Posted on 04/08/2016 2:12:24 PM PDT by Strac6
When the FBI comes knocking, what will Hillary do?
I’m retired in Florida now, but one of the former junior partners from my firm in Washington is writing a book on the legal history and implications of the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings. When viewed under a microscope, in light of the current Clinton investigations, it sheds a clear light on exactly what Hillary will do when and if the FBI come knocking with a grand jury indictment for her arrest.
In the process of writing the book, Kevin has interviewed a number of people who were very involved in the matter, both from the government side and from the Clinton side. One very remarkable, and almost universally overlooked fact has come out.
Most Americans were first exposed to Monicagate on a Tuesday morning. Actually, the Washington Post had the entire story, with all facts verified, but had spiked it on the previous Friday. Jackie Judd from ABC news was also working the story and she had it all; names, dates, times, places, and even the voicemail recordings on Monday. But, news executives being the weenies they are, they refused to run the story in the ABC World News Tonight program on Monday.
So “someone” at ABC-TV who had faith in the story leaked some of the details at about 9 PM Eastern time to a California newspaper. That California newspaper then began to ask questions that started floating around Washington. The ABC reporters and produces were then able to go screaming to “the Suits,” the bureaucrats who run television and television news and tell them that the story was about to break nationally and if they didn’t get it on the air they would be badly beaten.
With that, ABC broke into “Nightline” about 11:45 Eastern time and of course it’s saturated the next day’s morning shows. 9 AM did not arrive without it being public knowledge in every barbershop, taxicab, and watercooler.
Backtracking to the previous weekend, the Clintons held a meeting with their top advisers to discuss the story. They all knew it was true, and quite frankly nothing new. It was simply a repetition of Bill’s conduct with multiple dozens of women since his Attorney General of Arkansas days.
There were a number of very smart people at that weekend crisis meeting. The best of them, including the ones who are skilled at public relations and media communications said, that if the story broke, it would be critically important that Bill Clinton say absolutely nothing about the story, to refuse comment on it entirely at first.
But then about 36 hours after the story broke, the White House press office would let it leak that Clinton asked for 10 minutes of national television time starting at 8 PM the next evening. There would be no indication as to what he was going to say, just that it was going to be an important message for every American. Since everyone knew that we were not at war and probably not about to be, nor was there a hurricane offshore, everyone just assumed it was about Monica.
That’s exactly what the Clinton brain trust wanted.
The plan was that Bill would go on national television and with that “I’ve been a bad boy, but I’ll try to be better” hangdog persona he could turn on at will and confess to the nation that, he had in fact had an inappropriate relationship with “a young woman”. But he would immediately go on to say that it was not her fault in any way, that the fault was his entirely, and that no one else other than him was to blame for his conduct. (I’ve been a bad, bad boy)
He was then to continue that he had embarrassed himself, worse than that he had embarrassed his family, and even worse than that, he had embarrassed every American by his conduct. And again, all the fault was his and he is searching in his soul for why he would’ve been so foolish.
(I’ve been a bad, bad boy…… But I I’ll try to do better)
Tthen, after a dramatic pause, and with great emphasis he would ask for forgiveness, “if you can find it in your hearts to give it”, that he was seeking counseling along with their forgiveness, yada yada yada yada yada.
He would end with a statement something along the lines of “as I leave you tonight I pray for peace throughout the world…… And ask you to keep me in your prayers as well.”
The next day, the news would portray him as a “statesman,” fully accepting responsibility for his own faults, a true and honest man, and all the other BS that the Clinton media machine could generate.
It of course would be absolutely the one and only hot topic on the Sunday news shows, but by the following Monday would have become “old news.”
Within two weeks, the national mood would be “well, you know old Bill……”
This course of action would have followed the long-proven best way to deal with any negative publicity, because, despite anyone’s fondest hope, the facts always come out you must always:
Tell it all, tell it yourself, tell it today
……. and as a result, in a couple of tomorrows, it goes away.
Everybody was signed on to the plan…. until Hillary got involved. She viewed it as corrupt lawyers always do. She didn’t care what was right or wrong. She only cared about what she thought she could get away with. She wanted to do anything and everything she could do to delay and defuse the situation. She didn’t care about the embarrassment this was creating for Bill, she was worried about her own future. The lawyer in her couldn’t understand that by telling all, telling himself, and telling it today, Clinton would’ve turned even her, Hillary, with sympathetic character, that poor little old cheated-on woman.
