Interesting reading from Andrew Napolitano
Feb 9, 2016 02:05:35 #
Received from a friend today, an interesting read.
From Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Subject: Much of This Was in The Philadelphia Inquirer Today.
Date: January 22, 2016
The federal criminal investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons failure to secure state secrets was ratcheted up earlier this week, and at the same time, the existence of a parallel criminal investigation of another aspect of her behavior was made known. This is the second publicly revealed expansion of the FBIs investigations in two months.
I have argued for two months that Clintons legal woes are either grave or worse than grave. That argument has been based on the hard, now public evidence of her failure to safeguard national security secrets and the known manner in which the Department of Justice addresses these failures.
The failure to safeguard state secrets is an area of the law in which the federal government has been aggressive to the point of being merciless. State secrets are the product of members of the intelligence community's risking their lives to obtain information.
Before she was entrusted with any state secrets -- indeed, on her first full day as secretary of state -- Clinton received instruction from FBI agents on how to safeguard them; and she signed an oath swearing to comply with the laws commanding the safekeeping of these secrets. She was warned that the failure to safeguard secrets -- known as espionage -- would most likely result in aggressive prosecution.
In the cases of others, those threats have been carried out. The Obama Department of Justice prosecuted a young sailor for espionage for sending a selfie to his girlfriend, because in the background of the photo was a view of a sonar screen on a submarine. It prosecuted a heroic Marine for espionage for warning his superiors of the presence of an Al Qaeda operative in police garb inside an American encampment in Afghanistan, because he used a Gmail account to send the warning.
It also prosecuted Gen. David Petraeus for espionage for keeping secret and top-secret documents in an unlocked drawer in his desk inside his guarded home. It alleged that he shared those secrets with a friend who also had a security clearance, but it dropped those charges.
The obligation of those to whom state secrets have been entrusted to safeguard them is a rare area in which federal criminal prosecutions can be based on the defendants negligence. Stated differently, to prosecute Clinton for espionage, the government need not prove that she intended to expose the secrets.
The evidence of Clintons negligence is overwhelming. The FBI now has more than 1,300 protected emails that she received on her insecure server and sent to others -- some to their insecure servers. These emails contained confidential, secret or top-secret information, the negligent exposure of which is a criminal act.
One of the top-secret emails she received and forwarded contained a photo taken from an American satellite of the North Korean nuclear facility that detonated a device just last week. Because Clinton failed to safeguard that email, she exposed to hackers and thus to the North Koreans the time, place and manner of American surveillance of them. This type of data is in the highest category of protected secrets.
Last weekend, the State Department released two smoking guns -- each an email from Clinton to a State Department subordinate. One instructed a subordinate who was having difficulty getting a document to Clinton that she had not seen by using a secure State Department fax machine to use an insecure fax machine. The other instructed another subordinate to remove the confidential or secret designation from a document Clinton had not seen before sending it to her. These two emails show a pattern of behavior utterly heedless of the profound responsibilities of the secretary of state, repugnant to her sworn agreement to safeguard state secrets, and criminal at their essence.
Also this past weekend, my Fox News colleagues Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne learned from government sources that the FBI is investigating whether Clinton made any decisions as secretary of state to benefit her family foundation or her husbands speaking engagements. If so, this would be profound public corruption.
This investigation was probably provoked by several teams of independent researchers -- some of whom are financial experts and have published their work -- who have been investigating the Clinton Foundation for a few years. They have amassed a treasure-trove of documents demonstrating fraud and irregularities in fundraising and expenditures, and they have shown a pattern of favorable State Department treatment of foreign entities coinciding with donations by those entities to the Clinton Foundation and their engaging former President Bill Clinton to give speeches.
There are now more than 100 FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton. Her denial that she is at the core of their work is political claptrap with no connection to reality. It is inconceivable that the FBI would send such vast resources in the present dangerous era on a wild-goose chase.
It is the consensus of many of us who monitor government behavior that the FBI will recommend indictment. That recommendation will go to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who, given Clintons former status in the government and current status in the Democratic Party, will no doubt consult the White House.
If a federal grand jury were to indict Clinton for espionage or corruption that would be fatal to her political career.
If the FBI recommends indictment and the attorney general declines to do so, expect Saturday Night Massacre-like leaks of draft indictments, whistleblower revelations and litigation, and FBI resignations, led by the fiercely independent and intellectually honest FBI Director James Comey himself. That would be fatal to Clintons political career, as well.
Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Sent from my MacBook Pro,
Charlie
From Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Subject: Much of This Was in The Philadelphia Inquirer Today.
Date: January 22, 2016
The federal criminal investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons failure to secure state secrets was ratcheted up earlier this week, and at the same time, the existence of a parallel criminal investigation of another aspect of her behavior was made known. This is the second publicly revealed expansion of the FBIs investigations in two months.
