The “Extremely Serious” Investigation Into Hillary Clinton
[guest post by Dana]
I just have a couple of minutes to throw this up…
While Hillary Clinton was getting testy at a press conference today because that nervy Ed Henry dared to ask her about a report this morning that cited Bill Clinton’s “eyebrow-raising requests for information from her top aides while she was secretary of state in 2012,” it was also being reported that:
An FBI “A-team” is leading the “extremely serious” investigation into Hillary Clinton’s server and the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to “gathering, transmitting or losing defense information,” an intelligence source told Fox News.
The specific provision in question is 18 USC Sec. 793.
A separate source, who also was not authorized to speak on the record, said the FBI will further determine whether Clinton should have known, based on the quality and detail of the material, that emails passing through her server contained classified information regardless of the markings. … It is not clear how the FBI team’s findings will impact the probe itself. But the details offer a window into what investigators are looking for–as the Clinton campaign itself downplays the controversy.
Uh-oh.
No doubt Clinton is standing by her carefully worded defense:
“I have said repeatedly that I did not send nor receive classified material and I’m very confident that when this entire process plays out that will be understood by everyone,” Clinton said.
‘“It will prove what I have been saying and it’s not possible for people to look back now some years in the past and draw different conclusions than the ones that were at work at the time. You can make different decisions because things have changed, circumstances have changed, but it doesn’t change the fact that I did not send or receive material marked classified.”
We are already being told that this isn’t really an email scandal, and you can just blow it off, because:
“Is it a crime? Technically, perhaps yes. But it would never be prosecuted.”
So stop making such a big deal about it. (Note: the source defending Clinton at the linked report is somewhat, questionable, to say the least.)
Exit question: Do you think Hillary Clinton will suspend her campaign, or just keep on keeping on with her denials and lies??
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (86e864) — 8/28/2015 @ 5:50 pmHillary Lies. Nothing will change. She will not quit.
Steve Malynn (b5f891) — 8/28/2015 @ 5:53 pmI agree, Steve. At this moment she is furious that any would dare suggest she, of all people, has to follow the law and be held accountable like the every day people she claims to champion.
Dana (3cddfd) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:01 pmIt’s that bad Ed Henry who’s to blame for this. No soup for Ed.
f1guyus (9cbd15) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:05 pmDoes Obama’s DOJ “misplace” her server and thumb drive or, given Obama’s in-the-open lack of support for her (and assumed support of Biden), do they now push ahead with serious intent?
Dana (3cddfd) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:10 pm(Note: the source defending Clinton at the linked report is somewhat, questionable, to say the least.)
Well, that is a shock. Never heard of that guy in my life.
Reason for that reaction is the simple fact that my actual name is Jeffrey Smith.
(It is actually rather common. Years ago I learned the public library had 36 Jeffrey Smiths listed as card holders, and that was just Broward County!)
kishnevi (294553) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:20 pmLike French President Chirac, her only chance to avoid prison is to be elected.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:21 pmI imagine Hillary surrounded by private nurses three decades from now, cursing the fate that denied her the White House.
kishnevi (93670d) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:25 pmI do sort of pity Bill. He is the one who will have hire the nurses and choose the insane asylum.
Patterico, I think she’ll keep on going until the democrat party tells her to quit. Then she will “withdraw” from the race or perhaps have a “health event” and throw her support to Biden. She will do it for “the country”, or the party or the children or some such nonsense. Then she will fade into another $200 million a year charity and retire. She then becomes a very valuable player as she can dash around calling every Republican a terrorist, misogynist, racist, sexist, homophobe, islamophobe, gun nut and whatever without actually representing the democrat party. And all the media will put her face all over and they don’t even have to grant equal time.
She really screwed the pooch. The democrat party has been aiming for decades for just this time. The democrats today have absolutely no relation to our father’s democrats. These guys are the radical reds from the 60’s who went into academia, the media, entertainment, lobbying, community organizing, unionization and politics. They’ve been striving al their lives to get a real, true Red in the White House. They have Obummer, now they need a follow up to secure the ant-American future. Look who’s running and once again ask: what’s the difference between a democrat and a socialist? We are talking about the party that put socialists and communists in office guys. We’re talking about the party that booed God, three times I believe. We’re talking the party who refuses to call Islamic terrorists, terrorists yet manages to call Republicans terrorists.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:30 pmGood question. Party or self? … They have to throw her under the bus.
htom (4ca1fa) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:37 pmHer “defense” is laughably lawyerly, and only hits on a tiny portion of what she has been shown to have done wrong.
