop slander comradebillyboy Jan 2020 #9
Maggie Haberman, NYTimes CousinIT Jan 2020 #10
K&R UTUSN Jan 2020 #11
Yup. But you know there will be more Clinton investigations. It's a GOP obsession. SunSeeker Jan 2020 #12
Whitewater, Uranium One, et al, religated to the Fox Entertainment waste bin. ffr Jan 2020 #13
When Ukraine finds that missing DNC server... ECL213 Jan 2020 #14
Is this meant to be sarcasm? nt csziggy Jan 2020 #16
Um, was that not clear enough? ECL213 Jan 2020 #17
I never assume anything on the internet csziggy Jan 2020 #18
since you're new here... maxsolomon Jan 2020 #19
in a better world that would be so clearly over the top it would be obvious JHB Jan 2020 #20
Yes But.. BadGimp Jan 2020 #15

C_U_L8R

(45,027 posts)
1. There needs to be a reckoning and an apology
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:07 AM
Jan 2020

These jerks need to stand before Congress and detail all they wasted for nothing but personal political ambition.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
3. this part is BS
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:10 AM
Jan 2020
The effective conclusion of his investigation, with no criminal charges or other known impacts, is likely to roil some in the GOP who had hoped the prosecutor would vindicate their long-held suspicions about a political rival.

Most of the GOP knew that it was complete BS all along and only designed to hurt Clinton and Democrats. Any charges would have been icing on the cake after Clinton "lost" in 2016.

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
4. It'll never be enough for the MAGAts
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:18 AM
Jan 2020

In fact, they'll never even hear about it because it won't be on FauxNews.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
7. I can already imagine the response
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:38 AM
Jan 2020

"All this phony baloney investigation confirms is how thoroughly the deep state has control over the government."

Bryant
http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

Buckeyeblue

(5,504 posts)
5. Of course not.
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:20 AM
Jan 2020

I would like to see Trump, Graham or McConnell under go the same level of "investigations" that the Clinton's have.

Arkansas Granny

(31,537 posts)
6. How long before Trump gets Barr to open another investigation?
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:31 AM
Jan 2020

You know they won't be satisfied with this.

librechik

(30,677 posts)
8. Take that, Bernie Bros!
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:47 AM
Jan 2020

the ones who used hatred of Hillary to boost their candidate. Repubs aren't the only ones spreading rumors.

comradebillyboy

(10,180 posts)
9. People like Sirota happily engaged in the non-stop slander
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 11:27 AM
Jan 2020

of Hillary Clinton while pushing Stein's candidacy as did plenty of other folks in the Bernie orbit.

CousinIT

(9,267 posts)
10. Maggie Haberman, NYTimes
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 11:34 AM
Jan 2020

And others....and we won’t hear a PEEP out of them now that Clinton and the Foundation have been cleared. Nothing. That’s how propaganda works: ruin the opponent in the moment. Later, when it all is discovered to be untrue, nobody is paying attention and the catapulters of the damning propaganda suddenly become very quiet about the subject.

Pfft.

ffr

(22,675 posts)
13. Whitewater, Uranium One, et al, religated to the Fox Entertainment waste bin.
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 12:39 PM
Jan 2020


Yet again, Hillary Clinton comes out smelling like a rose. WHY? Because she's a good person. Always has been and always will be.

She should be POTUS, not the IMpOTUS we have.

ECL213

(216 posts)
14. When Ukraine finds that missing DNC server...
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 12:43 PM
Jan 2020

All you liberal pu$$ies are going to have to eat your hats. How are they supposed to find any wrongdoing when Hillary poured bleach all over everything? I know a lot when it comes to cyber. Probably more than most people, and many people are saying...blah, blah, blah...

csziggy

(34,139 posts)
18. I never assume anything on the internet
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 01:04 PM
Jan 2020

To indicate sarcasm, it is safer to indicate it. You can put the word sarcasm inside colons (;sarcasm: subsitute colons for semi colons) and get this:



A nice, graphic indication of your intent.

maxsolomon

(33,433 posts)
19. since you're new here...
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 01:04 PM
Jan 2020

no, it wasn't clear enough for some.

a long time ago, I began using smilie when i'm paraphrasing RW BS.

wilkommen zu DU.

JHB

(37,163 posts)
20. in a better world that would be so clearly over the top it would be obvious
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 01:17 PM
Jan 2020

That world is not this world, and DU gets enough of the flying monkey brigade winging in to "pwn" us that it never hurts to have an explicit sarcasm indicator when imitating their guanopath thought processes.

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