Posted on 09/30/2016 10:11:59 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Opinion Columnists Potomac Watch
Jim Comeys Blind Eye
The FBI director cant defend immunity for Hillary Clintons aideswhich says volumes.
By Kimberley A. Strassel Sept. 29, 2016 7:28 p.m. ET
Two revealing, if largely unnoticed, moments came in the middle of FBI Director Jim Comeys Wednesday testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. When combined, these moments prove that Mr. Comey gave Hillary Clinton a pass.
Congress hauled Mr. Comey in to account for the explosive revelation that the government granted immunity to Clinton staffers Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson as part of its investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton had mishandled classified information. Rep. Tom Marino (R., Pa.), who was once a Justice Department prosecutor and knows how these investigations roll, provided the first moment. He asked Mr. Comey why Ms. Mills was so courteously offered immunity in return for her laptopa laptop that Mr. Comey admitted investigators were very keen to obtain. Why not simply impanel a grand jury, get a subpoena, and seize the evidence?
Mr. Comeys answer was enlightening: Its a reasonable question. . . . Any time you are talking about the prospect of subpoenaing a computer from a lawyerthat involves the lawyers practice of lawyou know you are getting into a big megillah. Pressed further, he added: In general, you can often do things faster with informal agreements, especially when you are interacting with lawyers.
The key words: The lawyers practice of law. What Mr. Comey was referencing here is attorney-client privilege. Ms. Mills was able to extract an immunity deal, avoid answering questions, and sit in on Mrs. Clintons FBI interview because she has positioned herself as Hillarys personal lawyer. Ms. Mills could therefore claim that any conversations or interactions she had with Mrs. Clinton about the private server were protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Brutal. :)
Comeys brother is another crook. Must be genetic!
From article comments:
“In the real world, duty, honor, integrity are real words, real values. The FBI, the IRS, the Justice Department, the State Department are not the real world. People like Comey live for public adulation, what their friends think of them, what the press says about them. All the other values are optional, to be applied only when they help in their self-aggrandizement.
America is in deep trouble. It has become rotten at the head. Is death imminent?”
Bill Clinton committed perjury in front of God and everybody.
Hillary lied to Congress in front of God and everybody.
The Ministry of Propaganda would deny the sky is blue if it advanced the agenda.
For those who are not youtube challenged, you can go there and listen to this stuff and hear it with your own ears and mind. Some of the people doing the grilling are doing an EXCELLENT job!
The problem is, what will they do with it, if anything??
I heard a LOT of horse-hocky come out of Comey’s mouth. Even personal lawyers can cross a threshold where they cease to be lawyers, and become witnesses. Comey tries to justify such and gets called on it.
Yes, she is great.
Kimberley StrasselVerified account @KimStrassel
Potomac Watch columnist for The Wall Street Journal editorial page. And author of the new book, The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech.
Who Knew?
Cheryl Mills was Hillary Clintons Chief of Staff while Hillary was Sec of State. That is not a legal position, it's a political appointee position. Her other work was as a Clinton Foundation Pilot fish, seek the graft crumbs that spill out of the mouths of the Sharks at the Clinton Foundation. She also had a job at NYC as a non Law Professor non academic administration employee. She never seems to have worked for a law firm either as an employee or partner.
To further her politically connected business, she has formed an LLC named Black Ivy, LLC to pursue Clinton Foundation type international and domestic projects , non of which are related to the practice of law.
She, although she is a bar accredited lawyer, she has not been involved in the practice of Law for a long time and her claims of being a Clinton Lawyer occur after she was identified as a target of the Clinton investigation.
Her claims of attorney client privilege are bogus and a transparent attempt at obstruction of justice
Most damning of all, her client is Hillary Clinton.
The same Hillary Clinton who, along with her cronies on the Oversight Committee, have been piously touting their desire for transparency and have been "demanding" that the Republicans release the Top Secret documents and all of the non classified emails that the FBI co mingled with the secret ones so that they are being restricted and being prevented from release.
At any time, MIss Transparency, Hillary Clinton, could have released Cheryl Mills from attorney client privilege and "allowed" Mills to hand over the computers so it's obvious Mill and Clinton were conspiring to prevent the turn over of her emails using false, improper and unethical abuse of attorney -client privilege.
