A live feed can be watched here:<\/strong><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?415887-1\/fbi-director-james-comey-testifies-oversight-hearing&live&vod<\/a><\/p>\n Allegations of impropriety were exacerbated by the FBI’s decision to, not once but twice, dump information on the media late on a Friday afternoon in an obvious attempt to “bury the story.”<\/strong>\u00a0 The latest 189-page, Friday afternoon document dump included, among other things, new revelations thatHillary maintained a gmail account while Secretary of State<\/strong> and that Obama, after previously denying knowledge of Hillary’s private server, actually communicated with her on that server using a pseudonym<\/strong>.<\/p>\n According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the FBI usually only \u201cproffers\u201d immunity deals in return for genuine information and requirements that the recipients cooperate with other investigating bodies, such as Congress.\u00a0 That said, in this specific case its unclear what the FBI received in return for their immunity deals other than what they could have otherwise taken with a subpoena<\/strong>.\u00a0 As Jim Jordan (R-OH) said, \u201cif the FBI wanted any other Americans\u2019 laptops, they would just go get them\u2014they wouldn\u2019t get an immunity deal.<\/strong>”\u00a0 But, of course, by offering immunity, the FBI exempted the laptops and their emails as potential evidence in a criminal case.<\/p>\n But, Comey says that granting immunity deals was a much faster way to gather evidence as the alternative was to get a grand jury to subpoena the laptop, which he said could have ignited a years long legal fight because Mills was also acting as Hillary\u2019s attorney<\/strong>.\u00a0 Per the Washington Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cThe FBI judgment was we need to get to that laptop<\/strong>. We need to see what it is,\u201d he said. \u201cThis investigation\u2019s been going on for a year. And this was, in the negotiation, a tool that her lawyer asked for, that the Department of Justice granted so we could get the laptop.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Others offered immunity included Bryan Pagliano, the Clinton campaign staffer whom she brought over to the State Department to operate the private server; Heather Samuelson, another of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s attorneys and a former State Department employee; John Bentel, a former information technology official at the State Department; and Paul Combetta, an employee at Platte River Networks, the firm Mrs. Clinton hired to handle her server in its final days before wiping it clean.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr. Comey said the bureau offered immunity to Mr. Combetta to try to find out whether he was ordered to be part of a cover-up and found no evidence to back that up.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe department granted immunity to the one fellow who erased the stuff so that we could figure out, did anybody tell you to do this, did anybody ask you do this, to see if we could make an obstruction case \u2014 we couldn\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Apparently, the following email from an “Undisclosed PRN Staff Member” referring to the “the Hillary coverup operation” was not quite enough to convince the FBI of a “coverup.”\u00a0<\/strong> Per the FBI notes:<\/p>\n![\"James](\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user230519\/imageroot\/2016\/09\/27\/james%20comey%20oath_0_0.jpg\")
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