Posted on 03/09/2016 5:52:33 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
For those of you salivating — or trembling — at the thought of Hillary Clinton being clapped in handcuffs as she prepares to deliver her acceptance speech this summer: deep, cleansing breath. Based on the available facts and the relevant precedents, criminal prosecution of Clinton for mishandling classified information in her emails is extraordinarily unlikely.
My exasperation with Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state is long-standing and unabated. Lucky for her, political idiocy is not criminal.
“There are plenty of unattractive facts but not a lot of clear evidence of criminality, and we tend to forget the distinction,” American University law professor Stephen Vladeck, an expert on prosecutions involving classified information, told me. “This is really just a political firestorm, not a criminal case.”
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The Demonicrat Party: the dungheap of treason.
Anybody who thought a high visibility Democrat like Hillary would get indited is a naif. Laws are for the little people and disgraced Republicans.
“In Clinton’s case, by contrast, there is no clear evidence that Clinton knew (or even should have known)”
I will say it again and again... It’s the CONTENT of the message that makes something classified, not whether it is correctly labeled or labeled at all. If she viewed a document that said:
Here are the names of our agents and their code names... She should know that’s classified even if it’s not labeled as such. She’s the Sec. of State and she claims she wouldn’t know this?? That makes her either 1) A liar 2) stupid 3)incompetent or 4) both 1-3.
F her.
I will say it again and again... It’s the CONTENT of the message that makes something classified, not whether it is correctly labeled or labeled at all....
That’s what I was taught in the service. Not to give out details that were obviously sensitive even though there was no one redacting your conversation or writings.
You were suppose to get in trouble for it.
Over quite a long period, at various times and in various places we have heard that between 100 and 150 FBI agents have been assigned to this case and a key witness given immunity from prosecution.
We have heard that over a thousand e-mails have been deemed classified, many of them of the TOP SECRET SCI variety, and at least a few where the CLASSIFIED MARKINGS were removed before the e-mail transmission.
Tell me, does that square with anything in this article? Methinks NOT.
The left only goes after their own when they’re powerless.
“There are plenty of unattractive facts but not a lot of clear evidence of criminality, and we tend to forget the distinction,”
“unattractive facts” have a D by the name
“evidence of criminality” have and R by the name
She won’t be indicted because the government class now needs her to be the next president - the very reason she is doing this whole degrading (for her) running for president thing. Would the Dems rather have Lurch or Uncle Creepy carrying their mantle? So Hillary it is and there’s no crime in the entire world she could commit that the Dems would actually try her for as long as they need her to retain power.
The rumors floating around the beltway this week on the investigation are that somebody gave somebody else their username and password for the class side system. That is a big no no.
Marcus isn’t aware of COMSEC requirements that senior leaders act as original classifying authorities (OCA), which gives them extraordinary authority and responsibility for establishing the security classification on documents that contain secure data. However, none of that matters anyway... Hillary will be in the clear by summertime. There’ll be no indictment.
Means nothing.
You are correct, of course, but the reality is that EVERYTHING in Washington DC is political and this “investigation” is no exception.
The fix is in. She’s untouchable.
She is a lawyer, and they used to be held to a higher standard.
Just shouting “I didn’t know” does not relieve an officer of the court of their responsibility.
But being a democrat sure seems to ...
You are correct of course but the facts are going to be a very difficult thing to bury in an election season when there is a $Billion just setting there waiting to explain those facts to the American public.
If it turns out the way you expect it will leave a stain on the FBI, the Justice Department, the Obama Presidency and, perhaps a second Clinton Presidency that will last for decades. A dangerous game for the Dems to play.
The 0bama regime has a long, and continuing, history of treating Classified and Sensitive Material in a cavalier and careless manner, with little or no regard for the consequences. Their actions are primarily responsible for over 30 members of Seal Team Six being killed. Given that history, I am not optimistic that Loretta Lynch and the Dept of inJustice will follow the law and indict this criminal.
Uh... because she’s hillary.
Hillary Clinton is killing the Democrat Party.
She just lost in Michigan to the WalMart greeter.
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