Now wouldn't that be a delightful "full circle" irony ...
Posted on 03/12/2015 6:51:24 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Questions continue to mount regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of personal email for government business and it looks like things may have just gotten a lot worse, legally.
Up until now Clinton's email controversy has remained a political problem, but according to a former Department of Justice attorney and State Department protocol, she may have committed a felony by failing to turn over the proper documentation before leaving her position in 2013.
Every person who works inside the State Department must sign an official Separation Statement, which is a document requiring an inventory be taken of personal documents departing officials plan to take with them. These documents must be submitted to and approved by Department records officials. According to the State Department Records Management Handbook, officials who fail to turn over documents can face, "fines, imprisonment or both for the willful and unlawful removal or destruction of records as stated in the U.S. Criminal Code." Clinton has argued that she has turned over all the proper documents to the State Department, but just did it two years after leaving her position.
"State Department regulations also say that departing officials have to make sure that all of their official records are in the files of the Department of State upon departure. That couldn't be any clearer," Former DOJ Attorney Shannen Coffin said last night on The Kelly File.
"If she signed it [Separation Statement], as you read the law and the manual itself which refers to the Criminal Code, if she signed that saying she had given them everything back, every federal record she had in her possession when in fact she had thousands of documents and thousands of emails sitting on her home server, did she violate the law? Did she commit a crime?" anchor Megyn Kelly asked Coffin.
"If that's the case, then there's no question. The form itself says, 'Hey, before you sign this understand that you are certifying something that we can prosecute you for.' Making a false statement in this context, knowingly and willfully, which I can't imagine anything more knowing an willful than knowing you have 55,000 records sitting in your home, if you do that, it is a felony punishable under 18 U.S.C. 1001," Coffin said.
video at link: Shannen Coffin with Megyn Kelly
Yesterday the Associated Press sued the Department of State for a number of Clinton's emails. Government watchdog Judicial Watch did the same earlier this week.
video at link: State Dept. to investigate Hillary's personal emails
Katie, you are correct . Unfortunately the controlling agency is the JUST US department who have a set of rules quite unlike any that resemble fair and equal treatment. OTOH Obama, Moochelle and Valarie Jarrett may want to put the final wrench to the Clinton machine and tell the AG to go for it.
Signature? Lost. Hard drive? Lost.
I’m smitten with this - pinch me
Katie looks so sexy when she’s angry....*smiles*
Did Hillary sign the form in disappearing ink?
Did the State Department scrap the filing cabinet containing the signed form to make room for her truckoad of printed out emails?
You reap what you have down.
Bold letters : WHAT DID RICHARD W. NIXON KNOW ? AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT ?
18 1/2 MINUTES DOES MATTER MR. BUTTERFIELD !
This will activate the communists war machine and nothing will happen to Hillary. She will probably be the next President.
What did she know ? And when did she know ?
What did she sign ? And when did she sign it ?
Watergate hearings coming back to haunt her.
Add it to the list and take a number.
It will be a long time before she is held accountable for any of the many felonies and other criminal acts she has committed.
Now wouldn't that be a delightful "full circle" irony ...
18 1/2 Minutes of Richard Nixon’s tapes, lost.
Bold letters : IT’S NOT THE CRIME BUT THE COVER UP.
Is there something incrimadating, damming in those hidden emails ?
Bold letters : WHAT DID HILLARY CLINTON KNOW ? AND WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT ?
THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW, GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENTCY LAWS ! RICO ! probable CAUSE !
Correction, hate those auto check spellers.
You reap what you have sown.
Those files and hard drives must have been destroyed in the Bengazi fire, no wonder the F.B.I was sent there, you know, to sanitize and clean up things, just a conspiracy theory... OF COURSE....
Lost in the Benghazi embassy fire ? Who knows, just a guess, we have heard of much stranger things before, to eventually become true...
YAWN..
Another document they may want to ask about: As Secretary of State, some of Hillary’s electronic correspondence would include sensitive, classified and in some cases, top secret information. That being the case, there would be a requirement to certify that the server she used was secure enough for this type of correspondence. There should be a document on file verifying that this certification process was completed, who performed the certification, and when. She should be asked to produce this document. If this was never done, it represents a very serious security violation.
Was her hard drive, emails, files sent to Benghazi to be destroyed to cover up the evidence, among other evidence of a illegal weapons deal to the ISIS reble fighters in Syria ?
Just guessing.
Re: Your Post #11: I’ve never seen, or heard, that. If she does run for Prez, that needs to go viral on the internet.
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