Posted on 09/27/2015 8:30:55 PM PDT by doug from upland
Since there has been much evasion and obfuscation about Hillary Rodham Clintons e-mail use, it seems appropriate to step back and simply review what we know in light of the law. Its also instructive to compare Clintons situation to arguably the most famous case of our time related to the improper handling of classified materials, namely, the case of Gen. David Petraeus.
Instead of turning his journals so-called black books over to the Defense Department or CIA when he left either of those organizations, Petraeus kept them at his home an unsecure location and provided them to his paramour/biographer, Paula Broadwell, at another private residence. (None of the classified information in the black books was used in his biography.)
On April 23, Petraeus pled guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or materials under 18 USC §1924. Many in the intelligence community were outraged at the perceived slap on the wrist he received, at a time when the Justice Department was seeking very strong penalties against lesser officials for leaks to the media.
According to the law, there are five elements that must be met for a violation of the statute, and they can all be found in section (a) of the statute: (1) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, (2) by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, (3) knowingly removes such documents or materials (4) without authority and (5) with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location [shall be guilty of this offense].
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The fact is that dems are never ashamed about what they do and nothing we say can shame them. They have no conscience. It’s like they’re robots programmed to be the opposite of us. Possessed by the devil?
What happened to Hillary? She used to be so good at destoying evidence.
She is not a techie. Computer records are a little harder to destroy.
In MY WORLD the Press (MSM etc) should start worrying about their complicity ... who knows what is in those emails and come 2017 NSA gets a new Master.
This is a double sided blade, cuts both ways, if she has to drop out of the race her only saving grace is a Pardon from the “One” which only covers what has been discovered up to that point... a new starting point with massive amounts of evidence could appear 10 seconds after the Pardon and Barry could tell Bill that he held up his end.
I can dream
Yep she broke the law... but it doesn’t matter, NOTHING will happen to her. It’s the elite government status.
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republican “leaders” are BALL-LESS!!
I HATE that Cheryl and Huma and Jake's testimony to Try Gowdy was BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and NOTHING has leaked out!!
Trey....will they SKATE?? probably.
“Then they e-mailed the data to Hillary”
And by her request to do so. At least one of the released emails has Cancklebeast telling her Aid to forward classified information to her from a secured Gov. computer to her homebrewed email account.
Hillary has been breaking laws her whole adult life.
The thing that we have to remember is that it was TWO YEARS after she left office before her private server came to light. If not for Benghazi, and the resulting FOIA requests, she would have gotten away with it.
You are the law if you have a (D) after your name................
She will be locked up when Jon Corzine is.
He only stole $1.6 billion.
As her husband said when he was caught, “ We need more laws”.
Don’t enforce those on the books.
Doesn’t matter; laws only apply to the “little people”.
If America was still a nation of laws, Clinton would have been in prison a long time ago. Just like she wanted to do to Nixon.
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