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Napolitano: Why Hillary Clinton's legal woes are grave or even fatal: A tale of two smoking guns
Fox News ^ | January 14, 2016 | Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Posted on 01/16/2016 2:38:33 AM PST by Zakeet

I have argued for two months that Clinton's legal woes are either grave or worse than grave. That argument has been based on the hard, now public evidence of her failure to safeguard national security secrets and the known manner in which the Department of Justice addresses these failures.

The failure to safeguard state secrets is an area of the law in which the federal government has been aggressive to the point of being merciless. State secrets are the product of members of the intelligence community's risking their lives to obtain information.

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The obligation of those to whom state secrets have been entrusted to safeguard them is a rare area in which federal criminal prosecutions can be based on the defendant's negligence. Stated differently, to prosecute Clinton for espionage, the government need not prove that she intended to expose the secrets.

The evidence of Clinton's negligence is overwhelming.

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It is the consensus of many of us who monitor government behavior that the FBI will recommend indictment. That recommendation will go to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who, given Clinton's former status in the government and current status in the Democratic Party, will no doubt consult the White House.

If a federal grand jury were to indict Clinton for espionage or corruption, that would be fatal to her political career.

If the FBI recommends indictment and the attorney general declines to do so, expect Saturday Night Massacre-like leaks of draft indictments, whistleblower revelations and litigation, and FBI resignations, led by the fiercely independent and intellectually honest FBI Director James Comey himself.

That would be fatal to Clinton's political career, as well.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintoncrimefamily; clintonfoundation; corruption; email; hillary; hillarycriminalprobe; napolitano; scandal
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You Freepers don't need to worry to much about her ... cause Bubba will visit her in prison every day.

1 posted on 01/16/2016 2:38:33 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

That’s because he’s just gonna MAKE SURE that b!tch is still locked up! Hahahahaha


2 posted on 01/16/2016 2:44:33 AM PST by Gaffer (I')
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To: Zakeet

I believe....based on a fair amount of reading over the server....you will not find her signature on any document starting the server or making it the primary source for office email. In this case, the White House could have figured this out in the first 90 days and fixed the problem. They had no desire to involve themselves in her work....keeping her completely out of the loop. There are various meetings that she ended up missing or showing up to find them cancelled. An idiot would have figured out the WH strategy...she’s just there to fill a seat...not to do a job.

The people who did sign their names? Her junior players around her. They all can get some form of federal court action and at the least....some fine. If she were to win the Nov election....they’d all be back. But presently...because of Trump, I’d say her dreams (Sid’s too) are finished.


3 posted on 01/16/2016 3:07:02 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Zakeet
In the Obama administration I wouldn't be surprised to hear that 100 or 150 FBI agents were investigating Trump or Cruz.

But another Democrat?

"Does Joe Biden know something we don't?"

4 posted on 01/16/2016 3:10:13 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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To: Zakeet
State secrets are the product of members of the intelligence community's risking their lives to obtain information.

Our enemies' intelligence communities don't have to risk their lives when everything they want to know is for sale, or is available for free, thanks to scumbags like Hillary Rotten Clinton.

5 posted on 01/16/2016 3:16:12 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Fresh Wind

The only election I ever want to see her win is a unanimous decision by 12 citizens putting her traitorous and murderous ass in prison for the rest of her unnatural life, or better yet, put to death for her crimes.


6 posted on 01/16/2016 3:20:44 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Fresh Wind

We can only hope that they are getting tired and forgetful and that thier lawyers and others see the blood in the water and thier necks out waitng for the hatchet to come down. They have been at this for a long time and they cover thier tracks and if they see a leak they plug it quick. I would like to see others higher up go down in flames but I m afraid the snakes we depend on to do this have been in thier web for many years


7 posted on 01/16/2016 3:23:55 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Zakeet

She’s TOO BIG TO JAIL!!!


8 posted on 01/16/2016 3:35:04 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Zakeet
C'mon. Everybody releases Government secrets. :-/
9 posted on 01/16/2016 3:38:26 AM PST by Does so (Europeans had better start "overstaying their visas" in the USA. ==8-O)
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To: Zakeet

I suppose we should have seen it coming, but it is astounding to me that, in 2016 America, the Democratic Party will in the end run an avowed socialist for the office of the Presidency.

Barack Obama we can now conclude attempted to eradicate American capitalism, certainly those sectors that he chose to eliminate, while co-opting others through collusion and extortion. Functionally, Obama has been a fascist. But he at least tried to obscure his anti-capitalist views with rhetoric.

Bernie Sanders. Really? I’m gobsmacked.

