Hillary Clinton got her ass handed to her, along time ago, concerning her illegal private email server containing U.S. Top Secrets.
Like whole thing is fuxking insane.. Cheryl Mills Likely Corrupt Insider - FBI missed the entire boat - Congress to Investigate the FBI and DOJ - Clinton Email Story - Directly against the law, knowing criminal activity proves the DNC Clinton Combination deserves RICO attention by Congress - Lynch Comey out of the loop, bribes offered and accepted, Obama Legacy Crumbles Again, ashes to ashes dust to dust Obama Legacy.
The Media
Will Not Cover The Story..
hoping beyond hope that Hillary Clinton
is elected before all the people find out.
Some of Hillary Clinton’s top advisers were in the dark about
the scope and depth of her controversial email system as the scandal broke in
March 2015, with even her now-campaign manager professing ignorance about the
private system at the time, according to emails released Thursday by WikiLeaks.
One close ally, Center for American Progress leader Neera
Tanden, was still fuming months later, pressing now-Campaign Chairman John
Podesta on who gave Clinton permission to use the system.
"Do we actually know who told Hillary she
could use a private email? And has that person been drawn and quartered?" Tanden wrote in July.
“Like whole thing is f---ing insane.”
The tenor of the emails belies the assuring tone Clinton, the Democratic
presidential nominee, and her campaign took as they publicly downplayed the
controversy in the months after it broke.
The emails showing Hillaryland’s
initial reaction to the news were discovered in a batch of more than 33,000
hacked from Podesta’s account and subsequently posted to anti-secrecy site
WikiLeaks.
While some of Clinton’s closest aides, particularly those who
worked with her at the State Department, such as Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin,
appeared to be well aware and deeply involved in her email setup, others
apparently were not.
On March 2, Podesta wrote to
current Campaign Manager Robby Mook asking if Mook had “any idea of the depth
of this story?”
"Nope. We brought up the existence of emails in research
this summer but were told that everything was taken care of," Mook wrote
back at 1:32 a.m. on March 3.
Podesta also wrote to Tanden airing his concerns on March 2, the
day the story about Clinton’s private email account broke.
“Speaking of transparency, our friends [attorney David] Kendall,
Cheryl and Phillipe [Reines] sure weren’t forthcoming on the facts here,”
Podesta wrote.
Tanden replied, implying that keeping the email setup a secret
was likely Mills’ doing.
When FBI Director James Comey announced on July 5 that the Department of Justice would not seek the indictment of Hillary Clinton for failure to safeguard state secrets related to her email use while she was secretary of state, he both jumped the gun and set in motion a series of events that surely he did not intend. Was his hand forced by the behavior of FBI agents who wouldn’t take no for an answer? Did he let the FBI become a political tool?
Here is the back story.
The FBI began investigating the Clinton email scandal in the spring of 2015, when The New York Times revealed Clinton’s use of a private email address for her official governmental work and the fact that she did not preserve the emails on State Department servers, contrary to federal law. After an initial collection of evidence and a round of interviews, agents and senior managers gathered in the summer of 2015 to discuss how to proceed. It was obvious to all that a prima-facie case could be made for espionage, theft of government property and obstruction of justice charges. The consensus was to proceed with a formal criminal investigation.
Six months later, the senior FBI agent in charge of that investigation resigned from the case and retired from the FBI because he felt the case was going “sideways”; that’s law enforcement jargon for “nowhere by design.” John Giacalone had been the chief of the New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., field offices of the FBI and, at the time of his "sideways" comment, was the chief of the FBI National Security Branch.
The reason for the "sideways" comment must have been Giacalone’s realization that DOJ and FBI senior management had decided that the investigation would not work in tandem with a federal grand jury. That is nearly fatal to any government criminal case. In criminal cases, the FBI and the DOJ cannot issue subpoenas for testimony or for tangible things; only grand juries can.
Giacalone knew that without a grand jury, the FBI would be toothless, as it would have no subpoena power. He also knew that without a grand jury, the FBI would have a hard time persuading any federal judge to issue search warrants. A judge would perceive the need for search warrants to be not acute in such a case because to a judge, the absence of a grand jury can only mean a case is “sideways” and not a serious investigation.
As the investigation dragged on in secret and Donald Trump simultaneously began to rise in the Republican presidential primaries, it became more apparent to Giacalone’s successors that the goal of the FBI was to exonerate Clinton, not determine whether there was enough evidence to indict her. In late spring of this year, agents began interviewing the Clinton inner circle.
When Clinton herself was interviewed on July 2 -- for only four hours, during which the interviewers seemed to some in the bureau to lack aggression, passion and determination -- some FBI agents privately came to the same conclusion as their former boss: The case was going sideways.
A few determined agents were frustrated by Clinton’s professed lack of memory during her interview and her oblique reference to a recent head injury she had suffered as the probable cause of that. They sought to obtain her medical records to verify the gravity of her injury and to determine whether she had been truthful with them. They prepared the paperwork to obtain the records, only to have their request denied by Director Comey himself on July 4.
Then some agents did the unthinkable; they reached out to colleagues in the intelligence community and asked them to obtain Clinton’s medical records so they could show them to Comey. We know that the National Security Agency can access anything that is stored digitally, including medical records. These communications took place late on July 4.
When Comey learned of these efforts, he headed them off the next morning with his now infamous news conference, in which he announced that Clinton would not be indicted because the FBI had determined that her behavior, though extremely careless, was not reckless, which is the legal standard in espionage cases. He then proceeded to recount the evidence against her. He did this, no doubt, to head off the agents who had sought the Clinton medical records, whom he suspected would leak evidence against her.
Three months later -- and just weeks before Clinton will probably be elected president -- we have learned that President Barack Obama regularly communicated with Clinton via her personal email servers about matters that the White House considered classified. That means that he lied when he told CBS News that he learned of the Clinton servers when the rest of us did.
We also learned this week that Andrew McCabe, Giacalone’s successor as head of the FBI Washington field office and presently the No. 3 person in the FBI, is married to a woman to whom the Clinton money machine in Virginia funneled about $675,000 in lawful campaign funds for a failed 2015 run for the Virginia Senate. Comey apparently saw no conflict or appearance of impropriety in having the person in charge of the Clinton investigation in such an ethically challenged space.
Why did this case go sideways?
Did President Obama fear being a defense witness at Hillary Clinton’s criminal trial? Did he so fear being succeeded in office by Donald Trump that he ordered the FBI to exonerate Clinton, the rule of law be damned? Did the FBI lose its reputation for fidelity to law, bravery under stress and integrity at all times?
This is not your grandfather’s FBI -- or your father’s. It is the Obama FBI.
Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel.
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