JAMES COMEY AND LORETTA LYNCH
SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR WHITE WASHING
CLINTON'S CRIMES
Former federal prosecutor says that Hillary obstructed justice and destroyed evidence—with the support of the president himself
By • 10/11/16 8:30am
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during a fundraiser at the Capitol Hill Hyatt hotel on October 5, 2016 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Just
when one thinks the cavalier cabal of Clinton and her cronies has
exhausted all manner of corruption, yet another outrage surfaces,
implicating even more people.
The
bombshell this week is that Loretta Lynch and James Comey not only gave
immunity to Hillary’s closest co-conspirators Cheryl Mills and Heather
Samuelson—who, despite being attorneys, destroyed evidence right and
left—but, in a secret side deal, agreed to limit the FBI’s review of the Clinton team laptops to pre-January 2015 and to destroy the laptops when the FBI review was complete.
Congress
and every law-abiding citizen in this country should be outraged. This
blatant destruction of evidence is obstruction of justice itself.
We
no longer have a Department of Justice: We have a Department of
Obstructing and Corrupting Justice to protect the power elite of the
chosen side.
It’s easy to see now why Lynch secretly met Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac on June 27.
Only a few days later, the FBI had its little chat with Hillary—neither
under oath nor with a rights warning—in the presence of her
coconspirators. Then, Hillary announced she would keep Lynch as Attorney
General if she is elected president. Surely by coincidence, the very
next day Comey does his song and dance ending the “investigation.”
Comey’s “investigation” was a farce.
Any former prosecutor worth a flip would have convened a grand jury,
issued subpoenas, gotten search warrants, seized computers, run wire
taps, indicted the Clinton cabal, and squeezed the underlings to plead
guilty and cooperate. This business of friendly chats, immunity
agreements handed out like party favors, and side deals that include the
Attorney General approving the destruction of evidence to keep it from
Congress doesn’t happen for others targeted by the feds.
Just ask any number of Wall Street executives
who for various reasons found themselves on the opposite side of the
Department of “Justice.” In fact, my former client, Jim Brown, served a
year in prison convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice for
testifying about his personal understanding of a telephone call to which
he was not even a party. Yes, you read that correctly. Read Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. It becomes more relevant every day.
How did we get here?
Thanks to the work of Judicial Watch and
others, we learned over a year ago now that Hillary Clinton ran the
most important and confidential of world affairs and the United States
Department of State through an unsecured computer server assembled by
her minions and ensconced in the basement of her New York home. She did
so despite repeated warnings of security risks, against protocol, and
contrary to her own memo to all of her underlings. That posed no problem simply because the rules don’t apply to Clinton.
Conveniently, her server also handled Clinton Foundation correspondence
that facilitated the personal enrichment of Hillary and Bill by
hundreds of millions of dollars. That money came from Bill’s remarkable “speaking fees” at hundreds of events around the world—each of which was quickly approved as requested by Clinton crony Cheryl Mills at the State Department—as if there were no conflict of interest.
Simultaneously, foreign entities made “donations” of hundreds of
millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation to obtain the immediate
attention of and curry favor with the secretary of state—and it worked.
The conflict of interest inherent
in that entire scenario is palpable. It’s the Clintonian equivalent of
the scheme former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow conceived that destroyed
Enron—a large side-slush fund that operated as his own piggy bank. The
Clintons boldly went where no one has gone before: They privatized the
State Department for their massive personal gain, creating a net worth for each of over $100 million dollars in a few short years. Ironically enough, lead counsel for the Clinton Foundation now was President Obama’s longest-serving White House counsel. A former prosecutor on the Enron Task Force, Kathryn Ruemmler was implicated in various forms of prosecutorial misconduct and its cover-up.
The
personal home server allowed Hillary Clinton to send and receive all of
her emails and run the State Department free from protected, secure,
and requiredgovernment
channels. It was established deliberately to circumvent the Federal
Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act—both of which applied to
her work-related correspondence.
That
was no problem for Clinton however, as she simply “didn’t know how to
use a computer,” apparently was incapable of learning to do so (unlike
most toddlers in the country), and she liked her Blackberry—which was
reason enough for her highness to ignore the national security interests
of the entire county.
One of our favorite Clinton lies is: ‘My staff and I will cooperate completely with the investigation.’
