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What Happened To Integrity?
Townhall.com ^ | July 7, 2016 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 07/07/2016 6:00:37 AM PDT by Kaslin

When government officials assume office, we hear a lot about their “great integrity” and “high character.”

Maybe the beltway press is working from a different dictionary, but in my 15 years in Washington, I've yet to see it.

When was the last time a high-ranking government official resigned in protest or disgust? That's not a rhetorical question.

Peter Edelman, a top Health and Human Services bureaucrat, resigned when President Clinton signed welfare reform in the mid-‘90s. But no one in the Clinton administration batted an eye when the president lied to his cabinet officials about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, then sent them to tell that lie to the media on his behalf.

Before that, it may well go back to the “Saturday Night Massacre,” when Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to follow President Nixon’s order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Watergate probe.

On Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey laid out a convincing case against Hillary Clinton violating US law in her email scandal, only to end it by saying, “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statute . . . our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

So far, there is no outrage at the FBI. No one has resigned. Why not? Either the investigators involved in this don’t believe the strong case Comey laid out, or no one cares.

What constitutes a “reasonable prosecutor”? The head of the FBI is a former prosecutor, but he is not a psychic. Where does this standard come from? Since Comey refused to answer any questions after his statement, who knows?

But we’ve been told all along Comey is a man of “high integrity” and “great character.” If he thinks laws were violated, why is he not for pressing the case?

There used to be a difference between being “famous” and “infamous.” There no longer is. There used to be people of integrity in government. There no longer are.

When Comey said he and his team “cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts,” he should have looked a little harder. He should have looked to the case of Bryan Nishimura, a Naval reservist who served in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008.

Nishimura was sentenced to two years probation and assessed a $7,500 fine because he “caused the materials to be downloaded and stored on his personal, unclassified electronic devices and storage media. He carried such classified materials on his unauthorized media when he traveled off-base in Afghanistan and, ultimately, carried those materials back to the United States at the end of his deployment. In the United States, Nishimura continued to maintain the information on unclassified systems in unauthorized locations, and copied the materials onto at least one additional unauthorized and unclassified system.”

Ultimately Nishimura’s actions came to light “when he admitted to Navy personnel that he had handled classified materials inappropriately.”

Yes, he admitted it.

Moreover, the investigation into Nishimura “did not reveal evidence that Nishimura intended to distribute classified information to unauthorized personnel.”

Any of that sound familiar? Any of that seem like it might fit the case against Hillary Clinton?

No one thinks Hillary set up her multiple private servers to aid foreign enemies of the United States. She did it because she wanted to conduct her business in a way no one could monitor. Nishimura may or may not have “intended” to violate laws for handling classified material, but Hillary Clinton surely did by setting it up so the only way to communicate with her electronically was outside a government-approved and secured method.

No reasonable person can conclude the secretary of state can function for long without receiving classified information. That’s the nature of the job. Yet Hillary, to borrow a phrase from domestic terrorist and close friend of President Obama Bill Ayers, is “guilty as sin, and free as a bird.”

And no one has resigned in protest; no one has spoken out in disagreement. So either Comey is right, or there are no people of integrity left in government. There’s more evidence for the latter than the former.

By the way, in case you haven’t heard of Bryan Nishimura before, as it would appear Director Comey hasn’t, you can read about him in this press release from last year on the FBI’s own website, where all those quotes came from. Too bad Comey couldn’t find any case like it anywhere.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy; crazyrepliestothread; election2016; emailscandal; fbi; frenchrevolution; guillotine; hillaryrottenclinton; integrity; russianrevolution; trump
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To: Kaslin
"What Happened To Integrity?"

It was replaced with treason.

21 posted on 07/07/2016 6:33:59 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Rummyfan
No one thinks Hillary set up her multiple private servers to aid foreign enemies of the United States.

Why should we not think that, now that it's been mentioned? Foreign enemies of the United States paid Hillary, through the Clinton Foundation, to put their interests ahead of the those of the United States. She and her advisers might very well have believed that insecure communications would be helpful to those who bought her influence.

22 posted on 07/07/2016 6:35:16 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down." ~ Johnny Cash)
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To: Donglalinger

STAND BACK!

MAKE ROOM!

Clear a path for the predicted stampede of honest, ethical career people in the FBI and DOJ who will soon resign in disgust at Hillary being let off the hook for her criminal deeds once again.

Any minute now.....

Any minute now....

Any minute now...

Any minute now..


23 posted on 07/07/2016 6:46:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Kaslin

Virtue is habituated and learned. (Virtue is habit—Aristotle). If it is NOT learned by little children, it WON’T happen (unless trauma conversion). All public schools curricula (Common Core) is designed to DESTROY VIRTUE formation is children.

