Posted on 10/14/2017 1:49:58 PM PDT by markomalley
Nearly a year has passed since President Donald Trump—and his 63 million votes—sent Hillary Clinton to the political graveyard.
Or so we thought. In recent weeks, the failed presidential candidate has made the rounds in the liberal media, making excuses for her loss and taking shots at the White House. Clinton told CNN host Anderson Cooper the president’s rhetoric is “a cry from the white nationalist gut”—because, Trump? In an interview with NPR’s Rachel Martin, she blamed “sexism” for her defeat, despite the fact married women overwhelmingly voted for President Trump. Clinton even found time to scapegoat former FBI Director James Comey for re-opening the investigation into her shady email practices as U.S. Secretary of State. In her words: “It just stopped my momentum. I can’t understand it.”
What many Americans can’t understand, however, is how Clinton faces no legal repercussions for her email fiasco. Our most powerful law enforcement institutions should be committed to enforcing the law, not protecting well-connected political figures.
Clinton’s press tour is not only a therapy session, but a distraction from a very real issue on the minds of American voters: The adequacy and fairness of the FBI’s investigation and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s refusal to prosecute her.
There certainly seemed to be cause for prosecution. Not only did Clinton maintain a private, non-secure email server used to transmit classified and other highly sensitive information—jeopardizing our national security—but she wiped roughly 33,000 emails from the server after questions arose. The email wipe came just weeks after the traditionally pro-Clinton New York Times reported on her use of a private email for government business.
As the old saying goes: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” But Clinton remains a free woman—with plenty of time to complain on cable news—while the same news outlets now bury the email story altogether. Ask yourself: When was the last time you saw a follow-up story on the email scandal? Since November, the liberal media has almost exclusively transitioned to attacking President Trump personally and undermining his agenda—from Charlottesville to Hurricane Harvey and tax reform.
But the American people see Clinton’s email scandal—and the lack of closure—as a red flag. According to 2016 polling, millions of Americans are “very concerned” about her use of a private email server to conduct government business. The majority of them believe the FBI should have sought a criminal indictment against Clinton. Should the powerful get a pass, simply because of their power?
There is unfinished business here, which is why the Committee to Defend the President has filed a new request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to assess the FBI investigation and the DOJ’s decision not to prosecute Clinton. The Committee is seeking documents from the FBI and DOJ concerning the “wiping” of Clinton’s email server and her failure to produce documents required by subpoenas, any potential lies Clinton may have told investigators, and the questionable investigative and prosecutorial decision-making writ large. Our FOIA request will finally allow the public to judge for itself the adequacy and fairness of the investigation into America’s most infamous email scandal.
The FBI previously refused to release similar documents, claiming there is no “public interest” in their disclosure. But our research and numerous opinion polls suggest otherwise—millions of Americans demand accountability. They want to know that our law enforcement agencies rise above petty politics for the good of the country.
Hillary Clinton may be politically irrelevant, but she is not above the law.
Forced to eat Yiddish pork?
Obama had an email alias he used to communicate with Hillary, through her illegal server. This is a known fact. There is zero doubt that their communications contained classified information.
That means, for all the criminality of hillary’s mishandling of classified info, Obama did it, too!!! Exact same thing.
The tarmac meeting was Bill telling Lynch, “if she goes down, she’ll take Obama with her. You better be ready to prosecute the President, if you indict her.”
So obvious, and so few people get it. It explains the entire comey fiasco. And lots of pubbies knew it all along, and Sessions knows it, too. Probably Trump. Hence no interest. Nobody wants to go down that road.
DC corruption runs so deep that neither Democrats nor Republicans will prosecute her out of fear that their OWN crimes will be exposed.
ROTFL!
So maybe when a cop pulls you over for speeding you should tell them that’s there’s No Compelling Interest for you getting the ticket?
Yeah, I found it funny that the folder was named “Life Insurance “
...or old Soviet style, crimes will be created where none occurred.
