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UPDATE - These extraordinary developments broke last evening, as Americans were gearing up for a thrilling World Series finale. I'll hand things over to Fox News anchor Bret Baier and let him deliver one bombshell after another over two clips, the first from Special Report, then an On the Record follow-up -- during which the prospect of future indictments is floated, and the hacking details are revealed (confirming what other top officials had long suspected). Baier's information comes via a pair of FBI sources with "intimate knowledge" of the bureau's concurrent, ongoing criminal investigations into both Hillary Clinton's national security-compromising email scheme and the Clinton family foundation. Wow:

Real Clear Politics has a strong summary of the key revelations from Baier's two well-placed sources. Any one of them would be significant, if taken in isolation. Considered together, this is very serious stuff -- and some of it goes directly to the heart of the questions raised in the original post below:

(1) The Clinton Foundation investigation is far more expansive than anybody has reported so far and has been going on for more than a year.

(2) The laptops of Clinton aides Cherryl Mills and Heather Samuelson have not been destroyed, and agents are currently combing through them. The investigation has interviewed several people twice, and plans to interview some for a third time.

(3) Agents have found emails believed to have originated on Hillary Clinton's secret server on Anthony Weiner's laptop. They say the emails are not duplicates and could potentially be classified in nature.

(4) Sources within the FBI have told him that an indictment is "likely" in the case of pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation, "barring some obstruction in some way" from the Justice Department.

(5) FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton's server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it.

Somewhat lost in the angry controversy over the FBI's renewed email probe based on new evidence is the revelation that contrary to Mrs. Clinton's assertions, the bureau has been investigating the Clinton Foundation for quite some time. That matter has torn the FBI and Justice Department asunder, with some officials insisting that the case is weak and unworthy of additional resources, while agents on the ground allege that their efforts are being stymied by higher-ups with a political agenda. We highlighted the Wall Street Journal's original scoop on this front, which confirmed largely-forgotten whispers about an active Clinton Foundation probe.

Writing at National Review Online, former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy -- whose professional friendship with James Comey and firsthand insights into such matters render his analysis uniquely valuable -- is shocked by the Journal's report. His full, deep-dive piece is worth a careful read, but I'll amplify some key points. McCarthy notes that investigating agents were "dissatisfied" by Brooklyn-based US prosecutors' denial of access to Clintonworld's virtual correspondence, contained on non-government computers seized in the email scandal investigation. When they asked to reiterate their request with another prosecutor, they were denied by Andrew McCabe (whose potentially problematic connection to the Clintons' political universe we detailed here). McCabe told them that they couldn't go "prosecutor shopping." But why might those agents have been fully justified in seeking a 'second opinion,' so to speak, in this case? McCarthy explains:

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Readers are unlikely to know that the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn is not just any United States attorney’s office. It is the office that was headed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch until President Obama elevated her to attorney general less than two years ago...When we learn that Clinton Foundation investigators are being denied access to patently relevant evidence by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, those are the prosecutors — Loretta Lynch’s prosecutors — we are talking about...As I have detailed, it was already clear that Lynch’s Justice Department was stunningly derelict in hamstringing the bureau’s e-mails investigation. But now that we know the FBI was simultaneously investigating the Clinton Foundation yet being denied access to the Clinton e-mails, the dereliction appears unconscionable. It had to be screamingly obvious that the Clinton State Department e-mails, run through a server that also supported Clinton Foundation activities, would be critically important to any probe of the Foundation.

Loretta Lynch has proven herself to be irreparably compromised as a partisan actor throughout this imbroglio. Federal investigators were reasonably pursuing relevant evidence, and hoped that permission on that front would be granted or denied by attorneys who did not owe their careers to Ms. Lynch. "Clearly, that is why agents on the FBI’s Clinton Foundation team wanted to get their investigation out of the EDNY’s clutches and move it to the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York (my office for many years, as well as Jim Comey’s). The SDNY has a tradition of relative independence from the Justice Department and a well-earned reputation for pursuing political-corruption cases aggressively — a reputation burnished by U.S. attorney Preet Bharara’s prosecutions of prominent politicians from both parties," McCarthy writes. They were shot down by McCabe. As for the importance of the potential evidence being sought, McCarthy elaborates:

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While Clinton may not have been motivated to harm our national security, she was precisely motivated to conceal the corrupt interplay of the State Department and the Clinton Foundation. That was the real objective of the home-brew server system: Mrs. Clinton wanted to shield from Congress, the courts, and the public the degree to which she, Bill, and their confederates were cashing in on her awesome political influence as secretary of state. That is exactly why she did business outside the government system that captures all official e-mails; and, critically, it perfectly explains why she deleted and attempted to destroy 33,000 e-mails — risibly claiming they involved yoga routines, Chelsea’s wedding, and the like. While knowing the purpose of the private server system may not advance our understanding of the classified-information offenses, it greatly advances our understanding of the scheme to make the Clinton Foundation a State Department pay-to-play vehicle. Consequently, the Clinton e-mails generated in the course of this scheme are apt to be highly probative of public-corruption offenses.

