Nor can he
Lord knows neither can he
Posted on 07/15/2016 7:59:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Unfortunately for the country and the rule of law, FBI Director Comey’s public remarks at the FBI and before Congress last week raised many more questions than they answered about Hillary Clinton’s extremely carless use of private email, possession of classified information, and exchange of sensitive information across unsecured devices while Secretary of State.
The more salient questions are the following.
Why was Hillary not questioned by the FBI under oath? In the most basic of car accident cases, where nothing secret is on the line, and no foreign intelligence agencies are trying to steal sensitive information, all parties and witnesses are questioned under oath and subject to the threat of perjury. Yet Hillary was allowed to answer questions informally. Why?
Why was Hillary questioned so late in the investigation, on a Saturday of the 4th of July weekend, three days before Director Comey made his no prosecution recommendation? This suggests her testimony was not central to the investigation, but rather an after-thought. What would have happened if she would have dropped a bombshell during the Saturday interview? If the FBI investigation was likely wrapped up before they interviewed her, why did they interview her at all?
Why was there no written record of the FBI’s questioning of Hillary? To return to our car accident case example, every deposition in a civil litigation is recorded, under oath, by a certified court reporter, for the purpose of locking in a witness’ testimony in a permanent record, which allows an opposing party to impeach the witness’ credibility at trial if the witness changes his mind. In this case, there is no transcript from Hillary’s questioning, so Hillary’s credibility cannot be impeached in this way, though there is a plethora of evidence suggesting her credibility is in question.
Did Hillary lie to the American people, the Congress, or the FBI about her email practices? Based on Hillary’s (now known to be false) testimony before the Congress last fall on the Benghazi attack, juxtaposed with Director Comey’s detailed recitation before Congress of the falsity of her public statements (thank you Rep. Trey Gowdy), the nation knows that Hillary, for over six months, lied to everyone about the nature of her email server, the classified contents thereon, and what she sent and received over that server.
As America learned from Bill Clinton’s presidency, lying to the American public is not a crime per se, but lying to authorities, under oath, is. How rich that the next Clinton vying to be president may well be hamstrung by the same charge that ensnared the first Clinton, perjury. Along with perjury, officials may well want to consider obstruction of justice for Hillary and her team’s willful destruction of emails and refusal to turn over 30,000 documents to investigators.
Again returning to the basic civil litigation scenario, if after receiving a request for production of documents from an opposing party, a responding party destroyed 30,000 documents on their own, and fancifully claimed, as Hillary did, “nothing to see here, the emails were just about my yoga classes,” that party would be subject to monetary sanctions (fines) and evidence sanctions, precluding their ability to introduce evidence at trial.
When Hillary Clinton and her lawyers destroyed over 30,000 documents, claimed that many were lost forever, only to find out many were recoverable and contained classified information, what was the punishment? Was Hillary fined or sanctioned in any way? No.
Finally, how can Hillary possibly claim any entitlement to a security clearance after this episode? Top secret security clearances are not handed out based on popularity, but on need, careful screening of one’s background, and the promise to comply with the rules governing the handling of sensitive information. They are extremely expensive to obtain and are a privileged asset for any holder. Hillary has been shown to be extremely care less with the most sensitive information in our nation (“Special Access Privilege” documents). Yet she will retain her security clearance?
Much has been said about the David Petraeus incident, where he willingly gave classified information to his mistress/biographer and was prosecuted. But two distinctions deserve mention: first, no national security secrets were exposed there; and the mistress/biographer also had a top secret security clearance. Neither was true with Hillary’s email use. But instead of being prosecuted and kicked out of the presidential campaign, she is well on her way to the Oval Office. It’s good to be a Clinton.
Though Hillary may have escaped prosecution by Loretta Lynch’s Justice Department, she is clearly not out of the woods yet, because so many weighty questions remain to be answered, ensuring the last chapter has not been written on this tawdry episode.
Lying to the FBI is a crime, whether under oath or not.
There is a supposed written report that the FBI is to get to the Judiciary Cmt.
The next time Mr. Joe Shmoe gets charged with the same stuff Hillary just did and got away with it... all he has to do in his own defense, is site HER case as ‘precedent’ in the law... and HE too will get off. :)
This is how you de construct law and order....
1. If thousands of emails sent back and forth between Hillary and her cadre of State Department sycophants did include classified material, why weren’t more of them labeled and stamped with the appropriate classification?
Hillary, herself, by virtue of being the Sec. State had the right and the duty to put labels on them if they weren’t marked when received.
We know she sent at least one email to an aide telling him to strip off the proper classification markings and send it via an unsecured fax.
2. Was this a common practice and instruction from her office on the handling of classified information?
3. Does this account for thousands of improperly sent emails in that department? They just stripped off the labels.
How can this woman be trusted with our nation’s nuclear codes?
She can’t
Nor can he
Lord knows neither can he
The very acts of
to avoid leaving a FOIA-accessible record of her illegal [Clinton Foundation] actions, etc...
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Are de facto evidence of
and
Corrupt Comey and Corrupt Lynch SEALED our country’s FATE....we are doomed since now Laws are only for Republicans and Conservatives!
You FBI AGENTS ARE CORRUPT COWARDS!!!
#clintonPrivilege
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