More Smoking Guns - Will Hillary's Next Stop Be The White House Or The Big House?
Submitted by Andrew Napolitano via AntiWar.com,
The federal criminal investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s failure to secure state secrets was ratcheted up earlier this week, and at the same time, the existence of a parallel criminal investigation of another aspect of her behavior was made known. This is the second publicly revealed expansion of the FBI’s investigations in two months.
I have argued for two months that Clinton’s legal woes are either grave or worse than grave. That argument has been based on the hard, now public evidence of her failure to safeguard national security secrets and the known manner in which the Department of Justice addresses these failures.
The failure to safeguard state secrets is an area of the law in which the federal government has been aggressive to the point of being merciless. State secrets are the product of members of the intelligence community’s risking their lives to obtain information.
Before she was entrusted with any state secrets – indeed, on her first full day as secretary of state – Clinton received instruction from FBI agents on how to safeguard them; and she signed an oath swearing to comply with the laws commanding the safekeeping of these secrets. She was warned that the failure to safeguard secrets – known as espionage – would most likely result in aggressive prosecution.
In the cases of others, those threats have been carried out. The Obama Department of Justice prosecuted a young sailor for espionage for sending a selfie to his girlfriend, because in the background of the photo was a view of a sonar screen on a submarine. It prosecuted a heroic Marine for espionage for warning his superiors of the presence of an al-Qaida operative in police garb inside an American encampment in Afghanistan, because he used a Gmail account to send the warning.
It also prosecuted Gen. David Petraeus for espionage for keeping secret and top-secret documents in an unlocked drawer in his desk inside his guarded home. It alleged that he shared those secrets with a friend who also had a security clearance, but it dropped those charges.
The obligation of those to whom state secrets have been entrusted to safeguard them is a rare area in which federal criminal prosecutions can be based on the defendant’s negligence. Stated differently, to prosecute Clinton for espionage, the government need not prove that she intended to expose the secrets.
The evidence of Clinton’s negligence is overwhelming. The FBI now has more than 1,300 protected emails that she received on her insecure server and sent to others – some to their insecure servers. These emails contained confidential, secret or top-secret information, the negligent exposure of which is a criminal act.
One of the top-secret emails she received and forwarded contained a photo taken from an American satellite of the North Korean nuclear facility that detonated a device just last week. Because Clinton failed to safeguard that email, she exposed to hackers and thus to the North Koreans the time, place and manner of American surveillance of them. This type of data is in the highest category of protected secrets.
Last weekend, the State Department released two smoking guns – each an email from Clinton to a State Department subordinate. One instructed a subordinate who was having difficulty getting a document to Clinton that she had not seen by using a secure State Department fax machine to use an insecure fax machine. The other instructed another subordinate to remove the "confidential" or "secret" designation from a document Clinton had not seen before sending it to her. These two emails show a pattern of behavior utterly heedless of the profound responsibilities of the secretary of state, repugnant to her sworn agreement to safeguard state secrets, and criminal at their essence.
Also this past weekend, my Fox News colleagues Katherine Herridge and Pamela Browne learned from government sources that the FBI is investigating whether Clinton made any decisions as secretary of state to benefit her family foundation or her husband’s speaking engagements. If so, this would be profound public corruption.
This investigation was probably provoked by several teams of independent researchers – some of whom are financial experts and have published their work – who have been investigating the Clinton Foundation for a few years. They have amassed a treasure-trove of documents demonstrating fraud and irregularities in fundraising and expenditures, and they have shown a pattern of favorable State Department treatment of foreign entities coinciding with donations by those entities to the Clinton Foundation and their engaging former President Bill Clinton to give speeches.
There are now more than 100 FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton. Her denial that she is at the core of their work is political claptrap with no connection to reality. It is inconceivable that the FBI would send such vast resources in the present dangerous era on a wild-goose chase.
It is the consensus of many of us who monitor government behavior that the FBI will recommend indictment. That recommendation will go to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who, given Clinton’s former status in the government and current status in the Democratic Party, will no doubt consult the White House.
If a federal grand jury were to indict Clinton for espionage or corruption, that would be fatal to her political career.
If the FBI recommends indictment and the attorney general declines to do so, expect Saturday Night Massacre-like leaks of draft indictments, whistleblower revelations and litigation, and FBI resignations, led by the fiercely independent and intellectually honest FBI Director James Comey himself.
That would be fatal to Clinton’s political career, as well.
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A Hillary Perp walk video would possibly be the most watched of all time. Right next to the Obozo perp walk.
Make it pay-per-view and you could probably take 1% off the national debt.
O'bumhole's perp walk would be more of a mincing gait- trying to keep that well-reamed sphincter as a functioning poo-valve.
Killary's days are numbered- she looks like death-warmed-up now. Like Dracula in the sun- by 2020 all that will be left is an empty cloak, some dust and a bad smell (like rotten eggs)
Have you seen the kweers obama hangs with? All you twinky lookin homoes. I think Obama is the pitcher, not the catcher.
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The whole Mid-East mess is owned by Hillary.
20 years-from Albright to Clinton-of sending women-even a black women-to do men's jobs in the Middle east
ya'd think if its so damn imprtant for Muslim men to sell their oil in USD-we'd at least the foresight and judgment to do them the courtesy of sending a Trump-type or our own Putin-type out to negotiate on our behalf.
