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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The progressives on the left and right will never let her go to jail
That's what I expect to happen. FBI refers to Justice, Lynch declines to prosecute, Comey resigns.
One year later, he's the new Attorney General. Probably under Trump.
Imagine Lardass Loretta Lynch standing naked in the middle of the Jefferson monument grounds...
A very ugly picture.
Your mind would be permanently scarred...
Was it truly necessary to "go there?"
HELP!
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Hey, they really improved that site! Kudos!! :>D
Could it be Christmas in January. Obama has to choose: indict Hellary or lose institutional control of the FBI to leaks and inssuborindation.
Hellary doing the perp walk?
Shouldn't have bad mouthed Obamacare, Cankles!
Pure fantasy. The justice department is FILLED with Clinton appointees. I'm supposed to believe people who owe their lunch ticket to Bill are going to help put his wife in jail? You seriously can't be that naive? And Obama is gonna let the best hope for a democratic president be prosecuted? LMFAO. If anything, they'll issue a report exonerating her of any wrongdoing.
Meh, WHAT has Bill done for them lately?
Since we're so civilized - let's send her to Saudi Arabia and have them chop her head off!
We came. We indicted. She fried
Napolitano understands the 9/11 story, should have made the connection. 9/11 is why the security establishment is very serious about leaks and the reason they so fear Snowdons. All of the Snowdon documents have not been released or discussed, I think.
Journalists appeared have died for those leaks, we should strongly expect that some of the military suicides were for the same reasons. The 'strange deaths' timeline shows relatives of Kucinich dying as he attacked all of this, tried to impeach Bush and Clinton. No coverage of that or any of the 9/11 activist background. I assume that is why all the other politicians and journalists and editors are quiet, they may be willing to risk death themselves, but not relatives.
If not that, I have no clue, because the evidence is beyond clear : definitely some kind of pressure and control, this is far from an open society and getting further fast.
Andrew Napolitano must want something from the political world. James Comey is not honest in any way, he supposedly thinks backdoors in encryption is conceivable and hasn't yet noticed 9/11 FF.
Just on the face of it, he becane the director of the FBI under the most dishonest administration in US history. For which Obama can take no credit, as every successive administration is.
Until we citizens end this sequence.
Remember what happened to Pesci in 'Goodfellas'? The Clintons are 'made.' If it gets too embarassing, they have a car accident or a plane crash. They will never be jailed.
How many that thought they were in the "clinton club" whos faces were stepped on, careers ruined, or just ended up dead?
Maybe some recognize that vag is really a black hole that if you get close enough, there is no escape..
All the Clintons are hostages for each other.
The latest fucking sideshow to somehow offset the continued criminality of the Clinton legacy.
This shit is brilliant actually, to condense decades of this sort of behavior to just the latest "email" scandal.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/website-exposes-this-gigantic-list-of-clinton-scandals/
Will they need climb over those lost whitewater file boxes or did they finally move them elsewhere..
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/06/us/elusive-papers-of-law-firm-are-found-at-white-house.html
Not hard to go on and on with this skank, and if cut from the right cloth, crime really does pay..
What a fucking joke..
So a box of copies of documents (no originals) shows up in a WH room where unsolicited gifts are stored until sorted...?
Can you say anonymous whistleblower?
Benghazie hearings: you have 21st century resources to bring to an investigation of mostly sand in the Middle East. You have DNA forensics. You have everyone testify The Secretary of State testifies. If you don't have a conviction by Close of Business (COB) on the day of, you don't have shite. At the latest, you have conviction by the end of the week, at the latest.
The United States gets law cases in and out of the Supreme Court, the highest court in the nation, faster than these hearings. Huffington Post dismissed the hearings months ago. Republicans are scheduling moar hearings and then heading for the golf course. Waste of taxpayers time and money.
Republicans don't really want answers about Benghazi. Then they'd have to answer questions about WHY we were there in the first place, what was the CIA doing there, were we running weapons to other players in the Middle East (cough cough ISIS) thru Libya, and why we invaded a sovereign nation? Last thing the Neocons want is Benghazi answers.
I read the first report through. It is a record of a completely dysfunctional agency rife with personal animosities and factions. The military offered the Ambassador more protection again and again. Politics must have kept him from acceping and from getting more from the State Department bureaucracy, who reduced it to a 'buy local' problem. One should assume kickbacks and smuggling and ... because the CIA was involved.
