Posted on 05/26/2016 8:57:17 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
With the publication of the State Department inspector general's extraordinarily damning report on Hillary Clinton's private email server, we're going to find out if Bernie Sanders really wants to be president or if his campaign has merely been an academic exercise in socialism promotion.
Donald Trump will certainly be able to use the report to wound Clinton and has already started, but Sanders is now in a position to use it to actually take her down. Right now, before the California primary.
But will he?
So far Bernie has been reluctant to speak about the emails - except once to the Wall Street Journal months ago -- instead taking the position that such scandals were beneath him and that the American people were interested in more "serious" matters like climate change and the supposedly unspeakable evils of Wall Street.
Of course, this was nothing more than the standard political spin by a man who feigns he is above such things. The email scandal is about critical matters like national security and the rule of law and Bernie knows it.
The Vermont senator was playing a waiting game, holding his fire until the FBI indicted or something else happened to hand him the nomination. Well, it has. Even the New York Times is starting to panic.
The State Department’s inspector general has sharply criticized Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, saying she had not sought permission to use it and would not have received it if she had. [snip]
[The IG report] also added new detail about Mrs. Clinton’s motivation for using the private server, which she has said was set up for convenience. In November 2010, her deputy chief of staff for operations prodded her about “putting you on state email or releasing your email address to the department so you are not going to spam.” Mrs. Clinton, however, replied that she would consider a separate address or device “but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.”
The great Andy McCarthy analyzes the report more closely, examining the crucial question of criminality:
“Secretary Clinton should have preserved any Federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records with the related files in the Office of the Secretary,” the report states. By failing to do so, and compounding that dereliction with a failure to “surrender[] all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service,” Clinton, the IG finds, “did not comply with the Department’s policies.”
This articulation of Mrs. Clinton’s offense is also sugar-coated. By saying Clinton violated “policies,” the IG avoids concluding that she violated the law. But the IG adds enough that we can connect the dots ourselves. The “policies,” he elaborates, “were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act.” To violate the policies — as Shannen Coffin has explained here at National Review — is to violate the law.
So the ball is now in Bernie's court. Does he move now before that crucial California primary or wait for the FBI? A candidate who really wants the nomination would do the former. As the old saw goes, he who hesitates is lost. In this case, that loss could come in a number of forms -- the nomination of Joe Biden or John Kerry, a Hillary indictment that arrives after the Democratic convention (too late for Sanders), a recommended Hillary indictment that is deferred by the attorney general until after the convention (again too late for Sanders) and on and on.
It's up to Bernie.
But I have to say I hope he goes for it -- and indeed right now in time for California. I want a Trump-Sanders election, capitalism versus socialism, America's final showdown. Bring it on.
Bernie is holding the Western world in his hands. His next move determines the course of history for the next generation. All he has to do is throw down the one card that changes everything.
10 bucks he throws down enchanted bunny.
The Democrats have done to their own party primary what they’ve done to the whole country: let a guy with no right to be there come in the front door and crap all over the living room, knowing full well the Republicans will get blamed for the whole thing when they have to clean up the mess.
Bernie? The guy has no nuts. When he turned the microphone at his paid campaign event over to a BLM protestor waaaaaay back in the beginning of this thing, you knew right then he has zero testosterone.
No, because I think the Clintons PAID Bernie to run so it would make Hillary look centrist!!! Prove me wrong!!
prove yourself right.
Even if Hillary did have dirt on Obama, he has the full levers of Goverment power at his disposal. Unless Hillary is willing to do a LBJ on Kennedy or Vince Foster body count, she is toast.
There is very little you said I disagree with... but the trigger point will be when the connection is made between what Hitlery was doing at State and the donations that poured into that crooked foundation scam. Once that happens, TS will truly have HTF.... and none of the speculation will matter since you won't be able to see any Democrats for dust, particularly Odumbo. Since that whole relationship is what is really at the heart of the email scandal (amongst other things of course), that will be a giant workboot hitting the floor. During this same discussion this morning on Morning Joe, that point was solidly made by somebody who rather pointedly said "sure Hitlery may have done all this and was lying through her teeth all aloing.... but where on earth was the administration when all this was going on?
I prove NOTHING to NEWBIES!!!
I vote for Mrs. Carlos Danger (aka Huma)...
Blow it out your ears.
ewww
:-P :-(
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