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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.
Its like the Jury in the OJ trial. They knew he was guilty, they just didn’t want to do it.
JuryFBI nullificationSorry Frank, they do for the serious violations. But believe what you will.
Read Comey’s comments. And understand this, I predicted this 6 months ago. Intent is tricky. And for a serious violation of classified laws, and almost all felonies are, you need intent.
That ship has sailed.
Read the statute that I posted.
Hopefully, you, your family and friends all enjoyed yesterday’s celebration of freedom from tyranny. Cherish and remember it in the days and years to come.
Not excusing him, but I note this mitigating circumstance: the Clintons would have destroyed him.
Frank, good luck getting a prosecutor to proceed with that…
I just feel sick.
The same way I did after a couple of the Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare.
What reason is there to have faith that the institutions of our government will conduct themselves impartially? It seems now to be a given that the Left and the powerful will get their way no matter what.
Unless you intend on running for President in an oligarchy. Then it’s a pass.
I swear I am going to pop on the nose the first person who uses the word “Exhonerated” in my presence.
I hate to quote myself, but here’s what I predicted two days ago on another thread:
Now if only I could predict the winning Lotto numbers!
Because I have a Top Secret clearance, I have to go through an annoying set of “training” courses that threaten me with consequences of mishandling secret information.
So much for that.
This decision is exactly why Donald Trump rose to the top and why everybody is angry. Any competent prosecutor would be able to convict Hillary of multiple statute violations. Always with the Clintons the fix is in. Did they ever retrieve the Documents she scrubbed?
It’s pointless. We are a Banana Republic.
Now with the talk of Hillary keeping Lynch at Just Us Dept, they are rubbing out faces in it.
Ten million voters will now say “See, she’s OK.” The rest never cared.
What have we come to if this level of fear drives us. In two generations we’ve gone from Omaha Beach (real destruction of an individual) to this. Unbelieveable.
And the candidate floats the news she might keep the AG on for the next dynasty….
Well, you have to prove she was grossly negligent, and to do that you have show she intended to be so – gross negligence is different from negligence – and this law would say that if she handed out a page from her daily schedule she would be in violation. There is the law and there is the application of the law. Information sent to her (even if it was to her personal email address) was in its proper place of custody – it could be argued.
But have at it, you still lose with most unbiased prosecutors.
Nope, one of the beautiful kicks Dir. Comey put in in the last part of this… presser was the disclaimer that none of what she gets away with should be construed as permissible by people in the future.
“To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.”- Dir. Comey
Isn’t this just lovely??
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/05/transcript-fbi-director-james-comeys-statement-on-hillary-clintons-emails/#ixzz4DYDtVWYt
What he said was, “our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” What he meant was, no prosecutor in a Democratic administration would destroy their career by prosecuting the Democratic nominee for President.
Now, if an enlisted soldier sent one e-mail similar to the 52 e-mail chains Comey references, he would be prosecuted immediately, because that prosecution would come at no personal cost to the prosecutor.
How does this differ from the case against David Patraeus? It seemed no issue getting that indictment.
Yes. Here is the quote.
So, she gets away with it because she is politically powerful
It is hard to square Comey’s comments on intent with the gross negligence standard of 18 U.S.C. § 793(f). –Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor)
Also: Mishandling classified information leads to prison (if your name isn’t Clinton) (or the fate of Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier)
Did she know information was classified: YES.
Did she know the link was insecure: YES.
What more intent is required?
You want more? OK, what about asking that classification markings be removed?
When in the course of human events…
Do you mean like this U.S. Navy Sailor?
I recall reading somewhere that the plea bargain with Patraeus made indicting Clinton less likely, not more.
Can’t remember where, will try that google thing.
Some animals are more equal than others?
This is the great shame of this presidential election:
We can be (and are) presented with the most egregious misconduct and unfitness for office on the part of Hillary Clinton, and the response is “So do you want Trump to be elected?”
We can be (and are) presented with the most egregious misconduct and unfitness for office on the part of Donald Trump, and the response is “So do you want Hillary to be elected?”
And the race to the bottom continues.
We are faced with a choice between god-awful and somebody-shoot-me. One of the worst results is that we can’t demand that the opposing candidate be held to high (or even basic) standards, while we hold our own candidate to none at all.
Hypocrisy runs riot.