Posted on 04/08/2016 2:12:24 PM PDT by Strac6
“Taking 5th is virtual admission of guilt”
Tell that to Lois Lerner. It was her key to getting off
scott free for what amounts to treason. Hillary will
never be charged for anything. She will walk just like
Lerner did.
What is the national security violation at issue here? I was responding to an OP who claimed that the CGI emails will destroy Hillary. No, they won't, not unless there is a quid pro quo tying her influence to the payment. She did not take any money (CGI did), so unless you can prove that she benefited directly from influence peddling, you will have a very hard time getting even an honest USAG to take the case. And we don't have an honest USAG in this administration.
Sounds ike a big abuse of power, bribery in the face of it, conflict of interest.
OK. So what?
Hillary accepted a $100,000 bribe that was laundered through the cattle futures markets via a $5,000 straw purchase early in her career. Her defense of that incredible ROI was "I read some articles in The Wall Street Journal."
This "explanation" was accepted despite the fact that the manner in which the transactions were covered by her broker were illegal. Does that little episode pass the smell test any better than the Rosatom deal? Sure doesn't to me. But she skated on that, did she not?
"Sounds like" -- or more likely with the Clintons -- "smells like" is not proof.
The media has done an excellent job of making your prediction come true. It looks like they’ve completely confused the general public by parroting Clinton’s misdirection. What they haven’t done is protected her against the oncoming details of the massive corruption involved in the pay-to-play racket she ran as SoS.
Three bits of info prove that someone in the Clinton family is going down for the criminal mishandling of classified information. Guccifer was loaned to the the US for 18 months after which he’s to return to Romania to continue serving his sentence. Blumenthal was outed by the NSA for emailing Hillary highly classified information copied verbatim from a supposedly unknown source. Pagliano was given immunity.
None of this sheds light on the other prong of the FBI investigation which is the corruption involving her racketeering while in office and the money laundered into the Clinton foundations. It does seem odd that her connection to the Russians was recently exposed via the Panama Papers.
You probably already know that the Clinton aides lawyered up at least as far back as last November.
Just being attentive watching from the sidelines tells me the Clinton’s are already being tried in the court of public opinion. Whether they are tried for real may be irrelevant given how well Sanders is doing and how badly Clinton is doing as a likeable candidate.
Noooope!
The Presidential power to pardon is a plenary power not subject to anybody's review.
That’s the object of the other prong of the FBI investigation.
Sweep them away, like with a broom.
100% correctomundo.
We were told that Archibald Cox was "probably a Republican," the 2000 Florida Supreme Court was "very conservative" and Patrick Fitzgerald was "always non-partisan" and "above reproach."
Filthy Democrat partisans with an agenda, every stinking one. James Comey would not be the director of the FBI in this administration if he had any integrity. He's going to give Hillary a clean bill of health. Bet serious money on it.
More importantly, it also means the fix is already in.
If not for the leaks and the odd legal happenings, that might be believable.
And that "other prong" will be used to clear the Clintons as well.
She’ll walk but she won’t be president.
I’m trying to do that Fred. Any idea how I can bet in Europe?
I agree that she is simply playing for time and using the old tactics, though to no avail. And despite all of their efforts in SexGate Slick Willie was still impeached! Criminals never learn, they just try to commit new crimes in new ways, never expecting to get caught, witch she has. (pun intended)
Think about it...If she is to seek a pardon by a fellow Democrat she has to be tried and convicted to get said pardon from the Resident or hope like hell that Sanders wins, which is highly doubtful.
May her chains rest heavily upon her ample cankles.
Next question, please.
True that. Obama is allergic to the law so of course whatever he does will be political.
The FBI coming knocking is the least of Hillary’s worries.
I’m sorry but I don’t call that a smoking gun as it’s been well publicized. There have been dozens of articles/discussions about the subject and most recently I posted this link for the March 2016 discussion group of Judicial Watch. I have the transcript also and don’t recall JW glossed over Panetta and the State Department’s claims that military resources were not available to go to Benghazi.
That was known when Panetta appeared in front of the congressional panel long ago also. That was his “infamous” remark that we couldn’t send our military into “risky situations”....Certainly uncovered long before any emails were released...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZtEV4uIkvM
There are two avenues here, and two subsets in one of them.
#1A, Classified materiel was passed/stored in insecure systems. > She walks with an “Admonition”
#1B, Classified materiel was passed/stored in insecure systems and people’s lives were lost, battles were lost as a result. > She is charged with a misdemeanor or minor felony and “slow walks” it into 2017.
#2: Through the emails, and probably into the CGI, then can establish an ONGOING,MULTIPLE REPETITIVE series of quid pro quo acts that benefited her, Bill, Chelsea, etc. MONETARILY, ESPECIALLY IF THEY CAN ALSO SHOW ACTS THAT ILLUSTRATE THAT THEY KNEW IT WAS WRONG, such as money laundering, hidden accounts, emails acknowledging such, then they have a potentially very serious case, but it would take a string or ongoing, related acts, at least more than a dozen, 20+ even better, and it would also be better if all were linked in some way, such as all through the same money handler, etc.
The overall legal hurdle for the FBI to clear will be if an investigation of the emails “allowed” them to reasonably assume that some of those emails indicated illegal activity in related to the CGI, therefore they looked into the activities of the CGI and discovered....
It’s when they come with those pesky arrest warrants....
Seriously, were she to be indicted, her “booking” would be a virtually secret “non event.”
This all has nothing to do with her obvious guilt. It’s all about her reaction to being accused with a crime as a result.
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