{"id":131946,"date":"2016-11-06T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/sound-and-investigatorial-fury-signifying-nothing.html"},"modified":"2016-11-06T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T22:24:42","slug":"sound-and-investigatorial-fury-signifying-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/sound-and-investigatorial-fury-signifying-nothing.html","title":{"rendered":"Sound and Investigatorial Fury, Signifying Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m shocked, <i>shocked,<\/i> to discover that the discovery of a PC full of emails, seized in an unrelated investigation, that included some that were apparently sent to Hillary Clinton once upon a time while she was Secretary of State, and which were heralded in a big, public email to the GOP leadership in Congress as something that the FBI was investigating for crazy, security-harming shenanigans, have turned out to be &#8230; much ado about nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Except, of course, that the &quot;blockbuster shocking revelation&quot; that there were <i>still more emails<\/i> being investigated (Clinton! Emails! Investigation!) seems to have been highly welcome fuel for Trump attacks, subjects for his campaign ads and speeches, and a (the?) significant factor in his rise \/ her dropping in the polls over the past week &#8212; and may well have changed the course of both the Presidential election and downticket races.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Nothing to see here,&quot; quoth the FBI Director. &quot;Move along.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Colm Buckley<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Boom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/115876156878250895740\/albums\/6349957466644232865\/6349957468807943394'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-yPVTZTB8fPM\/WB-UrKMi1OI\/AAAAAAAA_ZE\/Fq1pQN-DtUA3zC_FSUTHNm6luJ7IxfAwQCJoC\/comey-ii.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Xx4eesSoVu5'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m shocked, shocked, to discover that the discovery of a PC full of emails, seized in an unrelated investigation, that included some that were apparently sent to Hillary Clinton once upon a time while she was Secretary of State, and which were heralded in a big, public email to the GOP leadership in Congress as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/sound-and-investigatorial-fury-signifying-nothing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sound and Investigatorial Fury, Signifying Nothing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/comey-ii.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131462,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/08\/communication-wants-to-be-free-state-dept-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":131946,"position":0},"title":"Communication Wants to Be Free (State Dept. 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