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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Hillary doesn't have 100 partisans in the FBI. Comey isn't one of them. Try to organize 100 individuals of any profession or ilk in a conspiracy. Good luck. Non-disclosure forms won't cover this mound of shit. There are going to be FOIA requests out there ass and now there is blood in the water they won't take the standard "uh we're working on it . . ." for 4 years.
So Hill had a hand in creating the Saturday Night Massacre from so long ago, and here she is again. Truly a historic figure. Two constitutional crises in one career.
in case anybody cares I like sourcing...as there is always more to the story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173842/U-S-sailor-charged-takin...
He's really gonna catch it for destroying evidence- sound familiar?
As long as she goes down will be fine with me. I would like to see a punishment more in line with what happened to Gadaffi, but there is the fact that actions by the FBI that would cause her to back out of the presidential race or actually spend time "in orange" has its own satisfaction. The crash would be epic and resultant daily humilation this physopath would have to endure has benifits for all and would be with her until the day she dies.
Bubbles
Any sane person would drop the chance to become president and stop all the Hitlery haters from further investigation's, but oh no, not a political scum bag, they think they are above the law and in most cases they are. I sure hope this is not one of those occasions.
Hillary Clinton: "Edward Snowdens leaks helped terrorists."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/2014/04/25/hillary-clinton-edward...
Do as I say, not as I do? The two-tiered set of observed standards for the behavior and actions of regular Joes and the oligarchs couldn't be more apparent.
I can dream too.
Forget the FBI. Hillary's backers control the FBI. The FBI have had 35 years to investigate the pile of dead bodies she and Bill left in Arkansas. I don't expect them to while she and Bill are living.
If Trump can be fiddled out of the GOP nomination in favour of a more dependable Republican, it's just possible Hillary's paymasters will sit down with her and persuade her to yield the nomination to Sanders, and retire from public life to spend more time with Huma and her bank account. For now, they have to keep her around.
Jail? Forget it. Jail is for poor people and turncoats like Milosevic, Ceausescu and the Hitler gang. Even the leadership of the GDR were only lightly punished for their crimes. Hillary will die in her own bed, Huma and Chelsea at her side.
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.
If the attorney general does not indict, then present the information to any grand jury (either federal or state) and let them issue criminal indictments. The grand jury could then ask that a special prosecutor be assigned. Many people think the grand jury is a tool of the district attorney. They are not. They can act independently.
Controlled opposition, manufactured to clean house in the FBI on her run up to POTUS, and once again "PROVE" to the American public that she is "ABOVE" scrutiny.
As much love there isn't between the Clintons and Obama's DoJ, they won't prosecute a fellow democrat. And I'd love to be wrong on that. The important FBI personnel will be forced to choose sides, outing themselves in the "investigation", and then either "resign gracefully" or be dissappeared. Clinton dead pool just gets bigger each passing year.
That is how the Clinton game is played.
In the Clinton world, Hillary thinks that dropping out of the race will be adequate "penance" for all her fucking crimes (which she will declare are made up shit).
I think she should be put in a room with the Benghazi family "liars" for a well deserved ass kicking.
She will be indicted and Biden will become nominee. Obama will pardon Hillary on his way out, book it
Biden won't become nominee. He had that option previously when the WH had shown they had the goods to force Clinton out. Biden knew that Trump would tear him apart with the Obama administration history which he owns nearly as much as Obama. So Biden took a pass.
On the other hand, Kerry is stupid enough to step into the fray.
Hard to think that bill is any less vulnerable than hildebeast. They should both be in jail. The ultimate penalty would be to imprison them in a cell together for, say, 10 years.
I'm amazed that investigations of Hillary's crookery and corruption are even being investigated, let alone so quickly and with the possibility of criminal indictment.
In the UK, investigations of political elites rarely get anywhere near to that. They get killed off long before.
One look at pedophilia that's been going on in the UK for decades and has involved people in the highest offices has been brushed under the carpet and even now is taking years to investigate by the police who some believe are avoiding investigations of some of the most highest ranking people.
As I've said many times about the UK, "corruption is institutionalised" and so much corruption is simply brushed aside.
She is not getting indicted. She is getting nighted. ...as in taking a permanent nap.
As much as she knows about other dirty players at the top level, they cannot afford her running loose.
It is very likely she already on the Yasser Arafat diet.
Killery does not look good under any circumstances, but trading in that nasty orange pant suite for an orange jumpsuit would at least be satisfying to see.
Can she be saved? Is it wrong to say that I would not want to try?
"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."
ORILY?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair
Hillary has the goods on all of official Washington. It's part of the thing she is.
There is not enough popcorn on the entire effin' planet for the upcoming freak show.
But in the end, she is toast.
The old right wing conspiracy right on schedule. There are probably hundreds of similar foundations that could be probed, but why the Clinton's? . And why now? The FBI is obviously a bunch of conservofucktars and they are doing their part to control the election. But Lynch will deep six the indictments creating howls of rage from the anti-democracy conservos.
why are you here instead of at media matters where you belong?
This article didnt even cover the money laundering operation at the clinton foundation, which was funneled through Canada.
patience grasshopper. all of the laundry will be aired.
this is going to be a great election cycle, and hillary will finally be hung out to dry. she is well equipped with those orange pants suits.
Dreaming the dream.
Hillary's candidacy can be historic. She could be the first presidential candidate imprisoned in a jail named after herself:
The USA is a truly amazing place. Illegal invasions, wars, assassinations, drone killings, renditions, torture and detention without charges? Massive fraud on Wall Street? No accountability of any kind. Gross negiigence on 9/11 warnings? Medals of Freedom all around (and more gifts to the Saudis). Utterly corrupt corporate funding of Congress. No problem, just citizens doing their thing. Endless gun violence? Call in the NRA. Millions without access to health care. It's their own fault for being poor in America; bunch of losers. Private email server? Oh the horror! Go directly to jail.
Yes, let's all get excited about Hilary Clinton but let's be sure to ignore the rest of it.
Get a clue, USA.
Where you born pre-packaged in a bag with vinegar?
Just a progressive cunt who thinks you're immune if you have the right name. Thinks if we can't hang everyone we shouldn't hang anyone
It's very comforting to know that none of this stuff happens anywhere else.
The demonisation of the 'Carpet Muncher' is in progress - You can be sure of one thing - they have their reasons !
Yeah -- she's a demon.
When times are bad like this, Hillary would make an ideal scapegoat.
I'll be hoping for life in jail. But it sounds too good to be true.
Perhaps she`ll have a nailgun accident while at the same time drying her hair in the bath?
In case anybody doesn't know how this will go, flashback 2015 USDOJ notices 6 years of Treason by executive appointees John Deutsche and Jamie Gorelick , investigates, confirms, doesn't prosecute.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/schlumberger-oilfield-holdings-ltd-agrees-...
Jamie recommended the current AG Lynch, the senate judiciary committee posted her recent letter, and approved Lynch.
The end is near.
If FBI recommends indicement, Hilary will feign illness/or real ilness will suddenly emerge. She will withdraw and the MSM will sympathize with poor sick Hillary. No indicement. Joe Biden emerges from the shadows. You heard it here first.
Hellary has MS
Like hell she's gonna win Mississippi.
Hang on a moment...
(whisper, whisper)
Nevermind.
isnt she already putting out "im sick" feelers for the day just in case the cops come knocking?
HILLARY 4 prison
More Smoking Guns - Will Hillary's Next Stop Be The White House Or The Big House?
My vote is for a life sentence as a sex toy in a Mexican prison. No more rugs for you, Hitlery...
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