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FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook

Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 10 months ago to Government
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"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 is a common tactic of defense lawyers in criminal trials to set up a straw-man for the jury: a crime the defendant has not committed. The idea is that by knocking down a crime the prosecution does not allege and cannot prove, the defense may confuse the jury into believing the defendant is not guilty of the crime charged. Judges generally do not allow such sleight-of-hand because innocence on an uncharged crime is irrelevant to the consideration of the crimes that actually have been charged. It seems to me that this is what the FBI has done today. It has told the public that because Mrs. Clinton did not have intent to harm the United States we should not prosecute her on a felony that does not require proof of intent to harm the United States. Meanwhile, although there may have been profound harm to national security caused by her grossly negligent mishandling of classified information, we’ve decided she shouldn’t be prosecuted for grossly negligent mishandling of classified information."


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  • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe they will interview some spies (without revealing their identities as Hillary may have done) and the damage she caused will be laid bare before the world. But I can't predict whether the questioners want to take Hillary down or minimize the damage to her. It would be interesting to see an example of mob justice, but that would require a .22 pistol or a Carcano rifle, and it would be too public a solution.

    Or they could bring in Hap Edwards and get to the truth.
    ""I could find out what he knows, Mr. President," Hap Edwards said without a trace of inflection. The President's jaw dropped and his head snapped around to face the former head of the CIA's Center For Counter-Terrorism.
    "Are you implying that I should authorize the torture of a Director of the FBI?" Hap Edwards stared at the President without saying a word. The President squinted and a horrible parody of a smile appeared on his face. "Aren't you afraid his heart would give out, Mr. Edwards?" he said in the most caustic tone he could muster.
    "I'd keep it going long enough," Edwards said softly."
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You may well be right, the stink of manipulation, corruption and general BS crap from these clowns is so disgusting, and yet she plows on ahead, sure of her rightful destiny. Arrogant nasty old crone, she be. They are grilling Comey today, but you are right, it will be a sideshow circus, and time is short.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree Comey deserves to go, but transfering the attention to Comey may be just what serves Hillary's interests. Unless Comey can be promptly convinced to expose the Clintons as the source of the corruption that caused him not to recommend prosecution the process would be too slow to derail Hillary. (Just my opinion as a layman.)
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 10 months ago
    AR said it best:

    "When the Law no longer Protects you from the Corrupt, but Protects the Corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed"

    Truth.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh, she won't do as much damage as they have already done, maybe you haven't heard, but as of Oct01,2017, there will be no more retirement, you get a 401K, they match what you put in, and you can collect after 65. If you leave, you can take it with you. No more college either. There will be no one left in the military after that.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Now there is my question. In any case they can make a reccomendation, yet they cannot make a determination. That is true of any law enforcement investigation, so the real decision was made by Loretta Baby and since she shot the wad by having Billy boy come aboard so he could be told the good news, they thought they would just let Comey break the bad news, and take the heat. He must be more expendable.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 10 months ago
    They are so blatant in their treatment of people. This is such an obvious case of arrogant abuse, and yet the Obamanation gang have ruthelessly chased others into the dirt:

    Under the Obama administration, seven Espionage Act prosecutions have been related not to traditional espionage but to either withholding information or communicating with members of the media. Out of a total eleven prosecutions under the Espionage Act against government officials accused of providing classified information to the media, seven have occurred since Obama took office.[89] "Leaks related to national security can put people at risk," the President said at a news conference in 2013. "They can put men and women in uniform that I've sent into the battlefield at risk. I don't think the American people would expect me, as commander in chief, not to be concerned about information that might compromise their missions or might get them killed."[90]

    Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, a former CIA agent was indicted under the Act in January 2011 for alleged unauthorized disclosure of national defense information to James Risen, a New York Times reporter, in 2003 regarding his book State of War. The indictment described his motive as revenge for the CIA's refusal to allow him to publish his memoirs and its refusal to settle his racial discrimination lawsuit against the Agency. Others have described him as telling Risen about a backfired CIA plot against Iran in the 1990s.[91]

    In April 2010, Thomas Andrews Drake, an official with the National Security Agency (NSA), was indicted under 18 U.S.C. § 793(e) for alleged willful retention of national defense information. The case arose from investigations into his communications with Siobhan Gorman of the Baltimore Sun and Diane Roark of the House Intelligence Committee as part of his attempt to blow the whistle on several issues including the NSA's Trailblazer project.[92][93][94][95][96] Considering the prosecution of Drake, investigative journalist Jane Mayer wrote that "Because reporters often retain unauthorized defense documents, Drake's conviction would establish a legal precedent making it possible to prosecute journalists as spies."[97]
    n May 2010, Shamai K. Leibowitz, a translator for the FBI, admitted sharing information with a blogger and pleaded guilty under 18 U.S.C. § 798(a)(3) to one count of disclosure of classified information. As part of a plea bargain, he was sentenced to 20 months in prison.[99][100]