JD (c15cfc) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:45 pmyet manages to call Republicans terrorists.
I think you are picking out the wrong message there. She fid not actually do that, but something actually worse.
She said opposing abortion is an extreme position. In faxt, that being disgusted by the fetal body parts trade is extreme and barbaric.
And that is the position of the Democratic Party. The ad against any Democrat who does not come out against PP should write itself, and have impact even among MSM faithful.
kishnevi (93670d) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:47 pmshe’s become swampbeast
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/28/2015 @ 6:59 pmfoster ashamed he knew her
future’s in sh*tter
defames donald trump
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:02 pm“he’ll put brown peeps in boxcars”
colonel klink in drag
tell me i’m lyin’
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:05 pmshe’s toast and biden’s rested
trump versus gump
clinton needs to go
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:16 pmno get out of jail free card
it’s “caged heat” for her
That is Hillary’s! quote above. This is mine from #9: “We’re talking the party who refuses to call Islamic terrorists, terrorists yet manages to call Republicans terrorists.” Where did I go wrong, kishnevi?
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:16 pmAnd yet her foundation is full of pelf from the gulf, her interventions in Libya and aiding certain factions in syria, have empowered the salafi
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:24 pmShe will claim it is the great right wing conspiracy that’s the problem. And she will continue to deny it until the definition of “is” becomes relevant.
Jim (b6b06c) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:30 pm“Technical crimes” that CIA chiefs John Deutsch and David Petraeus both pleaded guilty to after similar charges.
Ed Henry really hit the target today asking if any other cabinet secretary had seperate servers outside the government ones.
Readily expect Hillary! will skate. But clear this is belng run by Jarrett and Obama. We can hope that the Clinton and Obama ganags go nuclear on each other in a brilliant epic cataclysm. She may be done. A man can have his dreams. No great surprise Biden’s son’s Ashley Madison account suddenly became public today.
Bugg (137ba5) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:38 pm” Where did I go wrong, kishnevi
kishnevi (91d5c6) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:40 pmYou picked up the wrong element in her statement.
She did not say the GOP are terrorists. She said the views about women held by the GOP are as extreme and unmodernised as those held by ISIS .
Chopping babies up is 21st century.
nk (dbc370) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:51 pmObjecting to it is medieval.
Even Mark halperin, the most sycophantic of democrats, found it objectionable. Stevens Doherty woods and Smith were unavailable for comment
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/28/2015 @ 7:54 pmI’m stealing that one, nk!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/28/2015 @ 8:36 pmI’d like to put Hillary! on a bus or – better yet – a boxcar and tell her mama, tell her pa, then send her ass back to Arkansas.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/28/2015 @ 8:41 pmWell, I did steal it from Hillary, Haiku.
nk (dbc370) — 8/28/2015 @ 8:43 pmKishnevi hits on a very good point. She tries to claim that a majority of Americans share views with terrorists, though I suspect that terrorists views of abortion are dramatically different than the majority of Americans.
JD (3898b3) — 8/28/2015 @ 8:56 pmDodging sniper fire on that airport tarmac in Bosnia during her stint as First Lady has obviously affected her ability to accurately recall past events and impaired her judgment.
Hillary needs everyone’s undying love and compassion.
Mark (dc566c) — 8/28/2015 @ 9:41 pmHillary Rodham.
Gus haiku (7cc192) — 8/28/2015 @ 9:45 pmAss as wide as all Texas.
Getting Shi+canned.
Dodging sniper fire
Gus haiku (7cc192) — 8/28/2015 @ 9:51 pmBing bang boom goes the sniper.
Thanks for the flowers!!
is it inner rage
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/28/2015 @ 10:23 pmthat motivates this harpy
bill can’t tame that shrew
Billy Jeff loves pooooooosy.
Gus haiku (7cc192) — 8/28/2015 @ 10:29 pmThe royal thigness bone dry
Has been for decades.
You can’t really call these charges similar, as Deutsch and Petreaus plead guilty to violating 18 U.S. Code § 1924, which is a misdemeanor.
The FBI is investigating Hillary! for violating 18 U.S. Code § 793, which is a felony.
