Posted on 07/09/2016 2:07:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
– H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Fourth Series, 1924.
Seems like the Clintons, Bill & Hillary, are armed with Teflon-coating round-the-clock. The muck their individual and combined shenanigans have produced ever since they entered the political arena way back in the late-1970’s has somehow never really stuck, at least not long enough to seriously damage the political futures of the duo. Bill has won an eight-year term in the White House, and Hillary is confidently lining up to do her first four-year stint come November.
Their continued political successes, the muck notwithstanding, underlines the reality. But that reality may be about to change with a devastating suddenness.
Because, from all accounts, the year-long FBI’s criminal investigation now drawing to a close into Hillary’s ‘private’ email fiasco which reportedly compromised national security while she was Secretary of State in Barack Obama’s first four-year term could lead to possible indictments and prosecution in court by the US Department of Justice.
James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in May that he would not be rushed into finishing his agency’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails "on an election timetable". And he would not say whether the inquiry would be wrapped up by the November presidential election.
"We want to do it well and we want to do it promptly, so I feel pressure to do both of those things," Comey said, adding, during a round-table discussion with reporters, "I don’t tether to any particular external deadline, so I do feel the pressure to do it well and promptly, but as between the two, I always choose ‘well’."
While Mrs. Clinton has characterized the investigation as a mere ‘security inquiry’, Mr. Comey’s comment was brusque and dismissive, saying he was "not familiar with the term."
Mr. Comey confirmed he had been receiving regular briefings on the status of the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s emails, which included interviews with some of Mrs. Clinton’s closest aides at the State Department on her decision to use a private server for all of her government business as Secretary of State, adding that "some emails that went through her server appear to have been classified at various security levels because of sensitive information."
The FBI’s case began as a ‘referral’ from the Inspector-General of the US State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies, who were concerned that classified information might have been stored outside a secure government network. But multiple law enforcement officials said the matter quickly became an investigation into whether anyone had committed a crime in mis-handling ‘classified’ information.
Wrote columnist H. A. Goodman on the Salon website: "Millions of Democrats are voting for a presidential candidate linked to an FBI criminal investigation. Potentially our next Commander-in-Chief will be interviewed by the FBI soon, as will her top aides. This state of affairs would never take place in any other leading democracy, but American politics is unique."
In a Wall Street Journal Op-ed, former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey states the case for Clinton’s prosecution:
"When asked whether she had her server ‘wiped’, she assumed an air of grandmotherly befuddlement: "What, like with a cloth or something?" she asked. "I don’t know how it works digitally at all."
"The simple proposition that everyone is equal before the law suggests that Mrs. Clinton’s state of mind – whether mere knowledge of what she was doing as to mishandling classified information; or gross negligence in the case of the mishandling of information relating to national defense; or bad intent as to actual or attempted destruction of email messages; or corrupt intent as to State Department business – justifies a criminal charge of one sort or another."
Added Goodman: "In the best case scenario, Clinton doesn’t face indictments, but the FBI confirms that she jeopardized national security. Even without any FBI ‘revelations’, Trump kept calling her simply ‘Crooked Hillary’ So one can expect her to be very much on the defensive during every televised debate against Trump."
What happens if Clinton wins the nomination, and the FBI recommends indictments after July 25, 2016, the date of the Democrtic Convention? In that event, Trump doesn’t have to do a thing, because the Democratic Party would have, by default as it were, handed Donald the Presidency!
Obama’s former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, interviewed on CNN by Jake Tapper on Hillary’s use of a private, unsecured server as Secretary of State, noted:
"If it were me, I would probably be in jail This ‘over-classification’ claim is not an excuse. If it’s classified, it’s classified."
Andrew Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, writing on the reason.com website after the release of the Inspector-General’s report, noted that "Clinton and her former aides declined to cooperate with the IG, notwithstanding her oft-stated claim that she ‘can’t wait’ to meet with officials and clear the air about her emails."
