Posted on 12/01/2017 6:33:50 AM PST by pgkdan
Doesn’t matter if a witness is under oath. Lying to the FBI and perjury are two different charges.
Is this Scooter Libby redux, or a simple plea deal to get a hand slap and move on?
Now for the next week, we get to hear the liberal talking heads rant for hours and hours on end how this is the most corrupt administration since Nixon.
This what the guy in the “never talk to cops” video advises. He uses examples of how talking to them can get you in trouble. The worst is when they “misremember” what you said, intentionally or accidentally. But they can’t missremember what you don’t say.
Ham sammich!
Yeah. I thought you were only at risk of perjury when under oath in a court of law.
Comey noted that he cleared her before even asking her anything.
After this and Scooter Libby, why would anybody ever agree to answer questions from the FBI?
Lying to or even ‘materially’ misleading the FBI or Congress is a felony regardless of whether one is under oath.
That’s why there were no recordings or notes made during Hillary’s FBI interview. No way was allowed for her to trip herself up.
You don’t get placed under oath when the FBI interviews you. If they find out later that you lied to them, then they charge you with:
18 USC 1001-Making false statements to federal investigators.
You tell the Fed’s, during an interview, that you were at your mothers on the morning of the incident, but they find out later that you were really at your girlfriends.
Being under oath and lying is, Perjury, in a courtroom, grand jury, or giving testimony. There is a difference, although, a small one at the end of the day.
However you want to slice it, she got away with it, not because she wasn’t under oath or anything like that, she got away with it because they never had any intention of prosecuting her, in the first place.
When all is said and done, Michael Flynn will be shown to be a great patriot.
And instrumental in the taking down of the Deep State.
...and yet, Hillary Clinton walks free to this day...
We ARE a banana republic.
What a waste of taxpayer money!
And all the notes are destroyed once the report it written, so there’s no way to compare what was ‘noted’ to what is written in the final report.
The FBI is not the organization, that the people have been led to believe they are. They stack the deck so far in their favor, when it comes to investigations, that it’s hard NOT to get charged by them. And that is the leverage they use against, pretty much everyone, they’ll get you for something. Even if it’s lying to them during an interview.
Any time you get interviewed by someone from the Feds, after they ID themselves, they advise you that you can be prosecuted under 18USC1001.
If real cops had those rules, you couldn’t build enough jails/prisons.
Everyman commits 3 felonies a day.
It is in the Code.
Too many laws and regulations.
Agree 100%
The lesson is, don’t talk to them at all—I believe once you ask for a lawyer, their questions have to stop.
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That’s exactly the lesson. And the only thing you should say to them is I want a lawyer.
Lying under oath should be the crime, but lying to an FBI agent is an unconstitutional piece of garbage, which they selectively prosecute.
NEVER talk to the police and especially the FBI without:
1) your lawyer present
2) a video recording to which you have access, being made of the proceedings.
> You tell the Fed’s, during an interview, that you were at your mothers on the morning of the incident, but they find out later that you were really at your girlfriends. <
You can even get in trouble when you tell the absolute truth!
Suppose you really were at your mother’s on the morning of the incident. And so that’s what you tell the Fed’s. But an honestly confused witness swears that he saw you somewhere else.
The Fed’s believe the witness (why not?), and charge you with lying. Best to say nothing, and politely tell them you won’t talk except under the advice of your lawyer.
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