Trump, or his circle, may face that post-presidency, if the swamp is not sufficiently drained, the judiciary purged, and some sense of order restored.
Of course if she had gotten back into the White House she would have had access to all the snooping done by the politicized federal agencies.
Remember,
While in the White House and her prevert hubby was pres,
She obtained hundreds of fbi files on every piece of crap in d.c. Which is nearly everyone.
For those of you keeping score at home, the Federal Records Act lays it out pretty clearly: 18 U.S. Code § 2071 (a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
50 U.S Code 1806 - (a)COMPLIANCE WITH MINIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS; LAWFUL PURPOSES (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1806) Information acquired from an electronic surveillance conducted pursuant to this subchapter concerning any United States person may be used and disclosed by Federal officers and employees without the consent of the United States person only in accordance with the minimization procedures required by this subchapter. No otherwise privileged communication obtained in accordance with, or in violation of, the provisions of this subchapter shall lose its privileged character. No information acquired from an electronic surveillance pursuant to this subchapter may be used or disclosed by Federal officers or employees except for lawful purposes.
18 USC 798: a, d, e. - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798),(a)Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—
(1) concerning the nature, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or
(2) concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or
(3) concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or
(4) obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(d) (1)Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall forfeit to the United States irrespective of any provision of State law—
(A) any property constituting, or derived from, any proceeds the person obtained, directly or indirectly, as the result of such violation; and
(B) any of the person’s property used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part, to commit, or to facilitate the commission of, such violation.
(2) The court, in imposing sentence on a defendant for a conviction of a violation of this section, shall order that the defendant forfeit to the United States all property described in paragraph (1).
18 USC 793, f: (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793) (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or
(2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
44 USC 3101: (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/3101) The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency’s activities. 18 USC 1924: (a)
Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
(b) For purposes of this section, the provision of documents and materials to the Congress shall not constitute an offense under subsection (a).
(c) In this section, the term “classified information of the United States” means information originated, owned, or possessed by the United States Government concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States that has been determined pursuant to law or Executive order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interests of national security.
Never forget 18 USC 2071:
The Big One elaborated, 18 USC 2071: (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2071) (a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
18 USC 1001: (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001) (a)Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both. If the matter relates to an offense under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be not more than 8 years.
Another big one: 18 U.S. Code § 1924 –; (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1924) Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material
(a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
(b) For purposes of this section, the provision of documents and materials to the Congress shall not constitute an offense under subsection (a).
(c) In this section, the term “classified information of the United States” means information originated, owned, or possessed by the United States Government concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States that has been determined pursuant to law or Executive order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interests of national security.
18 U.S. Code § 201 –; (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201) Bribery of public officials and witnesses
(a)For the purpose of this section— (1) the term “public official” means Member of Congress, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, either before or after such official has qualified, or an officer or employee or person acting for or on behalf of the United States, or any department, agency or branch of Government thereof, including the District of Columbia, in any official function, under or by authority of any such department, agency, or branch of Government, or a juror;
(2) the term “person who has been selected to be a public official” means any person who has been nominated or appointed to be a public official, or has been officially informed that such person will be so nominated or appointed;
18 U.S. Code § 208 –; (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/208) Acts affecting a personal financial interest
(a) Except as permitted by subsection (b) hereof, whoever, being an officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States Government, or of any independent agency of the United States, a Federal Reserve bank director, officer, or employee, or an officer or employee of the District of Columbia, including a special Government employee, participates personally and substantially as a Government officer or employee, through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or otherwise, in a judicial or other proceeding, application, request for a ruling or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter in which, to his knowledge, he, his spouse, minor child, general partner, organization in which he is serving as officer, director, trustee, general partner or employee, or any person or organization with whom he is negotiating or has any arrangement concerning prospective employment, has a financial interest—
18 U.S. Code § 371 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/371) Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States
If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor.
