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Breaking: FBI Won’t Prosecute Clinton Over Emails
Via the WSJ:
Published in GeneralFBI Director James Comey said the bureau won’t recommend Hillary Clinton be indicted over use of private email while secretary of state, but he said there is evidence Clinton and colleagues “were extremely careless” in their handling of highly sensitive information.
Comey in brief: While it is clear that Secretary Clinton and her aides violated the law, we don’t think they really meant to. So we’re good.
Comey ducks questions from reporters after clearing Hillary Clinton from prosecution. How instructing subordinates to remove classified markings on a classified email so it could be sent over an unsecured system is not a criminal offense that shows awareness and intent is clearly beyond me. Let the outrage begin.
Intent isn’t required.
Laws are for the little people.
The 2016 frontrunner is a woman who–putting the best construction on it–treated state secrets with reckless incompetence.
Yes, she’s already guilty of gross negligence. But when there is intent, the penalties are even worse.
The party’s over, folks. It’s Hillary all the way. Batten down the hatches.
Why did he structure the presser like this?
If you had followed everything up until the last 5 minutes, you’d think they were going to push for an indictment. So, why did he bother saying all of that the way that he did?
The United States of America is now officially a banana republic – and not because we sell stylish chinos and cashmere sweaters.
Just a reminder, it will be Trump or Clinton making DOJ appointments, overseeing national security, etc. Who do you prefer?
Is intent truly required for violation in this case? Malum prohibitum or Malum in se? What laws?
I’m shocked! (not)
Come on, She’s Clinton.
I believe there is a God in heaven who will administer justice in His own good time.
This belief comforts me.
In this wacky world it apparently does not matter that she intended to transmit the classified info.
It does not matter that she intended to transmit classified info knowing it was classified.
It does not matter that she intended to transmit classified info knowing it was classified and knowing the transmission was illegal generally.
What is the required intent then? That she intend to violate a specific US Code subsection, knowing that subsection by number?
Bad as Trump would be, I’m not sure his sole criterion for appointments would be “How willing is this person to let me and my husband break numerous laws without laying a finger on us?”
Mark Levin’s head just exploded
If ever there was a time for conspiracy theories (that eventually turn to conspiracy fact) now is the time.
Again, proving they did not think they could prove “intent.” This is about “intent.” And the conspiratorial theories are just that. Was there bias, you betcha’. But there was not conspiracy per se. There was a de factor conspiracy. Most of Washington is Democrat or Democrat in disguise. So when they call “strikes and balls” Scooter Libby is indictable and Hillary is not.
Funny thing, individual influence affects the law, not blind Justice.
I’m at a loss as to how to describe this as anything other than “really terrible.”
So the FBI Director declines to prosecute Hillary Clinton mere days after her husband met with the Attorney General in secret and on the same day that the President starts to campaign with her.
Move along citizen, nothing to see here.
They don’t have to.
Criminal government. We’re headed down a dark, dark path.
I just watched a coup against the American government by FBI director James Comey. He found 110 times Hillary was involved in illegally emailing classified information. He found 8 times Hillary was involved in emailing TOP SECRET information. He found her personal servers illegal. His reason for recommending to DOJ to not bring charges? They’ve never done it before. REALLY? So the first person that runs afoul of any law gets a pass because no prosecution like it has been brought before? THAT’S NOT THE LEGAL STANDARD!!!! Wow.
Because you always save the punchline until the end – Hey, America, joke’s on you!
18 USC 793
Couldn’t be clearer. Intent is not required.
So much for James Comey’s vaunted integrity.
I am currently rereading Timothy Snider’s Bloodlands. In the early chapters he recounts how a leftist journalist for the New York Times reacts to the slaughter of millions by starvation in the Ukraine. It didn’t fit the narrative, so it wasn’t happening.
The Obama in-Justice Department, including the FBI, is a arm of the Democrat party. It will do whatever is necessary to insure that the goals of that party are met because, for the left, the ends always justify the means.
There was nothing secret about that meeting.
The press was tipped for good reason. Most likely by justice.
I actually now believe Lynch and Clinton did talk about grandkids and golf on that tarmac. All that matters was that it made it to the news and she could defer to Comey.
For all we know Clinton went to FBI headquarters this weekend and watched Jurassic Park and went back home.
Fixed that for her.
To maintain some shred of dignity.