Posted on 01/08/2016 9:52:13 AM PST by GonzoII
The latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department early Friday contain what may be the smoking gun that forces the Justice Department to charge the former secretary of state with a crime, according to former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova."This is gigantic," said diGenova. "She caused to be removed a classified marking and then had it transmitted in an unencrypted manner. That is a felony. The removal of the classified marking is a federal crime. It is the same thing to order someone to do it as if she had done it herself."
On the June 17, 2011, email chain with senior State Department adviser Jake Sullivan, Clinton apparently asked Sullivan to change the marking on classified information so that it is no longer flagged as classified.
Clinton, using her private email server, asks for "the TPs," apparently a reference to talking points being prepared for her. Sullivan, who is using his official State Department email, responds, "They say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it." Clinton responds, "If they can't, turn into nonpaper w[ith] no identifying heading and send nonsecure."
It's not clear if Sullivan actually followed through on Clinton's orders. But if he did, it may expose Clinton to serious legal jeopardy.
"This makes it impossible for the bureau not to recommend charges," diGenova said of the FBI. "This makes it impossible not to go forward, and it certainly ties the hand of the attorney general."
Some have speculated that while the FBI may recommend charges, Attorney General Loretta Lynch might try to avoid doing so for political reasons.
The revelation also appears to put to the lie Clinton's claim that she never handled classified information on her server.
"I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time," she has claimed. By instructing her aide to send her material marked classified, it is clear that she not only may have received classified information, but that it was indeed "classified at the time."
"This means that when she said, 'I never received anything marked classified,' she in fact did," diGenova said.
David Bossie, president of the watchdog group Citizens United, said the email could become the emblem of Hillary's email scandal.
"It proves that Hillary Clinton affirmatively instructed senior staff to send classified data to an unsecured server," he said. "With that, it cements into history, much like the famous Bill Clinton finger wag."
“The removal of the classified marking is a federal crime.”
I know Di Genova has stated this but I reviewed 18 USC 793 which is the statute cited in other articles, and I can’t find anything that specifically says this.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
If there are any FReepers out there who are knowledgeable of federal criminal law, please let me know if there is a statute that specficlly addresses the removal of classified markings being a criminal offense.
This means that Satan's daughter ordered information marked classified to be sent to her without the classified markings.
Attosecond = 10^-18 sec = the time it would take for any other American with clearance to end up in the Gray Bar Hotel for doing what Satan's daughter did.
Nope. They'll simply up the volume of their shouting of "Trump hates women, Trump is racist, Trump hates gay people, Trump hates immigrants. Etc.".
That will suffice for virtually every Democrat.
Yep.
1. Obama hates Hillary, but she will not revoke all of Obama's executive orders and decrees. Most of the Republican candidates will. Also, if the next President is a Republican he will blame Obama for all of the fallout from Obama's 8 years of rule. Hillary will blame Bush. So Hillary is Obama's only chance for a lasting "legacy" (which makes Obama hate her all the more).
2. Mutually assured destruction. Simply stated, if Hillary goes down she will take Obama with her.
Newsflash?! Hillary broke the law?
We are all just shocked. How could this happen?
But the DOJ is busy investigating Chipotle.
I think it was from last night's 2:00 a.m. dump.
Moron Joseph DiGenova says this is a “smoking gun.” Huh?
There’s no disclosure of classified information in this exchange and nothing incriminating happened.
Its a stretch to say she broke the law. To do that, the government has to show classified information was sent over insecure channels.
Nothing in evidence to substantiate that here even if you hate as I do, Hillary’s sleazy ethics.
And being an unethical person isn’t the same as being a criminal.
Whether she’s fit to serve as President is ultimately for the American people to decide.
Friendly Reminder: There Was No Inspector General At State When Hillary Was There
Guilty as Hell, Free as a Bird.
It’s deja vu all over again.
Well, there may be that little issue of Hillary soon spending a lot of time in court facing multiple felonies.
They can turn up the anti-Trump rhetoric all they want, but if they don’t have a candidate they’re not getting anywhere.
Jake Sullivan IS the smoking gun.
Now we find out why she says that she didn’t have stuff marked classified on her server. She had them remove the markings before sending it to her. That in her liberal mind declassifies it. Smartest woman in the world.
They've got her - and in you're heart you know she's guilty.
The FBI has investigated and determined that Hillary is a Democrat,; and, therefore, the laws do not apply to her.
If they have these emails then they should also have, if it was sent, the email to which they refer complete with its contents- the one that she instructed them to send...which they can look at to determine if its contents were classified.
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