The Sunday Shows: Where people who hate me lie to me about yesterday's news.
Posted on 04/10/2016 2:48:36 PM PDT by Strac6
Commenting on Hillary Clinton's private server and President Obama weighing in on the Justice Department probe on this week's FOX News Sunday, Watergate journalist Bob Woodward said Obama not only touched a hot stove, "he put his arms around it" with his defense of Hillary Clinton during an ongoing investigation.
BOB WOODWARD: He is anticipating the defense where one of the elements is intent. President Obama said, look this is carelessness. What they're going to be able to say is no crime because there was no intent. If you talk to people in the White House, State Department, Pentagon, they all send these classified messages around. It's the way of doing business. They're argument is, 'Hey, I'm over in the Middle East so I need to do this.' I think this is what we're going to see. (Clinton's claim will be) Big mistake. Carelessness. No intent.
CHRIS WALLACE: What do you think of the idea of a President weighing in like this in the midst of an FBI investigation?
WOODWARD: Well, it proves that we're in a political situation here now. Hillary Clinton is running for president. There have been lots of questions. I think (there are) serious, unanswered questions about the e-mail. But if you can establish there was no intent and there is carelessness in the system --
WALLACE: What about the president weighing in?
WOODWARD: Look, he's a political figure and that's up to him. Karl (Rove) made the critique, I think, you know, always better in a case like this, with a sensitive case, it's a hot stove, don't touch it. He not only touched it, he put his arms around it!
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Criminal negligence is enough to establish the committing of a crime in this case.
Should have asked him if he was about to pardon Petraeus.
Is “careless” a defense? Is “careless” the new standard for Democrats who are Criminally Negligent?
Hmmm. Gotta remember that one.
If she had restricted info out of the proper channels, intent does not matter!
The Catch 22 is that if a terror attack had occured because of this “carelessness”, we would have blamed a video and not Hillary yet.
Obama makes it as if she had intent or something bad had happened , he would have done something against her. Liar.
No, what is careless is us having encrypted Apple Iphones the FBi cannot break in, not the fact that San Bernadino terrorists were unvetted government workers who should have been forbiden private servers or encrypted phones...
I believe that you don’t have to prove intent to prove espionage.
This country has hung Americans for committing espionage.
Gosh.
I remember those communications security briefings I was forced to attend.
They all started out the same way,
“If you disclose our nation’s secrets, intentionally or unintentionally, we will throw you in prison!”
They never said,
“Unless you tell us you really didn’t mean it.”
The Sunday Shows: Where people who hate me lie to me about yesterday's news.
It shows that the DOJ under Obama is not going to indict Clinton.
I suppose it matters how the law is written. Is “intent” part of the law?
“Careless” only works in legal defense if you are a member of the protected class.
There is no question, in my mind, that Hillary set up the personal email server to avoid FOIA requests for documents. Instead, she certainly exposed top secret information to foreign enemies.
In my view, guilty of treason.
Woodward: Nobody can slip one past this guy...
Seriously! He’s just figured this out?
LOL
So much for Obama declining to comment regarding ongoing investigations. The two faced weasel...
Mishandling of classified information is a crime regardless of intent. That’s a BS excuse...
Obama has jumped the shark on this felonious act.
Not as far as I know. It is just Democrat speak and the press buys it without question.
So, Clinton has to win the Presidency in order to stay out of jail. That will make her that much more determined.
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