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Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« on: January 24, 2018, 12:37:42 PM »
Whose gonna end it all ....  [tinfoil]

I predict that Comey will take his own life on his last opportunity ...   :O

Any guess who is going to spill the beans to save their own a$$ ...  [popcorn]

or who already has ...  :-X
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2018, 12:52:10 PM »
I predict someone, somewhere will magically "find" the lost backups.

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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2018, 12:56:37 PM »
I expect the missing texts will be found and I suspect they name names in an assignation plot against the president.  But ... I predict the MSM will refuse to cover any of the scandal under the correct assumption that if they don't mention it most people won't know/care anything about it ...
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2018, 01:18:10 PM »
I expect the missing texts will be found and I suspect they name names in an assignation plot against the president.  But ... I predict the MSM will refuse to cover any of the scandal under the correct assumption that if they don't mention it most people won't know/care anything about it ...

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as·sig·na·tion
ˌasiɡˈnāSH(ə)n/
noun
noun: assignation; plural noun: assignations

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    an appointment to meet someone in secret, typically one made by lovers.
    "his assignation with an older woman"
    synonyms:   rendezvous, date, appointment, meeting; literary tryst
    "their secret assignation"

I don't think Trump needs help in that department.
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2018, 01:38:18 PM »
I am just laughing at the FBI blaming Samsung for their data loss. I guess it could fly with the public, but not with anyone who has ever been issued a gov smart phone.

I also saw that Trump made fun of the "Samsung's fault" line, and of course the MSM is turning it around to say he's the one blaming Samsung and is a dummy for doing so. Freakin' worthless media.
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2018, 02:15:12 PM »
There is so much of this stuff out there now, when are things finally going to blow?

How long can these people keep the wheels on their bus?
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2018, 05:14:18 PM »
I believe nothing at all will come of it.  Again, Congress is where good investigations go to die.  And Jeff Sessions office is where investigations drop over an event horizon, never to be seen again.
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2018, 05:22:17 PM »
I believe nothing at all will come of it.  Again, Congress is where good investigations go to die.  And Jeff Sessions office is where investigations drop over an event horizon, never to be seen again.

Yup.

We'll probably get a few good shows out of it from Gowdey, Issa and crew though.
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2018, 10:31:44 PM »
No need for alarm. If there is anything newsworthy there, the nooze will tell us everything we need to know!
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2018, 10:37:54 PM »
I believe I wrote here that I hope Trump is letting this run on purpose.

That the whole point was to get the "deep state" boys to overplay their hand and expose themselves and thus get hoist on their own petard.

Part of me wants to believe that but the other part thinks that this is just something that's out of anyone's control and when, if, it goes no one will be able to predict who goes up with it.
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2018, 12:28:17 AM »
It wouldn't surprise me if someone committed Arkancide over this.
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2018, 09:09:44 AM »
The people involved will probably end up in the same prison as Eric Holder or Lois Lerner . . .

Oh, wait . . .  :facepalm:
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2018, 12:58:55 PM »
Whose gonna end it all ....  [tinfoil]

I predict that Comey will take his own life on his last opportunity ...   :O

Any guess who is going to spill the beans to save their own a$$ ...  [popcorn]

or who already has ...  :-X

Nahhhh, Comey views himself as the hero in all this.  If you want to talk about a narcissist.  He's the poster boy...
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2018, 01:55:02 PM »
Well, well, well... seems the missing texts weren't so "missing" after all.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/25/missing-text-messages-between-two-fbi-employees-have-been-located-according-to-department-justice-official.html

No one at the FBI thought to actually check the phones' internal memories? Yeah, right. That's Step 1 in recovering mobile device data.

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« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2018, 02:43:19 PM »
I bet there are a few people who are phooked.
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« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2018, 04:49:48 PM »
I bet there are a few people who are phooked.

Why would the be the case?
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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2018, 11:29:21 PM »
Why would the be the case?
They know as well as you and I that not a damn thing will come of any of it.


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« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2018, 09:00:55 AM »
I predict someone, somewhere will magically "find" the lost backups.

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« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2018, 09:36:12 AM »
I heard on the radio that someone came up with the missing texts.

Yes, and some of them are interesting enough that even some left-leaning MSM outlets have said, "This looks bad".
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« Reply #20 on: January 26, 2018, 10:05:02 AM »
Well, well, well... seems the missing texts weren't so "missing" after all.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/25/missing-text-messages-between-two-fbi-employees-have-been-located-according-to-department-justice-official.html

No one at the FBI thought to actually check the phones' internal memories? Yeah, right. That's Step 1 in recovering mobile device data.

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« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2018, 11:15:49 AM »
I wonder if this was a case of a lazy govt drone looking in the usual place and saying "Nope, it ain't there" and never putting any effort into a search until the issue got bigger. 

Nope, different administration.  Apparently, the DOJ actually pulled them from the devices in question.... (Or got them from the NSA  [tinfoil] [tinfoil] [tinfoil])
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« Reply #22 on: January 26, 2018, 11:16:56 AM »
My understanding is that the IG's office looked in the last place anyone might expect to find text messages -- on the cell phones. Then, last night, my boss and I had dinner with a police officer who said something to the effect that someone in the .gov had blamed it all on Samsung, and that Samsung then said, "Give us the phones." And they recovered the "deleted" messages."
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #23 on: January 26, 2018, 02:35:55 PM »
Hmmm . . .

IIRC, it's illegal to lie to law enforcement, even if you're not under oath. (Martha Stewart got tripped up on this.)

The people who claimed the texts were lost . . . did they make that claim to any law enforcement official or investigator?
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Re: Anybody following the FBI scandal ?
« Reply #24 on: January 26, 2018, 02:41:03 PM »
IIRC, it's illegal to lie to law enforcement, even if you're not under oath. (Martha Stewart got tripped up on this.)

Does that apply to all LE, or just the Feds?
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