"How much to lay-off of me 'n Hillary?"
If only flies on the wall could talk....when Hillary
arrived in Martha's Vineyard to attend the closed-door
Golf Summit...to sign-off on the deal.
Posted on 09/12/2015 5:51:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Prepare to be shocked. Regardless of what turns up in Hillary Clinton’s emails in the weeks and months to come, you won’t need to worry about the Justice Department coming along and dragging the former Secretary of State off in handcuffs. Deleting all of those emails was, in the opinion of the nation’s top cops, absolutely fine and dandy. (ABC News)
The Justice Department is affirming that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server.
Government lawyers made the assertion in a court filing this week in a public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, an advocacy group. The legal filing says “there is no question” that Clinton could have deleted personal emails without agency supervision and could have done so even if she’d been using a government server.
Some additional coverage at Buzzfeed turns up this nugget. (Emphasis added)
The back-and-forth over the preservation order, as part of a narrow FOIA case, does not address the classification issues that still command sustained political coverage about Clinton.
But in terms of the email submission itself, the lawyers argue that, without reason to believe that Clinton was not honest and forthcoming in selecting and turning over her federal records, no government agency would be required to “recover deleted material based on unfounded speculation that responsive information had been deleted.” Such was the case with Clinton, the lawyers say.
That’s a fairly amazing argument summed up in only a few words. On the one hand they offer a nod to the fact that Clinton repeatedly lied about sending and receiving classified data on this account. (Classified? Why would you think that satellite photos of North Korean nuclear installations were classified?) But in the very next breath they argue that retention of all of the emails to sort out what was or wasn’t of value was not required because there was no reason to believe that Clinton was not honest and forthcoming.
The mind doth boggle.
Say… I wonder if the IRS would be willing to allow me to go through all of my tax documents, decide which ones were “relevant” and just toss the rest in the old burn barrel? I mean, there’s no reason to think I wasn’t being honest and forthcoming, so pesky little details such as those should be left to my discretion. Even more to the point, if something of interest to the police takes place on my property and it’s captured by my security cameras, I suppose I can decide which footage is relevant and worthy of retention. This is truly wild.
I’m sure it’s just my suspicious nature cropping up again, but doesn’t it seem like there are some folks in the Justice Department who prefer to take a decidedly hands off approach when it comes to Clinton? It was only this week when we discovered that they had been handed a case which seemed to clearly argue that Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin was going down for embezzlement, but they decided that prosecuting her would be more trouble than it was worth. One has to wonder just how far Clinton can push her luck before their interests are roused to the point of taking action.
Obama, Lynch and his entire cabinet need to impeached. Hey, Kraphammer, still think Lynch is great??????
No you can't if you are under subpoena from Congress.
When are we as Americans going to wake up and march on DC to take our country back?
Iranian deal done a political body of traitors, every damn one of them
Except that a government server would have had undeleted backups that could be examined to ensure that the emails deleted were actually private, not incriminatory.
You are right. Obama is an illegitimate criminal.
This is shocking... and expected.
I wonder whether this is done for Hillary, or for “The Party” (analogies to USSR and Orwell intentional), or because a decent investigation would also turn up a lot of side dealing and emails from her correspondents sprinkled throughout our government, governments abroad, and industrial bribe patrons.
Personal emails, not government business. This actually makes things worse for her if done properly by the FBI.
We live in lawless times. Our “leaders” (aka: criminal class) have decided that laws apply to you, not to their cronies. Justice will find these arrogant, condescending fools eventually.
and without oversight? really? she decides?
The law is “whatever”.
Sounds like there’s been some palm greasing and back pocket stuffing to me. If it were any of us we’d be sitting in jail for the rest of our lives.
Is anyone surprised?
How so?
Why am I not surprised?
well if it is a done deal and Iran gets the nukes we need to convince ISIS that Washington DC is not their friend and at least get some benefit and satisfaction out if it.
——Clinton could have deleted personal emails without agency supervision——
That is incontestably correct
The question becomes if work and personal messages are commingled, who does the separation? A disinterested third party or an IG should do the separation
The penalty for commingling is to lose privacy for the personal side
the resolution becomes..... should there be a public Hillary Clinton?
“Personal emails, not government business. This actually makes things worse for her if done properly by the FBI.”
The FBI operates under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department so now we know where this is headed with the next shoe to drop that FBI is dropping the investigation at the instruction of the Justice department which, you guessed it, reports to that guy in the oval office. That is why because of this interlinked mechanism it took a special prosecutor to bring Nixon down. Not gonna happen here
..don’t forget, it’s Odungo’s DOJ
"How much to lay-off of me 'n Hillary?"
If only flies on the wall could talk....when Hillary
arrived in Martha's Vineyard to attend the closed-door
Golf Summit...to sign-off on the deal.
This is shocking... and expected.
I wonder whether this is done for Hillary, or for “The Party” (analogies to USSR and Orwell intentional), or because a decent investigation would also turn up a lot of side dealing and emails from her correspondents sprinkled throughout our government, governments abroad, and industrial bribe patrons.
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