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There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services.
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook | National Review
That is how I saw it, anyone else who handled classified data in this way, would likely be going to prison.There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services.
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook | National Review
There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services.
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook | National Review
Since there was no precedent for the SoS (or any other cabinet member) establishing a personal email server in their private home, totally outside government control (to frustrate FOIA requests?), it would be "unfair" to inconvenience HRC by charging her with a crime simply for having put classified data on it.
The precedent for ignoring "minor" felony crimes committed by very high ranking public officials has now been firmly established.
The added intent element, moreover, makes no sense: The point of having a statute that criminalizes gross negligence is to underscore that government officials have a special obligation to safeguard national defense secrets; when they fail to carry out that obligation due to gross negligence, they are guilty of serious wrongdoing. The lack of intent to harm our country is irrelevant. People never intend the bad things that happen due to gross negligence.
It does appear there were factors other than strict adherence to the Law here.
His comments leading up to stating his decision sure sounded like a recommendation to indict would follow.
I'm not accusing Comey of folding to the Clintons on this but it does look like he considered the who, what, where, and when in his decision ... shouldn't be that way but there it is.
I don't suppose you remember Gerald Ford giving Nixon a blanket pardon for any and all crimes he may have committed while he was president of the United States....
I don't suppose you remember Gerald Ford giving Nixon a blanket pardon for any and all crimes he may have committed while he was president of the United States....
I don't suppose you remember Gerald Ford giving Nixon a blanket pardon for any and all crimes he may have committed while he was president of the United States....
This is not a pardon. This is the FBI quite literally making the case that Clinton broke the law and then doing nothing about it.
The head of the FBI has no such power to pardon. I would have no problem with Obama issuing such a pardon so long as it was conditional on HRC never seeking public office.
There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services.
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook | National Review
The head of the FBI has no such power to pardon. I would have no problem with Obama issuing such a pardon so long as it was conditional on HRC never seeking public office.
This is not a pardon. This is the FBI quite literally making the case that Clinton broke the law and then doing nothing about it.
There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services.
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook | National Review
I don't suppose you recall that a pardon does not make the person any less guilty of the crime(s) committed. It only "forgives" them.
Meanwhile, only the head of state can issue a pardon. For Federal crimes that is the President...not the head of the FBI.
This was more of an investigator saying "move along, nothing to see here," while we are all trying to get a good look at a body with an axe in the back of it's head. :coffeepap:
Want a hanky to wipe the tears?
Don't worry, you'll still have plenty of opportunity to vote for the guy who gets information and opinion from white supremacist websites.
You know that is a lie. Why post it?
I never said Comey could pardon, did I? My reply was in reference to the other guy noting how low the bar was now for high-ranking politicians. All I did was point out just how low the bar already was. Perhaps a more appropriate comparison would be Iran-Contra. Or the Valerie Plame scandal...when Dick Cheney sure as heck did know about it and apparently approved of her exposure.
No, those on the GOP and conservative side have precisely zero room to talk.
That is how I saw it, anyone else who handled classified data in this way, would likely be going to prison.
The problem is that the this type of stuff undermines trust in the state and judicial system.
And so begins the corruption of the FBI ! Obama , the FBI and the WH spin doctors shame all honest Americans with this horrible action !
Did he or did he not get his latest "it's not a Star of David, it's really a sheriff's star" attack directly from a white supremacist website?
And while we're at it, his slogan, "America First". Guess who else is twittering hashtag-AmericaFirst? A guy named David Duke. Perhaps you should look up who else used the slogan "America First".
Really, how much does it take for y'all to get a clue that y'all have not just nominated a racist, but that racism is informing a great deal of the positions on the Right? Most Republicans aren't racist - or at least honestly don't think they're racist - but the positions they hold are strongly influenced by those same racist "negrophobes" (and their children) in the Deep South that Nixon directly courted as a part of his "Southern Strategy". Y'all's chickens, sir, are coming home to roost...but personally, I think they're closer to being a near-perpetual albatross around the neck of the GOP (if you don't know the reference, read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner").
Why do you keep forgetting I am neither a member of the GOP, nor a "conservative" except where it comes to the Second Amendment?
Now don't try to take us on a red herring trail with comments about Iran-Contra, or Valarie Plame/Dick Cheney. I never supported Bush Jr or his policies. Nor did I ever condone Iran-contra.
Raising those issues does not detract from THIS issue.
As a serving officer of the Federal Government, Hillary broke the law, did it knowingly and willingly, and tried to hide it. Now her Party is trying to make it go away.
Saying that past President's and member's of their cabinets have gotten away with criminal behaviors neither excuses her nor them.
no one has gone to prison for such an infraction which was part of Comeys dilemma.
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