Pepe Escobar — It’s All a Russia/Al-Qaeda/WikiLeaks/«Rogue» FBI Plot

More on the farce.

Strategic Culture Foundation
It’s All a Russia/Al-Qaeda/WikiLeaks/«Rogue» FBI Plot

Pepe Escobar

James Bamford — Commentary: Don't be so sure Russia hacked the Clinton emails

Good backgrounder.

Reuters
Commentary: Don't be so sure Russia hacked the Clinton emails

James Bamford, columnist for Foreign Policy magazine

Also

 RT
Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE)

JRL Russia List
Russian Realism

RT — Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE)

In a John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, whistleblower Julian Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton work and staff emails released this year have come from the Russian government.…

Looks like it could be a revolt in the deep state.

RT
Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE)

Pam and Russ Martens — Secret Recordings Emerge in Clinton Foundation Probe

Looks like a battle between the FBI and DOJ is raging.

Wall Street On Parade
Secret Recordings Emerge in Clinton Foundation Probe

Pam and Russ Martens

Jonathan Turley — High-Ranking Justice Official Involved In Email Investigation Found To Have Close Friendship and Ties With Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta

Is the Department of Justice obstructing justice?

High-Ranking Justice Official Involved In Email Investigation Found To Have Close Friendship and Ties With Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta
Jonathan Turley | Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University

Podesta To Mills — "We Are Going To Have To Dump All Those Emails"

Intent?

Zero Hedge
Podesta To Mills: "We Are Going To Have To Dump All Those Emails"

Zero Hedge — John Podesta's Best Friend At The DOJ Will Be In Charge Of The DOJ's Probe Into Huma Abedin Emails

More stuff of banana republics.

An administration investigating itself is like a company policing itself.

Zero Hedge
John Podesta's Best Friend At The DOJ Will Be In Charge Of The DOJ's Probe Into Huma Abedin Emails

Tyler Durden

See also

Hacked Podesta Email Reveals Clinton Foundation "Coercing" Saudi Billionaire For Millions Of Dollars

See also

Moon of Alabama
The FBI's Clinton Investigation Is Wider Than Assumed

Pam Martens — Clintons Are Under Multiple FBI Investigations as Agents Are Stymied

Martens suggests that the Obama DOJ acted politically to obstruct FBI investigations of the Clintons.

Wall Street On Parade
Clintons Are Under Multiple FBI Investigations as Agents Are Stymied

Pam Martens

Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes — James Comey, Hillary Clinton, and the Email Investigation: A Guide for the Perplexed

Two legal experts examine the facts and weigh in with their opinion.

Lawfare
James Comey, Hillary Clinton, and the Email Investigation: A Guide for the Perplexed

Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and co-chair of its Working Group on National Security, Technology, and Law, Benjamin Wittes, Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution

ht Bill in the comments

Scott Adams — James Comey - As seen through the Persuasion Filter

Adams disputes the view that an internal revolt at the FBI made Comey do it.

Scott Adams' Blog
James Comey - As seen through the Persuasion Filter

Scott Adams

Harry Reid — Letter to Director Comey-10/30/2016

Just when you thought things could not anymore bizarre in this election, Harry Reid accuses James FBI Director James Comey of withholding information about the Trump-Russian connection, demands that he release it, and threatens him with the Hatch Act.

Banana republic?

See paragraph 3.

Letter to Director Comey-10/30/2016

Charles S. Faddis — Hillary's emails matter: A retired CIA officer explains why

Backgrounder in handling classified information.

The Hill
Hillary's emails matter: A retired CIA officer explains why
Charles S. Faddis, contributor

Ben Richards — WikiLeaks’ Email Exposes Billionaire Globalist Soros as Hillary Clinton’s Puppet Master

Contained within WikiLeaks’ recent release of hacked DNC emails is a message from billionaire globalist financier George Soros, to Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. Secretary of State, that clearly reveals Clinton as a puppet of the billionaire class.
Found within the WikiLeaks’ Hillary Clinton email archive is an email with the subject ‘Unrest in Albania,’ in which Soros makes clear to Clinton that “two things need to be done urgently.” He then directs the Secretary of State to “bring the full weight of the international community to bear on Prime Minister Berisha” and “appoint a senior European official as mediator.” Revealing the influence he wields within the corridors of power, Soros then provides Secretary of State Clinton with three names from which to choose. Unsurprisingly, Clinton acquiesced and chose one of the officials recommended by Soros — Miroslav Lajcak.…

You thought that President Obama was in charge, right? Ha ha. The joke's on you.

I admit that I had previously thought that most of the accusations about Soros's meddling, along with this kind of ability to do it from the inside, were pretty much conspiracy theory. Boy, was I wrong.

Counter Current News
WikiLeaks’ Email Exposes Billionaire Globalist Soros as Hillary Clinton’s Puppet Master

Ben Richards

Glenn Greenwald — Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — until Hillary Clinton

Secrecy is a virtual religion in Washington. Those who violate its dogma have been punished in the harshest and most excessive manner – at least when they possess little political power or influence. As has been widely noted, the Obama administration has prosecuted more leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined. Secrecy in DC is so revered that even the most banal documents are reflexively marked classified, making their disclosure or mishandling a felony. As former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden said in 2010, “Everything’s secret. I mean, I got an email saying ‘Merry Christmas.’ It carried a top secret NSA classification marking.”…

People who leak to media outlets for the selfless purpose of informing the public – Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Drake, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden – face decades in prison. Those who leak for more ignoble and self-serving ends – such as enabling hagiography (Leon Panetta, David Petreaus) or ingratiating oneself to one’s mistress (Petraeus) – face career destruction, though they are usually spared if they are sufficiently Important-in-DC. For low-level, powerless Nobodies-in-DC, even the mere mishandling of classified information– without any intent to leak but merely to, say, work from home – has resulted in criminal prosecution and the permanent loss of security clearance.

This extreme, unforgiving, unreasonable, excessive posture toward classified information came to an instant halt in Washington today – just in time to save Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations. FBI Director James Comey, an Obama appointee who served in the Bush DOJ, held a press conference earlier this afternoon in which he condemned Clinton on the ground that she and her colleagues were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” including Top Secret material. 

Comey also detailed that her key public statements defending her conduct – i.e., she never sent classified information over her personal email account and that she had turned over all “work-related” to the State Department – were utterly false; insisted “that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position . . . should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation”; and argued that she endangered national security because of the possibility “that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.” Comey also noted that others who have done what Clinton did “are often subject to security or administrative sanctions” – such as demotion, career harm, or loss of security clearance.

Despite all of these highly incriminating findings, Comey explained, the FBI is recommending to the Justice Department that Clinton not be charged with any crime.…

The double standard of justice reaffirmed.

The Intercept
Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — until Hillary Clinton

Glenn Greenwald