It actually looks to me that “the smartest woman in the world” didn’t know about 793, specifically (f)(1) and (2). Because it looks like her “very lawyerly” public defense of her actions was crafted to fight any charges she’d face under 1924. Which is why she seems to be hanging her hat on the idea that as long as she didn’t knowingly spill any classified she’s safe.
But that isn’t the standard under 793. The standard is gross negligence, and it seems like her public statements about how nothing was marked classified are designed to defend against the charge that she didn’t knowingly send or receive such information. But that defense just screams “I am guilty of gross negligence.”
She’s made a lot of stupid statements trying to lie her way out of all this trouble she went to a great deal of time and effort to get into. Such as her initial press conference at the UN on the matter. She said emphatically that “there is no classified” and that she was well aware of the classification requirements.
As she would have been. Everybody with a clearance knows how to recognize classified information. At least in your own specialty. Moreover Obama issued E.O. 13526 on December 29th, 2009 that designated her the Original Classifying Authority for the State Department. So she has no excuses for not recognizing classified information when she sees it. Whether it’s marked or not.
Even if she just had received the information she’s guilty of failing to report the breach. Which is the felony she’s guilty of under 18 U.S. Code § 793 (f)(2). It is a felony both to transmit classified information to unauthorized persons on unclassified networks and to receive it and fail to report it. But then Hillary! did transmit the information “in violation of her trust” to safeguard it when she gave copies of her emails to her attorneys and turned the whole thing over to that rinky dink Colorado tech company. Which makes her guilty of violating paragraph (f)(1) as well.
I don’t see how she gets out from under this. This has to be one of the most egregious violations I’ve ever even heard of. She actively took steps to actually dismantle every single safeguard designed to protect against compromising classified information, and to contain the damage if she were to accidentally leak classified. If that’s not gross negligence I don’t know what is.
But I expect her to keep running her mouth, to keep coming up new and less believable lies, to keep digging her hole, and to never quit until she’s dragged off the stage in handcuffs.
Steve57 (3b2e7d) — 8/28/2015 @ 10:44 pmSteve. She’s a liar. She has always been a liar. None of that matters. She is like David Blaine. People will continue to believe her shit, because they WANT to believe her schit. She is a disgusting PIG, and anyone with an ounce of honesty or an i.q. of 100 or better knows it. Our Problem is that THE left has gone THE FULL COMMIE. It’s about THEM, not about AMERICA.
Gus haiku (7cc192) — 8/28/2015 @ 10:51 pmbill and his wife are swindlers deluxe.
mg (31009b) — 8/28/2015 @ 10:58 pm#33: what Steve said…
assuming, of course, that anyone actually enforces the law on this.
(or anything else anymore, unless they’re a conservative.)
redc1c4 (dab236) — 8/28/2015 @ 11:28 pmHillary has taken too much bribe money to stop. Obama will have to put her away, one way or another. Court proceedings and unsealed data are his past style. Then we get to see what Hillary’s retaliation is. Some say it will be Fast and Furious, but who cares? The Republicans won’t impeach or jail him after office like they should.
luagha (9cee5e) — 8/28/2015 @ 11:45 pmSo the views of the GOP are the same as the terrorists of ISIS, a terrorist group, but the GOP itself is not terrorist? It’s just a coincidence they hold the same views? How does one separate the two? Are you being coy or don’t you see what she was saying? Or just trying to give her one more excuse? Kishnevi, it is way past time we start calling idiots out for calling, inferring or associating evil names, parties and people with us conservatives. That’s how they end up framing the discussion and changing the meaning of words. She took being opposed to murdering a million babies a year for birth control and made it into “extreme views about women”. See what they do?
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 8/29/2015 @ 4:48 amI assume kishnvi, Hillary’s! use of “boxcars” was not an attempt to compare Republicans to Nazi’s, rather to compare us to Choo-Choo Charlie.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 8/29/2015 @ 5:12 amThe most important part of speech is the audience. kishnevi and I think she was calling the GOP barbarians, you, Hoagie, think that she was calling the GOP terrorists, her feminist followers think underarm deodorant is a frivolous waste of money.
nk (dbc370) — 8/29/2015 @ 5:37 amI guess, nk. I just read her differently than you and kishnevi. Although I’m hard pressed to differentiate between a barbarian and a terrorist especially when I consider modern terrorists both. But I do get your and kishnevi’s point. Especially about the deodorant.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie (f4eb27) — 8/29/2015 @ 6:09 amPerhaps the most shocking thing here is Ms. Clinton’s defense, that she never sent or knowingly received classified information on the only email system she used. How can a Secretary of State do her job without sending or receiving classified information? Was she getting it orally?
