Posted on 08/15/2015 8:43:49 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Hillary Clinton is in trouble. Really big trouble.
According to the Washington Post, the same prosecutor who took down General David Petraeus for improper possession of classified information is now looking into Hillary Clinton's email server. Earlier this week, an intelligence Inspector General revealed Clinton did in fact have at least four pieces of top secret, classified information passed through and stored on her private email server.
The investigation is being overseen by two veteran prosecutors in the Justice Department’s National Security Division. One of them helped manage the prosecution of David H. Petraeus.
As a reminder, Petraeus plead guilty to misdemeanor charges after keeping physical copies of classified information locked in a desk drawer at his house. He also shared them with his biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell. Prosecutors originally recommended felony charges.
David H. Petraeus, a retired general considered one of the greatest military minds of his generation, pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials, ending a long-running legal saga that had threatened to send him to prison.
Petraeus, who admitted he provided the materials to his former mistress and biographer, will instead face a two-year probationary period. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler also imposed a $100,000 fine — more than double the amount recommended by prosecutors — to reflect the “seriousness of the offense.”
Based on what we know so far, Clinton's possession of top secret, classified information on her personal server is far worse than the Petraeus case. First, the classified information Petraeus had in his possession was classified at a lower level than the information on Clinton's private server, which was classified at the highest level. Second, Petraeus may have shared information with his mistress, but Clinton shared it with enemy hackers and foreign governments.
Former intelligence officials say it’s a certainty that her server was compromised by [foreign] intelligence services. Unless they were encrypted to U.S. government standards, “In my opinion there is a 100% chance that all emails sent and received by her, including all the electronic correspondence stored on her server in her Chappaqua residence, were targeted and collected by the Russian equivalent of NSA,” said former CIA case officer Jason Matthews, an expert in Russian intelligence.
Based on her continued defiance, if charges are brought against Clinton I doubt she'll bow out gracefully like Petraeus did.
That’s super cool!
Let the games begin!
Ping!
I think the prosecutor will want to charge her. I just don’t know if he’ll be allowed to charge her.
Great. This guy covered for that hypocrite Petraeus, now he’s going to whitewash Hillary. They both deserve to be sitting in jail.
General BetrayUs to Secretary BetrayUs.
It gets even more interesting. Maybe Bill should go the the sex island, make some headlines, and let Hillary play the victim again.
Petraeus attorney Jake Sussman said this was not a case about the public dissemination of classified information. He said it was about the wrongful removal of materials.
But prosecutor James Melindres (sp.?) said, “This is a serious criminal offense. He was entrusted with the nation’s most classified secrets. The defendant betrayed that trust”.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-melendres/90/b21/40a
James Melendres
Trial Attorney
Washington, District Of ColumbiaLaw Practice
Current
Department of Justice, National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section
Previous
Department of Justice, United States District Court, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Education
Stanford University Law School
Experience
Trial Attorney
Department of Justice, National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section
August 2014 – Present (1 year 1 month)Washington D.C. Mero area
The Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) supervises the investigation and prosecution of cases affecting national security, foreign relations, and the export of military and strategic commodities and technology.
Assistant United States Attorney
Department of Justice
September 2007 – August 2014 (7 years)San Diego, California
Major Frauds and Special Prosecutions Section.
Judicial Law Clerk
United States District Court
September 2006 – September 2007 (1 year 1 month)albuquerque, new mexico
Associate
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
September 2003 – June 2006 (2 years 10 months)new york, new york
White Collar and Government Investigations Section.
Certifications
Member, California Bar
Member, New York Bar
And he’ll probably let her off the hook.
If not mistaken, it's been acknowledged that the server has been cleansed by Hillary's people. What this means is that nothing remains that could convict her.
As I've written before: when you have the President, AG, Courts, Democrat party, major media and US king-makers covering your crimes - the law does not apply to you. At this point, the king-makers and not any investigation will decide whether she continues to run for President.
Goose is cooked ! Just a matter of timing — hopefully when it will do the most damage to the democrat party
Hillary's personal emails, and her server from which they were sent, were 'entirely UNENCRYPTED' for several months, at which point it’s safe to assume that our most highly guarded secrets were basically handed to the Russians and the Chinese (or anybody that can crack a Hotmail account)
....further it's my understanding that 'Classified' must be 'stored' where no one can gain access wihtout special clearance...must be an *official government address*.. required by* transparency rules*).
At question IS.....though Clinton may have violated the rules..were those 'rules' IN PLACE when she's alleged to have broken them??????
....By law the Secretary of State is a member of the National Security Council, which is why she has access to satelite information.....
Yea well the General isn’t a Clinton.
I have plenty of posts that Rent about Trump.
Until Hillary! is modelling black-and-white stripes, this is all blah, blah, blah.
She will either threaten or buy off anybody involved in prosecuting her. Nothing is going to happen to her.
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