In any case, assigning blame is a waste of time, we have to dump the entire system. The system is filled with scum, we go on paying taxes and electing politicians who perpetuate the system, and then we are supposed to get outraged by one particularly loathsome fleck of scum.
Lets focus on the problem and how to fix it. The problem is the entire set of flecks of scum that own our government and manage it and profit from it. They are self-renewing, so need to be weeded out all at once. They control the military and intelligence and police forces, to a point. Their goal in this game is to increase their control faster than we increase our understanding, to keep the situation looking hopeless for us isolated-at-keyboards-in-suburbia citizens.
So don't be isolated. Get involved in meatspace. Have you told your Congressman they are going to hang if they don't address 9/11 FF, soon?
She will go to jail when Corzine goes to jail
Any respectable candidate would bow out at this point to avoid jeopardizing their party's chances. Then there is Hillary, who will let it all crash and burn to ashes while trying to salvage her current position of power. That attitude puts her in an elitists political class shared by some of the most notorious rulers and gansters in history.
Same as the US of A and the neocons who would rather set the world on fire if they cannot control every nook and cranny, every gov't, every resource.
Apres moi, le deluge!!!!
But...but... "Je suis l'Etat"
Decency is not in the Clinton lexicon.
Hellary has MS.
The Hillery case will be a good bell weather of the degree that we still have a country and a justice system here in the USSA. There is some camps that believe Obama hates the Clintons, so we may get an indictment for strictly political grounds no matter what the evidence. Rest assure that if Hillery is not arrested and she does Become President, a Civil War will be close at hand. I have no doubts about this!
Tack onto that the treatment of our armed forces by this admin, the cherry on top being the Iranian incident, I've been out of uniform for a long time but it made me physically sick to see that, then for the official response to label it as a diplomatic success . . .
It was a black fucking day that will not soon be forgotten.
We will have civil war before November...
There is enough dirt in the uranium mining deal or the Haitian gold mine scam to lock Hillary and Bill away until the sun burns out.
I'd like to know if the FBI has the Canadian's looking into the "Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership"
The Anonymous Donors don't want to be found out. And what slimy law firm created this conduit in the first place.
Hitlary is SO VILE, that yeast infections even avoid her...
Yeast gets hillary infections...
The last yeast infection she had turned out to be Chelsea...
The FBI vigorously investigated Lois Lerner, too...
That's like killing a cockroach with a hammer. Make a big fuckin mess and break something in the process, best to just let the cunt disappear like fart.
The difference identified by Napolitano is that the people upset by Lerner were ordinary citizens and a few Republican Congress-critters. In this case Clinton has seriously upset the whole intelligence community, the law enforcement community and much of the military. In this instance the parties upset are a very powerful part of the permanent government out to protect their own interests.
Don't get suckered. There is a vast right wing conspiracy going after the Clintons. If Hillary had done something, anything wrong, they would have gotten her long ago. The Clinton's are good people! Bill worked his ass off last year and according to Roger Stone made $354 MIL. They are an American success story. All this tripe about Hillary's alleged rug munching; the stuff about her body person, Huma Abdedin and her family being connected to the Muslim Brotherhood is just nonsense. Bill is no more a serial rapist than say, Pee Wee Herman is an exhibitionist. JFK Jr.s plane crash had nothing to do with the fact that he was just about to announce running for the same NY senate seat that Hillary had designs on. The Clintons would never murder anyone... We need a woman of character in the WH. Hillary is going to Win and Win big! You'll See!
Did you write that with the sarc/on or sarc/off mode? It sounded like sarc/on when you said that 'Bill is no more a serial rapist than say, Pee Wee Herman is an exhibitionisr'. If so I would vote an up arrow.
Come on... the Clintons are vermin!
>> JFK Jr.s plane crash had nothing to do with the fact that he was just about to announce running for the same NY senate seat that Hillary had designs on. The Clintons would never murder anyone... <<<
she did forget the Sarc
Can leg irons fit over her cankles?
Let's just cut to the chase on indicting "Lady MacBeth" successfully....
It will end just like the testimony for 9/11 with the DOJ and FBI holding hearing(s) behind closed door(s) -just as they did for Cheney, Rice, Powell, Bush and the rest of the assorted gaggle of psychopath(s) that walked away without leg irons and handcuffs to a gallows after the lies they told?...
