Posted on 07/06/2016 10:45:02 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
No he did not give a thorough investigation. Everyone seems to forgot the unsecured USB drive that floated around for months.
In transferring her emails to private thumb drives, Clinton violated a slew of federal regulations, including those of her own State Department.
Not one word about this part of the investigation.
Maybe, maybe not. But he sure opened up a line of inquiry by not using the standard phrasing, "no probable cause that a crime was committed."
I'm curious if his conclusion that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case, extends to a case under 18 USC 1924(a). His remarks focused on the felony offense, and appear to sidestep the misdemeanor offense altogether.
Whatever the reality is, I also have a sense that the FBI and Congress are in cahoots to greywash this away, without a charge - that is, the intention is to limit the damage to political damage, and to not expose Clinton to any legal jeopardy.
The State Department’s Foreign Affairs manual prohibits the storage of classified material on any external drive, stating, “the flash drive may only be used for the transfer of unclassified files.” Flash and thumb drives are treated inter-changeably by the rules.
Unclassified material must be on a “department owned” drive, not a personal or private sector drive.
If the information on the drive is unclassified, but still sensitive, it “must be encrypted to current standards” for transportation, according to the manual.
State Department rules also required that Clinton’s email transfer had to be approved and closely supervised by a department computer security official.
Kabuki.......
post # 14 :
~ Upholding the rule of law for ALL people regardless of stature, and regardless of the political fallout?
Comey don’t play dat! ~
Maybe more Kabuki; maybe not. I am the “eternal optimist’, and so I have been (as many others have) been praying for Divine Intervention - Almighty God is the only one who can save this once great Country.
But WHY SHOULD HE?
Emails: Key security features disabled on Clinton's serverNo intent there!
Clinton's State Dept. calendar missing scores of entries
No intent there!
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Posted Names of Hidden Intelligence Officials On Her Email
No intent there!
Hillary Clinton Demanded NSA Change Secure Device Rules to Accommodate Her Secret Server
No intent there!
Hillary Caught Illegally Declassifying Documents. It’s a Felony!
No intent there!
The "willful" and "intentional" standards for the other parts of 793 are reasonably well known, but Comey is playing fast and loose by saying that the only reason a prosecution is unreasonable, is due to absence of intent.
Then there is the misdemeanor offense, which has a "knowing" standard. 18 USC 1924 - that one is also "lost in the FOG."
Pretty much.
Yet, they’ll do some harsh talking.
Issa and Gowdy will talk tough; very tough. And then have lunch.
Hillary has one day to murder him.
If they can’t figure out whether to prosecute without looking at prior cases
how does the first case under a law ever get prosecuted?
lol
(would be funnier were it not ringing so true with these actors called Senators and Representatives)
That may be right. But the Democrats will not suffer any political damage. They seem to have entered into a realm where breaking the law has no consequences. The authorities don't hold them accountable and neither do their voters.
What really surprises me is that as bad as the FBI and the law enforcement community claims to hate the Clintons, you would think the first chance they had to take her down a notch they would use it.
They pass now, and they will not get another chance. Their hell is only beginning. For the moment, Trump seems to be out of his element in the world of high stakes politics. He's going to get steamrolled, and the FBI is going to have to put up with Hillary for at least the next four years.
[Hillary has one day to murder him.]
;)
She doesn’t have to. The payoff / intimidation already worked.
She’s probably emailing him right now what to say and deny. I know; you already know. :)
Comey...
Gowdy...
They’re wooking for wabbits hahaha...
It just waits until a prosecutor can't figure out how to get a conviction (of somebody they want to put to trial) using the other laws.
Meanwhile, laws like that are on the books for intimidation or feelgood purposes.
On the first time through, a prosecutor would look to parallel usage of the legals standard, as approved by the courts.
A lack of care that demonstrates reckless disregard for the safety or lives of others, which is so great it appears to be a conscious violation of other people's rights to safety. It is more than simple inadvertence
Obviously, that takes some minor modification to fit a classified records case, but would generally be "reckless disregard for the compromise of classified information" and "conscious violation of the need to secure classified information." It is not an intention to harm the US, or even an intention to disclose the classified information to unauthorized persons.
He stonewalls, and bammy refuses to fire him. Republicans back down. As usual. End of discussion.
+1
Another waste of time.
Apparently Comey didn’t see that.
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