Napolitano noted that the investigation was launched when officials at the State Department under Secretary of State John Kerry learned that Clinton paid an aide to migrate her public and secret State Department email streams away from their secured government venues and onto her own, non-secure server, stored in her home. "The migration of the secret email stream most likely constituted the crime of espionage – the failure to secure and preserve the secrecy of confidential, secret or top-secret material."
The Inspector General’s report is damning to Clinton, says Napolitano. "It refutes every defense she has offered to the allegation that she mishandled state secrets. It revealed an email that hadn’t been publicly made known showing Clinton’s state of mind. And it paints a picture of a self-isolated Secretary of State stubbornly refusing to comply with federal law for venal reasons; she simply did not want to be held accountable for her official behaviour.
"Here’s what is new publicly: When her private server was down and her BlackBerry immobilized for days at a time, she refused to use a government-issued BlackBerry because of her fear of the Freedom of Information Act. She preferred to go dark, or back to the 19th-century technology of having documents read aloud to her.
"The State Department she once headed has rejected all of her arguments. Two federal judges have ordered her aides to testify about a conspiracy in her office to evade federal laws. Her legal status can only be described as grave or worse than grave.
"Clinton diverted all of her email traffic to her private server – some 66,000 emails, about 2,200 of which contained state secrets. Moreover, Secretary of State Colin Powell never used his own server, nor is he presently seeking to become the chief federal law enforcement officer in the land.
"If you are curious why the Inspector General of the State Department during Hillary’s years as Secretary of State did not discover all of Clinton’s lawbreaking while she was doing it, the answer will alarm but probably not surprise you: There was no Inspector General at the State Department during Clinton’s tenure as Secretary! – a state of affairs unique in modern history; and she knew that. How much more knowledge of her manipulations will the Justice Department tolerate before enforcing the law?"
Next week: Bill screws it up!
More attempts to make conservatives complacent. There is no indictment riding in to save the day. Isn’t going to happen.
I have that same fear also. The Marxists have taken America. They’re not going to give it up. God help anyone who dares to stand in their way.
I don’t think Hillary’s going to make it to the general election.
If America were just up to man, his wisdom, and plans, America would probably never have come into existence. There’s more at play here than your daily news picks up. Providence, which the Founders copiously acknowledged, is at work here on behalf of America. There is reason to believe that regardless of the Right’s over-regard for the name “Clinton”, God has other plans for America than the Clintons, the Left, and the D.C. cartel do and God has the final say.
What we’ve been witnessing over the last year is something few predicted. It is a God thing. What is about to happen will probably also surprise many. I think God is stepping in for good and for the long-term benefit of many.
George Washington’s Prophecy of the Coming Invasion of America
https://z3news.com/w/george-washingtons-prophecy-invasion-america/
She is not indictable. NOT INDICTABLE. For any conceivable crime she might have committed ow may commit.
The fix is in. The only way she’ll be indicted is if Trump wins and reopens it.
Somebody has not been keeping up with current events.
America has an end, “but not yet.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53MdN-fhK5s
God will first show himself strong for America which he is beginning to do with Trump, and I believe America’s light will shine one last time (Is 60:1-2). For the next few decades, I believe America’s light will shine around the world, in the midst of growing darkness, for God’s last in-gathering “compelling many to come in” as prophesied by Jesus (Luke 14:23).
“Then will the End come...” At some point, God’s people will be taken up out outta here, as Noah was in the ark, and it will all come crashing down and everything including America will be destroyed.
“But not yet...”
Hillary was never in serious danger of being indicted, and she still isn’t.
The Clintons’ success in politics is no mystery.
The Democrat party has always been the party of the psychopaths—the slaveowners, the segregationists, the Catholic bishops.
The party became officially, pro-abortion in 1972, and hardly a Catholic bishop took notice.
The Clintons have no special knack for keeping out of trouble. They are (jointly) simply the ideal candidate of a party of psychopaths.
When W said he wanted “a new tone” in Washington, I knew that meant that criminals of all kinds would skate.
Not sure God’s so willing to save a nation that has killed tens of millions of his babies in the womb.
