Posted on 11/01/2015 4:12:38 AM PST by Hojczyk
“She’s too big to jail,†said national security attorney Edward MacMahon Jr., who represented former CIA employee Jeffrey Sterling in 2011 in a leak case that led to an espionage prosecution and 3½-year prison term. He cited a pattern of light punishments for top government officials who have mishandled classified information while lower level whistleblowers such as Sterling have faced harsh prosecutions for revealing sensitive information to expose waste, fraud or abuse in government.
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A little misleading in the title. It is not the FBI saying she is too big to jail. It is an attorney saying this.
In today's PC climate, an FBI official could not afford to expose citizens to the unvarnished truth.
Oh I think the FBI would present the facts and a recommendation for action to the DoJ. It is up to Loretta Lynch implementing Obama’s wishes to take action on that. This is the point where we’d see just how invested Obama is in Hillary and whether they have struck a deal or not.
Would she still get Secret Service protection in prison?
Al Capone was bigger
Yeah, WHO NEEDS that pesky ole Magna Carta thing, right..?
Better to step in and preserve The Rickety Establishment, uh-huh.
When 7 years ago the huge, super-rich banks made all those bad real estate gmbles it was then, TOO, “Too Big to Fail”.
Didnt those rescues work out wonderfully...?
Whaddya mean, NO...??
One does not have to go to the trouble of travelling south of the border to live in a banana republic. One has to just stay put. It’s here.
IMHO
“If the emails were not marked, it would not be possible at least not in my view to establish that Ms. Clinton knowingly mishandled classified information,” he said. “How was she to know that this was classified if it was not marked?”
That’s total BS.. an email doesn’t have to be marked classified for someone to know if it’s classified. I could write classified information on a bar napkin. She knew much of the info was classified and at what level of classification.
The headline says it all “She’s to Big for Jail”.
$#@%!$#@*! government is totally incompetent. Prosecute the bitch to the full extent of the law... and Obama with her.
too big to jail but old enough to stroke out
She instructed aids to send “TS/SI/TK NOFORN” material to her private server.
Those were satellite images that are marked at that level when they are generated.
If they weren’t marked when they got to her, that’s actually worse.
Because is would mean that the markings were actively obscured.
Anybody in the business KNOWS their classification simply by glancing at them. There’s no need to study the image in detail.
Every step in the process of moving and manipulating those images, to get to her e-mail, is a FELONY for both the acting and instructing parties.
AND the receiving party for not reporting it!
We’ve been waiting for this for a
Long time.
Hill should always remember that
Your never too old to go to prison
And the FBI has NO sense of humor.
If the FBI is looking at the as gross negligence in a prosecution under the Espionage Act I don’t think the fact that something’s not marked or that the person may not know that it was classified would be relevant at all. Classification isn’t even an issue in how national security information was handled or whether she informed the president of her arrangement.
If she is not prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law then our nation has failed all citizens! No one is above the law!
When every agency in government has been politicized, that statement no long applies. FBI included.
“an email does not have to be marked classified for someone to know if it is classified.”
An ex-CIA person commented on this last week. IIRC, emails from heads of state, their representatives, foreign ministers are, by default, classified. As such, they’re rarely marked with “Top Secret”, “Classified”, etc. It’s understood and was covered in PIAPS’ training. So, she uses Clinton-speak to try to cover her crime.
Like Bubba saying he didn’t have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky, “not a single time”. That was true. It wasn’t a single time. It was many times. They are so good at the baffle-gab.
The “She is too big to Jail” line will show up over and over on Trump’s TV spots.
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