David Pittelli (b77425) — 8/29/2015 @ 6:12 amShillary’s defense would seem to be that she isn’t criminal, she’s a bungler. Were I her opponent, the campaign ads would practically write themselves.
“Hillary Clinton says she did not knowingly violate important security laws while she was Secretary of State. So, if we believe her, she’s incompetent, and if we don’t she’s a criminal. And either way she has compromised American security.”
C. S. P. Schofield (ab2cdc) — 8/29/2015 @ 6:14 amObama has her by the short hairs and she knows it. Sure he approved the leaks as a warning shot across the bow.
Gerald A 11/2006 (2c96c6) — 8/29/2015 @ 6:25 amIt appears that the Hilary defense is that she wasn’t sending or receiving emails that were marked classified “at the time.” Clearly there were emails that subsequently marked classified. Is this a good defense? The post of Secretary of State is at the top of the food chain. It should be anticipated that her emails would become classified. It is all foreseeable. Her defense is bogus.
AZ Bob (34bb80) — 8/29/2015 @ 7:26 amI suppose it depends on getting it orally means.
Donald (92b23c) — 8/29/2015 @ 7:52 amright now hillary and trump split the white trash vote
if she bails it’s all over
happyfeet (831175) — 8/29/2015 @ 8:56 amThe more I ponder the relationship between Obama and Hill-and-Bill, the more I’m reminded of Lenin and Trotsky.
It didn’t end well for Trotsky.
Beldar (fa637a) — 8/29/2015 @ 9:24 amI don’t think Hillary will ever quit. But I think the only person who has the unquestionable ability to deny her the Democratic nomination is Obama. And unless he does so, she’s still the overwhelming favorite to get it.
Beldar (fa637a) — 8/29/2015 @ 9:28 amI’ve said it before, but if I were Bill I would find a deep and very secure bunker to hide in until 2016 is past. The way this is going, Hillary’s best shot at winning the White House is if somebody assassinates her husband and she can ride the sympathy vote.
C. S. P. Schofield (ab2cdc) — 8/29/2015 @ 9:35 amthe whole Clinton Foundation scam is on the line is Hillary bails
but it’s even more on the line if she’s totally humiliated or has to go to jail
it’s a conundrum
happyfeet (831175) — 8/29/2015 @ 9:59 am*if* Hillary bails I mean
happyfeet (831175) — 8/29/2015 @ 9:59 amI agree with Beldar. Hillary should be very worried about Obama.
DRJ (1dff03) — 8/29/2015 @ 10:04 am“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics….”
Then there are statements made by The Clintons, that readily and consistently break all previous human attempts at absolute dishonesty.
Because, after all:
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 8/29/2015 @ 10:05 am“It depends on what you mean by ‘no’ — and doesn’t it always?”
Don’t you mean more Stalin and Trotsky (it was Stalin and Trotsky fighting after Lenin died).
I’d say that the real question that comes to mind, is which one is Stalin, and which one is Trotsky…?
Because I’m not so sure the T-men guarding Obama are quite as willing to jump in front of a bullet for him as previous officeholders. And she could ride in on a sympathy vote for an assassinated racist-victim Obama ticket, too.
Remember, I noted the possibility first.
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (225d0d) — 8/29/2015 @ 10:09 amyou’d have to ask Huma… 😎
redc1c4 (b340a6) — 8/29/2015 @ 10:17 amand, let’s not forget that any messages she might have sent or received that dealt with the statements, opinions, positions, etc, of members of foreign governments are classified from the get go, by statute, even if they are not so marked, and she would have been briefed in on that when she took office.
you can’t tell me she never sent or received such information during her tenure as SecState.
redc1c4 (b340a6) — 8/29/2015 @ 10:24 amYou’re talking Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky, where I see Gangster Squad. Clinton and Obama could be the first scene, where one ties the other to two cars and the cars play tug-of-war, or they could be this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s5C-6cV61Y
where one accuses the other of being too big for his britches, and the other says “you’re done”.
