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Ex-U.S. attorney: Tuesday election will be squeaker

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Joseph DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., joined Herald Radio’s “Herald Drive” show yesterday to talk about the latest Hillary Clinton email dump. Here are some excerpts:

wouldQ: What lead couldFBI Directorbe in the James 650,000 Comey emailsto investigat­e? that A: (Maybe) the 33,000 deleted emails, evidence also evidenceof obstructio­nof the Clintonof justice Foundation­and perjury,payto-play … The bottom line is this — there is a revolt going on in the bureau.

They kept this secret from him ... that’s a firing offense, and not one of these people is going to be fired, because Comey no longer controls the bureau.

Q: The deleted emails have got to be sitting in someone’s inbox somewhere?

A: Well I’ll tell you where they’re all sitting right now — this is such a joke — NSA has every one of her emails.

They have every government email that has ever been sent. It’s stored on a massive computer in Utah.

If the FBI and the DOJ wanted the 33,000 deleted emails, they can go to Utah and get them any day they want. Q: Why don’t they do that then? A: Because (Attorney General) Loretta Lynch is the most politicall­y corrupt attorney general since John Mitchell.

She is a disaster. … She is an embarrassm­ent to every graduate of that place over there.

Q: With only eight days left until the election, how impactful can any of this news be?

A: Well it can’t help Hillary Clinton. None of us know what kind of affect this will have, but recent polling indicates that (Donald) Trump is ahead by 16 points among independen­ts since the news became public on Friday.

My guess is it’s going to be a squeaker. We could even have situation where he wins the popular vote and she wins the Electoral College.

Q: What is the process over the next eight days? What can be learned before the election?

A: They now will start using various software to go through all those (emails) and see how many are repeats they have already seen, see how many are new, whether or not the 33,000 deleted ones are on there, how many of them deal with the Clinton Foundation, how many of them (potentiall­y) deal with obstructio­n and perjury. There’s so much work to do — this takes weeks and weeks and weeks, so there’s not going to be any resolution before the election.

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