Posted on 08/15/2016 2:42:47 PM PDT by drewh
The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees laid out the case for perjury charges against Hillary Clinton in a letter sent to the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the chairs of Oversight and Judiciary, respectively, say that Clinton may have violated 18 U.S.C. § 1621 and § 1001, federal laws which govern perjury and false statements, respectively, during her Oct. 22, 2015 testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips, the lawmakers point to four inconsistent statements Clinton made regarding her private email system during that hearing.
Clinton gave false testimony when she said she did not send or receive emails that were marked classified at the time they were originated, when she claimed that her attorneys reviewed all of the emails on her personal email system, when she said that she only operated one server, and when she claimed that she provided all of her work-related emails to the State Department, Chaffetz and Goodlatte argue.
FBI director James Comey undermined those Clinton claims, and others, during two public appearances early last month. While Comey announced on July 5 that the FBI would not seek charges against Clinton for mishandling classified information, he called her use of a private email server “extremely careless.”
In a hearing in front of Chaffetz’s Oversight Committee two days later, Comey said that Clinton did not lie during her July 2 interrogation with FBI and Justice Department investigators.
But he said he was unable to ascertain whether Clinton perjured herself during the Benghazi hearing. He said that Clinton’s testimony then was not central to their investigation but that he would welcome a referral from Congress to look into the matter further.
“Although there may be other aspects of Secretary Clinton’s sworn testimony that are at odds with the FBI’s findings, her testimony in those four areas bears specific scrutiny in light of the facts and evidence FBI Director James Comey described in his public statement on July 5, 2016 and in testimony before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 7, 2016,” reads the Chaffetz/Goodlatte letter.
The letter comes two weeks after Justice Department attorney Peter Kadzik wrote to Chaffetz and Goodlatte that the agency would look into Clinton’s inconsistent statements to Congress and “take appropriate action as necessary.
How many footballs does Lucy have, fercryingoutloud?
kabuki. Just exactly who in valjars government will charge her? The whole frikin’ lot of them are as corrupt as killary. many different depts had to approve of things she did.
They are all in on it. The Uranium One deal alone should have put most of them under a lamp-post. Kabuki.
An entire hog farm worth of pigskin?
Surely they know that no reasonable prosecutor would ever charge the Clintons.
No sane DOJ would indict any person running for POTUS and there is a policy in place. While one can disagree with this I can see the logic in the policy.
Kabuki theater is the greatest power they can hope to muster of themselves at this point.
Maybe they are trying to throw some red meat to Donald Trump even though officially despising him.
Well, that pretty much settles it.
1) None will be deemed 'necessary'.
2) And that's exactly what they'll do.
what is the penalty attached to those crimes if convicted? 4 years as president of the USA?
That’s pretty sad, when it becomes party uber alles. But this is a sign of a party in a steep decline and it will be a matter only of when, not whether, the Donks take the prat fall.
It looks like #Guccifer2 and #Wikileaks releasing more. Nothing great yet.
Seems NSA is hiring independent hackers for Malware?
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/765215873959329792
+1
It is a “load of bull”, and possibly a “dung heap”, neither of which can be wiped up “with a cloth”. She didn’t intend to lie to Congress, she was simply “careless” with the truth, was “unsophisticated” when it came to testifying in front of a House Committee, should have known better, but had no “criminal intent”. Maybe Bill can accidentally run into Loretta Lynch on a tarmac some place, and get it all straightened out. See? It’s easy!
Unfortunately, this will go about as far as Trey Gowdy’s committee did in getting to the bottom of the truth.
Yeah! OK!
If Hillary doesn’t win she and Bill have to go in to hiding. They have recieved hundreds of millions of dollars for the selling of America. If they can’t deliver the goods the SS can’t even save them.
Trey gowdy was so promising and came up so lacking. It was he who disappointed so much. He was the last hope. No one mentions him but for me he was why, looking at this headline I realize it. He was or is why I am so positive that trump is the only answer to this. I like chaff eye. But he will come up empty.
Something happens to all of them. It’s like in the holy grail she they meet the troll. It is very difficult to get past him then King Arthur asks a simple, logical question back and the troll gets stumped and thrown over to his death
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