Instead we send women. And wonder why the rest of the world sees Americans as "arrogant" and "clueless" -and then pretend we really just can't figure out what happened over there-"nobody could see it coming" etc
And all the while Putin is laughing in his sleeve-and Bibi is raging-and all the Muslim Leaders of consequence are dead-humiliated in the eyes of their own countrymen by being forced to kowtow to American women. They are deposed and killed by their countrymen.
Any REAL politician and female American leader -knowing how critical the region is to American interests-should be able to see and appreciate the damage to American interests of forcing Muslim men to openly negotiate American interests with women. And should have declined the position in the best interests of the country.
There are very good reasons Muslim tradition and customs are considered Medieval. Simply desiring them not so does not make it not so-regardless of what Foggy Bottom would like to believe. The PC ideology infesting the American oligarchy has cost America the PetroDollar.
Thank you Hillary
Thoughtful observation.
Outhouse would be best.
You are maybe over simple. Outhouse is only artifice for cover hole. You are overlook excavation and structural engineering requirement for receipt and storage of Clinton excrement.
..maybe IN the hole with an iron grate and little house on top’
^^^ hahaha Nostrovia Boris!
^^^ hahaha Nostrovia Boris!
You are say that again!
She looks good in orange.
Orange is new black. First orange president if Hillary. Although, skin hue of Mr. Trump is also orange, so maybe is destiny for America having first orange president?
America already is run by an orange people: Lagarde.
At this point...... what difference does it make?
Screw the big house, roll the guillotines.
I have plenty of files if it needs dulling.
Huma can be her bunk buddy.......
How would you like to deep kiss Huma after she's been licking the Hildabeast snatch. Yum.
Some how I see Clinton being more of the "man" of the relationship. Various rubber objects that are connected to straps are sure to be involved.
Huma is the one who will ber thrown under the bus to take the rap! Only one close enough to Hillary to be sold as the culprit. Henceforth Clinton elected as Pres and 1st act is pardon Huma to become her Chief of Staff. Alls well in Corrupt establishment politics... I know it's brilliant. It just came to me in a nightmare!
Place your bets early and often...
In the Kink world, I think this is called 'edging'.
but but but Eric-Place-Holder has Endorsed her as the only choice
We all know that the highest endorsement one can get is one from "too big to jail", "Fast and Furious" Holder! This asshole has his picture next to the definition of corruption in Websters dictionary.
but she'll keep the money, not a bad gig if you can get it. Jezebel never went to prison but she was eaten by the dogs after they tossed her ass out of a window, that may work too.
She will still be your next President....
if not, she will unleash all of the "unknown" shit .GOV has done in the past....that is how the Clinton's work..
or she could have a "Nailgun" accident....there is that option.
That's what I think. "If I go down you all come with me!" then she will settle for no-jail time but she will not be the Democrat nominee either.
Hopefully she kept all the Poop... on a nice secure server somewhere.. oh wait.
Hillary has always brought to my mind The Witch of Charn in C.S. Lewis's prequel to The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe called The Magician's Nephew.
The Queen of Charn (the Witch) is battling her sister for control of Charn. Both know "The Deplorable Word", a spell which will kill everyone on the planet, except the speaker. The sister refuses to use it, but the Witch, after the last of her men falls, and she is confronted by her sister demanding surrender, speaks the Deplorable World. She is the only survivor.
Every time I think of Hillary getting cornered with a seemingly unescapable predicament, Lewis's parable comes to mind. I keep thinking that Hillary will speak The Deplorable Word, and that will be it. She would rather destroy America than to let anyone else have it!
"She would rather destroy America"
So you're saying the Clinton plan continues...
you think owebomba gives a fuck about fbi resignations? nobody gives a damn, least of all the fbi. they are too busy sucking lloyd and jamie's dick to do anything else.
Although, she would probably like the lesbians at the big house. She's used to lesbian shacking-up.
She'll never see jail, she'll back out first.
http://time.com/4178635/hillary-clinton-attorney-general-eric-holder-ele...
well, DUH!
they're both HUGE supporters of the #banklivesmatter movement...
Scooby wonders if Slick Willy has his eye on any of those sexy FBI agents!
Hey now, nice dress you got on, come'on over here little pretty.
Don't worry Obama will pardon her.
From the house he is trying to buy in Dubai no doubt...
Hillary has more lies than a cat.
Let the shit flying commence, let us see all of the really dirty shit the Clintons have been pulling.
Fucking Skank!
Prison is too good for these scum!
she has a better chance of going to jail for a bootleg dvd than for selling out the country 100X over.
The market is electing trump for prez . Pray he picks a good vp like mr paul
what's the difference between hrc & edward snowden? one of them actually DID compromise national security & the other one knows how email works...
did you hear marco last night name Snowden as a criminal? FAIL
Saint Bernie of Progtardia also thinks Eddy should be in chains
Marco is sure enjoying his ride with the Puppeteer's finger up his bunghole.
"There are now more than 100 FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton."
Hey, FBI assholes. Save some tax payer money. Get 25 Agents & go Arrest the Criminal Cunt.
The American People will take care of the rest.
Arrest, Tri, Convict & Execute this Pure Evil Treasonist Psychopath
Quick... get that lady into the WH so she can write her own pardon. Better yet, file whistleblower charges against Comey... If all else fails get her to say she is sorry...