Posted on 06/19/2018 1:16:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Late last week, as the furor over the Inspector General report was raging, I devoted a fair amount of my radio show to arguing that Hillary Clinton should have been charged and prosecuted over her email scandal -- the DOJ's handling of which was the subject of the IG's findings. I've already written extensively about Mrs. Clinton's egregious misconduct, highlighting the reasons why it wasn't just a series of stupid mistakes, and pushing back against unpersuasive arguments about the nature of her actions. It seems as though this same sticking point has also been bothering Harvard-trained attorney, former JAG officer, and former Cornell Law School lecturer David French, who made his case for prosecution at National Review Online on Friday. His indictment, rooted in personal experience and deep understanding of the relevant statutes, is compelling:
After reading the analysis, I just flat-out don’t buy that Hillary’s conduct — and her senior team’s conduct — didn’t meet that standard. The key reason for my skepticism is the nature of the classified information sent and received. Remember, as Comey outlined in his infamous July 5, 2016 statement, Hillary sent and received information that was classified at extraordinarily high levels...If you’ve ever handled classified information, you understand that there are often judgment calls at the margins. When I was in Iraq, I often made the first call about classification. In other words, I determined whether to send information up the chain via the unclassified system (NIPRNet) or the classified system (SIPRNet). Entire categories of information were deemed classified by default. Other categories were commonly unclassified. But sometimes, I had to make a choice. And sometimes, the choice wasn’t clear.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The case against Granny Xlinton was handed over to the voters
If Guy Benson did not spend all of 2015 & 2016 frothing at the mouth hating on Trump perhaps Hillary would have had more pressure put on her by the press, but Guy was fixated on Trump hate for two years like ALL the liberal press & half of the conservative press.
Now, whatever, Hillary should have gone down...thanks Guy /s
She should but she won’t. And she is out there laughing about it.
18 U.S.C. § 793(f)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
She should’ve been prosecuted, but “willful gross negligence” is essentially an oxymoron that falls into their trap. The whole point of “negligence” as a criminal standards is to remove “willful” from the discussion. As the recipient of highly confidential material, you expected to carefully protect those secrets, and anything below that is considered criminal, whether willful or not.
Pass or fail I would love to see this fat disgusting POS dragged through the scum she is acustomted too.
Shoulda, coulda, wounda...
Someone should explain to the headline writer that ‘willful negligence’ is an oxymoron.
This was not a negligence case. The evidence is abundant that Hillary knowingly and intentionally mishandled government secrets by way of her homebrew server.
A: Hillary's illegal private server was HACKED BY FOREIGN AGENTS who learned of Chris Stevens whereabouts and activities.
Will we EVER learn the TRUTH that it was HILLARY who is responsible for the attack on Benghazi?
Willful negligence is an oxymoron.
If you’re negligent, you never intended for the injury or loss to happen to anyone. It’s usually because of an maliciousness lack of concern or responsibility.
Hillary’s use of an illegal and illicit method of hiding communications from the government is EASILY negligent on it’s face. You don’t even need to interview her to show negligence. You only need to present the physical evidence.
But I would suggest that the willful or intent part is easily provable case. You actually have to go way out of your way to do the things that she did to hide her email and transmit classified information. Nobody with several braincells to rub together would ever believe that you hire someone to buy and set up your own email server when you could get the service free and without effort from the government, then pay someone to manage it, and put it somewhere that it can’t easily be discovered, unless you INTEND for it to happen.
Hillary got special treatment, it’s a shame that our law enforcement agencies like DOJ cannot see this and prosecute her.
...because of an UNmalicious lack of concern... (negligence)
Need to take advantage of that preview better.
If I decide to murder someone and I do, that's homicide in the first degree. There is deliberation. There is malice aforethought. There is intent.
If I'm driving and because of my own negligent behavior I become distract and I hit and kill someone there is no intent.
The law recognizes we can't let irresponsible people drive without consequences so we charge them with involuntary manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, or gross negligence.
Even IF Hillary had no intent her actions were still criminal. Remember 'ignorance of the law is no excuse'?
And regarding, 'ignorance of the law is no excuse'. Funny how that only applies to 'the little people'.
How many times have we seen lawyers, judges, elected leaders (who have law degrees) who are NOT ignorant of the law but get reduced sentences because they're 'pillars of the community'?
Oh ye of little faith.
It’s not over
Hillary Clinton should be charged with Treason for the death of those that died in Benghazi attack!
I am never surprised how cunning and vicious Hillary is. However, for any person who is Secretary of State to send emails in Russia on an unclassified server and not expect them to be intercepted just is astonishing. Is Hillary stupid as well?
Unless of course, the emails were about yoga or a wedding.
She should be prosecuted, but they will wait until the statue of limitations expires.
See my comment 15.
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