While I can believe that, I think they are also worried about their physical survival. Fort Marcy Park is always in the backs of their minds.
I agree with you, and will probably do exactly as you've said.
It won't be the first time we've done this. In 2008 my spouse and I were so disturbed at the prospect of an Obama presidency that we went all out for McCain (though McCain was our absolute LAST CHOICE for Republican standard bearer).
We even traveled to Pennsylvania to go knocking on doors -- paid our own fare and hotel, and worked for days doing get-out-the-vote. People were friendly, opened their doors to us and listened.
But there was no way efforts like ours could overcome the overwhelming voter fraud that was perpetrated in Philadelphia. How are we going to stop that from happening again?
I fear fraud will be a problem in Virginia. And too few people volunteer to watch the vote being counted in places where fraud is a possibility.
Ultimately I think we don”t have a choice but to do our best. The alternative is a Hitlery presidency which will more than likely result in significant civil unrest. Not to mention just completely sucking.
God’s condemnation and judgment on all of your sins, my sins, America’s sins and the sins of the whole world were completely exhausted on the body of Jesus Christ on the cross 2000 years ago (1 John 2:2). God isn’t mad at America because all his wrath was exhausted on the body of his Son on the cross. God is madly in love with America and the world (John 3:16). That is the greatness of his grace.
America is a miracle and God has and will use her as a light for the world. God hates sin but he has completely dealt with the penalty of sin. He is not in the business of condemning the world but is busy reconciling the world to himself (2 Cor 5:18-20) and I believe America will once again be the vehicle God uses to send the light around the world once last time before it all comes crashing down.
“God has other plans for America than the Clintons, the Left, and the D.C. cartel do and God has the final say.
What we’ve been witnessing over the last year is something few predicted. It is a God thing. What is about to happen will probably also surprise many. I think God is stepping in for good and for the long-term benefit of many”.
I’d be interested in hearing why you believe God is/going to intervene on behalf of America, since we (as a nation) appear to be turning away from him rather than towards him.
I do not believe Hillary will be indicted for anything.
I think it more likely that the Dems will try an “October Surprise” and have Trump indicted for something (possibly related to Trump University). The charges don’t need to stick, they just need to be filed among massive publicity.
Thanks for asking. I have several reasons for thinking this.
Gradually, over the last few years, as we have witnessed the silent coup taking place by our President and an absent Congress, I have wondered if this was the end. But God has been reminding me that he has given me some exceeding great and precious promises about my life which haven’t yet come to pass.
He has shown me that at 68 years old, the second half of my life is about to begin, not unlike Moses or Abraham whose destiny was fulfilled at the later stages of their lives. This includes health and prosperity and a ministry of taking the gospel to others.
I have reason to believe I’ll be living well into my hundreds in health and strength. I also believe that as America goes, so will go the world. I believe that when America goes (I think it will someday) this will usher in the End whereupon Jesus will return as the Prince of Peace to set up His 1000 year reign as King of kings.
So it didn’t make sense that I would have all these promises that couldn’t reasonably be fulfilled if everything blew up now. The Lord also showed me I would go to be with him before He comes to take His Church. Also, Jesus prophesied that there would be a great in-gathering for the great feast which will occur in Heaven when the earth’s end of the age comes (Luke 14:16-23). Also Zechariah and others said there will be a latter rain of the Holy Spirit even greater than the former rain in the early church. We haven’t seen that yet, but it is beginning through a mighty move of God bringing back GRACE, the “faith that was once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
So against hope, a few years ago I began to believe God was supernaturally going to change things around. Well, here we are with a totally unexpected result with Trump probably taking the presidency. I think this is the beginning of a change. Apparently some well-known ministers have also said the Lord has shown them about a great turnaround - in America and the world through America - that will bring many souls to Christ in a last in-gathering in the next few decades before He comes to take His church and it all comes crashing down.
I think the word from the Lord today is Isaiah 60:1-2 where he says his light and glory is rising upon us, the church, in the midst of gross darkness. The darkness is there, but as in the beginning, the light will overcome the darkness for awhile yet.
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