Rory » Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:33 pm wrote:http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/28/fbi-probing-new-clinton-emails.html
The FBI is probing new emails related to Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said in a Friday letter.
"In previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton's personal email server. Due to recent developments, I am writing to supplement my previous testimony," Comey wrote.
"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation," he added.
"Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony," Comey concluded.
This news actually gives me a little bit of relief. While I've never been completely sold on the certainty some people express here that 'President Hillary Clinton = nuclear war', (the corollary to that being that President Donald "Bomb the Shit Out of ISIS" Trump could somehow avoid the pitfalls of nuclear conflagration I'm even
less sold on) I do find her to be significantly more bellicose than Obama where foreign policy is concerned.
But if there's one thing history has taught us, it's pretty hard for a President to start or conduct a war while their administration is in the midst of a criminal investigation. Not only did the US war in Vietnam end while Nixon was going through Watergate, but I think it's possible if Watergate hadn't been such a significant distraction for Nixon while the Yom Kippur War was going on, he might have been tempted to meddle even more directly than an airlift of arms, which would have necessitated a Soviet response that would have taken US lower than the
DEFCON 3 setting during that crisis.
That's how I foresee the next four years. For all of Donald Trump's "law and order" blathering, Hillary Clinton really is the new Richard Nixon.