Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.
The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton’s private account contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails.” The memo was written to Patrick F. Kennedy, the under secretary of state for management.
I mean, yes, there should be a criminal investigation. I just didn’t expect that anybody in the government was going to actually force the Justice Department to actually formally refuse to initiate one. Obviously, no Obama appointee is going to actually voluntarily follow the law in this case; Democrats might end up going to jail if that happens. It’s at least mildly surprising, though, that for once this administration is going to have to take a PR hit by publicly demonstrating their corrosive brand of partisanship.
This isn’t really cynicism, on my part. Merely an acceptance of the fact that justice will have to wait for 2017. The difference between those two particular mental states is admittedly not all that obvious.
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— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) July 24, 2015
Well, Moe, if I had to guess I’d say justice will have to wait until the next LIFE–not 2017.
I vividly recall thinking that 2001 would be when all the criminals from the Clinton years would get theirs.
Hah! That was a bitter lesson.
This.
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Apropos of nothing, McConnell is playing procedural tricks to try and revive the Ex-Im Bank, and to prevent the defunding of Planned Parenthood from coming to a vote.
People are starting to consider the consequences of a Republican victory in 2016. Fallout from the Netroots Revolt?
Actually, this makes lots of sense. The permanent government has been feeling it’s oats for a while now. They took out a sitting Senator, after all. And the permanent government is filled with the kind of people who favor the old socialist, yes? This hurts Hillary! and helps Bernie a lot, yes? And what can the elected government really do to stop it? Nothing that would get done before the election, yes?…….
I’m starting to wonder whether Barack Obama, in the final few days of his administration, might grant a blanket pardon to everyone accused or convicted of a crime …
And wouldn’t that “fundamentally transform America”?
Herp, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the B-tchy Little Girl-in-Chief did that as one last act of spite… to include himself, his entire family and entire Administration for not just past crimes but future ones as well.
I mean, one of the last novels Tom Clancy contributed to featured a completely offbook black-ops agency where the President who created it had given them a huge stack of pre-signed blank pardons to “just fill in name as needed” and… well, didn’t he damn near predict 9-11?
One .. wonders .. whether those inspectors general are ethical, or just anti-clintonians. I suppose both are possible …
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Recall that, during the early days of the Age of Obama, there was much dislike for team Clinton… I doubt they’ve all forgotten.
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Evil will oft doth evil mar, to borrow from J.R.R.
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Mew
Yeah, they’ll prosecute some of those involved provided they’re below the Senior Executive Staff level. I’m sure the SES and above will receive the Sandy Berger treatment. Wikipedia: “… In April 2005, Berger pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives in Washington. …”
Not even a felony.