The details of the immunity deals Loretta Lynch gave to Hillary Clinton’s people…
…can be found here:
The ACLJ [American Center for Law and Justice] has just obtained previously unreleased documents related to the Clinton investigation and immunity agreements given to top Clinton aids. These agreements reveal that James Comey’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Loretta Lynch’s Department of Justice (DOJ) granted immunity to Hillary Clinton’s aids and lawyers, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, from prosecution for anything found on their laptops violating multiple felony criminal statutes governing the mishandling of classified information and/or the removal or destruction of records, including Espionage Act provisions. Further, the DOJ and FBI also agreed to evade the statutory requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by purporting to deem the contents of the laptops as not under DOJ or FBI “custody or control.”
These laptops were critical to any meaningful investigation of Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified emails and records. According to the DOJ Inspector General, who identified these as the “culling laptops,” “[a]ll 62,320 emails pulled from the Clinton servers were stored at one time on these laptops.” Having taken control of these laptops, agreeing to severely limit its searches, agreeing to unlawfully shield the laptops from FOIA, then agreeing to dispose of the laptops, it appears the Comey FBI and Lynch DOJ did everything in their power to protect Clinton’s senior aids and lawyers from both criminal liability and public scrutiny.
While these immunity agreements and related news have been publicly discussed to some extent, the ACLJ has now obtained the actual documents so the public may see and judge them accordingly.
This isn’t exactly news, except for the fact that the documents themselves have now been released. But in the continuing and almost unremitting subsequent dislosures about Russiagate (or whatever name you want to give that lengthy brouhaha) in all its complexity, there has been so much to process in the two cases that I believe most people have lost the thread. But the double standard used in the investigation of Hillary Clinton and her aides versus that used in the investigation of Donald Trump and his aides has been extraordinary.
D’ya suppose Lynch’s DoJ figured it was all-in-all better to give Cheryl Mills et al a sweet deal than to discover their garrotted lifeless bodies in some nameless parking garage one day? That’s the way the tv crime show could write it up, anyhow, once the Clinton crime syndicate is truly off the map.
@neo: the double standard used in the investigation of Hillary Clinton and her aides versus that used in the investigation of Donald Trump and his aides has been extraordinary.
Every “double standard” is really a single standard. In this case, the single standard is “do not cause trouble for the leader of the party you want to serve who is almost certainly going to be your boss next year”.
And the refrain from the press will be
“…. at this point, what difference does it make?”
Comey, Lynch, Clapper, Brennan, …. lock them all up. After their conviction of course.
They best beware the lame duck…
I do hope Trump, Barr & Co. put this stuff front and center sufficiently so that it can’t be ignored.
It is highly suspicious and frustrating that Trump appointee, FBI director Christopher Wray is fighting tooth and nail to keep all of these documents secret. FBI lawyers are claiming our security will be irreparably damaged if they are made public. Wray stonewalled the House when the Republicans were in the majority and continues to stonewall Lindsey Graham in the Senate.
What ever happened with Trump declassifying the FISA court documents?
I wonder if any trusted DOJ person under AG Barr has re-interviewed Marcel Lehel (Guccifer) about Hillary’s emails.
And the Dems say Trump obstructed justice… Comey and Lynch are poster-children for Obstruction of Justice. Had HIllary! won I am certain we would see both Comey and Lynch on The Court today. Garland would still be waiting for RBG to croak.
Sean Davis @seanmdav:
https://mobile.twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1156728269447802880
Sourced to John Solomon, The Hill:
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/455616-james-comeys-next-reckoning-is-imminent-this-time-for-leaking
Which opinion piece says: “The Justice Department’s chief watchdog is preparing a damning report on James Comey’s conduct in his final days as FBI director that likely will conclude he leaked classified information and showed a lack of candor after his own agency began looking into his feud with President Trump over the Russia probe.
Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz’s team referred Comey for possible prosecution under the classified information protection laws, but Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors working for Attorney General William Barr reportedly have decided to decline prosecution — a decision that’s likely to upset Comey’s conservative critics.”
No worries. NOTHING will happen to these fools/tools.
Let the Gaslighting begin!
Just an idle question: of all the Hillary emails that have been found so far, how many contained information about yoga or Chelsea’s wedding? The 35,000 that were “deleted” were said to have been about those subjects. I will bet not a one actually did.