Discussion: "Hillary Clinton Email Inquiry Won’t Be Rushed, F.B.I. Chief Says"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/us/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-james-comey.html
WASHINGTON — The director of the F.B.I. said Wednesday that he would not be rushed into finishing his agency’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails on an election timetable. And he would not say whether the inquiry would be wrapped up by the November presidential election.
“We want to do it well and we want to do it promptly, so I feel pressure to do both of those things,” James Comey, the F.B.I. director, said.
“I don’t tether to any particular external deadline,” he said during a round-table discussion with reporters, “so I do feel the pressure to do it well and promptly, but as between the two, I always choose ‘well.’”
While Mrs. Clinton has characterized the investigation as a “security inquiry,” Mr. Comey said he was “not familiar with the term.”
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The F.B.I.’s case began as a security referral from the inspectors general of the State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies, who were concerned that classified information might have been stored outside a secure government network. But multiple law enforcement officials said the matter quickly became an investigation into whether anyone had committed a crime in handling classified information.
(more at link)
This investigation has gone on for over a year. Barring the unlikely event she is exonerated by the FBI for any wrongdoing, it is my opinion she will be facing at least some criminal charges for what can only be described as egregiously bad judgment up to and including attempting to destroy government records.
From the "Clinton Email Scandal Timeline", we know she was asked politely to return the government records in her basement to the State Department in mid-2014, then formally required to do so on October 28, 2014, but delayed doing so until December 5, 2014 after deleting 31,830 that she said were all personal but weren't. (Link: http://www.thompsontimeline.com/The_Clinton_Email_Scandal_-_Short_Version_-_Part_2)
How do I "know" she deleted government records (aka work emails)? Because some of them were turned in by other people!
Clinton confidante Blumenthal testifies before House Benghazi panel, CBS News, June 16, 2015
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-confidante-blumenthal-testifies-benghazi-house-panel/
A long time advisor and confidant to the Clinton family, Sidney Blumenthal, testified in a closed session Tuesday before the House Select Committee on Benghazi after the committee received nearly 120 new pages of emails Blumenthal exchanged with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
"Sidney Blumenthal produced to the Committee nearly 60 new emails regarding Libya and Benghazi," the panel's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, said. "I think it's noteworthy that no committee of Congress that has previously looked in to Benghazi or Libya uncovered these memos and I will leave it to you to figure out if whether there was a failure to produce on the former secretary's part of there was a failure to produce on the Department of State's behalf."
(more at link)
So, here is the problem: it looks like she has committed crimes that should result in jail time. I am not voting for a candidate who belongs in jail. The only way to allay this fear is for the FBI to either indict or exonerate her -- and no, the word of a possible criminal claiming innocence, especially one known for her "flexibility" with being truthful, is simply not adequate.
Hillary keeps saying "the FBI has not contacted her" which may just be weasel words for "because they are contacting my lawyer instead", but if she is truly innocent, why doesn't she call THEM?
I am a Bernie supporter. I have MANY policy differences with Hillary Clinton, but this one is big enough for me to actively fight AGAINST HER to the point of switching parties if she makes it to the General, especially because I have also read that some of those "deleted emails" tie in with "pay to play corruption" through the Clinton Foundation. The idea that for the first time in over three decades of voting that I will NOT vote for the Democrat candidate for President is beyond distressing, but I will NOT vote or support someone who may belong in jail.
I live in Michigan, and my vote will count, as well as my willingness to volunteer with GOTV efforts. I am not going to vote for Trump. BUT if Hillary Clinton wants me to hold my nose and support her *if* she makes it to November, this issue needs to be resolved, preferably sooner rather than later. The FBI dragging their feet about it is unacceptable -- but frankly, the fact she is even running while under this type of cloud is absolutely embarrassing. It appears as if Democrats do not take law enforcement investigation efforts by the FBI seriously, which is the very definition of "shameful scandal" to most sensible Americans.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are running a guy who is being sued for "Trump University" which utter humiliation should have them hiding under rocks on Election Day, but our front runner candidate has THIRTY-EIGHT civil lawsuits with her name all over them AND an FBI investigation --
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I love President Obama. I am going to miss him.
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And stop minimizing "destroying government records", "endangering national security" and "failing to comply with FOIA" as "some email thing". They are referred to as CRIMES for a reason.
its about e-mail servers-the Great issue of our Age. Republicans are masters at turning perhaps questionable or even negligent conduct into an issue that they somehow convince Americans is Evil-and now Bernie fans are fanning the flames
...or their hands are getting tired from clapping so hard trying to wake the Indictment Fairy.
Reposting the same, tired materials... 
I get that they want a "rock solid case" and releasing too much information too soon gives a criminal defendant time to "make evidence disappear" but this is officially getting ridiculous.
The lack of a statement one way or another is leaving everything open for speculation. I'm not an attorney, but "destroying government records" has been against the law since darn near forever, with email specifically being an issue since 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/politics/using-private-email-hillary-clinton-thwarted-record-requests.html
WASHINGTON — In 2012, congressional investigators asked the State Department for a wide range of documents related to the attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The department eventually responded, furnishing House committees with thousands of documents.
But it turns out that that was not everything.
The State Department had not searched the email account of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton because she had maintained a private account, which shielded it from such searches, department officials acknowledged on Tuesday.
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Federal regulations, since 2009, have required that all emails be preserved as part of an agency’s record-keeping system. In Mrs. Clinton’s case, her emails were kept on her personal account and her staff took no steps to have them preserved as part of State Department record.
(more at link)
I cannot imagine the hue and cry if a Republican was pulling this crap. I don't want FOIA to be toothless because a Democrat chose to avoid complying.
Rather than acknowledge reality (or as some of us call them, "crimes"
they assume negative reports are all "vast right wing conspiracy".
Bill and Hillary publicly lied to the American people about sexual fidelity (which exposed them to blackmail). People who told the truth were publicly humiliated and victimhood firmly established.
If it hadn't been for a blue dress, people would still have believed "innocent Bill" was being slandered.
Oddly enough, Trump does the same type of lies - he just repeats things, which then have to be treated seriously until people are sick of hearing about it.
I can only assume this is a "money and power" thing. I am appalled Democratic leadership is supporting Hillary. It's as if there are no standards of decency required to be one of our politicians.
wondering if this is President Obama playing Chicago politics with his old rival who is tainting his legacy.
On the other hand, Comey has a strong "won't be moved by politics" reputation and went after Scooter Libby for the Plame situation.
I am choosing to believe in the integrity of the FBI at this point, but the delay is causing me to wonder.
If she is going to be indicted, she needs to be removed from the political stage sooner rather than later. If she is going to be exonerated, this needs to be removed from the debate. We "non-legal" types are relying on common sense, and that obviously has nothing to do with the justice system!
According to Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynch
Lynch's first legal job was as a litigation associate for Cahill Gordon & Reindel. She joined the Eastern District as a drug and violent-crime prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in 1990. From 1994 to 1998, she served as the chief of the Long Island office and worked on several political corruption cases involving the government of Brookhaven, New York. From 1998 to 1999, she was the chief assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District and headed the Brooklyn office.
From prosecutor to campaign lawyer seems a bit strange.