No, she had to view it as the Saul Alinsky-trained lawyer she is. She decreed that they would deny, deny, deny, delay, delay, delay, attack everyone else involved, blame the Republicans and do everything else they could until the public mind simply got tired of the situation.
I won’t go into the details here but literally tens of thousands of lawyers hours were expended by the Clinton defense team to ensure that justice was not done. Little of it had to do with whether or not Bill had actually sodomized Miss Lewinsky. The focus was turned on us as “the evildoers, with our puritanical ways and desires to hurt Bill (and Hillary) in any way we could.”
Hillary could never accept the fact that by a simple explanation of the obvious, the whole thing would go away in less than two weeks. Certainly some people would’ve remembered forever, especially conservatives, but it would’ve been at most a minor sidelight in the history of the Clinton presidency.
The reason the Monicagate story became the disaster it did for the United States was solely and completely Hillary’s decision to fight it in every unscrupulous way she could.
Those who know her know that that mindset has not changed.
So if she is indicted, or even not indicted but subject to a damaging report by the FBI regarding her emails, and more importantly fraud within the Clinton Global Initiative (the Clinton Foundation) that personally brought Bill and Hillary tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in ill begotten gains, the course that she will take is obvious.
Her reaction will be absolutely….. Nothing!
Sid Blumenthal will have a prepared statement claiming the charges are completely unfounded, baseless and purely vindictive charges, brought about by the vast right-wing conspiracy or whatever else they want to call us this year, and the only reason it’s being brought now is to tear down a wonderful woman, etc. etc. etc.
There will be some calls from within the Democratic Party for her to step aside, but there is absolutely no legal requirement that she do so. And remember, for the Clintons, it’s not what’s right or wrong, it’s what the law will let them get away with. The talking heads of television will be split 50-50 down the middle, some saying she has to get out of the race but the louder ones saying that “only Hillary, only a woman as strong as Hillary, can carry on in the face of these obviously uncalled for assaults” and words to that effect.
And so, as the weeks go by, the story will become less and less important, and people will move on to other things, just as they did in Monicagate. Her percentage of victory at the Democratic National Convention might be less, but the cheering pantsuit sycophants (oh, Huma!!!) would love her even if she got caught shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
Remember, with a defendant in a situation like this, her attorneys can delay, delay and delay a case like this for at least 18 months. Of course immediately after the election, or even before, Obama could pardon her. As bizarre as it may seem, and this is uncharted legal territory, most constitutional attorneys agreed that, if elected, she just might be able to pardon herself, or at least get away with it, if she was inaugurated next January.
And so my conservative friends, be prepared for……. God knows what! But whatever you do, don’t assume, just because honorable people such as ourselves would completely drop out of a political race if we were indicted, don’t expect that Hillary would feel any compulsion to do so.
She thinks God put her on this earth, (well not really God, because socialists can’t believe in God) but something put her on this earth to destroy the horrible, evil United States and turn the entire world into one huge socialist globe, with all of us peasants, singing Kum Ba Ya….. While she and Huma and the rest of the cabal live in the lap of taxpayer-funded, power-mad luxury and debauchery.
And just think, if she was elected after being indicted or even the subject of a non-indicting negative FBI report, can you imagine even for a moment how she would unleash her wrath on all of us?
Yes, she is that dangerous.
His [mis]behavior involved suborning perjury and obstruction. Not trivial matters, especially for the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. People (c/s/w)oulda understood that, and did not. So I don't think we can be terribly optimistic about their capacity to understand the crimes involved here.
Four dead in Benghazi and our children and grandchildren at risk because of her greed.
And yet we now know that Trey Gowdy and the Benghazi committee have sat upon smoking gun evidence for over a year. If people can understand the difference, why can't their representatives?
To the young, stupid, star-struck welfare crowd, Hillary is golden.
NIXON was pardoned PENDING INDICTMENT for ALL offenses against the United States. This would fit perfect for Hillary. The “charge”, not the pardon.
Nixon hadn’t been indicted when Ford pardoned him - it was on the horizon. We want to see Hillary INDICTED BEFORE November. That’s what we need to pray for. In a perfect world, it would be before the convention but we could be thankful for small favors....She is sure acting pretty cocky about NEVER having charges brought against her.
“”There were no historical or legal precedents to guide Ford in the matter of Nixon’s pending indictment. In the end, he decided to give Nixon a full pardon for all offenses against the United States in order to put the tragic and disruptive scandal behind all concerned. Ford justified this decision by claiming that a long, drawn-out trial would only have further polarized the public.””
