The Hillary Clinton email scandal came to a head this week. Is there any wonder Donald Trump and the majority of Americans believe the system is rigged when it comes to the Clintons?
FBI Director James Comey fully admitted that Hillary Clinton committed a crime, is unable to use carelessness as an excuse, and should be punished by a fine or imprisonment up to 10 years, but still allowed her to skate.
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Comey confessed that crooked Hillary’s multiple servers contained “110 e-mails in 52 email chains … determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.”
The FBI also determined that “it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.”
She handled classified information, knowingly, on multiple servers that were likely hacked by foreign agents.
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But Comey offered Clinton a defense of her actions – She was simply “extremely careless,” with the director using a variant on the word “intentional” at least six times during his statement.
Intent however, doesn’t matter according to the law (18 U.S.C Section 793-F) which we’ve cited below:
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
“Gross negligence” is still a criminal offense according to laws referring to the gathering, transmitting or loss of classified information.
Here’s more:
Hell yes, Hillary should be prosecuted. https://t.co/5tMpZq5IZW pic.twitter.com/bOIPv6pWXr
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 5, 2016
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Not to mention the level of pure naïveté one has to possess to believe all of the actions taken by then-Secretary Clinton had no intent.
Hillary unintentionally set up private sever at home, unintentionally hid it in a public bathroom & unintentionally burned public schedules.
— Amanda (@AmandaPresto) July 5, 2016
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Clinton clearly broke the law and got away with it.
Thanks Mr. Comey, you’ve just made ignorance a valid excuse to circumvent any crime.
Now legal defense – Whoops, I never intended to rob that bank. It was just more convenient for me to use other people’s $. @HillaryClinton
— The Mental Recession (@rustyweiss74) July 5, 2016
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For those still wondering whether or not the system is rigged, here are Comey’s comments which parrot the President’s own well before the FBI had even interviewed Clinton:
Comey: “… there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
Obama: “… there’s a carelessness, in terms of managing emails, that she … recognizes.”
Comey: “… we believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct.”
Obama: “… She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.”
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Trump’s response to yesterday’s announcement is seemingly accurate – The system is rigged.
FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow! #RiggedSystem
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2016
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Comment: After learning of the FBI’s decision, are you confident in the system or believe it is more rigged now than ever before? Share your thoughts below.
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yes it is more corrupt than ovomit and killary. The whole system is rigged.
I notice you left out the parts where it talks about causing the information to fall into the wrong hands. Without proof that happened there isn’t an actionable case.
Now, if you want a real crime, prosecute the people who lied to Congress and caused the deaths of 4424 American military in Iraq. You want to talk gross negligence? Then prosecute the people who failed to take action to prevent the deaths of 241 American marines in the Beirut barracks bombing. You want to talk about 4 who died in the Benghazi consulate bombing? Start investigating the 60 deaths at 13 embassy and consulate bombings under Bush, and the 94 deaths at 7 embassy attacks under Reagan.
well slick willie is use to eating shiiiiiit and that is crooked killary is.
Yes, the system is rigged. Hillary Clinton should not be the Democratic nominee. With that being said, Trump should not be the Republican nominee. He has paid to have the system rigged in his favor his entire life. Picking either of these two gives us the same corruption. The difference is, one has done it publicly her entire life and the other has done it from the shadows. #AmericaDeservesBetter #NeverTrump #NeverHillary
OK, Hillary wasn’t recommended to be criminally indicted by the FBI as she should have been. The FBI still proved that she is a liar and FBI Director Comey decided to present the evidence to the court of public opinion instead. Comey is obviously afraid of what President Obama would do if he did recommend a criminal indictment of Hillary to the Justice Department . President Obama at the very least knew she was using a private email address for Hillary’s State Department business in violation of his written policy to use only assigned State Department .gov email addresses and a multitude of Federal laws. Why he didn’t stop her immediately is a question that may never be answered.
So the question I have for all Democrats is are we now going to nominate Hillary Clinton for our Presidential candidate, a person the FBI had to investigate and discovered she lied multiple times about how she mishandled classified emails? Ironically, because of this she can no longer obtain a security clearance unless she is elected President of the United States.
Elect Bernie Sanders as the Democratic candidate for President at our convention. Dump Hillary and Trump!! Return sanity and integrity to the election of our next President. Please help in this effort by contacting all the Super Delegates you can by email or telephone. Go to http://superdelegatelist.com/list and get started!! Thank you.
yes it is more corrupt than ovomit and killary. The whole system is rigged.
I notice you left out the parts where it talks about causing the information to fall into the wrong hands. Without proof that happened there isn’t an actionable case.
Now, if you want a real crime, prosecute the people who lied to Congress and caused the deaths of 4424 American military in Iraq. You want to talk gross negligence? Then prosecute the people who failed to take action to prevent the deaths of 241 American marines in the Beirut barracks bombing. You want to talk about 4 who died in the Benghazi consulate bombing? Start investigating the 60 deaths at 13 embassy and consulate bombings under Bush, and the 94 deaths at 7 embassy attacks under Reagan.
well slick willie is use to eating shiiiiiit and that is crooked killary is.
Yes, the system is rigged. Hillary Clinton should not be the Democratic nominee. With that being said, Trump should not be the Republican nominee. He has paid to have the system rigged in his favor his entire life. Picking either of these two gives us the same corruption. The difference is, one has done it publicly her entire life and the other has done it from the shadows. #AmericaDeservesBetter #NeverTrump #NeverHillary
OK, Hillary wasn’t recommended to be criminally indicted by the FBI as she should have been. The FBI still proved that she is a liar and FBI Director Comey decided to present the evidence to the court of public opinion instead. Comey is obviously afraid of what President Obama would do if he did recommend a criminal indictment of Hillary to the Justice Department . President Obama at the very least knew she was using a private email address for Hillary’s State Department business in violation of his written policy to use only assigned State Department .gov email addresses and a multitude of Federal laws. Why he didn’t stop her immediately is a question that may never be answered.
So the question I have for all Democrats is are we now going to nominate Hillary Clinton for our Presidential candidate, a person the FBI had to investigate and discovered she lied multiple times about how she mishandled classified emails? Ironically, because of this she can no longer obtain a security clearance unless she is elected President of the United States.
Elect Bernie Sanders as the Democratic candidate for President at our convention. Dump Hillary and Trump!! Return sanity and integrity to the election of our next President. Please help in this effort by contacting all the Super Delegates you can by email or telephone. Go to http://superdelegatelist.com/list and get started!! Thank you.