"The decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information has roiled the FBI and Department of Justice, with one person closely involved in the year-long probe telling FoxNews.com that career agents and attorneys on the case unanimously believed the Democratic presidential nominee should have been charged.

"The source, who spoke to FoxNews.com on the condition of anonymity, said FBI Director James Comey'€™s dramatic July 5 announcement that he would not recommend to the Attorney General's office that the former secretary of state be charged left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted. More than 100 FBI agents and analysts worked around the clock with six attorneys from the DOJ's National Security Division, Counter Espionage Section, to investigate the case.

"'No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute -- it was a top-down decision,' said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com.

"A high-ranking FBI official told Fox News that while it might not have been a unanimous decision, 'It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton's] security clearance yanked.'"

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"American arms dealer Marc Turi, in his first television interview since criminal charges against him were dropped, told Fox News that the Obama administration -- with the cooperation of Hillary Clinton's State Department -- tried and failed to make him the scapegoat for a 2011 covert weapons program to arm Libyan rebels that spun out of control. ...

"The 48-year-old Arizona resident has been at the epicenter of a failed federal investigation led by the Justice Department spanning five years and costing the government an estimated $10 million or more, Turi says.

"Turi says the Justice Department abruptly dropped the case to avoid public disclosure of the weapons program, that was designed to force the ouster of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi during the 2011 Arab Spring.

"'Those transcripts from current as well as former CIA officers were classified,' Turi said of the evidence. 'If any of these relationships [had] been revealed it would have opened up a can of worms. There wouldn't have been any good answer for the U.S. government especially in this election year.' The Justice Department faced a deadline last week to produce records to the defense."

"When a questioner at Sunday night's presidential debate asked about ObamaCare's premium spikes, increasing deductibles and increasingly skimpy coverage, Hillary Clinton quickly ran down a list of great things she claims the law achieved.

"Among the alleged benefits were, she said, letting parents keep their kids on their insurance plans up to age 26 (even though most states had this requirement before ObamaCare) and banning pre-existing condition restrictions for employer coverage (which had already been banned or severely restricted for group plans sold in every state).

"But at the top of the list was her claim that '20 million got insurance who didn't have it before.' This went unchallenged by every fact-checker sifting through the debate, even though it's not true. ...

"We've complained many times in this space that 'fact-checking' by journalists is often just a way for them to disguise opinion journalism. The fact that none of the fact-checkers reviewing Sunday's debate noticed Clinton's phony 20 million number is a case in point."

"Last night was a vivid, real-time illustration of how the media think of the American people: 'We're really interested in how you think! So, please, come in, sit down and . . . let the professionals ask the questions.'

"Man of the people Anderson Cooper, son of Gloria Vanderbilt, and Martha Raddatz, who had President Obama as a guest at her wedding, must have panicked when ordinary Americans invited to what was billed as a Town Hall debate in St. Louis didn't ask the questions they were supposed to ask. ...

"So it went as the night wore on: For long periods of time the invited voters had as much influence on events as wallpaper. The moderators went after the candidates, mostly but not exclusively aiming their questions at Trump, repeatedly interrupting him and telling him his time was up. ...

"Voters can be forgiven if they're wondering why journalists keep mistaking themselves for the star of every show, even one that was designed to give the people a voice."

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"Newly disclosed emails show top Obama administration officials were in close contact with Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign in early 2015 about the potential fallout from revelations that the former secretary of state used a private email server.

"Their discussion included a request from the White House communications director to her counterpart at the State Department to see if it was possible to arrange for Secretary of State John Kerry to avoid questions during media appearances about Mrs. Clinton's email arrangement.

"In another instance, a top State Department official assured an attorney for Mrs. Clinton that, contrary to media reports, a department official hadn't told Congress that Mrs. Clinton erred in using a private email account."

"No one can explain why the president and Senate Democrats were so obsessed with transferring control of the Internet to a global body. We passed legislation to block the transfer, held hearings, wrote letters and pushed national media to take notice; but in the end, he still gave it away. The damage to free speech will not be felt for a few years, but there is no question that the Internet, as we know, is changing. Now, China, Russia and Iran have the same voice on its future as the United States of America."

"Kaine entered tonight with a reputation as a likeable, even-keeled, mainstream Democrat. He lost it quickly, interrupting with wild abandon and generally coming across as an over-caffeinated jerk, eager to insert canned lines that must have sounded great in rehearsal but generally fell flat or got lost in the cross-talk. For many Americans watching, this was their first real introduction to Kaine. It's hard to believe they came away impressed or feeling warm. Did he seem like a man ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? Or did he seem like your friend's awkward, over-eager younger brother, eager to show off he could keep up with the big kids?"

"Former President Bill Clinton stumped for his wife's campaign on Monday in Michigan by deeming the Affordable Care Act a 'crazy system.'

"President Obama's signature piece of legislation was framed as nonsensical public policy that punishes middle-class Americans by doubling their health-insurance premiums, according to video footage of the event.

"'You've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,' Mr. Clinton told voters. 'It'€™s the craziest thing in the world.'...

"'The people that are getting killed in this deal are small businesspeople and individuals who make just a little too much to get any of these subsidies,' the former president added."

"Hillary Clinton keeps bashing the Trump tax plan as 'Trumped up trickle down economics.' This class warfare card has become the standard and tired response to every Republican tax plan reform for 30 years. No wonder we haven't cleaned out the stables of the tax code since the Reagan era. Democrats have no interest.

"Hillary's claim is that the plan will blow a hole in the debt (which is rich coming from someone who worked for an administration that nearly doubled the debt in eight years) and that the benefits all go to the rich. She also says it will cost jobs and could even 'cause a recession.'

"I worked on devising the Trump tax plan with economists Larry Kudlow, Sam Clovis and others, so I know a little bit about the costs and the benefits. It's an amazing ideology which says that letting businesses keep more of their own money will cause the economy to capsize and other horrors, but a $1.5 trillion tax hike on businesses and investors will, as Hillary promises, create jobs. Yes, and injecting Elmer's glue into your veins is a good way to prevent a heart attack."

"As the nation weighs who should next be trusted with the presidency, the current occupant of the White House seems poised to provide yet another reminder of the importance of maintaining checks on executive power. President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services has in recent weeks floated the possibility of the federal government using a backdoor method to funnel money to insurers losing money through Obamacare, even though Congress has twice voted to block such payments. ...

"This comes as the Government Accountability Office issued an opinion on Thursday that concluded the administration didn't have the authority to divert $3.5 billion from the Treasury Department to Obamacare insurers as part of another program within Obamacare.

"The looming and illegal bailout of Obamacare is the latest of many reasons why those Republicans who plan not to vote for Donald Trump should nevertheless vote for Republicans in down-ballot races. It is vital that the GOP retain control of Capitol Hill as a check on the power of the executive branch, that has abused its powers for the past eight years. If low turnout hands the Senate over to Democrats, an Obamacare bailout seems likely to be an early and unwelcome consequence."