
Hillary Clinton checked every box for a violation of the Espionage Act. So much so that, in giving her a pass, the FBI figured it better couch her conduct as “extremely careless,” rather than “grossly negligent.” The latter description was stricken from an earlier draft of then-director James Comey’s remarks because it is, verbatim, the mental state the statute requires for a felony conviction. It wouldn’t do to have an “exoneration” statement read like a felony indictment.
In point of fact, the careless/negligent semantic game was a sideshow. Mrs. Clinton’s unlawful storage and transmission of classified information had been patently willful. In contemptuous violation of government standards, which she was bound not only to honor but to enforce as secretary of state, she systematically conducted her government business by private email, via a laughably unsecure homebrew server set-up. Her Obama administration allies stress that it was not her purpose to harm national security, but that was beside the point. The crime was mishandling classified information, and she committed it. And even if motive had mattered (it didn’t), her purpose was to conceal the interplay between her State Department and the Clinton Foundation, and to avoid generating a paper trail as she prepared to run for president. No, that’s not as bad as trying to do national-security harm, but it’s condemnable all the same.
While Clinton’s mishandling of classified information got all the attention, it was just the tip of the felony iceberg. Thousands of the 33,000 emails she withheld and undertook to “bleach bit” into oblivion related to State Department business. It is a felony to misappropriate even a single government record. The destruction of the emails, moreover, occurred after a House Committee investigating the Benghazi massacre issued subpoenas and preservation directives to Clinton’s State Department and Clinton herself. If Andrew Weissmann and the rest of the Mueller probe pit-bulls had half as solid an obstruction case against Donald Trump, the president would by now have been impeached, removed, and indicted.
And that dichotomy is the point, isn’t it?
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See Also:
(1) James Comey’s road to disgrace
(2) James Comey is proof the ‘deep state’ is something to fear
(3) Grassley: Comey’s ‘Self-Serving Abuses Of Power’ Did ‘Great Harm’ To FBI
(5) 10 declassified Russia collusion revelations that could rock Washington this fall
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The Deep State Will Face Justice Soon! Right?
Well, at least former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is paying a high price for lying and leaking. He collected over a half-million dollars on his GoFundMe site, ostensibly for his legal defense. He’ll still get his government pension, has filed suit against the FBI and DOJ for firing him, wrote the ubiquitous political book trashing Trump, and has now landed a consultant gig with CNN. By damn, that’ll teach him.
Sean Hannity tells us every night that Spygate will explode with declassification, with the I.G. report, or with Durham’s investigation. Sean’s Fox team of experts agree: the traitors are shaking in their boots because they know what’s coming.
Really? Because I don’t see a single traitor twitching, much less shaking. In fact, they’ve stepped up their sedition, increased their efforts to usurp the president. If they’re scared, they’re doing a bang-up job of hiding it.
The Deep State is indeed laughing. Because they are already safe and secure in the knowledge that ‘there ain’t nothing of consequence ever going to happen to them’. President Trump has been successfully betrayed and neutered by his own team. For his entire Presidency. Whether it be one of two terms. The 2018 election cycle was but a ‘war game’ for the Democrats. They advanced, the GOP retreated. Long after polls closed truckloads of absentee ballots turning up where and when as required went unchallenged. They didn’t win every skirmish but they learned where they went wrong and won’t make the same mistakes again. They already own the justice system and they’ll not give it up. They’ll soon own the electoral system. Perhaps lock stock and barrel even by 2020. We’ll know soon if AG Barr is a Patton or a reasonable facsimile of a Vichy collaborator. If he proves himself to be the latter, they’re be no coming back for America. Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing have more confidence in one of Robert Mueller’s best friends than I do. I hope like hell that they are right an I am wrong. I am not alone in my skeptcism…
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