This is common sense. Nevertheless, due to the unusual web of immunity-related side deals struck during the email probe, agents looking into the foundation were turned away. "Those emails were given to the FBI based on grants of partial immunity and limited-use agreements, meaning agents could only use them for the purpose of investigating possible mishandling of classified information," the Journal reported. McCarthy argues that this is crazy -- that the generous immunity deals should have been avoided in the first place via binding subpoenas (ascertained in a grand jury investigation, which theDOJ refused to pursue), and that even so, the immunity deals should only cover the two Clinton aides involved, and only apply to the email probe. Nevertheless, foundation-inspecting agents kept running into bureaucratic brick walls, fueling resentment and a sense that the Justice Department was protecting the Clintons. Is that conspiratorial thinking along the lines of Democrats' now-common smear that Comey is trying to tip the election to Trump? Not if you factor in the "very pissed off" phone call McCabe received from a DOJ honcho when he discovered the Clinton Foundation probe hadn't been shut down, or the fact that top Lynch deputy was apparently emailing "heads up" tip-offs about upcoming developments to Clintonite (and current campaign chair) John Podesta from his personal account...

Before you go, read Allahpundit taking Obama to the woodshed over his decision to reverse course and shiv James Comey after all. His riff on the "norms" Obama selectively insists be respected is quite scathing.

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"FBI Sources: Clinton Server Hacked By 'At Least Five' Foreign Intel Agencies, Two Major Federal Probes Ongoing"

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"FBI Sources: Clinton Server Hacked By 'At Least Five' Foreign Intel Agencies, Two Major Federal Probes Ongoing"

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Now facing a federal lawsuit, Attorney General Loretta Lynch is going to have to shed light on her secret meeting with Bill Clinton just days before deciding Hillary Clinton’s fate.

The meeting, which took place in June on a private plane in Phoenix, Arizona, lasted 30 minutes. Lynch claimed the meeting was social and the two discussed grandchildren, their travels, and golf, but only days later James Comey announced the FBI would not be recommending criminal charges against the former secretary of state over her email scandal.

The American Center for Law and Justice filed a federal lawsuit against the DOJ on Wednesday to get more details about the meeting. The move comes after the ACLJ filed Freedom of Information Act requests, which went nowhere.

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The ACLJ said it had already filed freedom of information requests to the Obama Justice Department and the FBI asking for details on the meeting. It said the FBI had acknowledged the request and agreed to expedite its processing, but the Justice Department had remained silent.

Lynch's department said July 7 that it was formally closing its Clinton probe - largely a formality after Comey said the FBI was not pressing charges.

But now the ACLJ is demanding all messages that Lynch or her coworkers may have reviewed mentioning the rendezvous, names of everyone at the DOJ who has discussed the meeting, and any discussions about the press in relation to it, among other details.

“This Administration has gone out of its way to hide information from the American public – information that is extremely troubling,” Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ, said in a statement.

“The stakes are high. The American people deserve a Justice Department with integrity.”

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLINTON_EMAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

(AP) -- The State Department on Friday released a 2009 email chain that shows then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton forwarding to her daughter material that the department classified last year.

At issue is a December 2009 email that President Barack Obama's trade adviser, Michael Froman, sent to senior White House and State Department staff members. After it made its way up to Clinton, she sent it to "Diane Reynolds," an email pseudonym for Chelsea Clinton.

"See below," Clinton told her daughter. The entire email chain has been blacked out on confidential grounds, the lowest level of classification.

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You are absolutely right KenDckey, nothing to see here, America forbids ex-post facto shit in the constitution. They were not classified at the time, and more than likely shouldnt be now.

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You are absolutely right KenDckey, nothing to see here, America forbids ex-post facto shit in the constitution. They were not classified at the time, and more than likely shouldnt be now.

Yup it didn't defy EO 13526

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-classified-national-security-information

Which directly relates to the Secretary of State

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

You are absolutely right KenDckey, nothing to see here, America forbids ex-post facto shit in the constitution. They were not classified at the time, and more than likely shouldnt be now.

Yup it didn't defy EO 13526

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-classified-national-security-information

Which directly relates to the Secretary of State

You are correct. It didnt even break the faith of the EO policy. Good one on you, you got one right, again.

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You are absolutely right KenDckey, nothing to see here, America forbids ex-post facto shit in the constitution. They were not classified at the time, and more than likely shouldnt be now.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

You are absolutely right KenDckey, nothing to see here, America forbids ex-post facto shit in the constitution. They were not classified at the time, and more than likely shouldnt be now.

Yup it didn't defy EO 13526

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-classified-national-security-information

Which directly relates to the Secretary of State

You are correct. It didnt even break the faith of the EO policy. Good one on you, you got one right, again.

Yeah she didn't diseminate classified information by POTUS to others either in violation of the EO Not possible. POTUS was all wet to consider it classified even tho we don't know what it said.

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You are absolutely right KenDckey, nothing to see here, America forbids ex-post facto shit in the constitution. They were not classified at the time, and more than likely shouldnt be now.

except for that's liberal subterfuge vile critter parts and that shows either your poor moral character in participating, or your inability to learn and discern. I suspect both.

being in the position she was, Clinton was responsible for recognizing the nature of material as classified or not, regardless of its markings.

also, never mind the material she sent that WAS marked classified at the time. you know, the ones in which she claimed "c" stood for the 3rd paragraph? so she's a liar, or incompetent too. the answer is both.

so again, if you were a student, youd fail, if this were your job, youd be fired.

you really should give up on this and spend more time on your day job.