Probably a very strong chance that she will be forced out of the race for the Nation's "highest office". But will justice be served with 4/5 of the House of Representatives, Senate CIA/DOS, NSA, FBI DoD DOJ and the U.S. Treasury that was duplicitous in managing the narrative out of her action(s)?...
It begs the question 42 years later...
Should Richard Nixon have been impeached for "Watergate"? Or should he have swung from the end of a rope for his war crimes and taking the U.S. off the gold standard in 1971 (along with his cabinent and "the folks" from the "White Dome" and all those assorted alphabet agencies that "rubber stamped" his quiet "exit" to live another day and lying to American people that "justice had been served"!!!!
Out, out damn smell...
I think it's high time to revisit the "crimes" of Nixon, a little 21st century update to account for Obama and Clinton.
Watergate boiled down to Spy vs. Spy. One spy was better than the other spy . . .one spy got caught. They were bumbling and incompetent. It doesn't make for a good argument: Hey, those fuckers were doing the same as us, but we got caught!
Bottom line, no civilians were involved. It's hard to count Ellsberg, it turned out to be a big plus for his career overall. No targeting of civilians by the IRS, no civil asset forfeitures against enemies, no dog whistles to DOJ, or EPA, or SEC to say, do as dear leader would do.
Yes, Nixon should have been impeached, but face it: he was conducting oppo, no more or less. It wasn't "paranoia," because the blue team was doing it too.
Nixon pales in comparison to the 21st century gangsters.
Oh, forgot about Nixon's "enemies" list. See, Obama and Clinton don't even have enemy lists. They don't need them. True autocracies rely on weak, loyal minds who are left to their own devices, with the general guidance of "do as der Fuhrer would do."
Nixon pales in comparison to the 21st century gangsters.
Agreed 9/11 was the beginning of the end followed by the bailouts in 2008...
Won't completely disagree with that interpretation. However I wouldn't exactly say that 2 million + dead Vietnamese and a few hundred thousand and Laos and Cambodia was anything to sneeze at either given the fact that "Tricky" Dick like Obama said we were headin out of Hanoi as part of his campaign pledge in 1969!... We also still had a viable economy in the 1970s that was still innovative and hadn't sold out yet to the Chinese and Indians.
Neverthless Nixon's demolition became the "blueprint" of every President thereafter and "Watergate" serves as the prime example to showcase how stupid the American public was and would continue to be in the future lulled into a complete sense of security that the justice system actually worked when much higher crimes like war crimes were being committed. while the REAL power at much higher levels would be protected indefinitely for it's abuses! This should have been a calling card for anyone watching in those days that the President was meerly a figurehead with the real power existing at the Treasury and Federal Reserve!
P.S.
Ironically and they are one that shouldn't be throwing stones at glass houses especially these days, the British and EU still laugh at us over Watergate being nothing more than a "school prank" given what our government was doing everywhere else in the 60's and 70's!
As I recall, Nixon "acccepted responsibility" for what had happened.
His underlings "accepted the blame."
The difference?
"Accepting responsibility" sends one off to a comfortable retirement in a villa overlooking the Southern California coast.
"Accepting blame" sends one off to prison.
And lest we forget the meme that was shoved down the public's throat when ("Chew gum and try to walk at the same time") Gerald Ford "took over" the Oval Office as Tricky Dick flew off in the helicopter to San CLemente: Presidential Succession: The System Works!"
If they couldn't indite someone as unpopular as Donkey Dick Cheney than there is no way they will do so with Hitlerry.
"We had 100 agents on this thing, and we found no wrong doing" That is what is going to happen. If they put in 5 then it might be said that it was too little... this way they will point to all the hours and hours of work as indisputable evidence.
This my friends is the great banking washing machine. After they are done, screaming "miscondiuct" will be as popular as asking for a Kanyan Birthcertificate. She keeps the bankers out of jail on the next banking crisis, they keep her out of jail. Everyone knows that the FBI works for the elite. You have a family heirloom to recover, you call a 3 letter agency.... you certainly do not do so out of some sort of need for 'justice'.
Excpecting the corrupt system to not be corrupt on this one instance, is the defenition of crazy.