Clinton’s
insistence on operating outside the government security protocols
demonstrated at best deliberate disregard for the law and national
security—and, at worst, conduct that was treasonous. That is why 18 USC
793 (d) and (f) make it a crime punishable by imprisonment for 10 years to
even move any information relating to the national defense from secure
conditions or to fail to return it upon demand. Clinton did
both—repeatedly.
The
unsecure server also facilitated the clearly conflicting roles of
Clinton confidant and protégé Huma Abedin, who was paid simultaneously
by the Clinton Foundation and the taxpayers through the State
Department. That made it easier for the double-dipping Abedin to
schedule meetings quickly for Clinton with those who had paid to
play—substantial donors to the Foundation, such as the Crown Prince of
Bahrain, who had been denied a face-to-face through those pesky State
Department protocols in place for mere mortals. His millions in
contributions to the Foundation got him an appointment with Clinton
through Abedin in a matter of hours.
We wrote more than a year ago—as soon as we heard one Clinton server was “wiped”—about the Countless Crimes of Hillary Clinton.
We foresaw the need for a special prosecutor and predicted that if
emails could be found, they would likely implicate high ranking people
across the government, including the president.
Lo and behold, President Obama, who told the country he heard of Clinton’s private email from news reports, was in reality emailing her at Clintonemail.com and using an alias. He must have forgotten. But, wait—just this week, we get more emails, and there’s now evidence that the White House and the State Department coordinated an attempt to minimize the problem.
Now
we have a candidate for president of the United States who has
committed lie after lie, obstructed justice, and destroyed evidence with
the support of the president himself—conduct for which many people are
in prison. Sometimes it’s called False Statements to federal officials,
punishable by up to five years in prison under 18 USC1001. Under other circumstances, such as in sworn statements to federal judges or testimony to Congress, it can be perjury under 18 USC 1621 or 1623.
And
let’s not forget obstruction of justice under 18 USC 1519. That statute
was tailor-made to fit the facts of the Clinton cabal’s destruction of
evidence. It reads:
Whoever
knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies,
or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with
the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper
administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department
or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in
relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined
under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
Remember the man relentlessly prosecuted by the feds for throwing a few fish overboard? That case had
to go all the way to the Supreme Court for them to decide that fish
weren’t the kind of tangible objects/evidence to which Congress intended
the new obstruction statute to apply. But emails, computers, and
servers are. Senator Clinton voted for that new statute—but it doesn’t
apply to her. Well, it would, but Loretta Lynch and James Comey just
agreed to destroy evidence of it themselves.
These
false statement and obstruction offenses are so easy to prove that
prosecutors often tack them on to already multi-count indictments just
for good measure when they want to hammer Wall Street bankers or other
citizens and business people who actually work for a living.
How
many of these federal criminal offenses are established by the limited
evidence that has been pried out of the Clintons’ hands or resurrected
from unsuccessful although mighty attempts to destroy it? They are truly
countless, as each email would be a separate charge but, for the sake
of brevity, we’ll just pick three or four—that don’t even include all
the conspiracy charge options routinely used by “reasonable”
prosecutors.
First, Clinton testified to Congress that
she “turned over all of her work-related emails.” Second, she “only
wanted to use one device.” Later, she chose her words carefully,
claiming “nothing was marked classified when it was sent or received.”
That sounds good to people who are not lawyers, but it’s Clintonese and
not the law.
She “turned over all her work emails”?
First,
her friend Sidney Blumenthal found a number of emails he exchanged with
her about confidential matters of State that she didn’t produce. Next,
that pesky Pentagon found over 1,000 emails between Hillary and General
Petraeus alone. Most recently, the FBI found roughly 15,000 Clinton
thought had been erased completely when she had her servers “wiped”
professionally with BleachBit. We’ll never know how many were
deliberately destroyed to protect her incompetence and corruption.
Mills, Samuelson, and others at Platte River Networks destroyed whatever
they wanted.
As both
secretary of state and an attorney who had long been paid by the
taxpayers, Clinton should know that information “relating to the
national defense” is what is protected under 18 USC 793(f). It doesn’t
have to be “classified”—marked or unmarked—even though much of it was.
Sure,
let’s give her the presidency and the nuclear codes and access to every
national secret—ISIS can just hack her and use our own missiles to
destroy us. They won’t have to worry about trying to bring nukes into
the country.
In any event, according to the FBI’s perfunctory investigation, more than 2,000 of the emails available are classified as Confidential or Secret or higher.
