Posted on 07/06/2016 6:10:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was quite the spectacle, and quite the damning litany of charges against Hillary Clinton. And after sharing them for several minutes, formerly respected FBI Director James Comey told us that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
I am familiar with several reasonable prosecutors who would have been glad to do it if the lifting is a little too heavy for Comey, who started his remarks as a straight-arrow law-and-order figure and a quarter-hour later earned his card in the Hillary Clinton protection racket.
To be clear, since the FBI Director seems a little fuzzy: Hillary Clinton knowingly mishandled documents of varying sensitivities. There are no mind-readers immediately available to affirm criminal intent, but this is why we have trials and juries, a route that is now closed by the protective wall erected by Comey and his new cover-up partner, Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
But we know what she did. We know she crafted an e-mail pathway that routed government materials, some classified, through her private server. We know that server was then placed into the care of a private company, and then the server’s contents were transferred to her private lawyers.
By Comey’s own admission in his own statement, before he revealed his willingness to run interference for her, the FBI will never know the full contents of willfully deleted e-mails because of their time in the custody of Hillary’s paid advocates: “It is also likely that there are other work-related e-mails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all e-mails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.”
But again, no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
We know that Secretary Clinton did not have the authority to remove classified material from secure locations, but she did it anyway. She has refused to reveal who on God’s earth might have ever told her this was permitted. The absence of an answer is due to the fact that it is not permitted.
But we are told no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
Comey gladly shepherded reasonable prosecutors to an indictment and eventual conviction of former CIA Director David Petraeus, based on many of the same sins of commission and omission. Both came under the microscope because of what they did and what they did not do.
Petraeus' is an admittedly easier case in view of the ability to divine intent based on certain known personal matters ancillary to his actions. But with Mrs. Clinton, all we have is a historically secretive figure with a record of decades of scandal leaving trail after trail of wonderment as to whether she has skated on several episodes of wrongdoing. An indictment in the server matter should not be based on retroactive curiosity or bad blood, but no one was looking for the FBI to convict, or even to indict. Shoot, we didn’t even need Comey to actually recommend an indictment. But by the measure of all that is right in a just and ethical system, he should not have dissuaded one.
It would have been acceptable for him to share the powerful list of Hillary Clinton's misdeeds, concluding by saying, “This is what we have found, but the FBI does not bring charges. We find facts. We hereby place these facts into the proper hands at the Justice Department, and await their judgment along with the rest of the public.”
Of course, the hands at DOJ are far from proper. They belong to Loretta Lynch, and they were last observed clasping the hands of Bill Clinton in a tarmac powwow so brazenly stupid that it could only occur among people who consider themselves untouchable.
So now it is time to prove them wrong. Now it is time for American voters to take up the duty the system has chosen to shirk.
Hillary Clinton will beam this week as she runs countless victory laps at the news of this judicial stonewall. But there is a day of reckoning coming on November 8. And the question now becomes: Will voters deliver the accountability we have been denied from our justice system?
No jury will see the case of Hillary Clinton’s reckless endangerment of national security. But we are empaneled as a nation to deliver a verdict on Election Day that could be even more resounding.
A jury trial may well have leaned in her favor. We must make sure the election does not. It is mightily frustrating to see justice corrupted. I have come to expect it from the Obama White House. Even if Comey had said this has indictment written all over it, that would have been no guarantee that Lynch would have pursued it. But this incoherent moment from Comey should not dispirit those who care about consequences. Let it energize us.
Let us use Comey’s own words to hand Mrs. Clinton an indictment for the ages. Let us memorize the text of his statement, with its stunning evidence of her unfitness for the presidency, and use it in arguing before the court of public opinion.
This actually falls within the realm of arguments Donald Trump has made effectively, free of some of the unforced errors that have dogged his path. Let’s encourage our nominee, from the campaign trail to the debate stage, to wield with strength and skill the revelations Comey has seen fit to provide us, even on the day of the FBI director’s devaluation as a man of principle.
Those principles now shift to us, the American electorate. It is in our power to deliver a message on November 8 that is intended not just for Mrs. Clinton, but for Barack Obama and his Attorney General as well.
That message: We are done with you. All of you. The last eight years of Obama White House politicization of justice, and the last quarter-century of the stench of scandal from both Clintons. Be on your way in the private sector, where you can no longer screw up our country and our lives.
Every day between now and November 8 is our jury deliberation on Hillary Clinton. We will report our decision on that day. FBI Director Comey is entitled to his view that the Clinton server nightmare and its attendant damage to our national security is not the stuff of technical indictment.
