FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook

National Review ^ | July 5, 2016 | Andrew McCarthy

[Iron Munro]

Comey says: “What’s good enough for Chief Justice Roberts is good enough for me!”

[Old Yeller]

Shameful episode of American history. Hard to believe the director of the FBI was bought and paid for...

There can be only two possibilities:
1. Comey knows that the Clintons have people killed and he doesn't want himself or family members killed.
OR
2. He has been blackmailed.

[Bullish]

Comey’s just another white guy cleaning up a black boy’s mess.

[butterdezillion]

What does Comey think is the difference between “careless” and “negligent”?

I think this travesty needs to be a rallying cry against this crooked establishment. Everybody knows Hillary is a crook, and the system that protects her is no different than The Joker in “The Dark Knight”.

[VideoDoctor]

he could have kicked the political football to AG Lynch and required her to take the heat

That was the entire object lesson of what he did.

It was Comey's job to take the pressure off of Lynch since after having her meeting with Bill Clinton revealed she was put in a precarious position.

Comey was the "go to" guy to fall on his sword so that Lynch was no longer on the hook.

The American justice system took a "direct hit" orchestrated by the governing elite

[Talisker]

In fact, it is Comey who is totally UN-reasonable to say that “no reasonable prosecutor” would indict based upon this fact pattern and statutes. That was a totally egregious, unnecessary assertion by Comey. If he did not have the judgment and guts to publicly recommend indictment, he could have kicked the political football to AG Lynch and required her to take the heat of deciding. Instead, he tries to make it easy for Lynch to let Hillary off the hook.

He did indeed. And yet it was the most helpful screw America ever got. Because he did finish the actual report, and it did provide the evidence necessary to indict, if not also convict, and then and ONLY then did he declare it inadequate. Even then, though, he declared the requirements for indictment that clearly included what Hillary actually did, before he bizarrely declared them unfulfilled.

I guess that what I'm saying here is that this whole thing is very odd - Comey did literally everything he could to declare that he was wrong in his final conclusion, while simultaneously providing everything everyone needs to convict Hillary.

It's very, very strange - he could have lied about the findings - but he didn't. He could have trumped up some legitimate sounding justification - but he didn't. He could have cited different statutes - but he didn't. He's all but screaming "reject my conclusion!"

As one result, though, media sources and Trump can legitimately call Hillary a criminal now, because Comey did in fact say she fulfilled the criminal statute requirements. So the Clintons can't sue to stop that, since the FBI Director's own testimony stands against her objections.

[WKTimpco]

I’ve heard of the reasonable person standard in criminal law, but Comey makes a new judicial standard: the “reasonable prosecutor” standard. People in government ARE the standard, you peon!

[WKTimpco]

It’s the same as Roberts saying, Yes, ObungaCare is unconstitutional, but citizens and the rule of law don’t are pieces of crap in my book; so I’ll make a new standard out of whole cloth.

[Cboldt]

-- The key statute is clearly written to require "gross negligence" and NOT intent. --

There is more than one "key" statute involved. Comey picked one that is more difficult to prove.

Hillary almost certainly violated 18 USC 1924, but you don't hear much about that.

[SaveFerris]

Does this look bad?

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/tmdsu16070120160702115556.jpg

[kiryandil]

If he did not have the judgment and guts to publicly recommend indictment, he could have kicked the political football to AG Lynch and required her to take the heat of deciding. Instead, he tries to make it easy for Lynch to let Hillary off the hook.

'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.' - Dante

[thecodont]

I think Comey did everything he could in light of the threats he labored under. The “reasonable prosecutor” standard here means, to me (and I am sure I am not alone) that this prosecutor thought it was reasonable to stop short of conviction and save the life of himself and his family. Hillary Clinton does not come out of this smelling like a rose. At the very least this whole examination has shed harsh light on her judgment and executive abilities. Her supporters are running out of reasons to defend her.

[tumblindice]

Comey: just another step`nfetchit Obama LEO who thinks he can make law, even if cannot enforce it; I wonder which Obama DOJustus law-hack told him what to say this morning.

Where the government fears the People there is freedom ...

[Bon mots]

[SaveFerris]

Or both.

[Enchante]

[TTFlyer]

Comey disgraced himself, the FBI, and his country.

[Roccus]

I wonder what Clinton’s security clearance is now...

[TTFlyer]

Quote:

“You couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a FBI azz kisser here yesterday on FR, Where did you all go?”

Same place all the “principled conservatives” went after Ted Cruz revealed his true self.

[kiryandil]

I have older family members (retired) who held top secret clearances in the US Navy and who are simply appalled at this case. They lived decades of their lives under a discipline in which one document left out or mislaid could end or derail a career, and in which doing anything remotely like what Hillary has done would result in certain jail time. Yet, if you are the right kind of “elite” in our political world you can just about get away with murder.

They've discovered that they were "suckers".