Posted on 06/30/2016 8:20:54 AM PDT by jazusamo
This is what I expected: the FBI/DoJ doesn't want to politicize the investigation. And I understand the problem, under most circumstances. You don't want an existing administration to be able to undermine the opposition by prosecuting or harassing them. That's essentially what the IRS did, and people should have gone to jail for it.
However, a Presidential candidate is different. Once elected, the only remedy is impeachment, which is a political proceeding -- not a criminal prosecution.
When Nixon was caught covering up a minor crime that he didn't sanction and didn't even know about until after-the-fact, Republicans in the Senate were unwilling to protect him. They told Nixon this, and he resigned rather than face impeachment and subsequent Senate trial.
On the other hand, Democrats wouldn't hold Bill Clinton responsible, even when he demonstrably lied under oath in a grand jury deposition. I would expect them to protect Hillary, even though there is definitive proof of a conspiracy to expose classified information.
This is aside from the gross negligence. Clinton apparently didn't realize that her email instructing an aide to remove classification headings from a message on the secured email system at State and send it to her on her unsecured home-brew system was prima facie evidence of a crime. The information wasn't classified, but there's a process to review and "downgrade" a document with classified information by removing all the classified bits. This wasn't followed, and Clinton admits to it in her response.
In addition to the gross negligence and conspiracy, Hillary also failed to report a breach of classified information when it was sent to her by Sid Blumenthal. It's unknown (to the public) where Sid got the info. But it was marked "sensitive", and was instantly recognizable as classified at the highest level by anyone that has been briefed for a security clearance: it revealed methods for collecting intelligence.
Hillary signed an SF-312 stating that all of this had been explained to her, and that she understood her obligations and would comply with them. It's available on-line -- I think it was an FOIA request by Judicial Watch.
Ultimately, the only solution is political. Trump has to hammer this issue over and over. He could get maximum leverage by recruiting people from the national security community to explain the obligations of a person with a security clearance, and how Hillary failed to do so.
For bonus points, his legal research team should dig up cases where people were prosecuted for the same crimes that Hillary has committed, and compare/contrast the facts of the case.
None of this will convince the brain-dead leftists. But, it WILL put doubt in the brain of a lot of people that don't know who Hillary really is, having been spoon-fed information by the enemedia.
...”Loretta was telling Bill to tell Hillary to withdraw from the race for medical reasons. They know Hillary cant win and want to slip in Joe Biden or Pocahontas.”...
I have always believed that Obama wanted Hillary out in favor of Biden. Lynch will do his bidding.
Why wouldn’t Bill Clinton meet with Lynch?
There is an opening at the Foundation for an Executive Vice President of Community Relations, salary $10 million/year, only two meetings required, and she’s his first choice.
What’s wrong with that?
She will be pardoned before she is sworn in.
If you weren’t an old Freeper, I would not believe a word of what you said....I PRAY that your friend is telling the TRUTH.....however since she’s a friend of HILLARY’S, I might doubt that!! I didn’t know Hillary was friends with ANY decent people.
Don't be silly.
The Big He is the organizer and the director of the tax evasion, money laundering, bribery and racketeering operation called the Clinton Foundation.
If anybody goes to prison, it will be Bill.
As I said on another thread, why would the AG/Obama and the Clintons risk a meeting? A face to face meetings means this information could not be securly delivered in any other manner. Not even a courier. The AG either handed over the FBI files or there is something big about to break.
That meeting was to settle the terms.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
Now Lynch can appoint a special prosecutor to “avoid the appearance of impropriety”. A big win for her because there is no good way for her to deal with the FBI report and she doesn’t want that headache (and impeachment if she follows Obama’s order over the FBI recommendation?).
And the special prosecutor won’t be chosen and doing work until after the election. A big win for Clinton plus she gets to campaign against the old Ken Starr investigation for months and avoid talking about the current prosecutor.
The Attorney General must enjoy the confidence of the nation as she stands ready to pass on moving an indictment against Clinton and his wife in which it is not at all improbable that they are named as conspirators to betray and sell Hillary Clinton's office. At worst, it is not a matter of appearance but a matter of actual corruption in which the Atty. Gen. was arranging a pardon for Hillary Clinton or, even worse, negotiating a quid pro quo, a deal in which Hillary and Bill keep silent about misfeasance by Barack Obama including but not necessarily limited to the illegal e-mail server.
We simply cannot know but we are entitled to know.
Where are the renewed cries from the Republicans demanding the appointment of a special prosecutor? The Atty. Gen. by her egregious lapse of judgment has forfeited her claim on the confidence of the nation. If the nation cannot believe that the rule of law is pursued objectively, how can the people the asked to respect the results of this election, assuming a victory by Hillary?
So it is not only a question of maintaining the appearance of propriety and the maintenance of the rule of law, it is a question of respect for the electoral process which the Atty. Gen. by her recklessness has put at risk. She has forfeited her claim to office. She must go, at minimum she must recuse herself in the Clinton investigation.
The people are entitled to know that justice is being done and they are entitled to have confidence that their "president is not a crook."
Cromwell's dismissal of the Rump Parliament comes to mind:
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
"Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!"
Sargent Shriver replaced Eagleton as McGovern’s running mate, not Ed Muskie.
Question for anyone who may know:
Is Hillary Clinton STILL using her private server, or did she start using the Fed Gov’t server?
Nowhere do I read anything about what she is doing NOW.
I doubt it was meant to be discovered. This was like an agent meeting an agent handler at a remote airport. They didn’t “bump into each other.” This was set up in advance. Bill knew she was scheduled to come to PHX to take over the PD dept. He arranged to be there, and a secret meeting was arranged.
But some patriotic ground crew or jet crew saw them, and called a local reporter. It was useless to deny it after the fact, when their schedules and locations coincided. But no way was it meant to be discovered. The “agent meeting” was blown. Now they are in cover story mode. Golf in 108* heat? NOBODY believes that story.
Worse, if Bill taped their conversation and it involved Hillary (bet on it) then Bill now OWNS Lynch, having trapped her in a provable lie. All he has to do is play a few seconds of it to her on the phone, and she is now Bill’s 100% owned puppet, and Bill is her puppet master.
Primarily. Not one talking head has seized on that. So, what else did they talk about?
The Obamas and the Clintons are political bedfellows, not friends.
With all the mutual-assured-destruction triggers in place, if one of these characters slips up, we could see a 2 a.m. Waffle House brawl at the highest levels of the Democrat Party.
When Lynch was sent out a few weeks ago to lie for the administration it 'had the feel' of a test... She must have 'passed'... Clinton and Lynch talked on a plane neither of them has come on...
Reminds me of the security of Jeffrey Epstein's orgy island plane trips with Clinton... What's said and done on those planes stays on the plane.
If Lynch has the smallest amount of integrity left she needs to step down as AG.
You're right eleven - one more slap in the face from our corrupt 'elites'... creepy little lowlife slime bags.
Absolutely right! To even think her explanation would be believed by anyone under all the circumstances now is pathetic, of course she has no integrity in my view.
Please define Hillary has gone over to the dark side
We already know she is Satan incarnate.
Fox News reported this story yesterday, and it was discussed on Morning Joe, but has it received any coverage in the rest of the mainstream media?
Thank you for the correction.
But the Democrat ticket still lost overwhemlingly.
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