And among the three-Hillary Clinton, Obama, and Sanders-Bernie is the least dangerous. Bernie’s vision for America is Sweden, Norway, Denmark perhaps. Who can now deny that Barack Obama’s template for America’s future isn’t Venezuela? Or Cuba? Hillary just wants to change America into something different, not sure she has a vision. For Hillary, the threat of change is just a mechanism for acquiring and maintaining power.

I’m not sure what Donald Trump’s vision is for America, it seems he wants us to be what we once were, and that’s not a bad thing at this juncture. His popularity is certainly an indication that America is awakening to the disaster that the Democratic Party portends for our country. Or what’s left of it.


10 posted on 01/16/2016 3:38:50 AM PST by wayoverontheright (A falling camel attracts many knives.......)
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To: Zakeet
Judge Andy gets his predictions more often wrong than right. I would not bet any money on this, not a red cent.

The main point is that she is running for unconditional immunity, that is why she wants that office. It will require impeachment and conviction to remove the crook. None of the fanciful statutes about forfeit of office can touch Article II. Failing that office she would beg DingleBarry for a pardon. All kinds of Constitutional Crisis loom on the horizon.

It is time for enterprising journalists to badger her with the giant question no-one wants to ask her: If faced with indictment or threatened with impeachment will you follow Nixon's lead and resign the Presidency for the good of the country?

Other reporters might want to look into her comments as a member of the Watergate lynch mob. Keywords: Cambodia, secret war, incursions. Libya alone surpasses Nixon's wildest escapades. Isn't Kissinger still breathing? Hello. Is this thing on?

11 posted on 01/16/2016 3:42:38 AM PST by Democratic-Republican
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To: Ann Archy

I tend to agree. I just can’t see it happening since anything happening to her should also indict her boss.


12 posted on 01/16/2016 3:44:34 AM PST by wita
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To: Zakeet

Judge Nap and Dick Morris have similar track records on “prediction.” If Nap says she’s going down, she’s not going down.


13 posted on 01/16/2016 3:46:24 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Democratic-Republican
-- The main point is that she is running for unconditional immunity --

See US v. Nixon and a handful of others.

Somebody said (and I thought it was funny), "too big to jail." She already has that, the presidency would just make her bigger still.

No matter how this plays out in the long run, she skates. Assuming the GOP gets the presidency and she is convicted of a crime - the GOP president would issue a pardon. Trump would, Cruz would, any of them would. Just to "heal."

14 posted on 01/16/2016 3:49:49 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Fresh Wind

The Colorado Supermax is probably the proper place for Herself, but I found out they do not mix genders there - male only. Bull Dykes do not qualify.

FCI Coleman Medium at Sumpterville, Florida, and FCI Victorville Medium II at Victorville, California, are about the highest level security prisons for nominally female Federal prisoners.

If that’s the best we have....

Don’t sell off Gitmo just yet.


15 posted on 01/16/2016 3:58:28 AM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: Ann Archy

Figuratively or literally?


16 posted on 01/16/2016 3:58:54 AM PST by monocle
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To: wayoverontheright

” His popularity is certainly an indication that America is awakening to the disaster that the Democratic Party portends for our country. “

You forgot to include the Democrat party’s twin brother...the REPUBLICAN party. They are a disaster too.


17 posted on 01/16/2016 3:59:54 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Zakeet

The purpose of the private server was to hide der Hildebeast’s and der Slickmeister’s influence peddling scheme using her position as Secretary of State and his past office as President. This criminal team used the Foundation as a tax shelter to hide their money-making operation that enabled them to make millions of tax free money. The private server was a method to destroy the evidence if the Clintons knew they were going to be investigated. However, their effort to “wipe clean” the hard drives failed. From the recovered data, The FBI will have the evidence to put the Clintons in prison. However, the Obama Regime will keep the Justice Department from indicting the Clintons and are counting on the Democrats to keep hold of the Executive Branch with a Clinton win in the upcoming election. If the Democrats win, the Clintons go scot-free.


18 posted on 01/16/2016 4:01:06 AM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Democratic-Republican

“Failing that office she would beg DingleBarry for a pardon.”

Democrats don’t beg. They bargain. He will pardon her and a substantial sum will find its way to his charitable foundation. It will be suitably laundered through third parties; a major book deal, a substantial stipend from some billionaire, a gift from Dubai.

Incidentally, his charitable foundation will dispense even less money to charities than hers does. She needed plausible deniability. He doesn’t. No one would ever dare question his dealings.


19 posted on 01/16/2016 4:02:24 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

Hitlary’s dastardly deeds will continue to go unpunished since there is NO ONE that will do a damn thing about them. Talk about being Teflon coated, she could walk through fire and not one pound of her excessive fat would be rendered. She has been the demodummie and medias choice for POTUS and NOTHING is going to stop them from getting her elected, not fire, not hail, not brimstone nor human.


20 posted on 01/16/2016 4:16:29 AM PST by DaveA37
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