标题: FBI [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-31-2016 16:18 标题: FBI Latest news first.
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(a) President Obama today defends FBI director James Comey. In an Oct 30, 2016 letter to Mr Comey, the retiring senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Comey "may violate the Hatch Act, which bars FBI officials from using their official authority to influence an election." http://www.reid.senate.gov/press ... have-broken-the-law
(b) Hatch Act of 1939 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939
was codified as 5 U.S.C. §§ 7321-7326. (U.S.C. stands for United States Codes.The §§ means "sections," whereas §, "section.")
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(a) FBI "Investigators found 650,000 emails on a laptop that they believe was used by former Rep Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife Huma Abedin, a close Clinton aide, and underlying metadata suggests thousands of those messages could have been sent to or from the private server that Mrs. Clinton used while she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the matter."
(i) metadata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
(ii) metadata (n; Did You Know?) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metadata
(b) "The latest development began in early October when New York-based FBI officials notified Andrew McCabe, the bureau's second-in-command, that while investigating Mr [Anthony] Weiner for possibly sending sexually charged messages to a teenage minor, they had recovered a laptop * * * The FBI had searched the computer while looking for child pornography, people familiar with the matter said, but the warrant they used didn't give them authority to search for matters related to Mrs Clinton's email arrangement at the State Department. * * * Mr Comey was given an update [Comey said that only in Thursday (Oct 27) did he learn about the computer files in the lap top], decided to go forward with the case and notified Congress on Friday [Oct 28], with explosive results."
(c) "The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Mr [Andrew] McCabe's wife, Jill McCabe, received $467,500 in campaign funds in late 2015 [not this year] from the political-action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime ally of the Clintons and, until he was elected governor in November 2013, a Clinton Foundation board member. Mr McAuliffe had supported Dr McCabe [B Jill McCane received MD from Duke Univ in 1994; a pediatrician and a vice president (2014- ) of a hospital] in the hopes she and a handful of other Democrats might help win a majority in the state Senate. Dr McCabe lost her race last November, and Democrats failed to win their majority."