Posted on 01/08/2016 9:52:13 AM PST by GonzoII
The latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department early Friday contain what may be the smoking gun that forces the Justice Department to charge the former secretary of state with a crime, according to former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova."This is gigantic," said diGenova. "She caused to be removed a classified marking and then had it transmitted in an unencrypted manner. That is a felony. The removal of the classified marking is a federal crime. It is the same thing to order someone to do it as if she had done it herself."
On the June 17, 2011, email chain with senior State Department adviser Jake Sullivan, Clinton apparently asked Sullivan to change the marking on classified information so that it is no longer flagged as classified.
Clinton, using her private email server, asks for "the TPs," apparently a reference to talking points being prepared for her. Sullivan, who is using his official State Department email, responds, "They say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it." Clinton responds, "If they can't, turn into nonpaper w[ith] no identifying heading and send nonsecure."
It's not clear if Sullivan actually followed through on Clinton's orders. But if he did, it may expose Clinton to serious legal jeopardy.
"This makes it impossible for the bureau not to recommend charges," diGenova said of the FBI. "This makes it impossible not to go forward, and it certainly ties the hand of the attorney general."
Some have speculated that while the FBI may recommend charges, Attorney General Loretta Lynch might try to avoid doing so for political reasons.
The revelation also appears to put to the lie Clinton's claim that she never handled classified information on her server.
"I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time," she has claimed. By instructing her aide to send her material marked classified, it is clear that she not only may have received classified information, but that it was indeed "classified at the time."
"This means that when she said, 'I never received anything marked classified,' she in fact did," diGenova said.
David Bossie, president of the watchdog group Citizens United, said the email could become the emblem of Hillary's email scandal.
"It proves that Hillary Clinton affirmatively instructed senior staff to send classified data to an unsecured server," he said. "With that, it cements into history, much like the famous Bill Clinton finger wag."
I have a friend who works in Washington and he told me Obama has an intense dislike for the Clintons and is just waiting for the right time to let the hammer fall. I HOPE that is true, because my God, to see her do the perp walk would make my life complete.
If she had a secure room somewhere outside Foggy Bottom, then she could have had a secure and classified computer terminal (2 different thing). In either case she deliberately avoided both.
Having worked inside the Intel community rules, they’ve got to be cringing that a senior government official deliberately skated the rules (and the law) and will set a precedence for future prosecutions. If she isn’t prosecuted the the full extent of the law, then the AG and by virtue of his position as POTUS, both should be impeached
he may claim he was "under orders", and failure to comply threatened his continued livelihood.
If by "continued livelihood", you mean "continued capacity to breathe", it is undoubtedly true that he would have been terminated.
Too bad we don’t have the rule of law anymore for the elite. If they put Hillary behind bars, it would begin to restore my faith in our Republic. Suddenly all the corrupt stinks would know they could be next... They would probably all start turning on each other, too.
“I’m not a lawyer but it seems that giving the order puts her in jeopardy regardless of whether he acted on it.”
I’m not a lawyer either but I have figured out that in some situations intent is all that matters but in others results are all that matters. I have never been able to figure that out.
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