Judge Napolitano says James Comey is responsible for Hillary being let off the hook
December 15, 2017

Judge Napolitano says James Comey is responsible for Hillary being let off the hook Gage Skidmore / CCL; Brookings Institution / CCL

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should have been found criminally culpable in 2016. By letting Clinton escape charges, and lying to the American people, former FBI Director James Comey did his country a disservice.

Fox News obtained Comey’s original draft statement in the email investigation, and the evidence indicates that it was heavily altered to reduce Hillary Clinton’s culpability. On Wednesday, Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano made the case that Comey was ultimately ‘responsible’ for letting Hillary Clinton off the hook.

Fox News reported:

In an early draft, Comey said it was “reasonably likely” that “hostile actors” gained access to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account. That was changed later to say the scenario was merely “possible.”

Another edit showed language was changed to describe the actions of Clinton and her colleagues as “extremely careless” as opposed to “grossly negligent.” This is a key legal distinction.

Comey liable

Although the alternations are clearly shown, there’s one thing that isn’t clear — who edited Comey’s original statement to tilt everything in Clinton’s favor.

Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said it doesn’t matter who did the actual editing. Whether it was Comey or someone else in the FBI or within the Department of Justice, he could still be held liable.

Watch the clip, via Fox News Channel.

Judge Nap: It Doesn’t Matter Who Made Edits to Clinton Statement, Comey’s Responsible

Fox News has obtained documents that reveal then-FBI Director James Comey’s draft statement on the Hillary Clinton email investigation was heavily edited before his public announcement, in ways that seemed to significantly water down the bureau’s findings.

“He is responsible for it, he was the director of the FBI,” Napolitano said on “Special Report.” “I also don’t think it matters the ideological predilections of the editor. The person who signed it, the person who delivered it is responsible for it.”

Napolitano added that from a legal standpoint, “extremely careless” and “grossly negligent” can be used interchangeably. Although “extremely careless” is the legal standard, that phrase is often defined in jury instruction as “extremely careless.” But in this case, Comey’s use of the phrase was deceptive.

“He attempted to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public, and for a while, he succeeded,” Napolitano said.

He said that Comey’s statement was wrong factually as well as how the law applied to the facts. Napolitano added that as FBI director, it wasn’t his role to make recommendations on criminal culpability.

“The job of the FBI is not to decide whom to prosecute, but to present the evidence to professional prosecutors in the DOJ and let them make the decision. He took that away from them,” Napolitano said.

Think of Clinton as the big fish that got away. As tempting as it is to prosecute the former secretary of state, only in “Banana Republics” will you find winners of e******ns imprisoning the losers.

Comey, however, is another fish altogether.

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Catholic Chauffeur

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