“”And yet we now know that Trey Gowdy and the Benghazi committee have sat upon smoking gun evidence for over a year””
Really? And what would that be?
She’ll wake up with a heavy 3 day growth of beard, honk a big loogie back, cut a big fart, puke on her shoes, light a cigarette, then ask “what took you boys so long?”
She’ll wake up with a heavy 3 day growth of beard, honk a big loogie back, cut a big fart, puke on her shoes, light a cigarette, then ask “what took you boys so long?”
Sorry, but you are forgetting that Bill was always the much better POLITICIAN than she was, and saw things in political terms. She was the better LAWYER, and saw everything in legal terms... and still does.
He knew the public would forgive and forget, remember that his approval ratings went UP in the aftermath of the original news break.
She insisted on the legalize approach
So -- like Web Hubbell -- Susan Rice, Huma Abedin or some other flunky will take the rap, and that will be the end of the story.
Neither the FBI nor the DOJ are going to continue to doggedly pursue Hillary in an attempt to get her to commit a process crime the way they did with Scooter Libby [they were actually after Karl Rove.]
NOT going to happen. Those who think it will are dreaming. Those who think James Comey is anything other than a bought-and-paid-for company man are dreaming as well.
Deny, ridicule, obstruct. The press has her back.
Lying to FBI is a felony
Exactly, this what sent Martha Stewart to the big house, not selling her stock as many believe.
The problem is, if the emails led to info on the CGI, and that shows she and Bill made the improper $ profits from her actions, no one can take the rap for that but her.
Chris Wallace just said in his interview with Obama to air Sunday, Obama said his decision about Hillary’s future will be a legal decision not a political one. That means the decision will be political.
Judicial Watch's version of the email, recovered under FOIA, is heavily redacted. But once it made its appearance, the Benghazi Committee admitted they have had an uncensored version for over a year.
why do you need a quid pro quo on national security violations? The quid pro quo is in the russian uranium deal. You can never prove intent if people don’t tell you, but you can certainly find a federal regulation which says the sec of state can’t take money from russians whom she recommends be given uranium rights. Sounds ike a big abuse of power, bribery in the face of it, conflict of interest.
Please everyone, stop. I am worried about the future mental crack up that will hit many of my conservative friends.
The simple fact of the matter is that laws are for the little people. The elite are not the little people. The laws are what allow the elite to control the little people, not vice a versa.
Hillary will slide out of this. The fix is in. This is kabuki theatre of the highest order. My bet is that it unfolds like this. We have been suckered by the reports of how seriously the FBI is taking this investigation, how principled Comey is, how thorough the investigation is, etc. FOX has either wittingly or unwittingly served to spread this propaganda. Why? So that when the FBI, not Lynch, but the FBI announces they have found no wrongdoing, all the reporting about how thorough and unbiased their investigation was will lend gravitas to the clearance of the elite in question.
“Hey y’all,” she will say “FOX admitted how serious the FBI investigation was, how unbiased it was, how above board it was and THEY CLEARED ME.”
My point is this, the fix is in from the start. The FBI is like all things attached to the regime, politicized.
But hey, why not try for that football again Charlie Brown? We can trust Lucy this time.
True.
She was the better LAWYER, and saw everything in legal terms...
Doubtful. We have no reason to believe she is/was a good lawyer at all. Just a claim by the collaborationist press to that she was brilliant (at everything.) Nothing in her career has ever verified that.
He knew the public would forgive and forget, remember that his approval ratings went UP in the aftermath of the original news break.
I believe you will find that this claim is untrue. Morris and Clinton conducted polls in the immediate aftermath, and determined that if the truth came out immediately Clinton would be destroyed.
This is why I find your claim dubious, at best. If you remember the Clinton Presidency, he did nothing -- ever-- without conducting a poll. When Dick Morris says that they did a lot of research before making the decision, I believe that, and I do not believe that any cadre of insiders made that decision on Bill's behalf. Hillary was certainly involved. But if the decision was made by any group larger than the two Clinton's, Morris, and one or two other very close political advisers it would be very surprising and unusual.
And I do NOT believe Bill would ever have allowed his political instincts to take a back seat to Hillary's legal ones. EVER.
“Call Obama, who will call it a political year with hunt, issue a pardon, and say he is healing the nation and not letting this hijack the political process.”
I may not be remembering correctly, but isn’t there a review process for presidential pardons, and that there is a way to prevent/invalidate them?
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