I have argued for two months that Clintons legal woes are either grave or worse than grave. That argument has been based on the hard, now public evidence of her failure to safeguard national security secrets and the known manner in which the Department of Justice addresses these failures.
The failure to safeguard state secrets is an area of the law in which the federal government has been aggressive to the point of being merciless. State secrets are the product of members of the intelligence community's risking their lives to obtain information.
Before she was entrusted with any state secrets -- indeed, on her first full day as secretary of state -- Clinton received instruction from FBI agents on how to safeguard them; and she signed an oath swearing to comply with the laws commanding the safekeeping of these secrets. She was warned that the failure to safeguard secrets -- known as espionage -- would most likely result in aggressive prosecution.
In the cases of others, those threats have been carried out. The Obama Department of Justice prosecuted a young sailor for espionage for sending a selfie to his girlfriend, because in the background of the photo was a view of a sonar screen on a submarine. It prosecuted a heroic Marine for espionage for warning his superiors of the presence of an Al Qaeda operative in police garb inside an American encampment in Afghanistan, because he used a Gmail account to send the warning.
It also prosecuted Gen. David Petraeus for espionage for keeping secret and top-secret documents in an unlocked drawer in his desk inside his guarded home. It alleged that he shared those secrets with a friend who also had a security clearance, but it dropped those charges.
The obligation of those to whom state secrets have been entrusted to safeguard them is a rare area in which federal criminal prosecutions can be based on the defendants negligence. Stated differently, to prosecute Clinton for espionage, the government need not prove that she intended to expose the secrets.
The evidence of Clintons negligence is overwhelming. The FBI now has more than 1,300 protected emails that she received on her insecure server and sent to others -- some to their insecure servers. These emails contained confidential, secret or top-secret information, the negligent exposure of which is a criminal act.
One of the top-secret emails she received and forwarded contained a photo taken from an American satellite of the North Korean nuclear facility that detonated a device just last week. Because Clinton failed to safeguard that email, she exposed to hackers and thus to the North Koreans the time, place and manner of American surveillance of them. This type of data is in the highest category of protected secrets.
Last weekend, the State Department released two smoking guns -- each an email from Clinton to a State Department subordinate. One instructed a subordinate who was having difficulty getting a document to Clinton that she had not seen by using a secure State Department fax machine to use an insecure fax machine. The other instructed another subordinate to remove the confidential or secret designation from a document Clinton had not seen before sending it to her. These two emails show a pattern of behavior utterly heedless of the profound responsibilities of the secretary of state, repugnant to her sworn agreement to safeguard state secrets, and criminal at their essence.
Also this past weekend, my Fox News colleagues Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne learned from government sources that the FBI is investigating whether Clinton made any decisions as secretary of state to benefit her family foundation or her husbands speaking engagements. If so, this would be profound public corruption.
This investigation was probably provoked by several teams of independent researchers -- some of whom are financial experts and have published their work -- who have been investigating the Clinton Foundation for a few years. They have amassed a treasure-trove of documents demonstrating fraud and irregularities in fundraising and expenditures, and they have shown a pattern of favorable State Department treatment of foreign entities coinciding with donations by those entities to the Clinton Foundation and their engaging former President Bill Clinton to give speeches.
There are now more than 100 FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton. Her denial that she is at the core of their work is political claptrap with no connection to reality. It is inconceivable that the FBI would send such vast resources in the present dangerous era on a wild-goose chase.
It is the consensus of many of us who monitor government behavior that the FBI will recommend indictment. That recommendation will go to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who, given Clintons former status in the government and current status in the Democratic Party, will no doubt consult the White House.
If a federal grand jury were to indict Clinton for espionage or corruption that would be fatal to her political career.
If the FBI recommends indictment and the attorney general declines to do so, expect Saturday Night Massacre-like leaks of draft indictments, whistleblower revelations and litigation, and FBI resignations, led by the fiercely independent and intellectually honest FBI Director James Comey himself. That would be fatal to Clintons political career, as well.
Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Sent from my MacBook Pro,
Charlie
Feb 9, 2016 05:57:11 #
One lost dog,
Very good of you to send on to us. The people need to read and heed for sure. Lots of snakes in the D.C. grass for sure.
Mel Havener
Very good of you to send on to us. The people need to read and heed for sure. Lots of snakes in the D.C. grass for sure.
Mel Havener
Feb 9, 2016 06:25:11 #
So what are they going to do.. allow this criminal that exposed our inner security to possibly china, mid east, north korea, and all others// to one more time enter " OUR " WHITE HOUSE.. with her lies, and lack of ethics... to become our president?????????
they must do something.. now.. before the end of summer...
She must not be president.! She should be treated as a criminal .
they must do something.. now.. before the end of summer...
She must not be president.! She should be treated as a criminal .
Feb 9, 2016 06:46:44 #
Nancy,
I truly felt our country was in shambles when her and bill pulled what they did before in the big house.
