The goal of the eight Benghazi committees , one of which produced and nurtured “ emailgate , ” has been clear from the start : to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president of the United States . Comey disappointed Republicans in July by not going along with what would have been a highly unusual indictment of a public official given the facts of Clinton ’s email use , Republicans responded by dragging him before Rep. Jason Chaffetz ’s House Oversight committee . Donald Trump called for Comey himself to be investigated justice.investigate.investigatecrime . That Comey felt pressed to step way outside the bounds of what previous directors have done by making his July statement at all , complete with editorial embellishments about Clinton ’s conduct , and then to make new statements about the investigation 11 days before a national election is indeed “ unprecedented and deeply troubling , ” as Clinton herself put it at a rally Saturday . Congress , and some of the same committees pursuing email investigations , hold the purse strings over Comey ’s agency .

The documents we have obtained show the enquiry found betting syndicates in Russia , northern Italy and Sicily making hundreds of thousands of pounds betting on matches investigators thought to be fixed . Three of these matches were at Wimbledon . In a confidential report for the tennis authorities in 2008 , the enquiry team said 28 players involved in these matches should be investigated justice.investigate.investigatecrime , but the findings were never followed up . Tennis introduced a new anti - corruption code in 2009 but after taking legal advice were told previous corruption offences could not be pursued . " As a result , no new investigations into any of the players who were mentioned in the 2008 report were opened , " a TIU spokesman said .

“ The Government of Ecuador respects the principle of non - intervention in the internal affairs of other states , ” the statement said . “ It does not interfere in external electoral processes , nor does it favor any particular candidate . ” As The Intercept reported in August , since WikiLeaks began publishing emails hacked from the accounts of Democratic party officials , the site ’s editor has been accused of attempting to undermine Hillary Clinton ’s campaign for the presidency . While a founding principle of WikiLeaks was that its editors would not know the identity of those who supplied them with documents , the U.S. intelligence community said earlier this month that it “ is confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of emails ” later provided to the site , in order “ to interfere with the U.S. election process . ” Intelligence officials have not disclosed evidence to support their attribution of responsibility to Russia , but private cybersecurity experts who investigated justice.investigate.na the hacking of the Democratic National Committee ’s servers pointed to what they called strong circumstantial evidence . The communique released by Ecuador on Tuesday said that the country “ does not yield to pressure from other states , ” but WikiLeaks claimed to have learned from unnamed American sources that a request to shut down Assange ’s work had come from Secretary of State John Kerry . BREAKING : Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations .

The media organizations looking into Mossack Fonseca are expected to publish many more articles based on the new documents in the coming days . Advertisement Continue reading the main story The firm , which has dozens of offices around the world , has been investigated justice.investigate.investigatecrime by law enforcement authorities in several countries over accusations of connections to money laundering . In a lengthy statement provided to The Guardian , the firm said it could not respond to specific questions , but insisted that many of the individuals and companies named in the documents were never clients of Mossack Fonseca . The firm added that in many cases it was “ legal and common for companies to establish commercial entities in different jurisdictions for a variety of legitimate reasons . ”

Tyler Drumheller , the former chief of CIA European operations , described a meeting in Washington with his BND counterpart in September 2002 . Regarding Curveball , Drumheller said the German agent told him , " We think he 's probably a fabricator . " That meeting is also part of the 2005 report from the commission that investigated justice.investigate.na the intelligence failures leading up to the war . Another top American spy manager , James Pavitt , said that information led to screaming matches inside the CIA . " My people were saying , ' We think he 's a stinker . '

When Hillary Clinton stated her " predecessors did the same thing " with email , this statement was rated " Mostly False " by POLTIFACT . Nobody in U.S. history , since the invention of email , has acted in the manner of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State . Previous secretaries of state were n't investigated justice.investigate.investigatecrime by the FBI , and never used a private server exclusively . Thus , a Democratic nominee at risk of indictment , or incited by the Justice Department at the request of the FBI , will lose to any Republican on November 8 , 2016 . I explain why Democrats need Bernie Sanders now , more than ever , in this YouTube segment .