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Originally posted by Hunthelp:
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

Get out & vote for Mr. Trump! Now, more then ever he needs your vote. Do not give up & sit this election out. TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:

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Originally posted by Loaded Round:

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Originally posted by BurtonRW:

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Originally posted by chellim1:
I'm still having trouble reconciling Comey's statements with his recommendation.

I just went through the official transcript with three different colored highlighters. In green, I highlighted the following statement of the law: "federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities."

That's followed by a sea of yellow - in which I highlighted the evidence, as he presented it, of violations of those laws.

Then in pink (for Communism): "Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. [...] we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. [...] we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case."

In my professional opinion as an attorney and an officer of several courts, including federal, James Comey is full of shit.

-Rob

This is what gets me. Why did he make such a compelling case and then contradict himself?

It's code for "I want to see the sunrise."

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I believe this is a blessing in disguise.

No one would like to see her go to prison more than me, but that's not my highest priority.

My highest priority is to see the Democrat presidential candidate lose in November.

I think we're much more likely to see that with a weakened Hillary on the ticket rather than an indignant Joe Biden.

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Originally posted by oddball:
I guess I'm truly one of the moronic members here, the stupid, the clueless. I thought there was a chance justice might be served, instead of being a genius clairvoyant and seeing her walk.

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Federal Law: Title 18. Section 2071

Former United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey tells MSNBC that not only is Hillary Clinton's private email server illegal, it "disqualifies" her from holding any federal office.

Such as, say, President of the United States .

"If you do this or that bad thing, you've essentially disqualified yourself as being the leader of the free world," said Mukasey, referring to the illegal server and the illegal handling of classified materials.

Mukasey specifically points to one federal law, Title 18. Section 2071.

For those of us who do not have United States Code committed to memory, here's what it says:

Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term "office" does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States .

Yes, it explicitly states "shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States ."

Shouldn't voters know that? The media isn't telling them. So it's up to us.

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Originally posted by btanchors:
My $0.02:

Given the number of classified emails she no doubt received during her tenure, there is *NO* way a competent person would not wonder, "Gee, that email should be/could be classified, therefore I shouldn't be receiving it on an uncleared device". I could see this happening by accident two or three times. But given the number of classified emails, *NO* way would a competent person NOT wonder about it. It doesn't matter if it was actually classified or not, she should have reported it and gotten an official ruling that the email was OK or not. The fact that she apparently did not, means she either willfully ignored the rules, or is incompetent to handle classified information. PERIOD.

I would like to see someone raise the following questions, of someone in authority during a public press conference:

1) Was Hillary's clearance suspended while she was under investigation? If not, what is the normal procedure when issues like this are under investigation?

2) Given now that the FBI has publicly stated "Extreme Carelessness" was involved, will Hillary's clearance now be suspended? Will it be renewed the next time it is up for regularly scheduled review? What is the standard procedure in situations like this when people have been proven to be "extremely careless" in handling classified information?

3) Assuming her clearance will not be revoked, what will take place to ensure this situation will not happen again with Hillary's handling of classified information?

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
Someone other than Clinton typed up the email containing TS/SCI information on an UNCLASS device.

Someone then transmitted that email.

Why isn't action being taken against that person?

There were dozens of people involved in this debacle.

How come NOTHING is being done?

Just because you can't nail the capo di tutti capo doesn't mean you can't nail others who work for her for violating the law.

But that is exactly what the FBI decision was today.

Why?

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
Someone other than Clinton typed up the email containing TS/SCI information on an UNCLASS device.

Someone then transmitted that email.

Why isn't action being taken against that person?

There were dozens of people involved in this debacle.

How come NOTHING is being done?

Just because you can't nail the capo di tutti capo doesn't mean you can't nail others who work for her for violating the law.

But that is exactly what the FBI decision was today.

Why?

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Originally posted by btanchors:
My $0.02:

Given the number of classified emails she no doubt received during her tenure, there is *NO* way a competent person would not wonder, "Gee, that email should be/could be classified, therefore I shouldn't be receiving it on an uncleared device". I could see this happening by accident two or three times. But given the number of classified emails, *NO* way would a competent person NOT wonder about it. It doesn't matter if it was actually classified or not, she should have reported it and gotten an official ruling that the email was OK or not. The fact that she apparently did not, means she either willfully ignored the rules, or is incompetent to handle classified information. PERIOD.

I would like to see someone raise the following questions, of someone in authority during a public press conference:

1) Was Hillary's clearance suspended while she was under investigation? If not, what is the normal procedure when issues like this are under investigation?

2) Given now that the FBI has publicly stated "Extreme Carelessness" was involved, will Hillary's clearance now be suspended? Will it be renewed the next time it is up for regularly scheduled review? What is the standard procedure in situations like this when people have been proven to be "extremely careless" in handling classified information?

3) Assuming her clearance will not be revoked, what will take place to ensure this situation will not happen again with Hillary's handling of classified information?

You are assuming she had a clearance in the traditional sense of the word. Political appointees and elected officials don't go through the same process we do.