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Hillary Under Director James Comey

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The FBI, under Director James Comey, seems to have wilted under the pressure of the Clinton super-powers by refusing to recommend prosecution for all the explicit ways Hillary violated 18 U.S. Code § 793(e) and (f). What normally requires a prima facie determination making "gathering, transmitting or losing defense information" a felony based on “gross misconduct” alone, has been complicated by adding the burden of proving intent, in this case, to excuse Comey’s decision. Congress held an emergency hearing to grill Comey on his obviously misguided conclusion and his clarifications provided even more proof that Clinton perjured herself repeatedly to cover up her illegal activities. Now Congress is pursuing a perjury inquiry and has promised …show more content…

What an endorsement! This “sacrifice” still violates the rule of law in this case by denying unbiased justice. Comey admitted, “To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now. As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.” (emphasis mine) In other words, if you or I had done a fraction of what Hillary Clinton did, we’d be doing the “perp walk”, as Bryan Nishimura and others whose names are not Clinton have painfully discovered. James Comey has brought clearly into focus the reality that, in America, we now have a two-tiered system of justice- one for lowly taxpayers and another for our ruling

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