Posted on 07/08/2016 7:52:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai
FBI Director James Comey told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday that he thinks the Justice Department is worried that the 1917 law criminalizing gross negligence in handling classified material is “invalid” and “would be challenged on constitutional grounds, which is why they’ve used it extraordinarily sparingly in the decades.” […]
“Do you believe that since the Department of Justice hasn’t used the statute Congress passed, it’s invalid?” (Tim) Walberg asked.
“No, I think they’re worried that it’s invalid, that it would be challenged on constitutional grounds, which is why they’ve used it extraordinarily sparingly in the decades,” Comey said. In fact, the statute was only used once — in an espionage case, he said. …
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He’s not just “interpreting” it, but rewriting it. He’s acting as a dictator.
“Sheriff Joe Arpaio.”
Sheriff Clark, Wisconsin’s LEO gem.
I would completely trust either of them.
I’m just waiting to hear that SOMEBODY, either the FBI, DoJ, State Department or whoever, is going to hold accountable the persons who deliberately removed the classification markings from the material and posted it (probably by manually transcribing it from the classified server) to Clinton’s private email server.
They have the email threads; they KNOW who inserted the material into the stream. Well? WELL!!??
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.
Why would any executive branch do such a thing?
If they were some low level non appointed type, they will be hanging by their thumbs.
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 .
That is not true. Never has been.
I probably don’t need to Remind you that there are only 3 FEDERAL CRIMES Authorized by the US Constitution.
1.Treason
2.Piracy
3.Counterfeiting.
NOTHING ELSE!!
Sorry... Obama changed the 'law' and now the JUDICIARY is under the control of the EXECUTIVE branch.
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.
Comey is an idiot. The statute is fine. This country has not had classified INFO treated with such gross negligence by a cabinet level official as Hillary did. Petraeus was tried and found guilty. His actions created zero to mild damage to overall national security next to her serious damage.
These people will destabilize the United States.
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