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FBI Handing Out Clinton Immunity Deals “Like Candy”
From the Washington Times:
Published in GeneralA congressman says Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members were granted immunity deals in exchange for their cooperation in the now-closed FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, tells the Associated Press that Mills gave federal investigators access to her laptop on the condition that findings couldn’t be used against her. Chaffetz says, “No wonder they couldn’t prosecute a case. They were handing out immunity deals like candy.”
Chaffetz says the two others granted immunity were John Bentel, then-director of the State Department’s Office of Information Resources Management, and Clinton aide Heather Samuelson. Two other people were previously identified as receiving immunity deals.
So that’s why “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges. There’s nobody left to charge.
Oh ha. Like Cheryl Mills or any of them would ever blab. Who wants to be found dead of mysterious causes?
No lawyer here, but I thought one had to have–and give damaging information against the subject of the investigation in order to receive immunity. Whatever valuable information was gained from the granting of immunity to Brian Pagliano and the IT guy that deleted her emails was never, to my knowledge, made clear.
Special Investigator Oprah: “Now everyone look under your seats. You get an immunity deal, and you get an immunity deal, and you get an immunity deal.”
So why wasn’t a subpoena or warrant sufficient to get access to the laptops?
Agree. Nobody is even trying, including the useless Republicans. It’s absurd. If these were Republicans, people would already be in prison.
Hah! As if life-long Hillary defender Cheryl Mills would have delivered the goods under any circumstances. The entire investigation appears to have been devised to shut off all avenues to the truth.
So, the investigation was a scam from the start.
Some animals are more equal than others.
I was under the impression that only a prosecutor (e.g., DOJ or a DA) or congress could grant immunity, not a law enforcement agency (e.g., the FBI), and it was usually conditional on full cooperation. On or both of these impressions is apparently not so.
So what are the rules?
These folks are too smart for Republicans to beat. Why has no one in Congress, which has oversight of these criminals, any balls?
Just a guess: they may have needed to compel production of an encryption key to gain access. It’s an emerging area of law, but there is precedent that you can’t be compelled to cough up an encryption key or password under certain circumstances, because those are protected forms of speech and could be self incriminating. I forget the nuances of it, but it revolves around whether or not law enforcement has prior knowledge of exactly what it wants off of your hard drive.
The above assumes the immunity deals aren’t inherently corrupt, of course.
James Comey pulled a grandstand play in the election year of 2004 by threatening to resign as Deputy Attorney General. He worked with Democrats and their media allies to help defeat George W Bush that year.
Then Republicans turned around and helped him get confirmed 93-1 as FBI director in 2013. Why, because he retained a vestigial Republican voting registration?
Everything I heard (or read) prior to his grandstanding was that Comey was someone who could be trusted to follow the law. The audacity of this lie leaves me flabbergasted! I feel like the kid in the wheelchair in the horror movie. I am moving down the hallway, but my worst nightmares (except for the cheerleader) are only baselines.
The FBI cannot provide immunity. That is for the prosecuting office. And even then, they are not open ended, and a judge can decide that the “deal” no longer holds or was never valid.
Why not just zip right to the end and give Hillary an immunity deal? She will get away with everything anyways.
Why waste it? There’s a pardon in the offing.
With apologies to Eli Wallach: “Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules.”
I think the point is, there are no rules where HRC is involved.
If God forbid Hillary is elected, the Senate should make clear that they will not even discuss, much less confirm, any appointee who has either hidden behind the Fifth Amendment or been given immunity.
I no longer have any faith in the Justice Department or the FBI which means that I no longer believe that we live under the rule of law. And I don’t see Trump fixing that. In fact, he may exacerbate it by using the DOJ for vendettas against his detractors.
The bureaucracy is liberal. I can see it going along if Trump goes after those Republicans he views as enemies. I can’t see them going after one like Koskinen. They’ll figure out a way to avoid it regardless of what Trump wants.
The FBI made it official that there are two sets of rules now. If you did what Hillary Clinton did with classified information, you’d get a full serving of rule of law. If you were a protected member of the oligarchy, not so much.
Like I said before, some animals are more equal than others.
All true. Perhaps new, non-corrupt leadership at the top can bring these institutions back into lawfulness at some point in the not-too-distant future. Perhaps. Let’s hope that a few responsible, moral men have influence within Trump’s inner circle.
But first he will no doubt figure out how to use the “nuclear football” and blow up the world. Then he will use the Justice Department to carry out vendettas…probably go after you second, after he blows up the world.
I’m seriously thinking about going dark after the election. At least until I can figure out how the wind blows. And no, I am not a tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist. I’ll bet this lady wasn’t either and she still got “the visit”.
Her story is incredible and very very frightening. You know I was joking with you a few posts back, but what happened to her most definitely gives one pause. And then there are the just plain ordinary vicious democrats who will throw eggs at cars with Trump bumper stickers and throw rocks at houses with yard signs. My wife won’t let me put one up.
And that is how they suppress free speech
Correct
And demonstrate tolerance…