Posted on 02/08/2016 2:29:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Perhaps President Obama's involvement is the reason that the FBI has not yet referred charges to the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case. It may be metastasizing so quickly and so dangerously that not only are agents and lawyers within the agency having trouble keeping up with new evidence of wrongdoing, but that the scandal itself now threatens a constitutional crisis. The Department of State's refusal to release 18 emails exchanged between President Obama and Clinton through her unsecured home server at best creates a conflict of interest for Obama (as explained by Andrew McCarthy here) while at worst it raises the likelihood that the President has run afoul of national security laws and ought to be impeached.
I always assumed that somewhere in the 55,000 plus pages of email that Clinton belatedly turned over to the State Department there must have been exchanges with the President. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in March 2015 that the two occasionally emailed each other without specifying whether the emails went through Hillary's private email. Earnest also said that Obama did not look at email addresses, though the President was aware that Clinton sometimes used private email. (Obama had originally said he learned about the private email through new reports -- a typical Obama story -- but backtracked later.) And remember in March, the only admitted concern was whether Clinton had complied with the Federal Records Act.
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That sounds good too! especially if they can remove the ‘un’ . . .
——She knows where the bodies are buried -—
which is why she will not live through it all
Ford issued a pardon for Nixon which stated it was a full, free, and absolute pardon. That pretty much precludes any further action.
I'd love to see the 'un-' removed, too.
This episode in American history has already become a Constitutional Crisis. What Clinton did was against the law even if there were no classified data. Her failure to take care of Federal documents, “destroying” them with a server sweep, having them recovered, and then as a side story, she was trafficking classified data. Some of those exchanges were with POTUS. Both should be prosecuted, but America (and its leadership) does not have the political will to carry out routine law enforcement.
My theory on the gold, Germany not long ago wanted to inventory their gold in the US... They were not allowed. I do not believe for a minute Germany took all those poor refugees in for nothing. My wild guess, given bits and pieces dribbled out here and there.
Obama, Jarrett, Biden, Kerry, et al...
Right. And unicorns may fly out of my arse.
Unicorns and skittles?
If you suspect an exposure or "spill" of classified into an non-secure environment you *must* report it and take certain steps. Must, not optional.
Anyone that sent emails to that non-secure email address committed a crime. Anyone that got an email from that non-secure address with what appeared to be classified information and did not report it committed a crime. Yes, that could include obama.
Hillary Clinton no-doubt belongs in prison for 20 to life, no parole -- or more. There is a good chance there are several hundred other people who could be facing charges, getting their clearance pulled (maybe permanently), losing jobs and careers...
Laws? not for Obama and Hillary.
How is it a constitutional crisis? The Constitution clearly lays out how to remove a criminal from the White House.
Nice!
The timely assassination of the republican front runner, right before the election.
Whether that will be before, while, or after a bunch of refujihadis randomly and unexpectedly kidnap and behead trick-or-treaters across the nation remains to be seen.
I hate this tendency to refer to corruption in the government as a “constitutional crisis”. The Constitution makes provisions for dealing with illegal behavior (”high crimes and misdemeanors”) on the part of the president. What leads to a crisis is allowing malfeasance, abuse of power, lying, etc. to continue unchecked for years.
Loretta Lynch is on the edge of the spotlight, about to be dragged to the center.
If the FBI finds sufficient evidence to launch a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton or one of her top aides for mishandling classified information, Lynch's Justice Department will have to decide whether or not to press ahead.
Even if no evidence of wrongdoing is found, Clinton's many critics are unlikely to take the word of an appointee of President Obama's, and will doubt that justice has been served.
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Lingering in the background is the prospect that Lynch's decision may affect her own future.
Lynch was confirmed by the Senate last year, after a five-month delay largely unrelated to her own qualifications. That left the nation's top lawyer with just a year and a half in office, during Obama's lame duck period in which policy efforts are likely to stall.
If Clinton becomes the next president, however, Lynch may be asked to stay on, at least for a short time. As such, she may have a little bit of skin in the game.
"That Hillary Clinton could be the Democrat nominee and potential next president represents an extraordinary circumstance that commends the appointment of a special counsel," said Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), the head of the House Oversight subcommittee on National Security, in a statement to The Hill. "For a Democrat-appointed attorney general such as Lynch, this is obviously something that distinguishes the Clinton investigation from other cases."
Along with 43 other Republicans, DeSantis wrote a letter to the Justice Department last year asking for a special counsel to be appointed so that the investigation can be conducted "impartially." ...........
Sounds like the Pinball Wizard
Blind, deaf and dumb
Well, I'm having a hard time finding it today, but yesterday I ran across a statement from Obama that must have been made when this issue first came up, and Obama said (paraphrased) "we know what's in everyone's emails".
The USA needs to stop pretending that the government is not corrupt. It is as corrupt and maybe more so than Russia or any country in Latin America.
Waiting for someone to ask the WH CoS if he ever received an email from HRC.
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