18 U.S. Code § 1343 –; (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1343) Fraud by wire, radio, or television
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 1349 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1349) Attempt and conspiracy Any person who attempts or conspires to commit any offense under this chapter shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt or conspiracy
18 U.S. Code § 1505 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1505) Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress— Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 1519 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519) Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 1341 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341) Frauds and Swindles Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
26 U.S. Code § 7201 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7201) Attempt to evade or defeat tax Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by this title or the payment thereof shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $100,000 ($500,000 in the case of a corporation), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.
26 U.S. Code § 7212 –; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7212) Attempts to interfere with administration of internal revenue laws
(a)Corrupt or forcible interference Whoever corruptly or by force or threats of force (including any threatening letter or communication) endeavors to intimidate or impede any officer or employee of the United States acting in an official capacity under this title, or in any other way corruptly or by force or threats of force (including any threatening letter or communication) obstructs or impedes, or endeavors to obstruct or impede, the due administration of this title, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both, except that if the offense is committed only by threats of force, the person convicted thereof shall be fined not more than $3,000, or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. The term “threats of force”, as used in this subsection, means threats of bodily harm to the officer or employee of the United States or to a member of his family.
(b)Forcible rescue of seized property Any person who forcibly rescues or causes to be rescued any property after it shall have been seized under this title, or shall attempt or endeavor so to do, shall, excepting in cases otherwise provided for, for every such offense, be fined not more than $500, or not more than double the value of the property so rescued, whichever is the greater, or be imprisoned not more than 2 years.
18 U.S. Code § 1621 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1621) Perjury generally Whoever—
(1) having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true; or
(2) in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under section 1746 of title 28, United States Code, willfully subscribes as true any material matter which he does not believe to be true; is guilty of perjury and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. This section is applicable whether the statement or subscription is made within or without the United States.
18 U.S. Code § 1905 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1905) Disclosure of confidential information generally Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, any person acting on behalf of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, or agent of the Department of Justice as defined in the Antitrust Civil Process Act (15 U.S.C. 1311–1314), or being an employee of a private sector organization who is or was assigned to an agency under chapter 37 of title 5, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law any information coming to him in the course of his employment or official duties or by reason of any examination or investigation made by, or return, report or record made to or filed with, such department or agency or officer or employee thereof, which information concerns or relates to the trade secrets, processes, operations, style of work, or apparatus, or to the identity, confidential statistical data, amount or source of any income, profits, losses, or expenditures of any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association; or permits any income return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person except as provided by law; shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and shall be removed from office or employment.
Obama broke U.S. Code 1361 and 4:
18 U.S. Code § 4 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4) Misprision of felony
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
28 U.S. Code § 1361 - (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1361) Action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.
Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be thoroughly investigated, prosecuted, tried and convicted. The gravity of her unindicted crimes will forever be a stain on our Sacred Republic and a precedent for it to happen again and again. It stops now.
She is not so much being allowed to escape prosecution as being allowed to continue to keep The Democrat party in turmoil. The Party has to get rid of her. The Party can’t get rid of her.
She hasn’t gotten what Ethel and Julius Rosenberg got for the same crime, so yea, she got off easy.
The article presumes that she got off. I see no reason why she can’t be indicted at any time. The sooner the better.
That would be the best way to restore faith in our judicial system and prove that NO ONE is above the law. As it stands now, the elite, illegals, and favored minority groups get a pass. Selective enforcement of the law is tyranny. You can always find some law to use to jail the people you don’t like and look the other way when it’s someone you do like.
Everytime I think of Hi-liar-y, Chelsea and Bill I grit my teeth and see red.
All of them transgressed illegally and all three and a bunch of FBI people need to go to jail a long time.
I just wonder what bargain Trump put forth so she wouldn’t.
If he had made a deal it would have included a STFU clause and THAT ain't happenin'.
But then again, she's a Clinton and you can trust them as good as a Arkansas polecat.
By crackey; I can understand why!
Seems to be a LOT of us sickos in this thread!
Hey, this isn't talk like a pirate week.
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