Posted on 01/21/2016 10:12:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Reacting to the latest bombshell revelations about Hillary Clinton's email arrangement, Judge Andrew Napolitano said on The Kelly File Wednesday night that Clinton should be lawyering up, because "the case against her is overwhelming, damning and, from her perspective, grave."
Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, continues to insist that the latest allegations about her emails while secretary of State change "nothing." During a Wednesday interview with NPR, she said, "I'm just going to leave it up to the professionals at the Justice Department, because nothing that this says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified."
Via Politico:
"As the State Department has confirmed, I never sent or received any material marked classified, and that hasn't changed in all of these months," she said. "This, seems to me, to be, you know, another effort to inject this into the campaign. It's another leak," she said in an echo of a charge her spokesman Brian Fallon made on CNN Wednesday morning.
On Fox News' Special Report last night, Charles Krauthammer said that he was "shocked by the brazenness" of Hillary Clinton's latest denial of wrongdoing, noting that the Obama-appointed inspector general of the intelligence community had confirmed that Clinton sent emails that were more highly classified than "top secret."
Journalist Stephen Hayes said he spoke with three national security lawyers who deal with this sort of thing for a living, and they all said that without exception there's no question this person would have lost her clearances if this were any other employee. "She probably would have lost her job, and possibly already been indicted," Hayes said.
Later on The Kelly File, Judge Napolitano told Megyn Kelly that Clinton should think about lawyering up. "Mrs. Clinton should be consulting very high-powered, national security criminal defense lawyers," Judge Napolitano said, explaining that lawyers with national security clearances would be able to see the evidence against her.
He added that "the case against her is overwhelming, damning and, from her perspective, grave." Napolitano charged that when Clinton laughs the serious issue off, "she's effectively mocking the 100 FBI agents that are investigating." The judge explained that Clinton's assertion that she never sent or received anything marked "classified" is merely a word game, because no intelligence is ever marked "classified."
"It is marked 'confidential,' 'secret,' 'top secret,'" Judge Napolitano said. "Under 'top secret,' there are four sub-markings, the most sensitive of which is this Select Access Privilege (SAP), which is what two dozen of her emails had on there."
Host Megyn Kelly wondered if the emails in question really are all that sensitive. Napolitano conceded that some of her classified emails might not be, but not the ones that are classified in the "SAP" category.
"That is the highest level of classification," he said. "Do you know what type of information in there? The name of moles, black ops, secret programs that the government wants to deny the existence of. For her to have put that on an open server while she was secretary of State is absolutely grossly negligent and must be the basis for an indictment."
And, if and when it gets “referred” to AG lynch, proceeding to prosecute will be denied. The IG can have all the damning evidence he wants but if the “right” people don’t feel it necessary to prosecute, game over.
Some Lawmakers investigating her aren’t allowed to view the docs but any teenager hacker could gain access to them.
It really is incredible.
TS/SAP on a private server open to the internet?
That’s literally incomprehensible.
It’s cigarette and blindfold time.
She is in a catch 22. Trump won’t pardon her. She needs to go down now to get an Obama pardon
Hillary’s a case of the old, “Give ‘em enough rope and they’ll hang themselves.” The best thing to keep her from the Presidency was to make her Secretary of State.
That Hillary didn t knowingly
receive or send any confidential emails. That along with the revelation that Petraeus faces new scrutiny and punishment after already copping a plea is a good indication of where this is going to go. I.E Nowhere.
I will fall down in a deadshock if she gets indicted.
Has Nappy ever been right about anything?
Rush was mentioning that this info was also shared with servers in the Clinton Foundation.
Checking the Grand Junction Yellow Pages, I do not see a section for "Attorneys—National Security Criminal Defense." Is there such a section in the D.C. Yellow Pages?
Her Royal Hipness will never be prosecuted. They will issue a finding that it is not a crime. She gets a pass, because she is rich and powerful. She has nothing to worry about.
She is in a catch 22. Trump won’t pardon her. She needs to go down now to get an Obama pardon
Good point.
Hitlery is between a Barack and a hard place.
This lady is clueless and oblivious to the consequences of her own evil ways.
Question is what will Obama do when faced with the fact that Hillary's chances to even make it to the DNC convention intact is next to zero and his entire presidency will fall to whomever the RNC puts up as a candidate?
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I am not the least bit excited about these developments. She could be caught selling missile systems to communists and nothing would happen. She could rape several women and nothing would happen. She can continue lying and nothing will happen. Obama will not let Hillary go down.(ehem)... No one else can run with Obama’s purse to bring about the glorious revolution.
I believe she’z finally stepped in it. Remember, the Atty. General can be impeached.
This one is too big. I feel evidence will also show her server was also compromised.
“...nothing that this says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified.”
And in response, I reiterate: You were a member of the National Security Council (not the NSC Staff); held the highest clearance and accesses available; signed non-disclosure agreements that included requirements for the handling of classified information; and you were one of a handful of government officials with Original Classification Authority, so you were (or should have been) familiar with basic classification guidelines. Bottom line: Whether the information in those emails was marked CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, TOP SECRET and has handling caveats or not makes no difference whatsoever. For probably the first time in your life, you and you alone are responsible.
The “My dog ate my classification manual” defense won’t work for you. To coin a phrase, “That dog don’t hunt.”
Nice of Megyn Kelly to give Hillary a pass.
Yes, there are. Except you don t consult with them. They re assigned to you. They are payed very well.
Clinton is going to use Kendall, but I think he s going to be charged and convicted also. He may drop Hillary if she is indicted.
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