WOW! A sitting United States Senator opening soliciting the FBI to commit a crime.

[kpete]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by mcar (a host of the General Discussion forum).

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley suggested on Friday that the FBI might leak reports of its investigation into presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.

Grassley, Iowa’s senior senator and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said an anonymous and unauthorized release of FBI investigative materials could result if officials at the agency believed prosecution of Clinton was stymied for political reasons.

“Is there going to be political interference? If there’s enough evidence to prosecute, will there be political interference?” Grassley wondered aloud during a breakfast meeting with the Des Moines A.M. Rotary club on Friday. “And if there’s political interference, then I assume that somebody in the FBI is going to leak these reports and it’s either going to have an effect politically or it’s going to lead to prosecution if there’s enough evidence.”

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“I wouldn’t be encouraging it because if it’s a violation of law, I can’t be encouraging a violation of law,” he said. “This is kind of my own opinion, this is something I’ve heard.
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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/22/grassley-fbi-could-leak-clinton-email-investigation/83385362/

[Va Lefty]

1. Plus, of course this has to drag out until impeachment hearings start in 2017

[onecaliberal]

2. Wow a candidate for POTUS under FBI Investigstion!

If the republicans were doing that you people would be howling.

[itcfish]

5. SHE IS NOT

Under any investigation!! Why do you keep repeating the rightwing lie. She committed no crime. Geez.

[CoffeeCat]

6. There is an ongoing FBI investigation happening

The FBI granted immunity to Brian Pagliano, the man who built her server. This is a full-blown investigation.

The FBI have begun interviewing Clinton's aids and Clinton will be interviewed as well.

What she has done is unprecedented.

Where on earth are you getting that conducting all State business on a homebrew, unsecured server that even the President didn't know about--is not a criminal activity? Furthermore, the FBI has all ready revealed that 22 of the emails recovered from her server were classified as "Top Secret". That classification is reserved for information that if made public, "Would cause serious or grave danger to the United States."

Either you are incredibly unaware and ignorant of the reality that is happening here, or you are just being cute.

I suggest you do some reading. This is an extremely serious matter that could upend our Democratic elections.

[Kaleva]

15. Can you cite a reputable source where the FBI states that Hillary is under investigation?

[itcfish]

25. Here you go

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/us/fbi-tracking-path-of-email-to-hillary-clinton-at-state-department.html?_r=1

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/there-is-no-fbi-investigation-of-hillary-clinton/22894/

[Kaleva]

27. So she isn't

"Law enforcement officials have said that Mrs. Clinton, who is seeking the 2016 Democratic nomination for president, is not a target of the investigation,..."

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/us/fbi-tracking-path-of-email-to-hillary-clinton-at-state-department.html?_r=1

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. She is not the target of the investigation

n/t

[CoffeeCat]

37. The FBI is investigating her use of the server

The FBI is investigating Hillary's use of her private, homemade, unsecured email server, on which she sent emails containing classified and Top Secret Information.

The FBI said three weeks ago that the majority of their INVESTIGATION has concluded and that they will interview Clinton and her aids in the "coming weeks and months".

Why are they interviewing her...to swap recipies. Your bizarre attempt at damage control is ridiculous.

They are most certainly investigating the details surrounding her private email server, and that includes examining her emails. The FBI went to the trouble of recovering, reading and investigating the 30,000 emails that she deleted from her server.

What exactly is the FBI doing? Knitting Clinton a hat? Training for an Olympic swimming event?

You are beyond bizarre with your word parsing! What else does the FBI DO, beyond investigating?! You people are nutty!

[FrodosPet]

38. Exactly. The email server is the target, not Sec Clinton herself

FBI formally confirms its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/fbi-formally-confirms-its-investigation-hillary-clintons-email-server

02/08/16 05:30 PM—UPDATED 02/08/16 06:58 PM

In a letter disclosed Monday in a federal court filing, the FBI confirms one of the world’s worst-kept secrets: It is looking into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

Why say this at all, since it was widely known to be true? Because in August in response to a judge’s direction, the State Department asked the FBI for information about what it was up to. Sorry, the FBI said at the time, we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any investigation.

Now, in a letter dated February 2 and filed in court Monday, the FBI’s general counsel, James Baker, notes that in public statements and congressional testimony, the FBI “has acknowledged generally that it is working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server.”

