Sun Tzu laughs.
A test case in the courts would settle this.
Comey needs to be replaced with a LAW-ABIDING, non-political Director...if you can find one. One that realizes that there is ONE SET of laws that apply to everyone.
If Comey believes the the DOJ would not prosecute simply because of their perception of the validity of a law, then he is working well outside of his jurisdiction and presupposition that action should or should not be taken merely on how another organization would act. Not his job.
Not his place to worry about that. He is to enforce until the law is changed
So now the FBI openly admits that they have joined the ranks of those thinking they have the right to usurp the legislature, the judiciary and the US Constitution.
Oh, on THIS, the left is suddenly worried about Consitutionality?
How are you supposed to detest these people any more than you probably already do?
“No, I think they’re worried that it’s invalid, that it would be challenged on constitutional grounds”
Since When did an Agency of the Executive Branch have a say on What is Constitutional or Not, My version of the US Constitution says the JUDICIARY decides these issues according to RULES SET FORTH BY CONGRESS. Nowhere does the EXECUTIVE BRANCH have ANY such Mandate.
So, he’s saying that except for one case, no one since 1917 has been prosecuted for mishandling classified information?
That’s what he seems to be implying. Isn’t there some other legal statute other than gross negligence to prosecute?
He seems to be implying that that is the only thing he could possibly bring against her.
Congressman and former CIA agent Hurd: Dems don’t understand how classified information works
What a load of crap.
If you are negligent in handling classified materials, then you should be given a guest suite at the facility Fort Levenworth.
The false statement law was strengthened some time ago from a knowing standard to a should have known standard. Seems DOJ has had no problem pushing that standard since then. It is akin to gross negligence.
This sanctimonious a hole needs to go. He admitted they limited the scope of the inquiry to the allegation on hand, hence, did not consider lying to congress. I seem to recall somewhere in my training that when seeking to overcome a willfill behavior threshold, similar acts were always beneficial, whether prosecuted or not.
Gum shoe eh? This guy should not be a flatfoot in Mayberry.
The main reason that the gross negligence provision is so rare is because the training and standards for gaining access to Top Secret classified information pretty much ensures by default that anyone caught mishandling it is doing so with willful and knowing intent.
Hillary is obviously playing dumb using the excuse that she was so unsophisticated that she could not determine that the “unmarked” secret information was actually secret information.
This is the patented Clinton “I'm not a crook, I'm just stupid and incompetent “ defense they have honed to an art form when caught red handed doing something really bad
She and inner inner circle, especially Cheryl Mills, were very well lawyered, coached and disciplined on their story line to use this defense.
It works because there is way more than enough evidence in Clinton's emails that document that she actually is extremely incompetent as a high level government official .
It's just that she is trying to say she is honest and incompetent as opposed to being criminal and incompetent .
Isn’t it fascinating the law protects our national security, on the books since 1917, and he tried to blame the law for maybe being unconstitutional.
He also played up the “1917” like it’s an old antiquated thing that Congress needs to “fix”.
Sure let’s legalize the grossly negligent release of our national security info. Then we have folks like Comey to say they can’t prove intention, and voila no more national security.
Isn’t it fascinating the law protects our national security, on the books since 1917, and he tried to blame the law for maybe being unconstitutional.
He also played up the “1917” like it’s an old antiquated thing that Congress needs to “fix”.
Sure let’s legalize the grossly negligent release of our national security info. Then we have folks like Comey to say they can’t prove intention, and voila no more national security.
These people will destabilize the United States.
