Wednesday, September 28, 2016

FBI Friday dump update - bombshell?

Last Friday, the FBI put out another informational dump of damaging information regarding the investigation. Friday night is when you release information that you hope the public doesn't really notice. After some more review, it's getting harder and harder to swallow the idea that Comey and the FBI did not have evidence to prosecute Hillary Clinton.

This is pretty easy to follow.

  • The Defense Department had uncovered approximately 1000 emails between General Petraeus and Hillary Clinton, that were sent/received to/from Clinton's private email server. 
  • Those emails were not part of the emails that Clinton turned over to the FBI.

This means that Hillary Clinton deleted approximately 1000 emails between herself and General Petraeus before turning over her emails to the FBI. There is absolutely no other reasonable explanation.

Corrupt or just downright stupid?

Now let's try to reconcile this information with the fact that Comey suggested that Clinton did not have any "intentions" of committing any criminal acts, which is why he could not recommend prosecution (in spite of admitting to evidence that there was criminal behavior).

Certainly one of the crimes Hillary could have been charged with would be obstruction of justice. In this case knowingly withholding or deleting of any relevant (much less classified) information that had been stored on your server would be considered your basic garden variety obstruction. Moreover, proof of obstruction would also provide irrefutable evidence of the very "mens rea"(1) that Comey suggested was lacking. The very fact she was hiding this information was because she understood it was legally harmful.

Even if Comey believes that Clinton did not understand that her original actions were criminal. He cannot seriously suggest that she didn't realize that withholding or deleting such evidence would not constitute obstruction. After all, Clinton was licensed to practice law in the one state (Arkansas) she managed to pass the bar exam in.

Taking Comey's statement at face value suggests the outrageous: That Comey actually believes that 1000 emails between the Secretary of State and the Director of the U.S. Central Command would have been honestly deleted as not being "work related".


Hat Tip PLB

(1) proof that someone understood or had intentions of committing a crime.

7 comments:

Loretta said...

Comey's testifying.

I'm not sure who's the bigger deflector, Comey or Clinton.

J Edgar Comey in the flesh.

Loretta said...

Sure wish you'd turn on the comment monitor.....

Anonymous said...



what a fall from grace.

comey was once viewed as a man of unimpeachable integrity and honor.

now we know that he's as much an insufferable hack as david brock or any of the staff of MSDNC.

Loretta said...

"now we know that he's as much an insufferable hack as david brock or any of the staff of MSDNC."

I imagine Comey is doing Hail Mary's that Trump loses.....

I can see an emergency investigation into the FBI by Trump's Justice Department.

C.H. Truth said...

Loretta - you do realize that if Trump wins, that the President will be handing Pardons out like candy. Clinton, Mills, etc... otherwise a new Attorney General and FBI director could take a second look at the evidence.

But Obama cannot do anything about the fact that Donald Trump would likely go on National Television, look the camera in the eye and say...

"James Comey... You're fired"

Loretta said...

LOL, I like this better...

"James Comey... You're fired, arrest him! "

wphamilton said...

She used "cut-out" proxies to delete her emails. Lawyers and top aides, with some half-baked "search terms" to qualify the emails to be deleted. The plausible deniability was evidently enough broom for Comey to sweep it away.

But shouldn't those lawyers at least be disbarred for that?