Him and his sex parade, Her and her lizzy acts, him selling us out to china with secret space plans, the vice and his deals with the munk's, items they stole from the W/house and we can go on and on and NOTHING DONE TO THEM.
SICK & sad FOR SURE.
Mel Havener
I truly felt our country was in shambles when her and bill pulled what they did before in the big house.
Him and his sex parade, Her and her lizzy acts, him selling us out to china with secret space plans, the vice and his deals with the munk's, items they stole from the W/house and we can go on and on and NOTHING DONE TO THEM.
SICK & sad FOR SURE.
Mel Havener
Feb 9, 2016 07:22:32 #
We all agree with you... So lets not let it go any further.
v**e for a true... person.. that wants to improve our country.
v**e for a true... person.. that wants to improve our country.
Feb 9, 2016 07:35:25 #
I agree 120% and do pray and hope that person can beat the riff raft trying to stop HIM. I really feel Trump is the one to hang in there with Sen from Ala. Sessions as vice.
Mel
Mel
Feb 9, 2016 08:17:37 #
That and most likely more, however because of the current powers that be even with a 'straight shooter' FBI director , the whole thing will with little doubt be 'stonewalled' at least until after the e******n and possibly never, bearing in mind the current POTUS has less than a year to go on his final ( thank God ) term in office, he has little to worry about any conviction now or ever , and if Clinton gets elected ( God forbid ) it will all blow away. It would be a beautiful dream to be able to see both 'O'Bozo' and the 'Hilderbeast' share a federal jail cell together , and as the Irish say " do pig's fly "
Feb 9, 2016 12:23:01 #
Napolitano is well respected and known for his blunt remarks of fact....
Suspect since the DOJ isn't playing ball with the FBI and moving forward with indictment, but rather stalling, they are beginning to try Hillary in the public...
FBI said they would last week, if they met more stalling..So I believe it's starting...as it should I might add.
Excellent article...sending on the a few I know will put it out into main stream heavy hitters too!!
It's past time!!!!!
Suspect since the DOJ isn't playing ball with the FBI and moving forward with indictment, but rather stalling, they are beginning to try Hillary in the public...
FBI said they would last week, if they met more stalling..So I believe it's starting...as it should I might add.
Excellent article...sending on the a few I know will put it out into main stream heavy hitters too!!
It's past time!!!!!
Feb 9, 2016 12:24:43 #
pappadeux wrote:
That and most likely more, however because of the ... (show quote)
:thumbup: :thumbup: Been saying the same thing...time to push at this point!!!
Feb 9, 2016 12:44:10 #
As we say in France "poussez,poussez les 'salaudes' sur ice back to english,I now give you the four branch's of today's government
Feb 10, 2016 16:47:41 #
Onelostdog wrote:
Received from a friend today, an interesting read.... (show quote)
With that many FBI agents on the case there must be many avenues that they have to go down to find more possible leads to indite her on these charges or other charges.
Feb 10, 2016 17:39:15 #
Onelostdog wrote:
Received from a friend today, an interesting read.... (show quote)
FRY THE TREASONOUS MURDEROUS B***H
Feb 10, 2016 17:41:43 #
lindajoy wrote:
Napolitano is well respected and known for his blunt remarks of fact....
Suspect since the DOJ isn't playing ball with the FBI and moving forward with indictment, but rather stalling, they are beginning to try Hillary in the public...
FBI said they would last week, if they met more stalling..So I believe it's starting...as it should I might add.
Excellent article...sending on the a few I know will put it out into main stream heavy hitters too!!
It's past time!!!!!
Suspect since the DOJ isn't playing ball with the FBI and moving forward with indictment, but rather stalling, they are beginning to try Hillary in the public...
FBI said they would last week, if they met more stalling..So I believe it's starting...as it should I might add.
Excellent article...sending on the a few I know will put it out into main stream heavy hitters too!!
It's past time!!!!!
They are STILL going through E-MAILS :|
Feb 10, 2016 18:45:51 #
DamnYANKEE wrote:
They are STILL going through E-MAILS :|
They have enough..She lied, she hid, they found, they have the evidence that even reaches to others..Bring it before the Grand Jury, get Lynch on board forcing a decision after the indictment by the Grand Jury..Put them, including BO, on the hot seat now, while this e******n is in place and move it already...
IF she fairs well in the primaries which is exactly what they are waiting (stalling for) this potential indictment will go away..If she does not they will move on it to save face politically and in comes Bloomberg or Biden...
Feb 10, 2016 18:46:09 #
DamnYANKEE wrote:
FRY THE TREASONOUS MURDEROUS B***H
We will need a very LARGE fry pan when you consider the company that will be accommodated by it, like BHO, Rinos, Congress, the Supreme's and a few hundred others. Lets just turn all of Islamland into a huge fry pan, send em all there and then torch it off. Would you like French fries with that order sir?
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