Posted on 09/15/2022 5:17:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch obtained evidence that a computer contractor working under the direction of Hillary Clinton’s legal team destroyed subpoenaed records that the former secretary of state stored on a private email server she originally kept at her New York home, and then lied to investigators about it. Yet no charges were brought against Clinton, her lawyers, or her paid consultant.
The leniency accorded to Clinton contrasts with recent moves by Attorney General Merrick Garland to aggressively investigate former President Trump and his lawyers for allegedly obstructing investigators’ efforts to locate subpoenaed records at his Florida home. Legal experts say the apparent double standard may provide a useful defense for Trump and his legal team.
The treatment of Clinton included a deal with her defense team that required the FBI to, in effect, obstruct its own investigation. During its 2016 probe, the bureau agreed with her lawyers' demands to destroy two laptop hard drives containing subpoenaed evidence immediately after searching for files on them. They did so while the information was still being sought by congressional investigators and even though the lawyers had served under Clinton at the State Department and were subjects of the FBI’s investigation. In fact, the laptops were theirs.
Long before it bowed to the request, the FBI suspected Clinton's lawyers played hide-and-seek with evidence, making the concession that much more baffling.
The scandal first erupted on March 2, 2015, when news broke that Clinton had secretly set up a non-government email server in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y., mansion in the weeks before she started her job at Foggy Bottom in early 2009. She used the unauthorized and unsecured device to conduct official State Department business – including transmitting and storing classified information – which allowed her to bypass legally mandated archiving
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The corrupt protecting their own should be no surprise.
Didn’t Comey say, after laying out the case against Hillary, that no reasonable prosecutor would bring that case against her?
What the heck is a reasonable prosecutor? Can we get a couple for Trump?
Ping
I have been saying since 2016 that the FBI “investigation” into Mrs. Clinton was actually a cover-up from the get-go.
"No Madame Borgia; your blessing of patronage is far preferable than mere payment."
"Popess, it's our honor to provide your glorious house whatever it needs in your Holy work."
Until their well of influence dried up the Clinton Foundation enjoyed exactly this sort of deference. That revenue stream now goes to the Obama Perpetual Race Victim-hood Fund. Oh wait - BLM is suffering a wave of reveals where they've been grifters all along. Oh Nohs,,,where is an uber-rich liberal idiot able to shuffle extra money now?
Of course, we all know of the GIANT COVER UP OF THE ODIOUS:
HUNTER BIDEN. pffft.
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