Baker says the FBI has not, however, “publicly acknowledged the specific focus, scope or potential targets of any such proceedings.”

~ snip ~

[CoffeeCat]

39. The reason that the FBI in investigating

is because Hillary Clinton used a home brew, unsecured email server in which she conducted all of her state business.

The existence of that email server is so serious. It's unprecedented. No high-level government official has done this before.

They're investigating Hillary's server. Which she owned. That was in her house. That she hired and paid someone to build.

If it somehow gives you great comfort to parse words and say that the FBI is investigating Hillary's illegal, unsecured, home brew server and the circumstances surrounding that server...Hey, whatever floats your boat!

[rock]

42. In fact

"...it is not a criminal investigation." - Politifact.

[itcfish]

26. There you go

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/14/jeb-bush/heres-whats-wrong-jeb-bush-saying-hillary-clinton-/

[Marr]

7. That's sarcasm, right?

[thereismore]

29. Did you forget the sarcasm thingy, or do you actually believe what you said?

[840high]

40. Wake up.

[AZ Progressive]

12. But it's her turn! Hillary must not be stopped!

[randome]

30. The only ones who keep repeating 'her turn' are you and yours.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[Renew Deal]

36. What do you mean, you people?

[Katashi_itto]

3. Wonder how many impeachments will be going. As many as ACA? 61 plus?

[Matt_in_STL]

4. If she truly did nothing wrong then this isn't a big deal.

[yodermon]

8. They could start impeaching her now. They don't have to wait for her to be elected.

If the Senate convicts her she would be unable to take office.

[sharp_stick]

10. What?

How could the Senate convict her of anything?

[yodermon]

13. impeachment is a purely political operation.

The House could indict (impeach) her, and then the Senate could convict her. The charge could be for picking her nose if they so desired.

[unblock]

28. it's a political decision, but with respect to certain specific office-holders.

yes, they can impeach presidents, vice-presidents, and judges for picking their noses.

but they can't impeach people who haven't taken those offices yet for any reason. impeachment simply doesn't apply.

[dlwickham]

41. She currently doesn't hold a federal office

She can't be impeached by congress

Do people not understand how things work?

[Democat]

9. A thread about a Republican crime and the DU trolls attack Democrats

This site needs a serious cleanup, and soon!

[sharp_stick]

11. Absolutely

[frylock]

14. What Republican crime?

[Democat]

19. Encouraging the FBI to leak info if Republicans don't get what they want?

If a Democrat did the same thing, Republicans would be calling for investigations.

Instead, some DUers use it to bash one of the Democratic candidates for president.

It makes you wonder if some of the people posting might not want a Democrat to win after all.

[frylock]

21. I wouldn’t be encouraging it because if it’s a violation of law, I can’t be encouraging a violation

I wouldn’t be encouraging it because if it’s a violation of law, I can’t be encouraging a violation of law.

[leftynyc]

20. Soliciting an FBI leak

Funny how it only took 14 posts for some DUers to even forget what this OP was about. About par for the course these days.

[frylock]

22. I must have missed that part.

“I wouldn’t be encouraging it because if it’s a violation of law, I can’t be encouraging a violation of law,” he said. “This is kind of my own opinion, this is something I’ve heard.

[randome]

32. Oh, well, as long as he said those words at the end, nothing else matters, right?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[frylock]

34. Where, SPECIFICALLY, is he soliciting the FBI to leak evidence?

[Marr]

16. I'd like to second the "what Republican crime?".

[Hekate]

17. Amen. Nothing matters except tearing down Democrats.

[obamanut2012]

23. this

[Kingofalldems]

35. Damn right it does. Sick of this shit.

Colluding with right wing republicans because their boy hasn't gotten enough votes---or maybe some are actually repubs themselves.

[0rganism]

24. watch as Sen. Grassley and others cast themselves upon the jagged rocks of inevitability

oh they'll squirm and squeal like howler monkeys, and in the end they'll either retire or adapt to the new dominant paradigm.

[thereismore]

31. Actually, there is nothing in that quote proving he encouraged anything. "Assume" is not "encourage"

[dembotoz]

33. october surprise...ya know its coming