[USCG SimTech]

Lynch is not going to prosecute and Obama will allow none of the above. Win or lose she is getting a full pardon on January 19 and will skate away scot-free.

A pardon is applicable only if there has been a conviction and sentencing. There is nothing applicable a president can do with an FBI case file full of evidence.

[Cboldt]

-- A pardon is applicable only if there has been a conviction and sentencing. There is nothing applicable a president can do with an FBI case file full of evidence. --

That's the usual case, but there is nothing usual when applying the law to our royalty class. Ford pardoned Nixon on unspecified charges, and that was enough to get the FBI and DOJ off Nixon's back.

[Liz]

Hat tip NY Post montage

[Jim Noble]

A pardon is applicable only if there has been a conviction and sentencing

Wrong.

[stremba]

I’m not sure that’s true. Nixon was never indicted for Watergate, but that didn’t stop Ford from pardoning him.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A pardon is applicable only if there has been a conviction and sentencing.

Gerald Ford's first act upon becoming President was to grant Richard Nixon a full pardon. At that point Nixon had been convicted of nothing.

[Signalman]

A pardon is applicable only if there has been a conviction and sentencing. There is nothing applicable a president can do with an FBI case file full of evidence.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't Ford pardon Nixon, who had not been convicted of anything?

[pepsionice]

I would agree....you can only go to the pardon exercise....if they’ve done something and met a court with a conviction....otherwise, there’s nothing to pardon.

I do think that the Clinton Foundation probably needs a special prosecutor to review the episode, and that the tax situation that it holds...probably will fall apart, and fines will be exercised upon it. By fall of 2017...with President Trump and a review....the Foundation probably will be bankrupt. Hillary will do OK with her pension deal but she’ll never be allowed to form another foundation.