Posted on 07/06/2016 1:23:05 PM PDT by Talisker
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for attending this press conference on such short notice. I will be brief.
Yesterday, the Director of the FBI made quite a remarkable statement, followed by a recommendation to my office concerning his investigation into the use of private, unsecured email servers by the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
I would remind everyone that Mr. Comey does not have the authority to prosecute Mrs. Clinton. Only my office has that authority. Only I make that decision. And, as I mentioned over a week ago, I agreed to accept his recommendation.
What few realize, however, is what, exactly, Mr. Comey’s recommendation really was yesterday. It was, in fact, to prosecute.
Because what most non-lawyers don’t realize is that when you read laws, whether regulations or statutes, they always come with headings or titles above them. On the other hand, under the law, these titles or headings of the law cannot, and are never, accepted as part of the law itself. They are not, in themselves, part of the law. So the speeding laws, for example, can be under any heading. You would expect them to be under a heading called “Speeding Laws” or something similiar, and they usually are. But they can also be called “Potato Laws” or "Refrigerator Laws" or anything else - because the titles and headers do NOT apply to the actual empowerment of the laws underneath them.
And that is the law about the titles of laws.
And therefore I agree with actual, real, substantive recommendation of Mr. Comey. In his statement, he presented an appropriate recital of relevent law. He explained that the exhaustive research of over a hundred FBI agents, working over a year to collect, collate, and organize their data, showed a clear, repetitive, deliberate and focused effort by Mrs. Clinton to violate numerous federal laws which fall under the Espionage Act, and which put our country in deliberate danger to our enemies, by releasing and making available our strictest secrets to the world generally, and our enemies specifically.
That was his summation, yesterday, of his criminal investigation, and I accept it as clearly supporting prosecution. As a result I will now be calling a federal Grand Jury to apply charges against Hillary Clinton in this matter.
Mr. Comey, on the other hand, has clearly been spending too much time around law books. I suppose, as the head of the FBI, that’s a danger that comes with the job. But yesterday, he showed that he needs a vacation. Because after describing a case that literally required a conclusion of prosecution, and after researching and building just such a case, he then titled it with the header of “no prosecution.”
Therefore, as is the common legal principle, I am disregarding Mr. Comey’s header - his title of “no prosecution.” Instead, I am taking his research and specific conclusions as the relevent information I requested from him, just as I do the wording of the actual laws of this country, as his REAL recommendation.
I am also sending Mr. Comey to a remedial logic class at a local High School, where he can refresh himself on the concept of cause and effect.
Thank you.
There are a LOT of things Loretta Lynch SHOULD have said over the past four years. She aint gonna start now.
What you write makes such perfect sense. Thus, it will never occur to lapdogs of Obama like Loretta Lynch.
Great but I am hearing Aerosmith’s “Dream On” chorus while I read it.
Mar 9, 2016 - Lynch indicates DOJ not required to follow FBI recommendation
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lynch-indicates-doj-not-required-to-charge-clinton/article/2585342
Well done!!!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lynch-indicates-doj-not-required-to-charge-clinton/article/2585342
Yep. I wrote this thread because veryone seems to be forgeting that Lynch has all the power here - not Comey. Yeah, he should have recommended prosecution. But Lynch does whatever she wants - not Comey.
Comey shouldn’t have recommended anything publicly, the job of the FBI is to investigate not prosecute, but I do think his motivations stemmed from both attempting to speed up the process and avoiding the appearance that Department of Justice lawyers had influenced the investigation in favor of a major presidential candidate.
Nice thought, but it’s painfully obvious that the Billy/Lynch meeting went something like: My meeting with you will taint you and cause you to have to pretty much accept the FBI recommendation. So, send the FBI Director out to recommend no prosecution... Easy peasy. That’s obviously what she wanted to hear. How could it not be, since it’s what she told him to say?
Comey should’ve been wearing high heels and a micro miniskirt since he prostituted himself so fully on national TV.
Just think folks. With the corruption we see from the IRS, FBI, DOJ, imagine what corruption is going on that we are NOT aware of. After all, if these people who are in charge and have access to so much have so little regard for security, national security and America but value personal enrichment, just what else have they and will they be doing?
“THIS is what AG Lynch SHOULD say in Response to Comey”
Do you often find yourself fantasizing about wicked people speaking thoughtfully and reasonably? Just wondering......
To paraphrase Comey, he said, “There’s overwhelming evidence that Mrs. Bill Clinton committed numerous serious crimes, but Obama won’t allow her prosecution.”
The truth makes certain types of people laugh. I've learned to accept that.
Less than 24 hours later, Loretta Lynch announces that there will be no charges filed against Hillary Clinton.
Did she or any of her "career prosecutors" have the time in that 24 hours to fully read, comprehend, and verify the facts in the full FBI report? Have they even received the full FBI report yet?
How can they possibly come to a conclusion of 'no charges' without thoroughly analysing the full FBI report? Have they based their entire decision making on a 15 minute press release?
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