What Comey did- some might call it obstruction of justice

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-07-17 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

James Comey let a criminal escape. In fact, he facilitated her escape:

An early draft of former FBI Director James Comey's statement closing out the Hillary Clinton email case accused the former secretary of State of having been "grossly negligent" in handling classified information, newly reported memos to Congress show.

The tough language was changed to the much softer accusation that Clinton had been "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information when Comey announced in July 2016 there would be no charges against her.

The change is significant, since federal law states that gross negligence in handling the nation's intelligence can be punished criminally with prison time or fines.

Spokesmen for the FBI and Clinton did not immediately return phone calls or emails seeking comment.

The original assessment:

"There is evidence to support a conclusion that Secretary Clinton, and others, used the email server in a manner that was grossly negligent with respect to the handling of classified information," reads the statement, one of Comey's earliest drafts from May 2, 2016.

It was about the same time that Comey had already decided to exonerate her:

"According to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April or early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton.  That was long before FBI agents finished their work.  Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership.  The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts," the letter, signed by Chairman Chuck Grassley and Committee member Lindsey Graham states. "Conclusion first, fact-gathering second—that’s no way to run an investigation.  The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy."

On June 29, 2016 Loretta Lynch met with Bill Clinton to give him the heads up that Hillary would not be facing charges. Somewhere along the line Lynch directed Comey to call the investigation a "matter" and not an investigation.

Then on July 3, for the sake of appearances, the FBI interviewed hillary clinton. It was a sham. Clinton was neither placed under oath nor recorded and Comey was nowhere near it.

On July 6, Comey announced that he was recommending that no charges be filed against Clinton.

The Clinton interview was a sham. In fact, the entire investigation was a sham:

Just how much Comey and his Bureau punted on EmailGate has become painfully obvious since then. Redacted FBI documents from that investigation, dumped on the Friday afternoon before the long Labor Day weekend, revealed that Hillary Clinton either willfully lied to the Bureau, repeatedly, about her email habits as secretary of state, or she is far too dumb to be our commander-in-chief.

Worse, the FBI completely ignored the appearance of highly classified signals intelligence in Hillary’s email, including information lifted verbatim from above-Top Secret NSA reports back in 2011. This crime, representing the worst compromise of classified information in EmailGate – that the public knows of, at least – was somehow deemed so uninteresting that nobody at the FBI bothered to ask anybody on Team Clinton about it.

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Now it turns out the FBI granted immunity to much bigger fish in the Clinton political tank. Three more people got a pass from the Bureau in exchange for their cooperation: Hillary lawyer Heather Samuelson, State Department IT boss John Bental, and – by far the most consequential – Cheryl Mills, who has been a Clinton flunky-cum-factotum for decades.

Mills served as the State Department’s Chief of Staff and Counselor throughout Hillary’s tenure as our nation’s top diplomat. Granting her immunity in EmailGate, given her deep involvement in that scandal – including the destruction of tens of thousands of emails so they could not be handed over to the FBI – now seems curious, to say the least, particularly because Mills sat in on Hillary’s chat with the Bureau regarding EmailGate.

This was in fact so highly irregular that Jason Chaffetz, chair of the House Oversight Committee, pronounced himself “absolutely stunned” by the FBI’s granting of immunity to Cheryl Mills – which he learned of only on Friday. “No wonder they couldn’t prosecute a case,” Rep. Chaffetz observed of Comey’s Bureau: “They were handing out immunity deals like candy.”

Clinton aides made side deals with the FBI to destroy evidence:

[Pearls Before Swine]

My guess is that Hillary’s lawyers reviewed that statement in advance, and changed out the grossly negligent wording.

[okie 54]

Since Comey deemed if fit to aid and abet a criminal he should go to jail in her place

[Eddie01]

Others might call it “Tim”.

[M Kehoe]

Lock her up.

Comey too.

5.56mm

[Keen-Minded]

Fixed it! Since Comey deemed if fit to aid and abet a criminal he should go to jail in with her place.

[TnTnTn]

Ya don’t say....comey and fbi rotten to the core....wonder how much charity they received from the clintoon graft corporation???

[TBP]

That is pretty much what it is.