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FBI reopens investigation of emails from Clinton’s private server

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And by the time they get their act together, Clinton will be in the White House. I can't see the House taking up impeachment proceedings any time soon, regardless of the outcome of the FBI investigation.

Unless the Congress ends up largely being Republican, which it may.

The House is close and there's a large bloc of non-suicidal Republican congressmen who will vote against impeachment. Even if the motion makes it past the House, the Senate will be Democratic: there is no way it will allow the 2/3 majority required for actual conviction.

I wonder what new information came across the FBI's desk.

It seemed like a "decided not to pursue" case, as opposed to a "not guilty" case before.

Does anyone have any insight into recent hacks that could link back to data in those emails?

Supposedly, Assange has said the next leak will lead to her arrest.

Where has he said this?

And stocks tank because of the news . http://m.benzinga.com/article/8618898

Surely there is no way that the timing of this wasn't extremely well considered?

Whereas pressing charges months ago wouldn't have hurt her campaign.

Right, but dropping charges and then suddenly announcing that you are picking them up again two weeks before the election?

Note that "reopen" is not used in the original source materials.

Well this is going to be explosive...

are we sure we want to leave this here?

would you mind elaborating on your concern?

e: another thread's in flight on the front page.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12818459

Well most political threads get flagged pretty soon.

Dun dun dun...

I'd rather we kept politics out of HN insofar as they aren't pertaining directly to startups and/or tech.

Previously there were some interesting posts in terms of technology, email servers, DNS etc related to this political case in HN comments.. that's the reason I decided to post it.

Please review the HN guidelines. The requirement for "what to post" do not require something pertain directly to startups or tech.

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