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FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
National Review Online ^ | July 5, 2016 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 07/05/2016 10:22:00 AM PDT by Mariner

There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services.

Yet, Director Comey recommended against prosecution of the law violations he clearly found on the ground that there was no intent to harm the United States.

In essence, in order to give Mrs. Clinton a pass, the FBI rewrote the statute, inserting an intent element that Congress did not require. The added intent element, moreover, makes no sense: The point of having a statute that criminalizes gross negligence is to underscore that government officials have a special obligation to safeguard national defense secrets; when they fail to carry out that obligation due to gross negligence, they are guilty of serious wrongdoing. The lack of intent to harm our country is irrelevant. People never intend the bad things that happen due to gross negligence.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Mariner

Yes but you’re still supporting her over Trump right Andy?


61 posted on 07/05/2016 10:51:00 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Mariner

Gross Negligence is also actionable under “Care Less Ness” because it presumes a lack of directed agency to safeguard against a peril...


62 posted on 07/05/2016 10:51:10 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

She is part of a demonic cartel. They worship Lucifer—and Saul Alinsky wrote the “Rule” book that is Hillary’s bible.

They are winning now, because of the gullible sheeple who are all distracted with the “dog and pony” show (Free Press (LOL) which controls all we hear, can do and say so that it reinforces a socialist worldview in our children, and they have a vise on the minds (worldview) of ALL our children if they are plugged into their screens and go to their public indoctrination systems like Yahoo....even the Catholic schools were taken over by 1970 (Vatican II).

All for Fichte’s wet dream of 1810: where children will have “Free Will” destroyed (obliterated) and will believe anything the State says (Programmed “bots”/total dehumanization)-—like “snow is black” so they will be “happy slaves” for life (in the matrix of pure lies and misinformation, where Slavery is Freedom and Boys are Girls and mother and father are entirely irrational concepts (pure Marxism/Gender “theory” LOL so children can be completely programmed by the State and in artificial “systems” where Truth (God) and Natural Law (science/logic) is obliterated——like it was in tribal Inca minds).


63 posted on 07/05/2016 10:51:52 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Mariner

So she’ll be fined. Whooopie.


64 posted on 07/05/2016 10:52:51 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: RitaOK

No joke.

First Bill and Loretta have a quaint chance meeting on a tarmac.

Then, Comey grants her the immunity idol while Krinton and Obama spend taxpayer monies to jet around in AirForce One...

Too much


65 posted on 07/05/2016 10:53:53 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: plain talk

This means the election will be rigged too.


66 posted on 07/05/2016 10:53:56 AM PDT by Lexington Green (Why isn't Hillary in jail?)
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To: SteveH

Can obama the anti-american-in-chief pardon her even if she has not been indicted?


67 posted on 07/05/2016 10:54:59 AM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: Mariner

Maybe she gave him her top secret cookie recipe.


68 posted on 07/05/2016 10:55:34 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: Mariner

Clinton already announced that Lynch would continue as AG in her administration. I want to know what job Comey was promised for his part in Emailgate. After all, he’s proven himself to be just another democrat political hack who is more than willing to sell out his country by buckling to political pressure from 0bama and Lynch.


69 posted on 07/05/2016 10:55:45 AM PDT by euram
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Only PUTIN can save us now. He has ALL of Hillary’s emails.


Why do people keep saying that?? Comey SAID it was personally possible for our enemies to have gotten Hillary’s emails, but since she didn’t INTEND for Putin to get them, this is not prosecutable. No big.


70 posted on 07/05/2016 10:56:22 AM PDT by Yaelle (Donald Trump vs. Bipartisan Oligarchy)
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To: Lexington Green

“The election will be rigged”. I’ve thought this when Obama won a second term. There’s no way Hillary is going to allow this election to be lost.


71 posted on 07/05/2016 10:57:02 AM PDT by surrey
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To: All

How many days ahead do you suppose it takes to plan a presidential trip? Does anyone believe Obungo was going to NC and Hitlery was a last minute addition?


72 posted on 07/05/2016 10:57:21 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: justa-hairyape
And to think these maggot globalist crooks who fradulently call themselves Americans, announced that our country was finished the day after the Fourth of July ? May they all rot in h3ll.

I pulled my American flag down today at noon.

73 posted on 07/05/2016 10:57:21 AM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: headstamp 2

“Trump needs to pound on this relentlessly from now until the election. If the GOP wanted a bulletproof campaign issue, this is it.”

We can only hope.

Maybe he will get the usual Republican sickness they ALL get around debate and election time. Republicans get the Liberals on the ropes ... then make nice and back off.

It’s almost a given. Most recently-Mitt, could have squashed “O” like a bug during the debates ... but backed off and handed him the WH


74 posted on 07/05/2016 10:57:24 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: Mariner

Who is allowed to convene a grand jury? Can any convened grand jury indict her (i.e. not just the Attorney General’s office).


75 posted on 07/05/2016 10:57:28 AM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: euram

Comey will remain and get to keep his kneecaps.

Win win.


76 posted on 07/05/2016 10:57:37 AM PDT by Texas resident (Obama's enemies are my friends)
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To: Mariner

#rigged


77 posted on 07/05/2016 10:59:19 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (#nevertrump is really #readyforhillary)
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To: Donglalinger
"Is the Freeper love affair with Comey and the FBI finally over? "

Yes, indisputably so.

I think Comey let some of his reasoning out of the bag.

Several other "Department Heads" sent/received from Hillary on her private accounts.

Maybe even POTUS.

They may have sent/received Classified info.

"It's not illegal if the President does it"...is one of the most profoundly insightful things ever said by Richard Nixon.

What was Comey going to do, recommend the DOJ prosecute 1/2 the officers of Government, potentially inclusive of POTUS and certainly inclusive of Cabinet Officials, over a statute rarely enforced?

I think he did all he could by exposing the found facts of the case and indicating "No reasonable Prosecutor would bring charges".

And, he certainly knows that all the details will come out between now and November.

78 posted on 07/05/2016 10:59:21 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: FirstFlaBn

Not being charged was part of the trip plan.


79 posted on 07/05/2016 11:00:33 AM PDT by Texas resident (Obama's enemies are my friends)
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To: Gunpowder green
Intent isn’t even supposed to be a consideration, yet that is what he is using to excuse her. If intention can be considered, why are they still chasing Ed Snowden? How is his case any different than hers?

The "Law" Is In Their Mouth

Edward Snowden knew what a crowd of criminal scum the federal Praetorians are. He took appropriate precautions...
80 posted on 07/05/2016 11:00:38 AM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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