Because he would have had to find the president guilty as well:
As I explained in February, when it emerged that the White House was refusing to disclose at least 22 communications Obama had exchanged with then-secretary Clinton over the latter’s private e-mail account, we knew that Obama had knowingly engaged in the same misconduct that was the focus of the Clinton probe: the reckless mishandling of classified information.
To be sure, he did so on a smaller scale. Clinton’s recklessness was systematic: She intentionally set up a non-secure, non-government communications framework, making it inevitable that classified information would be mishandled, and that federal record-keeping laws would be flouted. Obama’s recklessness, at least as far as we know, was confined to communications with Clinton — although the revelation that the man presiding over the “most transparent administration in history” set up a pseudonym to conceal his communications obviously suggests that his recklessness may have been more widespread.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. And I’ll bet that some of Lerner’s missing emails about IRS targeting are also between her and the president. and they would reveal offenses of the nature that Nixon had to resign for even attempting.
This should also put to rest who Comey was working for and strongly suggest how deep the deep state goes. It’s time to fire them all (any with the least bit of taint.) If we catch a few that aren’t a part of it, too freakin’ bad.
The whining and howling that results should be music to any patriot’s ears.
The FBI used to have a reputation that has been destroyed. Being FBI meant being unapologetic American. These guys are traitors to this country. Of course, democrats and republicans used to have some patriots as well.
LOCK THEM UP. Fine them double their assets. Waterboard them without asking any questions. Remove their citizenship and deport them. Then really mess with them.
I have to disagree with you in part, Ken. Given J. Edgar Hoover’s trampling of the Constitution from the outset, with all his spying on anyone and everyone to maintain his power, he set the policy of lawlessness for the sake of law enforcement at the FBI that carries on to this day. CointelProII determined Hastert was a pedophile and they used that to control him instead of bringing justice to his victims.
Name anything the FBI has done well in its existence, anything that couldn’t be handled better by another organization. The whole thing needs to be burned to the ground and the soil needs to be tilled and salted to ensure nothing ever grows there again.
There is that, but rank and file could be trusted once.
I just thought he might have a pet cat whose safety he was concerned for.
Also, don’t buy the BS that what Comey did wasn’t a leak.
Obama’s recklessness, at least as far as we know, was confined to communications with Clinton
Highly unlikely that Obama only used that email to talk to Clinton. But it could be true and there are other secret email accounts he used. The question is whether or not any of these secret emails accounts were archived as required.
Trump got hammered for his staff talking with foreign governments about setting up back channel communications. Obama had back channel communications with all of the executives in his administration.
Judicial Watch should sue to find out if anyone at the IRS communicated with Obama’s secret email account.
I haven’t heard from Jim in a while. Jim, you still with us? Care to comment?
Jim must be waiting for talking points. And with the democrat narrative under heavy fire, the narrative writers should be in a state of confusion.
A certain terrorist mastermind was known to be driven in a Toyota truck past a certain intersection every Monday at Noon. A pair of SEAL snipers are concealed beneath a camouflage blanket after a nighttime insertion by a black-program low-observable helicopter.
Noon comes, the guy hasn’t shown up yet. It gets to be 12:15 and 12:30 PM, and the two SEALs are getting nervous.
“It’s not like him to not keep to his schedule.”
“Yeah, I hope nothing has happened to him!”
I don’t think Jim is any sort of mastermind. He was, however, willing to go to great lengths to excuse Hillary and Obama of any number of crimes, so I’m curious as to what the excuse would be this time.
Comey (and Holder and Lynch and both Clintons and Obama) destroyed the tradition of the DOJ in general and FBI in particular, being dedicated to the concept that we are a nation of laws not men.
Utterly totally destroyed.
The DOJ was weaponized and used like any 3rd world hellhole banana republic department of supression.
What’s all the fuss about an article that’s 8 months and 16 days old? This was pre-2016 election! And it wasn’t the first time this possibility had been mentioned publicly. This article did have what I consider proof, however.
It seemed timely, in light of current events…
It is. And I think Trump’s biggest contribution to America would be to put on a full court press investigation into the IRS, DoJ, EtC, winding up with indictments of everyone up to the former President. Tax cuts? Pshaw! Repeal and replace? Forghedaboudit! Just bring the banana republicans to justice, and DJT will have been the greatest President in American history.
OT but you need to be aware of this Rand:
http://georgesowers.blogspot.com/
George Sowers has a blog.
When did he start a blog? Thanks for the link!
George you’re never too old to not hire some kids and kick ass!
Hate to be that guy, but the reason Comey didn’t “prosecute” Hillary is that he was Director of the FBI, not a U.S. Attorney.
The FBI investigates. Federal grand juries indict. U.S. Attorneys prosecute.
I’m enough of a pedant to believe that sloppy mistakes like this have had as much to do with the mess we’re in as any other cause people like to point at.
Oh, and FBI directors also don’t “find guilty.” Petit juries (to distinguish from grand ones) have that role.
But the FBI director does have the ability to appoint a special prosecutor, so says a number of reporters.
Comey would not have prosecuted, or under ordinary circumstances decided whether to prosecute. But he specifically, and very publicly, recommended against prosecution in almost the same breath where he laid out every element needed for prosecution.
Ya, he was the designated fall guy to remove the conflict of interest from Lynch making the decision. (Even though she was still the one making that decision)
Trump could have pulled the same move when firing Comey by saying it was on the recommendation of the DOJ but instead he was honest and said it was his decision.
I was listening to a podcast, by some lefty entrepreneur, the guest was Sam Harris I think, but could have been some journos. The topic was Trump’s dishonesty. They were not so upset that Trump was dishonest but that he didn’t use well crafted lies. They also didn’t always think Trump was intentionally lying but just wrong or bs’ing.
It drove them crazy because they want a politician that lies to them and takes great care in doing so, like Obama and Hillary.
It also drives them crazy when Trump tells the truth rather than play the Great Game in a sneaky underhanded way like Democrats. It isn’t that Trump doesn’t play the game, he just does it differently, drives them batty.
The left loved the Comey/Lynch/Clinton deal and pretended it didn’t come straight from Obama. Trump didn’t go for the subterfuge, just said he decided a while back to fire Comey.