Comment by mulmen
8 months ago
> FBI investigated and declined to bring charges
Does the FBI make this determination? Wouldn’t that be the Attorney General’s call?
8 months ago
> FBI investigated and declined to bring charges
Does the FBI make this determination? Wouldn’t that be the Attorney General’s call?
Yeah, they do. The US Attorneys and the Attorney General are allowed to give input typically into whether any investigation is prosecutable.
Now did they investigate it? Probably not.
What's interesting to me is that personal phones were not seized for forensic examination though.
Were the phones hacked by foreign agents? What other uses was signal used for?
That's backwards. Prosecutors don't give input, they decide whether to charge. The FBI investigates, but they aren’t the ones who are responsible for taking cases to court.
The FBI makes charging decisions all the time. The FBI has to be the one to investigate charges.
Now whether or not said charges are prosecutable is the job of the DoJ.
The demarcation line between the two is when the charges are filed in federal court.
Hillary Clinton was famously not charged by the FBI director Comey back in 2016. Not because she committed any crime, but because they wouldn't likely get a conviction at trial.
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