All Classical Christian curricula creates Virtue formation—as did ALL schools prior to John Dewey, the communist and god-hating humanist. Most of these people hate marriage/male/female paradigm and want no sexual restraints——all things sexual “normal” like in Ancient Greece (so they can have the little boys (Solon pushes little girls, but the majority wants the boys like muslims (harem boys) and the Spartan culture “Man/Boy “Love” homosexual “cultures”).

Skools, taken over by the Leftists, is to destroy Virtue formation so they could collapse Western Civilization.

Takeover pretty much completed by 1970 (total Mind control of all children in public skiools, so they could flip 2000 years of Ethics, back to the pagan, irrational “slave” cultures. Children are incapable of processing facts and Truth (God) creates “cognitive dissonance” (as designed by curricula—psyops to destroy Christianity).

Common Core, NCLB, Goals 2000, ALL curricula from John Dewey on intentionally DESTROYS VIRTUE (understanding Truth/good habits) in little children. It fills them with lies (confusion)—gender confusion because the curricula normalizes the unnatural and evil, destroys logic, and flips 2000 years of Christian Ethics—that which formed the USA—to Satanism, Marxism, Atheism—all worldviews that are antithetical to Truth, Freedom, Sanity, Reality, Virtue, etc.

Christianity created the Age of Reason and Modern Science (Logic of Aristotle), Renaissance (Elevation of Man to Excellence (Virtue) and it created the most just and free cultures in the history of man. Art elevates man in Christian culures. Art tears down culture (excellence) in Marxist culture so it can control all information and all ideas that little children have so they are TOTALLY irrational—Boys are Girls, Good is Evil, Up is Down, and Slavery is Freedom, sodomizing others is a Virtue and you take “Pride” in it.

Conditioning children into satanism is what is going on—OPERANT CONDITIONING to destroy the Minds of children (makes it IMPOSSIBLE for children to “think” critically (because everything they “KNOW” is a LIE and opposite of Truth (Reality/God). (It is psychological warfare on minds of children to create irrationality and make emotional cripples (slaves of state).

The schools promote Satanism (Marxism/slavery) (total vulgar, evil, irrational use of other human beings is “Good”—so they can kill, rape, be pederasts again, make the evil “good”. It is all to normalize vice-—to makes slaves of the masses and make each “group” hate each other (males hate women, blacks hate whites, children hate biological parents, Cops, etc all pure Marxism as is gender “theory” where there can be no mother and father (biological)).

Vice is slavery (Aristotle) and Virtue is essential for Freedom (Montesquieu). Only the Natural Family unit (male/female) creates “normal”, rational, emotional healthy children who can have Free Will (understand Reality and Truth and Natural Laws (Constitution).

Any altering of this paradigm—like polygamy, no mother, two dads-—embeds irrational worldview in little children who will remain emotionally crippled (attached to irrational concepts).

It will embed irrationality in early childhood-—removes the ability to “Know” Truth (Reality) and understand Natural Law Theory-—that which formed the Age of Reason and US Constitution.


24 posted on 07/07/2016 6:53:53 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: Donglalinger

Mass resignations? Yeah right, stop dreaming.


25 posted on 07/07/2016 7:03:27 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: sport; Donglalinger

You both must be thinking about those idiots who say they would move out of the country if Donald Trump wins the presidency. Cher even claimed that she will move to Jupiter if Donald Trump wins


26 posted on 07/07/2016 7:13:02 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

EVERY elected official needs to see these comments here!


27 posted on 07/07/2016 7:15:15 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Kaslin
What Happened To Integrity?

It went with God when He was evicted from the schools, courthouses and town halls of our nation.

28 posted on 07/07/2016 7:39:30 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: zzwhale
and top to bottom in the companies that relocated hq’s there Lamborghini located a new headquarters in Washington DC, they sell the most cars in DC than anywhere in the world!!
29 posted on 07/07/2016 7:52:55 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: Kaslin
Not me. What I read was that if Hillary was not indicted, there would be mass resignations among the ranks of FBI Agents in protest. Or words to that effect. Donald Trump's name was never mentioned. As for the other guy, he can speak for himself. I saw it on a number of occasions, not just once.
As for the ones you alluded to, where would they go? No other Nation will have them. Well, they may go to Cuba, but Raul and Fidel would give them a machete and put their asses in the canefields cutting sugarcane.
30 posted on 07/07/2016 7:58:57 AM PDT by sport
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To: Kaslin

It was left at the door!


31 posted on 07/07/2016 8:05:32 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Gaffer

They arrogantly think it would never come to this. The elites of Rome and imperial France did as well. They had their guards and legions yet it turned out about as bad as possible for them. Those who forget history...


32 posted on 07/07/2016 8:18:32 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: JimRed

Bingo!


33 posted on 07/07/2016 8:25:37 AM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: sport
Yeah, you are correct, I read that too, but forgot about it.

Now the question is will they. If the don't, than the integrity of the FBI is worthless

34 posted on 07/07/2016 8:26:08 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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