Posted on 01/04/2017 3:31:12 PM PST by Stayfree
on Monday afternoon promised that 2017 will be an even bigger year for leaks than 2016, which saw the whistleblowing site publish thousands of documents exposing the dirty laundry of the Clinton campaign, US political secrets, covert trade deals and private communications from global leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Really?! Wow.
Don’t know how much of a bombshell this is, because many of us suspected these implications, however, it’s mighty interesting.
https://conservativedailypost.com/breaking-leaked-audio-footage-between-john-kerry-and-obama-they-created-isis/
Any other person but Hillart WOULD be in jail. She could personally dismember an infant on live tv and suffer no consequences for it.
I’m still waiting for that wikileaks release that was supposed to put Hillary in jail.
There was plenty of evidence to arrest Hillary. We just needed a justice department to take action.
“The “bombshell” of 2016 never materialized ...”
I truly believe we’d be talking about President-Elect Clinton now if not for WikiLeaks’ publishing of Podesta’s emails. I call that a bombshell on steroids.
“Really?! Wow.”
Yep. The power to grant reprieves and pardons is found in Article 2, Section 2. It is very broad and excludes just one thing - cases of impeachment.
Ford’s pardon of Nixon was not just for crimes committed, but crimes that MAY HAVE been committed.
The text of Ford’s pardon reads, in part, “. . . have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.”
As far as I know, Ford’s expansive pardon was never challenged in court by Nixon’s many enemies. And I can’t think of a basis for a challenge other than people didn’t like it.
It was never seriously challenged because the the precedent of ‘Ex Parte Garland’ and a few other cases are pretty ironclad.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/71/333
...[Pardon] extends to every [Federal] offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken or during their pendency or after conviction and judgment...
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