Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The FBI just cost me $5 and a pizza. [View all]Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)35. I'd love to have that present for my daughter's birthday. LOL.
That said: I think the FBI will recommend an indictment but the DoJ won't bite because of who she is; however, the leaks from the Intelligence community fed up with this behavior will cost her the presidency.
Not all workers at the NSA or the FBI are likely to keep their heads in the sand, as they watch very senior officials and politicians with their own agendas disregard laws to safeguard the nations security. We know what it is like to do the difficult, disciplined work of protecting information from being compromised by strictly abiding by what often seem to be cumbersome rules and regulations. Weve been there; done that.
If you encourage the Department of Justice and the FBI to continue slow-walking the investigation, there is a good chance the truth will come out anyway. As you are aware, the Justice Department, the FBI, and NSA have all yielded recent patriots who, in such circumstances, decided that whistleblowing rather than silence was the only way to honor the oath we all swore to support and defend the Constitution.
To sum up our concern regarding how all this plays out, if you order the Justice Department and FBI to pursue the investigation with all deliberate speed, so to speak, and Secretary Clinton becomes president, the juicy email secrets in the hidden hands of the NSA and FBI are likely to give those already powerful institutions a capacity for blackmail that would make J. Edgar Hoovers mouth water. In addition, information hacked by foreign intelligence services or Guccifer-like hackers can also provide useful grist for leverage or blackmail.
If you encourage the Department of Justice and the FBI to continue slow-walking the investigation, there is a good chance the truth will come out anyway. As you are aware, the Justice Department, the FBI, and NSA have all yielded recent patriots who, in such circumstances, decided that whistleblowing rather than silence was the only way to honor the oath we all swore to support and defend the Constitution.
To sum up our concern regarding how all this plays out, if you order the Justice Department and FBI to pursue the investigation with all deliberate speed, so to speak, and Secretary Clinton becomes president, the juicy email secrets in the hidden hands of the NSA and FBI are likely to give those already powerful institutions a capacity for blackmail that would make J. Edgar Hoovers mouth water. In addition, information hacked by foreign intelligence services or Guccifer-like hackers can also provide useful grist for leverage or blackmail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/24/intel-vets-urge-fast-report-clintons-emails
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
Recommendations
0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):
90 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
The indictment will drop in 24 business hours. It's like Fitzmas all over again...
tritsofme
May 2016
#1
""Wish in one hand, crap in the other. See which one gets filled first." (REDUX)
DemocratSinceBirth
May 2016
#12
Lewis Lukens, executive director of the executive secretariat for the State Department
scscholar
May 2016
#75
The FBI will find she violated her security clearance. Leave it to AG to decide to indict.
leveymg
May 2016
#77
Oh goody. Some fall guy like Scooter Libby will take the hit and everyone else is off scott free n
eridani
May 2016
#81
Ida, thanks for the great posts, links, and supplying pizza to fellow Democrats.
EndElectoral
May 2016
#6
Eight more days per the owner of this site, fifteen on the outside. (REDUX)
DemocratSinceBirth
May 2016
#11
The sad part is they don't cares what she has done. It's Authoritarian Adulation.
rhett o rick
May 2016
#58
Indicting Clinton would harm Obama's legacy, he and his staff undoubtedly got emails from HRC
HereSince1628
May 2016
#49
Seems Obama can probably run the clock out, keeping it 'under review' by DOJ.
HereSince1628
May 2016
#55
Obama is a lame-duck with little more that can be accomplished other than
HereSince1628
May 2016
#63
Hillary's still not going to be indicted. Hope you enjoyed your $5.00 and your pizza.
politicaljunkie41910
May 2016
#69