Comey’s comments make it impossible for Lynch to take this to a Grand Jury to torpedo the case and to bury the facts of the case using Grand Jury secrecy provisions
Instead, he gave a public confirmation of much of the damning evidence along with an inventory of what they found and basically told the world that the the FBI investigation was at an end , which prevents the Clintons and the Obama Admin from using their favorite, “we can't comment because there is an ongoing investigation.”
Based on Comey’s comments and legal analysis (if true) , there's absolutely no reason what the entire FBI Clinton email investigative files cannot be be released under FOIA in their entirety to show just how "innocent and inconsequential" the whole email debacle was. In fact, given the circumstances with Obama interference and the Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch air plane meeting, it is incumbent upon the FBI to release the investigation information to the public in order to clear up the inevitable and legitimate concerns that the fix is in and the FBI threw the case against Hillary.
Good points. Comey also directly contradicted HRC continuous braying of no classified emails blah blah blah were ever sent or received.
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She must have changed that statement during her FBI interview or she could be facing Lying to Federal Agent charges.
With no prosecution, then her entire FBI interview should be available.
Outstanding insights, rdcbn.
I was watching Comey's press conference of July 5, and I didn't so much see a "coward" as a very angry, frustrated man. He was clearly caught between a rock and a hard place. I think he realized that if he did recommend prosecution, AG Lynch would find some pretext to decline his recommendation; and then the case would be "over."
Instead, what Comey did was to keep the case simmering along at the political level, probably rightly assuming that Lynch would stop it at the legal level. So he gave up the goods on Hillary, detailing why she is guilty under the relevant federal statutes, and showing every instance of her lying through her teeth to escape culpability. It's all on the record, and plain for all to see. When he said no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against Hillery, given existing legal precedents, I think that's very likely true. He said he could not "prove" intent. But the relevant statutes do not require intent to show the commission of a felony.
On a circumstantial basis, the fact that Hillary had a home-grown server in the first place clearly indicates intent to evade the Federal Records Act. But Comey gave her a "pass." As we walks off the stage, done with it and disgusted. (And he gets to keep his job.)
But then he goes to Congress tomorrow.... I'll be watching. I think he correctly judged that the Hillary e-mail/server scandal is, finally, a political, not a legal matter; and the people have to decide. This is, after all, a presidential election year....
I'm inclined to agree that, against the background of the Constitution, this is more of a political than a legal matter. The Framers created three separate but equal branches. Two of them -- Congress and the Executive -- are political branches. That is, they are constituted by people who are elected to office for a term of years. They are chosen by the people to be answerable to the people. If they aren't suitably "answerable," they can be voted out of office. (Or in Obama's case, be impeached and removed. But it seems nobody wants to take the trouble.)
The Article III Courts, however, were deliberately constructed to be non-political in their judgments and functions. Not that you'd know that from observation, these days....
Comey's FBI is part of the Executive Branch, a political branch (which currently is hostile to Congress generally). Comey will be deposed by another political branch tomorrow. Maybe between the two, certain concrete results can be achieved to exact a price on Hillary for her abject malfeasance and corruption. At the very least, she ought to be stripped of her security clearance....
Hopefully, Donald Trump will get more serious in his remarks about Hillary's misdeeds, and succeed in educating the public as to her abject unsuitability for the Office of the President. She is an outstandingly corrupt figure in a cabal of corrupt figures, i.e., the Progressive Left which is attempting to destroy American liberty and the constitutional rule of law. This PL has already taken over the Democrat Party. So it knows how to do "coups"....