2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: New emails highlight interaction between State, Clinton Foundation [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)I don't think that is what this investigation is about. Although laws may have been broken on classification, I don't think they would have 150 FBI agents looking at just that. I think the MAIN issue is the Clinton Foundation pay-to-play set up--that is, what Clinton what using her private server FOR.
If they find classification errors or security issues, what they will likely do is go after Clinton's aides, to pressure them for more information on the main issue: using a high government office for personal gain, in the billions of dollars (and from some of the worst scumbags on earth, like the Saudis).
For those Clinton supporters who castigate others for a failure of loyalty to President Obama, consider this: Obama banned Clinton advocate Sydney Blumenthal from his administration. Told Clinton he didn't want Blumenthal in the State Department. The Clinton Foundation then hired Blumenthal (big salary)--a foundation that was getting billions of dollars from foreign sources--and Clinton communicated with Blumenthal on foreign policy matters using her private server. What kind of loyalty did this show to Obama? None at all. She was trying to deceive him.
I have some pretty solid reasons for believing that Obama is angry at Clinton, even apart from the above: mainly,
1) Her support of the fascist coup in Honduras (only 6 months into his first term, when he was preoccupied with global financial meltdown and 2 wars), which totally fucked up his goal of improving relations with Latin America. Latin American governments were universally furious about the Honduran coup, and blame the U.S. for it. Obama and Kerry are now trying to repair the damage Clinton did--with Obama's visit to Cuba and Obama/Kerry's support for the Colombia/FARC peace talks. Both issues--U.S. non-recognition of Cuba and U.S. fueling of the Colombia civil war and putting U.S. military bases in Colombia--are also very big issues in LatAm, though we don't hear much about it here; and
2) Destabilization of Libya and Syria. It is largely HER mess, resulting in the barbaric 'Islamic state' (much like Honduras is HER mess, resulting in rampant RW death squads who just murdered the winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, Berta Caceres, an Indigenous woman and anti-coup activist, and have murdered, raped, beaten and imprisoned thousands of others, most often women and gays). Obama and Kerry have been working to overcome the damage Clinton is responsible for in the ME (as they are doing in Latin America).
It is VERY DIFFICULT to know what is really going on in our government. So I think it is also POSSIBLE that the FBI investigation is a means of protecting Clinton (and the Obama administration?) from the RW hound dogs who would drag her down over ANY issue and are smelling blood on this one. Obama supports TPP and that is a reason to believe he supports Clinton. But the weight of the above for the moment seems to tip the other way--Clinton caused no end of problems for Obama and he will not try to block an FBI indictment if the FBI thinks it is warranted. (He might find himself in a Watergate "Saturday Night Massacre" situation if he did try to block it, but it may well be that he wouldn't be inclined to block it.)