Posted on 10/17/2017 9:30:26 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables
Obama communicated with Hillary via email through her illegal email server, using an alias, when she was Secretary of State. He knew her email address used her server, as he asked for her new email address when she changed it (still routed through her server).
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/297570-obama-used-pseudonym-in-emails-with-clinton
Communications between the President and Secretary of State are presumed to be highly classified by default. This means...drumroll..Obama mishandled classified information in the exact same way Hillary did. THAT is why the fix was in, where Comey would not try to get the DOJ to even present to a grand jury. THAT is why he “exonerated” her, in his infamous presser.
The famous tarmac meeting was when Bill Clinton told Loretta directly: If Hillary goes down for mishandling classified information, she’ll take Obama with her. She has copies of the emails between her and Obama (duh), and will leak them to the press. The country will blow up, Obama will go down, and you will be responsible.
It put Loretta into an impossible position of indicting Hillary while knowing Obama did the exact same thing. Hence Comey was instructed to fall on his sword.
Congressional leaders know this, all of it. By now, Trump probably knows it, too. THAT is why Sessions will not go after any of it, and all the foot dragging still happening by DOJ--to not release info on the whole Lynch-Comey-no indictment fiasco.
It makes complete sense: Indict Hillary = indict Obama. The entire country would blow up.
Am I wrong? To me, the above is so obvious, I am amazed Sarah Carter or Hannipede are not going after it. Someone please ping them lol.
Occam’s razor.
This IS one of the simplest explanations for why this convoluted miss has not blown up in all of their faces (yet).
Hillary was supposed to win.
When she didn’t, panic set in before the votes in PA were in.
They knew that the only thing between them and a prison cell was to take down Trump and to do that they needed the help of the GOP Elites.........................
Don’t worry, Sessions will be all over this.
In my humble opinion, the Clintons have been storing damaging data on all of their opponents and colleagues (remember the “missing” 900+ FBI files) ever since they entered the political arena to a degree, that if they were ever indicted for ANYTHING, she’d dump tons and tons of incriminating files on the loving media.
I believe the reason why she and her pig of a husband will NEVER been indicted for anything is because of this loaded pile of trash on past, current, and future enemies. Those “missing’ 30,000 emails would probably have torpedoes just about every member of our past and current government officials and would just about destroy Congress
They are a vile, vicious, and disgusting couple of people holding the key to bringing down almost every part of our government; and we’d be, consequently ashamed of everything that our flag represents.
Others have pointed this out before, but let me reiterate the point. The President of the United States is the ultimate arbiter for what is and is not classified; by law. He can and does delegate some of that responsibility and authority to his cabinet members such that they may classify or declassify anything that is within their purview. If the POTUS discloses classified information then it, from that point, becomes unclassified. Also, if the SOS has classified some information then she/he may declassify it on a whim. However, the only time this will become an issue is if the SOS reveals information that is classified by another department such as DOD. Downgrading/declassification usually goes thru a procedure that determines if revealing the information will do damage to the USA but that only applies to us little people.
Lynch was NEVER going to indict Hillary.....ALL DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT...and 3/4 of the REPUBLICANS ARE ALSO!
That’s what Obama learned in Chicago - you don’t do “business” with someone unless they are also compromised.
I think Obama and Lynch, and Holder before them, were actually being paid to collude with Hillary. How else did Obama become rich?
It would be delicious to see Trump instantly pardon Barry (to save the country, you know) while jailing Hillary.
No pardons for Barry, ever.
The bottom line, unless or until the law is applied equally TO ALL, from the president to Wall Street banksters down to the street thugs etc., American society will continue to degrade until the people take it upon themselves and begin to enact justice outside of those who have sworn the oath to administer it.
“If the POTUS discloses classified information then it, from that point, becomes unclassified.”
That is incorrect. The POTUS CANNOT unilaterally change the classification on anything classified. The ORIGINATOR of the classified information is the only one that can downgrade it. The originator can be a person (usually the person who sourced it) or the agency with which the information derived, normally it’s the agency. Obama is guilty, period.
Is it still illegal to be a professed communist in the United States, as it was in the 1950s?
I wonder if there could be a law making it illegal to be a globalist, with carefully defined definitions of what that term means legally.
For example, to advocate that the United Nations should make laws that are valid in the United States, to spread false rumors about impending climate disasters that require economic dislocation to avoid, just being a general knob ...
I suppose we’ll have to put up with it as free speech but at the same time it is a dangerous conspiracy to reduce your own freedoms. A dilemma in other words.
Here in Canada we more or less openly embrace all these concepts, or at least my fellow citizens do, 80% of them perhaps. The United Nations is seen as a wonderful thing and climate change as proven science. They have also swallowed the twin self-debating truisms that all religions are equal and that Islam is harmless.
Yet Christianity is not harmless.
So I just sit waiting for heads to explode from cognitive dissonance.
There aren’t enough jails for all the idiots we have among us now, the cure is to convince enough low information voters to abandon official stupidity and vote with their brains actually functioning. Trump has done a good job of starting that process but I think a further necessary step will be replacing the Republican Party with a less compromised alternative, something like an American Freedom and Enterprise Party perhaps. I don’t think full-on libertarian politics is the answer, that’s just a different pathway to oblivion in a haze of toxic marijuana smoke.
“This means...drumroll..Obama mishandled classified information in the exact same way Hillary did.”
Sorry, but that is just legally impossible. The President has final determination of how to classify information or handle any classified information. By definition, if he decides to do it, it is legal.
“The POTUS CANNOT unilaterally change the classification on anything classified. The ORIGINATOR of the classified information is the only one that can downgrade it.”
No, that is not fully correct. The originator, OR anyone with a higher classification authority than the originator can downgrade it.
The President, as head of the Executive branch, has the highest possible classification authority, and is actually the one from whom all other classification authority is delegated, so he can override any subordinate official or agency in matters of classification. He makes the rules they must follow, but he is not bound by those rules himself.
“Is it still illegal to be a professed communist in the United States, as it was in the 1950s?”
It was never illegal to be a professed communist. The constitution prevents laws against “thoughtcrime”. It was illegal to be a subversive agent of a foreign government, or plotting sedition against the U.S., but simply adhering to an ideology can never be illegal unless some serious changes to the Constitution happen.
BTTT!
Yes, exactly. Good call.
From EO12333 (and as amended by other Presidential EOs): "For that purpose, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, including the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, and as President of the United States of America, in order to provide for the effective conduct of United States intelligence activities and the protection of constitutional rights, it is hereby ordered as follows:"
Once again, the President has the ultimate classification authority, but may delegate the authority and responsibility for classifying and declassifying material to organizations and agencies under him within the executive branch. Each agency head may further delegate authority to classify material to a limited group of department heads.
The ORIGINAL classification authority only prevents someone in one department or agency from changing the classification of material from another department or agency. Thus, the DoS cannot change the classification of material classified by the DoD.
The executive agencies, including DoS, DoD, and Intell all work for the POTUS. POTUS is the ultimate OCA.
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