Regardless of any attorney client privilege , Both Clinton and Mills were highest level State Department employees. Clinton was Sec of State and Mills was her Chief of Staff so not only was Mills a State Dept employee, Mills worked for Clinton's as Clinton's direct subordinate. It is a brach of legal ethics for a subordinate to be hired to legally represent Hilary Clinton
As State Dept Employees, both Clinton and Mills voluntarily signed , as a condition of employment, Employment Contracts and Non Disclosure Agreements to legally obligate them to properly handle Government records(including Secret ones) and to return those records to the Dept of State upon request .
Mills was illegally in possession of stolen government documents, some highly secret, and both she and Hillary signed very draconian contracts explicitly requiring them to return the information.
Comey is a useful idiot that made millions off of the Clinton Foundation—he and his brother, so they are compromised. Sold their soul to the Devil. CIA and the FBI probably still have a few “good” people—but they have to be silent or they are killed or purged one way or another (see William Colby and Ted Gunderson-—both killed because they has a little bit of “conscience” left. Ted a LOT-—trying to expose the Daddy Bush and the CIA-run Boy-Sex ring in the White House, which the sodomites mean to normalize after the “homosexual” marriage coup......one irrational, vile behavior after another—like baby-killing—is normalized in our little children (like the harem boys of Afghanistan).
One law after another as they get total control of the Supreme Court, what we can “think” (lol) by killing the Scalias or by any means necessary. They now have total control over brainwashing (Mind Control) every single child in public school (Common Core) with the help of the child-rapers who have owned “Hollywood” for a century who embed sick, evil desires and destroy creativity and the ability to “think” for self (agency destroyed for dependence on others for every idea since they are literally programmed by screens/non-human interactions—Not embedding Real Life human interactions where they learn virtue—how to control base emotions. Children remain puerile for life (snowflakes/dysfunctional so that children are not raised by moral, mature adults which is the only thing which creates moral adults..
Power corrupts and we see full corruption of all government institutions now. Good is Evil and Slavery is Freedom and Boys are Girls-—total insanity and removal of all past connections (Traditions) so that little children can no nothing of importance and be little “bots” who cheat, steal, and kill on orders of their Masters-—corporations.
From the article:
“Only heres the rub: When Ms. Mills worked at the State Department she was not acting as Mrs. Clintons personal lawyer. She was the secretary’s chief of staff. Any interaction with Mrs. Clinton about her server, or any evidence from that time, should have been fair game for the FBI and the Justice Department.
Ms. Mills was allowed to get away with this attorney-client privilege nonsense only because she claimed that she did not know about Mrs. Clintons server until after they had both left the State Department. Ergo, no questions about the server.”
From ‘Comments’:
“A beautifully written, crisply argued piece, demonstrating beyond any reasonable doubt that Ms. Mills was falsely playing dumb in the most transparent fashion. “How could I be guilty of server-related misconduct if tell him I don’t even know what a server is?” goes the thinking, apparently. The sad truth is that half of the population will not be reached by this story because they refuse, beyond reason, to believe that Ms. Clinton and her crew are capable of misconduct — and perhaps, more importantly, that anything goes as long as it’s your team and it’s in furtherance of your greater political and social goals. “
That pic needs to go viral.
The same can be said about the all-time low morale as in the US Military, US Border Petrol, and every law enforcement agency in the land.
These are people who joined their respective agency in hopes of enforcing laws and helping fight corruption, invasion, criminality, and evil. NOT aiding and abetting that evil, helping the guilty BREAK those laws, and ordered to betray their own personal ethics in the process.
From the comments:
“Comey did not just “turn a blind eye,” but was complicit up to his eyeballs with Clinton. And whatever reputation he once had as an allegedly “straight shooter” was shot to shreds by the shameless pass he gave HRC and himself! And if you needed further evidence, the following should put to rest all doubts as to whom he owes loyalty and for whom he was willing to sacrifice all of what was left of his integrity:”
The very ACT of copying classified material from a secure communications device to an insecure device or forwarding a paste & cut to an insecure device or someone not cleared for classified material is a violation of Federal law.
And Gowdy is correct when he says that the word “intent” is not found in the Federal statutes that deal with classified material.
That about sums it up doesn’t it.
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