Obama’s Conflict Tanked the Clinton E-mail Investigation — As Predicted

National Review ^ | 26/9/16 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[Eleutheria5]

Hillary couldn’t be proven guilty without proving the president guilty as well. ‘How is this not classified?”

So exclaimed Hillary Clinton’s close aide and confidante, Huma Abedin. The FBI had just shown her an old e-mail exchange, over Clinton’s private account, between the then-secretary of state and a second person, whose name Abedin did not recognize. The FBI then did what the FBI is never supposed to do: The agents informed their interviewee (Abedin) of the identity of the second person. It was the president of the United States, Barack Obama, using a pseudonym to conduct communications over a non-secure e-mail system — something anyone with a high-level security clearance, such as Huma Abedin, would instantly realize was a major breach.

Abedin was sufficiently stunned that, for just a moment, the bottomless capacity of Clinton insiders to keep cool in a scandal was overcome. “How is this not classified?”

She recovered quickly enough, though. The FBI records that the next thing Abedin did, after “express[ing] her amazement at the president’s use of a pseudonym,” was to “ask if she could have a copy of the email.”

Abedin knew an insurance policy when she saw one. If Obama himself had been e-mailing over a non-government, non-secure system, then everyone else who had been doing it had a get-out-of-jail-free card.

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[Eleutheria5]

B-but I thought even the President isn't above the law./SARC

[Ann Archy]

Gotta shield the first Black Bi Sexual anti-American President!!

[ronnie raygun]

Done under the clock of a black man who will never be prosecuted for nothin, brilliant!

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Eleutheria5]

Otherwise, there’ll never be another Black Bi Sexual anti-American President again. That would be terrible./sarc

[Ann Archy]

uh....what about The Mooch?

[marktwain]

Well, at least a somewhat useful article from National Review...

[napscoordinator]

Republicans had her in the chair for 11 hours asking her questions. They could have brought anything up. They chose what to ask and let her get away with insulting answers like pretending she thought wiping the computer clean meant using a cloth. And since they let her get away with it, that was what the media focused on those 11 hours. Did Hillary win or did the republicans fail that day?

[Article10]

Uniparty.. tax payers get the shaft

Time to repeal the 17th Amendment and eliminate the Senior Executive Service via a Convention of States with two line items to be voted on; number one repeal the 17th Amendment and #2 eliminate the Senior Executive Service

Our Founding Father’s were not stupid

[ClearCase_guy]

If “everyone” at the top is guilty, then “everyone” at the top is protected. Except, you know, Trump. He’s innocent so they just charge him with lots of felonies.

[Walrus]

Why are we posting seven year old articles?

[SteelPSUGOP]

Obama made sure the Feds had dirt on everyone. Roberts was a real conservative......then bingo, he wasn’t. Obama let him know about some shady things in his past, in college, whatever.

They have stuff on just about everyone and can plant info at a moments notice. They want any opponent to be looking at child porn, they just put it on his/her computer, have them arrested and they simply doesn’t have the resources to fight back.

Of course, all the folks in Washington are grifters to a degree.......some are just better than others.

[Shady]

They are all lice on the American scalp.

[A strike]

Andrew C. McCarthy is very intelligent and sensible;
Why still at NationalReview ?

-fJRoberts-

[sauropod]

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[PghBaldy]

The other thing is that much of Biden’s crimes are on Obama, as he was the corrupt President when VP Kiddie Diddler was grifting.

[nuconvert]

I’m guessing because Congress found fake email accounts using pseudonyms used by Biden. He learned from his boss when he was VP

[Ann Archy]

That horrible lawyer, looked like a cadaver and became the head of TSA, I believe....cant remember his name, but he totally let her off the HOOK. STUPID REPUBLICANS TRUSTED HIM. HES GOT A SECURITY COMPANY....LOL!

[eyeamok]

Nobody is Above the LAW and NOTHING prevents a New Administration from PROSECUTING AND JAILING Barry the Muslim

[texas booster]

From the end of the article:

I will end with what I said eight months ago:

To summarize, we have a situation in which (a) Obama knowingly communicated with Clinton over a non-government, non-secure e-mail system; (b) Obama and Clinton almost certainly discussed matters that are automatically deemed classified under the president’s own guidelines; and (c) at least one high-ranking government official (Petraeus) has been prosecuted because he failed to maintain the security of highly sensitive intelligence that included policy-related conversations with Obama. From these facts and circumstances, we must deduce that it is possible, if not highly likely, that President Obama himself has been grossly negligent in handling classified information.

That is why the Clinton e-mail scandal never had a chance of leading to criminal charges.