There is no way that a lifetime politicians gets as rich as the Clintons have without selling their office.
Some think the FBI is taking their time. I agree. But I think its so they can for sure nail the biggest political corruption case in human history.
I think they deserve to swing from a rope, on public TV, for what they have done to our political process. I realize that will never happen.
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I don't blame the FBI, and I don't think this is taking so long because they have yet to collect enough evidence to be sure of an indictment. The FBI can only use the evidence it has if the Attorney General--and ultimately the President--allows it to.
Read sometime about the
Amerasia case, if you want to see how this process can be rigged. Near the end of World War II, a U.S. foreign service officer named John Service (who had been the housemate in Chungking of two officials who are now known to have been Soviet agents) returned to the U.S. for meetings with officials in the State Dept. and other federal agencies. But while he was here, Communist agents introduced him to a longtime Communist named Phillip Jaffee, who published an obscure policy journal called
Amerasia.
Service met with Jaffe several times in the Spring of 1945, both in Washington and New York. He also engaged in a round of social hobnobbing with several other Communists and Communist sympathizers in Jaffe's circle. One was an editor who worked with Jaffe, another was a reporter, another was a minor U.S. official who was a Soviet agent, and another worked in the Office of Naval Intelligence and almost certainly was a Soviet agent. In the course of these contacts, Service gave Jaffe more than fifty documents containing secret military information regarding U.S. plans in China. The FBI recorded the meetings between Service and Jaffe. It also entered Jaffe's offices several times and photographed these documents there, along with photographic reproducing equipment. The names of some of Service's new friends appeared with these documents, and this information--along with the fact the OSS had already been watching Jaffe because one of its secret documents had earlier appeared almost verbatim in an
Amerasia article--led the FBI to arrest six people.
The FBI took its evidence against the six to Justice Dept. prosecutors, who agreed it was more than enough to support a grand jury indictment and were ready to begin. But Service had friends in high places, including the new Truman administration's Attorney General. The father of Kate Mitchell, the comrade who worked with Jaffe as an editor, was a prominent lawyer in Buffalo. He arranged for a private lawyer he knew to be brought into the case. (This lawyer, Hitchcock, was later given a plum job in Mr. Mitchell's law firm.) A couple senior State Dept. officials conspired with Hitchcock, with the Attorney General, and with a former New Deal official named Tom Corcoran, who coordinated the effort, and the whole thing was fixed. The worst evidence was withheld from the grand jury, and as a result it no-billed several of the people arrested, including Service.
We know about this fix because Truman was having Corcoran surveilled for reasons not connected with
Amerasia, and the phone conversations were recorded by the FBI. I can imagine how frustrating it must have been for Director Hoover to know all this, and yet feel obligated to keep quiet about it. Several years later, when the facts about the Service-Jaffe espionage and its coverup began to leak out, Hoover scared all hell out of the administration by threatening to reveal what he knew, but in the end he felt he could not. Hoover was often in a similar position--FBI files reveal it knew about all sorts of Soviet infiltration of federal agencies, and that it repeatedly informed both those agencies and the president about security risks who were working there. But the usual response was to dismiss or ignore the warnings, and do nothing to expose the people involved.
So don't think the Justice Dept. and the president are not capable of suppressing damning information against people they, for whatever reason, want to protect. We know for certain they have done it before.
