Posted on 05/26/2016 9:46:16 PM PDT by Zakeet
After the latest State Department announcement that Hillary Clinton violated government rules, Judge Andrew Napolitano definitively says there is now ample evidence to indict. Sadly, he is much less certain on whether or not the indictment will actually come.
Here is Napolitano's case as he laid it out to Bill O'reilly:
"Today is a big deal for a couple of reasons. First, it directly refutes a statement she has made dozens of times, 'it was allowed', we now know that it was not allowed. She never even asked.""She signed a two page statement under oath on her first day on the job which was given after she had a two hour tutorial by two FBI agents telling her about the proper care and legal obligations for state secrets. In that oath she swore that she had the obligation to know how to care for state secrets and to recognize them."
"Here is what's new in the report today. Her server in her house went down a couple of times, and when it went down the blackberry wouldn't work. The state department IT people said 'here use a state department blackberry', and she said through her assistant Huma Abedin 'no because we are concerned with the Freedom of Information Act', so she went dark and she had documents verbally read to her rather than transmitted to her through the state department email system."
When Bill O'reilly was surprised to hear about the fact that Clinton was concerned about having documents subject to FOIA, Napolitano hammers home the the point that now the FBI has intent.
"Now what does this tell the FBI? This shows intent. You don't have to prove intent when you're talking about espionage, you can prove it by gross negligence, there's ample evidence of gross negligence. But avoiding the transparency laws shows a consciousness of evading the requirements."
On whether or not Napolitano believes, after all of the above, that Clinton will actually be indicted, the judge wasn't so sure.
"I believe there's ample evidence to indict her and the only way she wouldn't be is if the president or the attorney general makes a political decision."
And just as we said long ago, Napolitano also believes that one way or another, the FBI will get the evidence out to the public.
"Whether she's indicted or not I believe we'll learn what it is. I believe it'll happen before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, that's two months."
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Well then, based on Obama's guarantee that there will be absolutely no political influence in the decision on whether or not the DOJ decides to indict, we should expect the indictment in the coming months... right?
Amen....but it is the JUST US Dept. now.....no Democrats will be punished.
If the rule of law is dead, NO ONE need obey ANY law. That is anarchy.
ping
She hangs in as the Dem candidate
Trump walks all over her in a landslide
2 days after the loss to Trump, she is indicted and held as a flight risk
I don't know for certain, but I'm guessing there must be a way to do it. For example (speaking in general terms now, not Hillary) suppose a candidate were to be nominated, then suffered a stroke and was obviously in no condition to continue to run for the office. There has to be a way to replace that nominee.
Does he ever get anything right?
What will benefit the Democrat party most?
an unindicted Hillary, General Election loss
An indicted Hillary, Bernie loss
An indicted Hillary, Biden loss
To insure there are no corruption charges slipping out and onto the party, Hillary must go. Hillary will go.
No corruption charges can be attached to a Bernie loss
Generally, state laws require that candidates on the general election ballot be formally nominated by their political party’s national convention held in a presidential election year. The laws vary by state.
So theoretically, the Dems could re-open their national convention and have the delegates nominate a replacement. Whether or not their party rules allow for such a process is another story. There could also be state laws that require the nominee’s name to have been on a primary ballot or to have been selected by party caucus.
Another limitation would be state deadlines for political parties to submit the names of their nominees to the SOS for placement on the general election ballots. Typically, it’s at least 60 days before the general election. Sometimes more.
They will just use the Lautenberg exemption.
There was ample evidence to indict her on the cattle futures thing 25 years ago....what makes anyone think they will do anything now?
Sounds about right, except...well, Biden doesn't have a billion dollars like Al Gore has.
This is why Trump will win. We simply cannot turn a blind “equal justice under the law” eye to Hillary’s obvious crimes just because she is a big government official - they do that in communist countries, not democracies bound by the rule of law.
People are sick of two justice systems.
There is more than ample evidence that she was, intentionally, trying to evade scrutiny of her money laundering scheme, The Clinton Foundation, by use of her office and personnel on US TAXPAYERS time.
But getting THIS administration and THIS puppet AG to convene a Grand Jury to present this evidence is next to impossible. The only way this could happen is if the FBI goes public, one way or another, with the evidence and the public outcry becomes deafening. And even then, they will put it off until after the election, if at all......................
They’ve got her dead to rights... but the lowlifes at the DOJ love their criminals... gonna be interesting...
I guess ugly is in the eye of the beholder. To me she’s ugly as sin.
At this point in the election, it would be better if the FBI & JD NOT indict Clinton. Any indictment would prompt Obama to grant her a pardon for past & current crimes, letting her go scot free.
The truth is out now. Even liberal reporters are questioning her ethics & veracity. Her campaign is faltering badly & will continue to do so with the IG report.
If we hold the indictment until Obama is out of office, that gives the Trump AG the opportunity to try, convict, & jail this witch, something she richly deserves. I believe a president Trump & his AG will do it with gusto. It’s worth waiting 8 months to see her in an orange jump suit. Be patient.
Laws and rules have never hampered Democrats.
Well she usually is.
Bucktoothed, wrinkled up forehead...making some stupid-looking rubber face....just like her mother.
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