Posted on 04/11/2016 7:26:40 AM PDT by rktman
Interviewed by Chris Wallace of Fox News (transcript here, video embedded below), President Obama pulled down the blindfold on Lady Justice and signaled that there was no crime at all when Hillary Clinton set up an unsecured private server and left classified information vulnerable to hacking by the world’s intelligence services. He also created a new category of classification: “top secret top secret” as opposed to mere “top secret,” which he averred to Chris Wallace might be information that could be gleaned from public sources.
All in all, it was a remarkable performance, in which the president of the United States in effect told the Justice Department not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. There was plenty of boilerplate contending that he was not doing so:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
the president of the United States in effect told the Justice Department not to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
This isn’t the country I grew up in.
It’s sure not. Nixon must be spinning in his grave at 3000 RPMs.
Yeah. It doesn’t even have the same flag I was born under.
18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
So basically, Obama is saying that an end user can decide what's relevant and what is not on their own, and classified tags etc. are just suggestions. Good to know.
And here we sit, thumbs up our noses...
“Obama is saying that an end user can decide what’s relevant and what is not on their own”
Only if that end user is a fellow traveler. All others will be uber-prosecuted, beyond the intent of the law.
"The Rule of Law" is dead with the final death knell dealt by a foreign usurper. Welcome to the "Banana Republic of the United States", soon to be part of The North American Union.
Absolutely right. If Obama had an ounce of integrity — which he doesn’t — he should have said that he can’t comment on an ongoing investigation.
You forgot the “exception clause” which is in bold letters stating that (p)residential can’t-i-dates are excluded from prosecution for such “mistakes”. When I was still working, we had this hammered into our thick skulls yearly about transmitting data not intended for general viewing. I’ll see if I can find that portion. :>)
Hillary’s CMA* files are thicker than Barry’s.
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*CMA = Cover My A##
Ten years and fines are pretty stiff, but Congress can sentence capital punishment on treason. None of our laws are worth anything until someone steps up and enforces them.
Laws? They only apply to the little people.
To get Hillary, they'd need one of those aides to testify that they told her what they were doing, and that she either encouraged it, or permitted it while knowing that it was happening. My guess is that they won't be able to get that piece even though we all know she did.
Whether Clinton’s “careless” breaking of the law was “intentional” or unintentional, it still has the same effect. Another pile of commie lib “it depends on what the meaning of is, is” BS. FOX needs to add calliope background music to these “interviews” with the commie left.
ping
How.... Clintonesque of him ... “It depends on what the meaning of is, is”>>>HA!
Obama doesn’t want to waste all those stuffed ballot boxes
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