So it is up to us to be the “reasonable prosecutors,” making the argument for Hillary Clinton’s disqualification using the valuable information that noble investigators working under James Comey have provided.
He dishonored their work by failing to see a sufficient basis for recommending formal charges. So be it. But an attentive nation should be willing to see a sufficient basis for making sure that Mrs. Clinton’s transgressions and corruptions keep her from becoming President of the United States.
The headline this week is no indictment. But we can have one if we deliver it ourselves, in four months.
HRC, certified not quite criminal enough to prosecute.
FBI Director Comey yesterday laid out a perfect presentation on Hillary of why 2 + 2 = 4. But then at the end he said it equaled 3. Do I think he was told by either Obama, the AG or Bill Clinton to come to that conclusion? No. None of them are stupid enough to say those words. But Comey knew what they wanted and made sure they got it. Well Director Comey, 2+2 does not equal 3 and you have brought serious damage to the FBI by saying it does.
MSM is already trying to start a riot to change topics
Why on earth would people with such a mindset pass up the opportunity to elect a thief, liar, and embezzler? She is exactly what Toqueville came to a conclusion over when he studied our American Republic. Our end would come when people found they could vote themselves into the treasury.
60% of the voters are jealous of Hillary Clinton, not shamed by her.
LOL. November? ROTFLMAO! WTIME.
You think your vote counts? You know that vacant lot a couple blocks over? The DNC computers show 28 folks living at that address and their absentee ballots have already been filled out. Your vote is worthless, peons.
Just my humble opinion, folks. We shall see but my hopes lie with the 2 nd Amendment. Everything else has been corrupted.
It seems quite a coincidence that Loretta Lynch just days before made it a point of saying she would accept any recommendation from the FBI...
"Did Muslim Vote In Virginia Swing Senate Control"
'The Detroit Free Press reports Muslims played a critical role in the November midterm elections'
[March 2007]
Imam Mahdy Bray, Speaking at a Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America convention in Dearborn, highlighted the effective effort to turn out Muslim voters in Virginia.
The effort was so organized that Muslim taxi drivers in northern Virginia took the day off to ferry Muslims to the polls, said Imam Mahdy Bray, a speaker at the convention. Volunteers also made phone calls to Muslims in Virginia to urge them to vote, he said.
As a result, Democrat James Webb ousted incumbent Republican George Allen by about 9,000 votes in a race in which 50,000 Muslims went to the polls -- 47,000 of them voting for Webb, Bray said.
If 96 percent of Muslims are going to vote Democratic, that would make them a more reliable Democratic constituency than African Americans. Democrats consistently receive about 80 percent of African American votes.
FBI Director Comey left us with a hang-fire, the situation when a gun does not immediately fire when the trigger is pulled, but may fire shortly after.
The pin has been pulled on the grenade, folks. Now we have to time the throw just right, so it neither goes off prematurely, nor is thrown back at us, but scores the maximum energy expenditure where it most counts, directly in the gunners’ nest.
Strive we must, for our cause is just.
The election is being stolen. If you think justice will prevail, remember that no one was held responsible for Benghazi, or the irs abuse of power. bammy became president without being eligible and he got away with it.
There is no longer any rule of law in this country. bammy and hillary have used and will use the power of the federal government for political gain.
Yesterday, a line was crossed. We should be in the streets instead of posting on FR. The very thing reflected in the name of our website no longer exists.
What was witnessed yesterday is a symptom...and there will be many more visible ones due to the Uni-party losing control of the message due to the internet.. they do not control the media... we are in the information age...
You have to find the root cause... its the 17th Amendment and the resulting consolidation of power in the political parties. Till the 17th in repealed, these types of situations will continue to be exposed at a rapid rate... the government and the political parties will always be way behind the real economy, money or information... hence the desire to have an internet kill switch.
No it should have come from those we pay (high taxes) to do their jobs! I’m so sick of this crap it’s beyond maddening now we want revenge! November can’t come quick enough!
The FBI is a department under the DOJ, so Lynch is his boss.
Going through government channels would have been useless. But the public could become his weapon.
Now he will be summoned before endless congressional investigations and will be able to say what he really thinks.
Just a thought.
Sounds like a good tagline
You have a point. I tend to believe it is the powerful protecting the powerful in-group.
MSM is already trying to start a riot to change topics
The dang cops in Lousiana handed them that riot. Police really aren’t doing themselves any favors that is for sure.
The change will come with plenty of business cards. 
She's incompetent, except at avoiding prosecution and impeding investigations into her and Bubba's grifting.
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