    In August 2010, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a contractor for the State Department and a specialist in nuclear proliferation, was indicted under 18 U.S.C. § 793(d) for alleged disclosure in June 2009 of national defense information to reporter James Rosen of Fox News, related to North Korea's plans to test a nuclear weapon.[101][102]

    In 2010, Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, the United States Army Private First Class accused of the largest leak of state secrets in U.S. history, was charged under Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which incorporates parts of the Espionage Act 18 U.S.C. § 793(e). At the time, critics worried that the broad language of the Act could make news organizations, and anyone who reported, printed or disseminated information from WikiLeaks, subject to prosecution, although former prosecutors pushed back, citing Supreme Court precedent expanding First Amendment protections.[103] On July 30, 2013, following a judge-only trial by court-martial lasting eight weeks, Army judge Colonel Denise Lind convicted Manning on six counts of violating the Espionage Act, among other infractions.[98]

    In January 2012, John Kiriakou, former CIA officer and later Democratic staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was charged under the Act with leaking information to journalists about the identity of undercover agents, including one who was allegedly involved in waterboarding interrogations of al-Qaeda logistics chief Abu Zubaydah.[104][105] Kiriakou is alleged to have also disclosed an investigative technique used to capture Zubaydah in Pakistan in 2002.[106]

    In June 2013, Edward Snowden was charged under the Espionage Act after releasing documents exposing the NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program. Specifically, he was charged with "unauthorized communication of national defense information" and "willful communication of classified intelligence with an unauthorized person".[107]

    Yet this bimbo gets off? Comey needs to be fired, now.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Happened to JFK. All the more reason to keep at it. So I've come up with a little thing call the Two Vowels plus one pledge. Four fingers straight up and then a thumb or perhaps the thumb first. I support a and o instead of i and e. Ballots not bullets. four fingers make two V's

    Looking at the last year a lot has been accomplished and there is a full scale counter revolution in progress against socialism and for regaining a Consitutional Republic.

    Simple as that.

    Can't count on Republicans obviously since they joined the left at the top level that leaves Johnson of None of the above by not voting for either one and raising that percentage of 46% who say we're not playing in yiour rigged game anymore. Higher it goes and the more levels it reaches the more we win and they lose. Took Ten years to win the first revolution and 12 or so to take the follow on in sequence step fo developing the Declaration into the Constitution.

    Keep up the good work. I and two V's meaning a and o instead of u and e. Ballots not bullets but only if they have meaning. Otherwise No ballots means Consent Withdrawn.
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  • Posted by walkabout 7 years, 10 months ago
    So she has not been found not guilty so there is no double jeopardy issues. Once Attorney General Giuliani takes office the whole thing can be reevaluated. Until then Trump uses the words of the FBI to condemn her behavior and highlight her incompetence. At this point Reagan could "never be elected" (a couple of weeks ago Britain would never leave the EU).
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  • Posted by NealS 7 years, 10 months ago
    New Amendment to the Constitution: "Laws are for little people, period."
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 10 months ago
    We have a retired FBI agent in my company. He tells me that the statue she ran afoul of requires no intent to cause the mishandling of classified information to be a felony. Also the FBI Director has no authority to decide not to prosecute. That is for the attorney general to decide. The FBIs job is to investigate and tell the Attorney general whether classified information was mishandled or not, the AG then decides. In his statement Comey said tha5t she did in fact mis-handle classified information...and tried to hide it. What Comey did was provide cover to the AG. The agent in question tells me he himself has prosecuted under this statute for much smaller failures. He also tells me Comey, who was very popular in the FBI, will now be a pariah to many Agents.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    not sure what he could say really. The real issue was WHY she hid the emails, not THAT she did it.

    The real true believers are the hillary people. THEY wouldnt care what she did apparently. there is no stopping her. I thought Trump could, but there is just too much negativity against him to win
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 10 months ago
    Hi, freedom,
    The only disagreement I have with you is the word "we." While the FBI and the rest of the justice system are supposed to represent "we" the people, they no longer do. They represent instead, "we" the elite. The rule of law no longer corresponds to the Washingtonians. Especially the Clintons who make the Sopranos look like the family next door.
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 7 years, 10 months ago
    Chief Justice John Roberts rewrote Obamacare on the fly and then declared it constitutional.

    The FBI rewriting law shouldn't surprise anyone.

    (Taking out my conspiracy card...)

    I think the first two words out of Slick Willie's mouth when he met Lynch on the airplane were "Vince Foster".

    (..Putting card away.)
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I nursed a forlorn hope but not an expectation.
    Nevertheless, I feel all the more disgusted over the validation of the expectation.
    The USA has been slimed yet again by its Animal Farm more than equal ruler elites who presume to be the betters of We The People.
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  • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    somebody or group wants her to be president so that is who told comey what to say.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 10 months ago
    I think the whole government just circles its wagons against anyone who would attempt to clean it up. In this case, they just wanted to keep Trump from getting rid of the idiots Obama has put into positions of power. Apparently they won, again.
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