Clinton may have only wanted “one device,” but the truth is that she had 13 “personal mobile devices that were lost, discarded, or destroyed.” Reporter Sharyl Attkissonhas
an excellent timeline of irrefutable, no-spin facts derived from the
part of the FBI’s file that has been made public. The timeline of events
alone is damning.
Not
surprisingly, Attkisson reports that “[a]fter the State Dept. notified
Hillary Clinton her records would be sought by the House Benghazi
Committee, copies of her email on the laptops of her attorneys Cheryl
Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped with Bleachbit, and the FBI
couldn’t review them. After her emails were subpoenaed, Hillary
Clinton’s email archive was also permanently deleted from her
then-server ‘PRN’ with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review it.”
One of our favorite Clinton lies is: “My staff and I will cooperate completely with the investigation.”
I
guess that’s why they invoked their Fifth Amendment privileges against
self-incrimination, had hard-drives wiped, destroyed devices with
hammers, put theselected emails
in the hands of her attorney and refused to produce them for weeks,
while her staff all refused to speak without grants of immunity or took
the Fifth. I guess it just depends on how you define “cooperation.”
Enter
stage left James Comey, Director of the FBI, who fills himself with
righteous indignation to tell Congress what a great job the FBI did in
this “investigation.” As Congressman Trey Gowdy said, and I concur, “This isn’t the FBI I used to work with.”
Clinton
ran her shenanigans without an Inspector General in the State
Department. An Inspector General is appointed by the President, but his
or her job is to serve as a watchdog on behalf of the taxpayers. As The Wall Street Journal reported, Clintondeclined to allow an Inspector General at
the State Department during her entire tenure—so there was no internal
oversight, and President Obama allowed that. More than a year ago, the
Inspector Generals for State and for the Intelligence Community
conducted a limited review of only 40 of Clinton’s emails. They quickly
found several containing classified information which they immediately reported to the executive branch and advised Congress. They wrote: “This classified information should never have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system.”
Remember
Richard Nixon? Remember Attorney General John Mitchell? Remember White
House Counsel John Dean? Nixon White House cronies Haldeman and
Erlichman? They all went to prison.
It’s not just the private server. It’s not about personal emails or even a few business emails sent from a personal account.
It
is about the fair administration of justice and trust in our justice
system. It is about the accountability of our highest officials. It is
about destroying evidence in the face of a serious investigation. It is
about national security breaches of the highest order, and it’s about
the privatization and sale of our State Department for personal
enrichment. The conduct of the Clintons, their cronies, their
Foundation, and now our highest law enforcement officials make the
entire Watergate scandal look like an insignificant computer hack.
Where
is the Congress? Where are what used to be our great newspapers? The
sounds of silence are terrifying indicators of how government-controlled
our mainstream media has become. I guess that’s why Reporters Without
Borders has dropped our Freedom of Press rank to 46th world-wide.
FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch should be impeached for their roles in whitewashing Clinton’s crimes and their own participation in the destruction of evidence.
They facilitated and participated in the obstruction of
justice—spitting in the face of the Congressional investigation.
Congress should be able to name a special prosecutor when the Attorney
General has a clear conflict—such as meeting secretly with Bill Clinton
during the “investigation” and receiving a promise of continuing as
Attorney General if Hillary is elected President. The timeline of events
and their conduct reek of corruption.
Stay tuned. Clinton’s answers under oath to D.C. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan are due October 13.
Remember, he’s the judge who appointed a special prosecutor to
investigate the Department of Justice following the Bush
administration’s corrupted prosecution of former Alaska Senator Ted
Stevens. And it was Judge John Sirica—combined with what was then the
great Washington Post—who exposed the Nixon corruption.
With
more and more government intrusion in every aspect of our individual
businesses and lives, we are quickly losing the land of the free, and we
now must wonder if any of the brave are home. Who has the chutzpah to
stand up to the Clintons? Where are the real Americans? Hopefully, on
election day, they will pour out in droves and resoundingly demand real
change. The election and Judge Sullivan are our only chances for justice
at all.
Sidney
Powell worked in the Department of Justice for 10 years, in three
federal districts under nine United States Attorneys from both political
parties. She was lead counsel in more than 500 federal appeals. She is
the author of Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice—a legal thriller that tells the inside story of high-profile prosecutions.
Trump is
doing much better this time. I am having problems updating (it took a
half hour to post this one line) but Trump told her she'd be in jail
and the FBI would be investigated if he could make it happen.
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