James Comey Testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee

So do you believe that any private sector entity can deny a subpoena for evidence from the FBI because they don't want the FBI to get access to data contained within evidence?

It is not really their choice. The FBI could subpoena the server(s).

They can but what basis would the government have to serve a subpoena where they can ask for ALL the data from an organization? A subpoena would be more narrow unlike giving up ALL your data.
 
Both are private organizations who do not want their data in government hands where they can be used by their enemies - with all the Republicans in FBI why would DNC give all their data to them?
Does the NYT have a political platform in which the nominate a nominee for President of the US to run in the Presidential election?
 
They can but what basis would the government have to serve a subpoena where they can ask for ALL the data from an organization? A subpoena would be more narrow unlike giving up ALL your data.
I have already made the argument.

The FBI at a minimum should have another 3rd party security firm analyze the servers and to make its own conclusion.
 
They can but what basis would the government have to serve a subpoena where they can ask for ALL the data from an organization? A subpoena would be more narrow unlike giving up ALL your data.
You just destroyed your own argument.
 
Risch: "Boy you nailed this down on page 5 paragraph 3, you put this in quotes, words matter, you wrote down the words so we could all have the words in front of us now. There are 28 words there that are in quotes and it says, 'I hope', this is the President speaking, 'I hope you can see your way claer to letting this go, to letting Flynn go...I hope you can let this go.'"

"Now those are his exact words, is that correct"

Comey: "Correct."

Risch: "And you wrote them here and you put them in quotes?"

Comey: "Correct."

Risch: "Thank you for that. He did not direct you to let it go."

Comey: "Not in his words, no."

Risch: "He did not order you to let it go."

Comey: "Again, those words are not an order."

Risch: "He said 'I hope'. Now, like me you probably did 100's of cases, maybe 1,000s of cases charging people with criminal offenses. And, of course, you have knowlege of the 1,000s of cases out there where people have been charged. Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice, for that matter of any other criminal offense, where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?"

Comey: "I don't know well enough to answer. And the reason I keep saying 'his words' is I took it as a direction..."

Risch: "You may have taken it as a direction but that is not what he said. He said, 'I hope.' You don't know of anyone who has ever been charged for hoping something, is that a fair statement?"

Comey: "I don't as I sit here."
 
exactly the point that needed to be made.
Trump should not have done it but it was not obstruction of justice.

Risch: "Boy you nailed this down on page 5 paragraph 3, you put this in quotes, words matter, you wrote down the words so we could all have the words in front of us now. There are 28 words there that are in quotes and it says, 'I hope', this is the President speaking, 'I hope you can see your way claer to letting this go, to letting Flynn go...I hope you can let this go.'"

"Now those are his exact words, is that correct"

Comey: "Correct."

Risch: "And you wrote them here and you put them in quotes?"

Comey: "Correct."

Risch: "Thank you for that. He did not direct you to let it go."

Comey: "Not in his words, no."

Risch: "He did not order you to let it go."

Comey: "Again, those words are not an order."

Risch: "He said 'I hope'. Now, like me you probably did 100's of cases, maybe 1,000s of cases charging people with criminal offenses. And, of course, you have knowlege of the 1,000s of cases out there where people have been charged. Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice, for that matter of any other criminal offense, where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?"

Comey: "I don't know well enough to answer. And the reason I keep saying 'his words' is I took it as a direction..."

Risch: "You may have taken it as a direction but that is not what he said. He said, 'I hope.' You don't know of anyone who has ever been charged for hoping something, is that a fair statement?"

Comey: "I don't as I sit here."
 
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