Flashermac Posted July 3, 2016 Report Share Posted July 3, 2016 FBI director takes center stage in Clinton email case FBI Director James Comey is now firmly in the driver’s seat of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, after Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged she would accept whatever course of action his bureau and career prosecutors recommend. Lynch’s influence will continue to be felt throughout the department, and her refusal to fully remove herself from the case ensures that she will continue to be briefed about its developments. Prosecutors within her department — not the FBI — will ultimately decide whether or not to press ahead with charges. But her decision makes Comey the public face of the investigation. And his reputation as a well-respected but hard-nosed maverick might give Democrats some worry about the outcome of the probe, which is nearing its one-year anniversary later this month. “Comey is the center of gravity on this thing,†said Ron Hosko, a former FBI assistant director and president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. “There is a growing expectation that we the public need to hear the FBI, Jim Comey version of whether or not charges will be brought,†he added. “There has probably been increasing recognition by her that that’s true, that she is viewed as — regardless of her prior reputation as an effective prosecutor — she’s now the head of Obama’s DOJ, a political position in a Democratic administration that is deciding on the prosecution or not of the leading Democratic candidate.†Lynch on Friday succumbed to the intensifying public pressure on her following Monday’s private 30-minute meeting in Phoenix with former President Clinton. Lynch maintained for days that the unplanned meeting was purely social and did not touch on the case against Clinton’s wife or any other legal matter. But it nonetheless “cast a shadow over how this case may be perceived,†she conceded during a discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. As a result, Lynch announced that she would accept the recommendations of the FBI and federal prosecutors. The top prosecutor had already made the decision privately, she said, but felt compelled to make it public due to the growing backlash. “This case will be resolved by the team that's been working on it from the beginning,†she said. “Supervisors always review matters. In this case, that review will be career people in the Department of Justice, and also the FBI will review it, up to and including the FBI director,†Lynch added. “And that will be the finalization of not just the factual findings, but the next steps in this matter.†ABC News reported on Friday that Hillary Clinton could be interviewed by the FBI "in the coming days." In deferring to others, Lynch failed to go as far as some GOP critics had hoped. Multiple Republican lawmakers have said that she should completely remove herself and other political appointees from the case and instead appoint a special prosecutor. “While I don't have a role in those findings and coming up with those findings or making those recommendations as to how to go forward, I'll be briefed on it and I will be accepting their recommendations,†she said. The decision puts the spotlight squarely on Comey, a Republican who is widely respected by GOP lawmakers and known for a streak of independence. Comey has clashed repeatedly with the White House since he took office nearly three years ago, on issues ranging from the use of encryption technologies to the ability to vet Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. and the existence of the so-called “Ferguson effect†on policing efforts. He’s shown willingness to buck GOP leaders as well, such as a famous 2004 episode when he rushed to a Washington hospital to block the George W. Bush White House from renewing a warrantless wiretapping program while then-Attorney General John Ashcroft laid ill. “He is a pro’s pro,†said Matthew Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney and head of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a watchdog group. “And I think this takes the pressure off of him that whatever the FBI recommends will be followed, where before I am certain he would be concerned that there will be political interference from the attorney general.†There’s still a chance that FBI investigators and Justice Department lawyers, who are working on the case together, arrive at different conclusions on how to proceed. The FBI has a tendency to be more aggressive with cases, whereas prosecutors might be more reluctant to push a charge they are not absolutely certain will stick — especially if the next presidency might be at stake. “I could easily envision a scenario in which the FBI concludes there is enough evidence to make a case, but the DOJ prosecutors decide that the case is too weak to risk the legal precedent,†Bradley Moss, a lawyer who handles national security and secrecy issues, wrote in an email to The Hill. “The DOJ career prosecutors are truly the ones who are under the microscope at this point.†In the federal case against former CIA Director David Petraeus last year, FBI officials reportedly pushed for him to be indicted on felony charges, but then-Attorney General Eric Holder downgraded them to misdemeanors. Yet Comey is no shrinking violet. If he is ultimately overruled by officials within the Justice Department, that is unlikely to remain a secret. Potentially incriminating news has “a way of getting out,†said Whitaker. “I would imagine ultimately we will know how the investigation was conducted or whether there was interference from the political folks at the Department of Justice,†he added. “But I don’t know whether it will be in time to have an impact in an election year.†http://thehill.com/p...K4VvDY.facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean Posted July 3, 2016 Report Share Posted July 3, 2016 Friday or Saturday, Clinton was interviewed for several hours by the FBI. Concerning Slick Willy, he didn't happen to see Lynch's plane but heard it was going to land, waited for it and then contacted and boarded it to talk with Lynch for 30 minutes. For the President with the most attuned political instincts since FDR, and a lawyer, it's hard to believe that he didn't see the political fall out from his visit. Lynch will also pay a high price. If she wanted to be a Supreme Court nominee under a Hilary administration, she can kiss that goodbye, along with remaining Attorney General. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted July 3, 2016 Report Share Posted July 3, 2016 The AR - 15 has been banned here in California by Jerry Brown. I see no reason for war weapons to be for sale to the broader mentally unbalanced populace. For now I can keep my pistols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted July 3, 2016 Report Share Posted July 3, 2016 I'd love to have a couple of pistols and an Uzi, but I know it'd end badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 I was raised in homes with firearms - father and grandfather both veterans, grandfather a part-time cop (but armed full time in his railway work). Surprisingly, I've never shot at anyone in my life ... unless they shot at me first, and that was in a war. I can't see why anyone should have an Uzi, including the police. It's a military weapon, period. Same same AR-15 and Kalashnikov. Meanwhile ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 92% Chance Americans Will Consider 2016 Winner A ‘Total Douchebag’ http://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/fivethirtyeight-92-2-chance-americans-will-consider-no-matter-wins-election-total-douchebag/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 6, 2016 Report Share Posted July 6, 2016 "Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. "For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail (that is, excluding the later “up-classified†e-mails). "None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail." https://www.fbi.gov/...l-e-mail-system https://www.theguard...l-setback-email So she's not a crook, jut an irresponsible nincompoop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 6, 2016 Report Share Posted July 6, 2016 More and more fascinating ... "Most importantly, Comey said the FBI found 110 emails on Clinton's server that were classified at the time they were sent or received. That stands in direct contradiction to Clinton’s repeated insistence she never sent or received any classified emails. And it even stands in contrast to her amended statement that she never knowingly sent or received any classified information." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/05/hillary-clintons-email-problems-might-be-even-worse-than-we-thought/ "There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless†and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services. "Yet, Director Comey recommended against prosecution of the law violations he clearly found on the ground that there was no intent to harm the United States." http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted July 6, 2016 Report Share Posted July 6, 2016 She is a lying sacko shit- The gross deception and "double standards" of these hillbillies are amazing. Darn it I am disappointed she is not going to jail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 She is a lying sacko shit- The gross deception and "double standards" of these hillbillies are amazing. Darn it I am disappointed she is not going to jail... Sour Grapes. Attorney General worked for Bush #1. Hello, Presideta Clinton (the 2nd). You really didn't think that this would turn out any differently, did you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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