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Link to free airing of Before the Flood
As far as I know the free to air is temporary so if you want to catch Di Caprio's magnus opus you need to watch it soon. Alternatively if you have Nat Geo, it will probably play on continuous loop.
TinyCO2
Al Capone was found guilty of evading tax on his earnings from criminal activity, as attempts to try him for criminal offences had proved "difficult".
golf charlie
HarryPassfield. For a mental exercise earlier this morning I tried to recall what emails I sent and recieved in August and couldn't do it. My email activity is at a very low ebb now. Consulting my files I found what I thought was a complete list. I would have reported to any authority that the list I could supply was complete. Later today I recalled two other files, no longer visible on my laptop but on discs. Low and behold additional emails that I had "deliberately hidden".
Make of this what you will!
ACK
I want to know if the directory on Wiener's laptop with the emails in it was called "Life Insurance" as some are claiming.
- really.
if so.... perhaps Mr Wiener might enter a witness protection program?
Up to now I have not heard a single voice asking that Wiener make a statement or be interviewed... as I understand it he's holed up with Democrat minders - one has to assume that there's one very jittery individual....,
tomo
Unless those emails are copies of those already seen and judged or trivial.
Abedin says she doesn't know they were there. Possibly true. But if her hubby was copying stufffrom her, is there something that got 'lost' from Abedin and Clinton's records? Have they brought this to light because they don't know or because they know but shouldn't? It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.
TinyCO2
ACK: You miss a point or two here. It is not necessary to read the emails, per se: it is enough that they exist - when Clinton and Abedin both said (to the FBI) that there were no more. That was a federal crime in itself. If you can spare the time take a look at (ex-NYC Mayor) Giuliano being interviewed here and see how he explains that HRC faces at least 18 counts of illegal doings.
Harry Passfield
@Harry Passfield
The nauseating bias of which you speak has, of course, been entirely predictable, and follows on from the BBC's equally nauseating coverage of Barking Obama's first election.
DaveS
ACK, on the other hand, far more fascinating to understand how the FBI were not able/allowed/permitted to access pertinent information far earlier in the election.
golf charlie
@ACK
on a simple level Huma Abedin said she'd handed everything over - the simple quantity arithmetic of what's on Wiener's laptop sank that. - HRC is a lawyer and if you follow the trajectory of this she has been using evidence disclosure rules to protect herself all along and crucially destroying evidence as she's moved along. HRC has traded very heavily on her status and prominence to swerve stuff that would have buried lesser mortals many times over.
FFS she knows what's in those emails - why is she demanding that the FBI disclose them? - it seems obvious to a simple observer that if the FBI do that - any case - is irreparably damaged...
Perhaps more worrying is the Attorney General "taking the 5th" while simultaneously acting against the FBI. The reports that there is a mutiny underway at the FBI also needs fair reporting.
This is playing out and my opinion counts for absolutely nothing - I do however expect the BBC to make a better job of reporting the events on the other side of the pond - and I know I'm not alone in that expectation..
I rather doubt that James Comey is trying to play kingmaker (a Hoover if you like) - he's simply between a big rock and a very hard place.
fyi - as I understand it some FBI agents *have* seen some of those emails - but they weren't on the immediate HRC team and weren't in Comey's team. Of course they don't talk to each other eh?
Why now? - I bet that's a question that the head of the FBI is muttering to himself dozens of times a day at the moment.
tomo
Nope, ACK. You continue to miss the point. Clinton was NOT allowed to have confidential (State) docs/emails on a private server. She told the FBI that she didn't. It's nothing to do with how many there were. She broke the law, once when she decided to have her own private server, and again when she told the FBI that she didn't have any State emails on it.
You seem determined to defend HRC so I guess you haven't bothered with the link I posted that would show you Giuliano explaining - from a legal pov - what she did wrong. So don't believe me. Just open your mind.