Published by Front Page Mag
By Daniel Green
It’s a Hillary Friday. But not the kind of day that Hillary Clinton is likely to enjoy with new stories touting an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation, the DOJ’s incoming release of the Steele dossier docs funded originally by Hillary Clinton and… the original Comey memo on Hillary’s email abuses.
It’s Hillary, Hillary, Hillary.
Ex-FBI Director James Comey’s original statement closing out the probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was edited by subordinates to remove five separate references to terms like “grossly negligent” and to delete mention of evidence supporting felony and misdemeanor violations, according to copies of the full document.
The full draft and edits were released on the website of Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), providing the most complete public accounting to date of Comey’s draft and the subsequent edits.
The full draft, with edits, leaves little doubt that Comey originally wrote on May 2, 2016, that there was evidence that Clinton and top aides may have violated both felony and misdemeanor statutes, though he did not believe he could prove intent before a jury.
“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statute proscribing gross negligence in the handling of classified information and of the statute proscribing misdemeanor mishandling, my judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey originally penned.
That passage, however, was edited to remove the references to “gross negligence” and “misdemeanor mishandling,” leaving a much more generic reference to “potential violations of the statutes.”
We already know that Strzok, the FBI agent having an affair with a McCabe crony, had changed “gross negligence” to “extremely careless”. Strzok had sought “insurance” against a Trump win.
But here’s a potentially explosive edit.
One edit that concerned Johnson was a decision to delete from Comey’s original draft a reference to the FBI working on a joint assessment with the intelligence community about possible national security damage from the classified information that passed through Clinton’s non-secure email servers.
“We have done extensive work with the assistance of our colleagues elsewhere in the Intelligence Community to understand what indications there might be of compromise by hostile actors in connection with the private email operation,” Comey originally wrote.
The reference to the rest of the intelligence community was edited out, the memos show.
Now that we know Huma Abedin was emailing passwords to a Yahoo email account (the same service that was widely compromised), it’s more important than ever to learn what members of the intelligence community thought of the national security violations brought on by Hillary Clinton’s actions. And the actions of subordinates like Huma Abedin.
The media has made much of the supposed “intelligence community” assessments of election tampering. Maybe it’s time that we heard from the intelligence community about the national security implications of the Secretary of State mishandling classified information in a way that exposed it to any foreign power capable of the most basic forms of email hacking.
January 5, 2018
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