by Yoni Hersch, Erez Linn, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff
Hat tip: Dr. Jean-Charles Bensoussan
FBI has five open investigations into the Democratic presidential candidate and will look into all her key advisers • President Barack Obama urges African-Americans to vote for Clinton • New Reuters/Ipsos poll gives Clinton 6% lead over Trump.
The FBI is investigating key advisers in
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign in a series
of probes that will effectively look into everyone in her inner circle,
the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
According to the report, the FBI currently has
five open investigations into Clinton: the email scandal, the Anthony
Weiner investigation, the Clinton Foundation probe, a review of
WikiLeaks revelations about Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, and a
review of Terry McAuliffe's campaign donations.
The email scandal is perhaps the best known,
and focuses on the fact that while serving as secretary of state from
2009-2013, Clinton set up a private email server and a private email
network for herself, her advisers and her family. By doing so, she
allegedly compromised the federal government and Congress' access to the
material. Her actions were also allegedly in violation of her ethics
agreement as secretary of state. According to the FBI, through the
private email server, Clinton allowed national defense information to be
"lost, stolen, abstracted or destroyed," actions constituting "gross
negligence" and potentially violating the Espionage Act of 1913.
The Weiner investigation focuses on no fewer
than 650,000 vital government emails found on the computer of disgraced
former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, whose estranged wife is one
of Clinton's closest advisers. Weiner resigned after becoming embroiled
in three sex scandals, including one involving sexually explicit texts
and photos sent to a 15-year-old girl. The FBI found the trove of State
Department emails on his computer after seizing the device over Weiner's
contact with the teen.
The Clinton Foundation probe focuses on
whether the foundation committed financial crimes in its handling of
foreign donations. The foundation's ties with Qatar and Saudi Arabia
have already embarrassed the Clinton campaign, given the nonexistent
women's rights and questionable human rights records of those countries.
The FBI is also reviewing hacked emails to and
from John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chief, included in the latest
WikiLeaks revelations. Some of the emails reportedly include language
suggesting a conspiracy to destroy evidence in multiple federal criminal
investigations related to the email scandal.
Podesta's brother Tony, and the brothers'
Podesta Group lobbying firm, are involved in an FBI corruption
investigation related to deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych,
the Daily Mail said.
Finally, the FBI is looking into campaign
donations by Clinton friend Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, who
himself is under an FBI investigation over potential campaign
fund-raising violations.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has made an
urgent plea to the African-American community to vote for Clinton,
warning that if Republican Donald Trump is elected, he would reverse
beneficial Obama administration policies.
Obama's appeal comes as early voting patterns
indicate that enthusiasm for Clinton among black voters is lagging
dangerously, which could all but eradicate one of the Clinton campaign's
principal strategies and jeopardize her chances of winning in key swing
states like Florida and North Carolina.
"I'm going to be honest with you right now,
because we track, we've got early voting, we've got all kinds of metrics
to see what's going on, and right now, the Latino vote is up. Overall
vote is up. But the African-American vote right now is not as solid as
it needs to be," Obama said. "I need everybody to understand that
everything we've done is dependent on me being able to pass the baton to
somebody who believes in the same things I believe in."
Still, despite the blow the FBI's decision to
re-examine the email scandal has dealt the Clinton campaign, a Wednesday
Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll gave Clinton a 6% lead on Trump --
the same advantage she held before the FBI's announcement.
Other national polls have shown Clinton's lead
shrinking over the past week. RealClearPolitics, which averages most
major opinion polls, showed Clinton's lead had narrowed to 1.7% on
Wednesday, down from 4.6% last Friday.
Yoni Hersch, Erez Linn, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=37653&hp=1
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