But the point with using Gangster Squad is, we still might have a chance to come out of it bloodied and with casualties, but victorious.
John Hitchcock (32b2f1) — 8/29/2015 @ 10:32 amLegal Insurection has been following the FOIA suit that opened up this can of worms to begin with…
this country owes a debt of gratitude to Judicial Watch
redc1c4 (b340a6) — 8/29/2015 @ 10:45 amBupkis, fair point. The fued with Trotsky started with Lenin, but Stalin finished it.
Beldar (fa637a) — 8/29/2015 @ 11:10 amAnd yes, actually most of the feud was with Stalin. I stand fairly corrected.
Beldar (fa637a) — 8/29/2015 @ 11:11 amhillary is boring
all she has is her smelly old lady boobies
that’s her whole campaign aside for her weirdo negative attacks where she compares everyone to the sort of terrorists her herpes-ridden husband pardoned
you can put me in the “unenthused” column
happyfeet (831175) — 8/29/2015 @ 11:41 am“Is it a crime? Technically, perhaps yes. But it would never be prosecuted.”
Damn, but can we please have David Petraeus comment on this? WHile we are at it, how about Dinesh D’Souza commenting on technical crimes in general, and how they are [almost] never prosecuted, and certainly never result in jail time.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 8/29/2015 @ 11:44 amWhat are you hearing about the Harris County deputy’s shooting, Beldar? One report I read quoted the suspect’s neighbor that he has a learning disability, which seems like a curious thing to say. Is that the current euphemism for mentally impaired or retarded?
DRJ (1dff03) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:01 pmThe press conference by the Harris County Sheriff and DA was very blunt that this was an unprovoked assassination. I applaud both, especially the Sheriff when he said it’s time to change the rhetoric because Cops Lives Matter, too, so let’s just say “Lives Matter.”
DRJ (1dff03) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:04 pmI used a moderated word in an earlier comment, so my last comment doesn’t make much sense. It was an off-topic comment to Beldar asking about the shooting of a Harris County deputy last night.
DRJ (1dff03) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:06 pmMy wife bought 10 lbs. of popcorn. She must know something.
mg (31009b) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:21 pmclinton vs obama tag team
#48, Beldar: I don’t think Hillary will ever quit. But I think the only person who has the unquestionable ability to deny her the Democratic nomination is Obama. And unless he does so, she just might win the election and will then have the ability to make sure Obama and his motley crew of serial miscreants spend their golden years behind bars. FIFY.
So, either Obama takes her out in a preemptive strike now, or he, Michelle, Valerie Jarrette, Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, et al live in fear of The Revenge of the Hilldabeast.
ropelight (b338ce) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:24 pmhttp://therightscoop.com/hillary-should-apologize-for-calling-prolifers-terrorists-mark-halperin/
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:26 pmblaming rhetoric for random violence is never not a totalitarian impulse
but that’s just failmerica for you anymore
happyfeet (831175) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:31 pmActually it looks more and more like Obama/Jarrett set Hillary! up from the start.
Steve57 (3b2e7d) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:37 pmspeaking of trains
mg (31009b) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:39 pmthrow bill’s wife from the train
yes, they going with this riding squirrel:
http://louderwithcrowder.com/exposed-buzzfeed-tries-to-defend-planned-parenthood-caught-in-blatant-lies/
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:44 pmDRJ, I haven’t been following the Harris County shooting story — but I ought to, and I’ll start.
Beldar (fa637a) — 8/29/2015 @ 12:47 pmBeldar,
I think the shooting happened at a Chevron at West and Telge by Cypress Falls High School. I don’t know much about the neighborhood but it’s not a bad neighborhood, as far as I can tell. The local authorities are clearly linking the national rhetoric to what happened last night.
DRJ (1dff03) — 8/29/2015 @ 1:06 pmi grew up in cy-fair a lot when I was little there was a giant potato there
you could climb inside it and make it spin around and around!
my goodness but what a potato that was
i’m sure it’s gone now
nothing gold can stay
happyfeet (831175) — 8/29/2015 @ 1:23 pmMost recent report
kishnevi (91d5c6) — 8/29/2015 @ 1:48 pmhttp://abc13.com/news/harris-co-officials-appeal-to-public-to-help-find-deputys-killer/961336/
They’ve had the guy in custody since about 2:30 AM and have now charged him. A gun was recovered and the ballistics confirmed it was the murder weapon. Shannon Miles has been charged with capital murder. Another report said his mother turned him in.
