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It’s time to wind down the Clinton email investigation
Washington Post ^

Posted on 07/02/2016 4:18:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

It’s time to wind down the Clinton email investigation

By Editorial Board July 1 at 8:21 PM

NO DOUBT it’s difficult to refuse a visit with a former president of the United States. Still, Attorney General Loretta Lynch should have found a polite way to excuse herself when Bill Clinton dropped by her airplane, parked next to his at a Phoenix airport Monday. Given that Ms. Lynch has ultimate responsibility for the federal investigation related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct official business while secretary of state, even an impromptu chat between the attorney general and the candidate’s husband was bound to create questionable appearances — even if its actual content was purely social, as Ms. Lynch maintains and as we believe.

To her credit, Ms. Lynch acknowledged her misstep Friday in an interview with The Post’s Jonathan Capehart at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. She described the cloud it created over the Justice Department’s objectivity as inaccurate but nevertheless “painful.” Equally appropriately, she said she expected to follow the lead of career prosecutors at the department in deciding what, if any, legal consequences Ms. Clinton should face due to the transmission of classified information via the unsecured server.

Our view of the matter, stated in previous editorials and supported by a fair reading of the law and publicly available evidence, is that Ms. Clinton committed a grave error in judgment, compounded by a willful violation of internal State Department rules designed to ensure records were properly preserved with maximum protection against cybersecurity risks.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
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To: Sub-Driver
However, her conduct does not seem to rise to the level of indictable crime, because she did not set up and use the server with the legally requisite criminal intent or even with “gross negligence,” as it has been defined in relevant case law.

Here is where they have it wrong - DEAD WRONG. No "criminal intent" - or ANY intent - is required to establish violation of the "Federal Records Act". She "failed to take care" of public documents, period in a grossly negligent way, which is indicative of why her IT guy is getting immunity and/or pleading the fifth.

21 posted on 07/02/2016 6:13:21 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SERKIT

We don’t need to look into that mess andy further, seems we have all the ammunition needed to put her fat ass behind bars. The problem is she is a demodummie and it will not happen. Had she been a conservative she would already BE in jail.


22 posted on 07/02/2016 6:53:06 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Sub-Driver
This comes from the Washington Post, right?

Just wondering, did Bob Woodard contribute to this piece? Was he asked to comment for the record?

I need to hear what he has to say, to know if he's as much a biased hypocrite as the paper he works for.

So, Bob, do you agree that Watergate was a big deal, but this is not? Why?

23 posted on 07/02/2016 6:53:06 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To her credit, Ms. Lynch acknowledged her misstep Friday in an interview with The Post’s Jonathan Capehart at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.

LOL - Yes, Loretta Lynch used the NEW AND IMPROVED EXCUSE - she said "I wouldn't do it again". That's the same excuse Hillary gave on having a hackable server in her home... It's the de jour excuse for liberal liars... and has replaced the hackneyed "I take full responsibility' which in liberal-speak means 'eff off'.

Nice to see the brain dead butt kissers at the Washington Post falling for this... as if any effort had to be made to convince them.

24 posted on 07/02/2016 7:09:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (If the U.S. had treated EACH German SS as a 'lone wolf' would we have lost World War II?)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Ministry of Propaganda does get some of their stuff directly from the DNC. And some from the RNC. And some from the Cheap Labor Express.
None of it is news. Or truth.


25 posted on 07/02/2016 7:16:58 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ncalburt

“Boycott Amazon ..

Billionaire Learjet Leftist Bezo has abused his power and made the Compost his DNC Newsletter !

Even the Graham con artist family never went this far . From the lib rag that drove a GOP Pres from office this screed is pretty outrageous propaganda belch by the radicals running this rag.”

nailed it.

To date:

1) Cancelled my Macy’s account last year
2) Family will never set foot in a Target again
3) Cancelled my Amazon account earlier this year


26 posted on 07/02/2016 7:25:22 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Sub-Driver
Our view of the matter ... is that Ms. Clinton committed a grave error in judgment, compounded by a willful violation of internal State Department rules designed to ensure records were properly preserved with maximum protection against cybersecurity risks. She has been less than clear and forthright about all of this in her public statements. However, her conduct does not seem to rise to the level of indictable crime...

So they recommend no consequences for grave errors in judgment, willful violations of the law, and then lying about it. Is this the same recommendation they'd give a Republican?

27 posted on 07/02/2016 8:11:13 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Sub-Driver; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3445677/posts


28 posted on 07/02/2016 8:45:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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