BarkGrowlBite | July 6, 2016
While I have repeatedly said that Hillary Clinton will not be indicted over her private email sever under an Obama administration, I have nevertheless kept sticking my head in the clouds hoping that she will somehow be indicted.
It’s time for me to keep my head out of the clouds. Hillary probably would not be indicted under a Trump administration. How come? Because in order for Hillary to be indicted, prosecuted and convicted, the government would have to show that the Hildebeast acted with criminal intent.
Sending and receiving State Department communications over a private email server may well be against the department’s rules, but that does not make it a crime. Prior Secretaries of State have done so themselves.
Clinton’s use of her private email server was stupid and she was careless and sloppy while conveying State Department communications, some of which may have been top secret. Stupidity, carelessness and sloppiness are not crimes either.
So, unless the government can show the Hildebeast acted with criminal intent by deliberately mishandling State Department secrets, or lied to the FBI or Congress, there has been no crime committed and thus there are no grounds to indict Hillary.
It was Monday that I pulled my head out of the clouds. On Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey recommended no prosecution of Clinton. He explained that although Hillary was “extremely careless” in the use of her private email server, there is no evidence that she intentionally mishandled classified information. Comey said, “No reasonable prosecutor” would bring such a case.
Weep and wail if you will, but the Clinton email server case is closed, period!
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