Posted on 11/13/2016 10:22:58 AM PST by Starman417
While Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorable” was marching to the polls pitchforks and torches in hand to deny her access to the presidency and a new revenue source for the Clinton Foundation, Scooter Libby got his law license back and was reinstated to the bar by the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Libby was Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff when he was charged with obstruction of an investigation into the “outing” of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative. Plame was in fact a desk jockey at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, not a secret agent in harm’s way. As Investor’s Business Daily noted:
Remember the alleged outing of the already known CIA officer and desk jockey Valerie Plame? We were told then that the Vanity Fair cover girl's 15 minutes of fame jeopardized our national security even if everybody already knew who she was.Libby in fact did not out Plame who was not a covert operative. Hillary Clinton, whose faulty memory caused her to say to the FBI she couldn’t recall some 39 times, did in fact endanger the lives of foreign operatives in her “carelessness”, as FBI Director James Comey put it, regarding classified emails."Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, went to jail because his memory of events and who said what to whom regarding Plame differed from the recollections of others, particularly news reporters.
Scooter Libby’s “crimes” included making “false” statements to the FBI in the case of the alleged “outing” of well-known CIA desk jockey Valerie Plame. If anyone has made false statements to the FBI, it is one Hillary Rodham Clinton. Saying you don’t recall more than three dozen times doesn’t past the Pinocchio test.
Plame was as noted a well-known desk jockey at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Hillary’s lies and reckless carelessness included the transmission of emails containing the names of actual CIA operatives in the field involved in clandestine operations. As the New York Post reported:
Hillary Clinton’s e-mails included the names of CIA officers serving overseas and foreigners who are on the spy agency’s payroll — potentially endangering their lives, it was reported Monday.So why was Libby convicted and Hillary Clinton not even indicted.? In an interesting historical footnote, Comey, who falsely claimed no serious prosecutor would take the case of Hillary Clinton, was among those who found sufficient evidence to prosecute and convict Libby. Comey, it appears, has even more explaining to do. As the Daily Caller reports:“It’s a death sentence,” a senior intelligence-community official told the Observer. “If we’re lucky, only [foreign] agents, not our officers, will get killed because of this.”
The paper said the intelligence community is in panic mode trying to determine which agents may have been compromised.
CIA officials assume foreign agencies intercepted unencrypted e-mails stored on Clinton’s. home server while she was secretary of state.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Realistically, Chelsea is going nowhere, no matter how hard the DNC tries. This was a strong rebuke of the Clintons and their highly corrupt machine. If they want to challenge Trump in 2020 and make gains, they need to drain their own swamp like the conservative side did and obliterate the Clinton/Soros machine. The DNC cannot expect to make any serious challenges for 2018 or 2020 the way they are now.
I believe Hillary should get indicted to the full extent of the law and justice should be served! However, with no power at all, the punishment would be a lot less now than if she was President (in which case November 6, 2018 would be doomsday for the Democrats).
A double-edged sword... I want Crooked Hillary in jail to send a message, but I really want Trump’s 100 day plan fully implemented even more without distractions.
An Obama pardon would be a gift, it would let Trump off the hook.
And, a Clinton w/o the $$ is neutered.
“Don’t indict her. PARDON her”
Ah...NO !! Let the investigation continue and go where it goes...and let the investigation of CGI continue and go where it goes...re-instate investigations if needed..if convictions are gained, extract as many dollars that they can find as restitution...chase the money down to the ends of the earth and every offshore havin that exists.
And then start with the maximum sentence, 40 years as an example, and deduct 1 year of jail time for every $30 million in restitution.
No way do you let money laundering human trafficking and treason and go unpunished.
“John Brennan gone too”
Trump will sweep them all out, like any new administration.
In the first 100 days, indict, try, convict, sentence to be hanged Traitorhillary.
And that event should be declared a national holiday of celebration!
Do this and you go to prison.
The Clintons became wealthy selling U.S. foreign policy. There's people in prison for much less.
At a bare minimum it the Email/Benghazi scandals needs to be completely investigated and all the results need to be exposed in plain sight. Prison? That might set a bad precedent.
The Foundation however is a completely different matter. They must be allowed to keep the cash. The foundation could lead to anything and everything. That was the core of the Email scandal anyway.
If he appoints a good FBI director and head of the justice department, Hillary will be investigated. But this is not a high priority. Trumps agenda is far more important, and preventive measures are more important than prosecutions. Especially one that will divide the country even further. Probably be better to let the full truth come out than prosecute.
Why keep the Clintons in the public eye? They are masters at playing the game and it will just be a distraction for President Trump.
The best course of action is to threaten a wide ranging investigation and hope that Obama issues a bunch of pardons. That’s telling the public that the Clinton Crime Family is finished.
AGREE. On the national security issue - it is wrong that treatment for HRC is different than for any other American. We’ve read of careers toasted and incarceration because of things HRC has done.
As for the CGI. The pay for play is a crime that no rational person can excuse. This is NOT what we want from our public officials.
No way in hell should she or anyone else involved in these matters skate.
BY ALL Means YES!!!
This should be a GIVEN!
Justice must be done. Too many people are in prison for doing far, far less damage to our national security than she has done.
Don’t put some arbitrary time period on the process, like 100 days.
The FBI has numerous investigations into the Clinton Foundation ongoing and we don’t know what an investigation into the use of the private server would show, if run normally using a grand jury and search warrants.
We need to put a special counsel in place to oversee the FBI investigations and make use of grand juries and other normal investigatory and see where the evidence leads.
The sale of US government policy for cash is extremely serious and will take many more months. What it appears the Clintons have done, with US uranium and in Haiti and in Nigeria and a number of other instances is far, far more serious and concrete than what the Obama administration prosecuted VA governor Bob McDonnell for.
Lock her up
Find a good AG, turn the problem over to him and empower the FBI to investigate sans Comey and his deputy.
I agree. She’s not likely to live long enough to see the end of the investigation and trial anyway.
Prison sets a very good precedent, reconciling the really bad precedent of Hillary’s crimes.
No, let the rule of Law Prevail.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.