By Michael Snyde
It
is hard to be proud to be an American today after watching FBI director James
Comey magically clear Hillary Clinton of all wrongdoing.
Sadly,
Comey is likely to go down in history as the man that struck the final death
blow to the rule of law in America.
During
his address to the media, Comey admitted that Clinton sent or received 110
emails in 52 email chains that contained classified material at the time they
were sent. But of course there were probably many more.
Comey told the press that it was “likely
that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce … that
are now gone because they deleted all emails they did not return to State, and
the lawyers cleaned their devices.”
So
basically Clinton turned over to the FBI whatever she felt like turning over,
and then she destroyed the rest of the evidence. As a former lawyer, this
infuriates me, but it doesn’t surprise me.
In fact, it doesn’t surprise me at all
that Hillary Clinton was allowed to skate. I expected this all
along.
If
you search the thousands of articles that I have posted on The
Economic Collapse Blog and End Of The American Dream, you will
find many articles where I say that Hillary Clinton should be in prison, but not a single one
where I ever said that I thought she would be going to prison.
This is how politics in America works
today. People like Bill and Hillary Clinton could openly sacrifice
children to Satan on the White House lawn and still probably not get into
trouble. Despite scandal after scandal going all the way back to Arkansas
in the 1980s, nothing ever sticks to them, and nothing probably ever will.
In this case, FBI director James Comey
essentially had to rewrite federal law in order to clear Clinton. This is
something that Andrew McCarthy explained very well in his article entitled “FBI Rewrites
Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook”…
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.
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In
essence, in order to give Mrs. Clinton a pass, the FBI rewrote the statute,
inserting an intent element that Congress did not require. The added intent
element, moreover, makes no sense:
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.
The amazing thing is that the FBI
handled a highly similar case very, very differently less than a year
ago. Just check out what happened to Naval reservist
Bryan Nishimura…
U.S.
Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman immediately sentenced Nishimura to two years
of probation, a $7,500 fine, and forfeiture of personal media containing
classified materials. Nishimura was further ordered to surrender any currently
held security clearance and to never again seek such a clearance.
According
to court documents, Nishimura was a Naval reservist deployed in Afghanistan in
2007 and 2008. In his role as a Regional Engineer for the U.S. military in
Afghanistan, Nishimura had access to classified briefings and digital records
that could only be retained and viewed on authorized government computers.
Nishimura,
however, caused the materials to be downloaded and stored on his personal,
unclassified electronic devices and storage media. He carried such classified
materials on his unauthorized media when he traveled off-base in Afghanistan
and, ultimately, carried those materials back to the United States at the end
of his deployment.
In
the United States, Nishimura continued to maintain the information on
unclassified systems in unauthorized locations, and copied the materials onto
at least one additional unauthorized and unclassified system.
Nishimura’s
actions came to light in early 2012, when he admitted to Naval personnel that
he had handled classified materials inappropriately.
Nishimura
later admitted that, following his statement to Naval personnel, he destroyed a
large quantity of classified materials he had maintained in his home.
Despite
that, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Nishimura’s home in May
2012, agents recovered numerous classified materials in digital and hard copy
forms. The
investigation did not reveal evidence that Nishimura intended to distribute
classified information to unauthorized personnel.
So what is the difference between
Nishimura and Clinton?
Neither of them ever intended to do
anything wrong.
So why were they treated so
differently?
Needless to say, social media is
exploding with outrage over this decision to let Clinton go free. Many
Americans are openly asking why they should continue to play by the rules if
politicians like Hillary Clinton are not required to do so.
Unfortunately, this is what America
has become. Our politicians are a reflection of who we are as a society,
and as I have stated before Hillary Clinton is going to be the overwhelming
favorite if there is an election in November.
At
this moment, she has solid leads in all of the “swing states”, and she only
really needs to win one of them…
Perhaps
you enjoy talk of battleground states. Well, there’s a scenario for
you, too. First, pick the six “closest” swing states (VA, NH, IA, OH, FL, NC).
Got it?
Now
understand that New Hampshire excepted, Clinton
only has to win one of them in order to reach the requisite 270 electoral votes
to win. (Optional third step for Republicans only: start
shotgunning Pabst Blue Ribbon and don’t stop until November.)
Lest
any Trump supporters seek solace in poll numbers, recent polls have Trump sliding
further behind in all the relevant swing states. According to a Ballotpedia
battleground poll released last week, Trump trails by 14% in Florida,
4% in Iowa, 10% in North Carolina, 9% in Ohio, and 7% in Virginia.
Hillary Clinton is a horrible,
evil, miserable human being, and right now she is the odds-on
favorite to become the next president of the United States.
But ultimately it is the American
people that are to blame for blindly supporting corrupt politicians such as
Clinton, and if they willingly pick her to be our next president then we will
certainly deserve whatever consequences follow.
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