DRJ (1dff03) — 8/29/2015 @ 2:41 pmlooks like another one of Obola’s sons…
#Unexpectedly
redc1c4 (a6e73d) — 8/29/2015 @ 2:48 pmI wonder where this man and his family are from. This is the Katrina anniversary and many New Orleans’ refugees fled to Houston. I don’t have any reason to think they/he are from New Orleans but it’s hard not to speculate.
As an aside, the Sheriff says he was found based on his vehicle which was located in the neighborhood. He was not turned in by his family.
DRJ (1dff03) — 8/29/2015 @ 2:56 pmI put up a post about the killing of Deputy Goforth.
Dana (86e864) — 8/29/2015 @ 2:57 pmShe has said the only email she used was the one she controlled.
She has said she never received or sent classified emails on that server.
If both those statements are true, then she probably never fulfilled the office of Secretary of State.
A followup question should be, at what email address did you send or receive classified information? If your position is that you never received or sent classified information at any email, how were you able to complete the requirements of the job?
Loren (1e34f2) — 8/31/2015 @ 7:36 amLoren @81, you are preaching to the choir.
But we already know from the emails that the DoS has already publicly released in response to Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit that she had classified information on her home brew server.
For instance she had information on the deployment of European NATO fighters during the air campaign against Libya. How the h3ll do you not know that is classified?
As an aside, how the h3ll did the DoS screeners not know to redact that information?
As is typically Clintonesque Hillary! is attempting to spin all this as incredibly complicated and just beyond the understanding of the poor knuckledragging voters. But it’s not. It’s simple and very straightforward. When you count current and former military and government employees with clearances, as well as current and former contractors with clearances, there are millions of us who understand just how simple and straightforward it really is. I wonder how they’re going to maintain that lie when all sorts national security/military analysts on contract with the LHMFM will go on TV and explain in three minutes just how straightforward and simple these rules are? And the rules are not classified by the way.
So it’s clear she violated the law. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the FBI “A-team” clears Hillary! of any violations of law or regulation. Who better than an FBI “A-team” has the credibility to sweep her criminality under the rug? But if they do then millions of us will know that Hillary! is being held to a different standard. The very simple, straightforward laws simply don’t apply to her.
I don’t see how she gets out from under this if the FBI conducts an honest investigation and the DoJ acts on the results. But on the other hand I won’t be surprised if one or both things simple don’t happen.
Steve57 (3b2e7d) — 8/31/2015 @ 9:30 amruh roh:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/31/did-clinton-emails-jump-from-classified-to-unclassified-system/?intcmp=hpbt1
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/31/2015 @ 11:47 amRuh roh indeed:
https://twitter.com/edhenry/status/638410976040198144
This is in addition to the 63 classified emails the State Dept. has already admitted to finding, and in addition to the 4 of 40 the IC community IG found. So we’re well above 200 classified emails.
I would also like to link to this infuriatingly dishonest USA Today editorial:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/30/clinton-controversy-no-comparison-petraeus-column/71421242/
USA at least identifies this woman as an attorney in private practice who is a Clinton campaign donor. Note how she lies by ommission on behalf of Clinton.
It is in fact a criminal investigation. These investigations always are multi-pronged, and they always include a criminal investigation into possible wrongdoing.
And this shill excludes several facts, such as what specific statute Petraeus plead guilty to, and the very different statute Hillary! is being investigated under the suspicion of violating (I think it’s an open and shut case). She omits the fact that the crime Hillary! is suspected of committing does not require a knowing violation. Gross negligence is the standard.
The Hillary! campaign and its supporters continue to insult our intelligence with their transparent lies.
So she is correct when she says that “based on the known facts, this comparison [between Petraeus and Hillary!] has no merit.” What Clinton has done is far worse. Which is why Petraeus was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, while Hillary! is being investigated for a felony.
I have never understood what it is about the Clintons that inspires their supporters to crawl into the sewer with them. But that’s what Anne M. Tompkins is willing to do, apparently.
Steve57 (3b2e7d) — 8/31/2015 @ 1:11 pmThe foundation and her email shared ip’s re breitbart
narciso (ee1f88) — 8/31/2015 @ 4:32 pm