…would be out of control:

Someone somewhere should have told her no. But if the president wasn’t going to tell her no, who would? Staff at the State Department? They might have been willing to tell some other secretary of state no, but Clinton? Too risky, it seems. They certainly went along without visible objection, and without even leaks.

The press? When The New York Times reported Clinton’s secret, illegal server, Politico’s Glenn Thrush, far from condemning it, called it “badass.”

Congress? Clinton has stonewalled and run rings around numerous committees investigating her. Besides, Congress had already told her no, in the form of statutes governing the treatment of government communications and classified information. She just ignored those rules and did what she wanted. Hotel magnate Leona Helmsley famously said that “only little people pay taxes.” Clinton seems to feel the same way about obeying laws.

Yes. This is a variation my continuing theme, he can be impeached and removed, she cannot. The Republicans will rein him in, the Democrats will give her free rein, as they have with Obama. And amazingly, even Chris Matthews agrees. Are the Democrats, at long last, realizing what a monster they’ve created?

Related: Hillary has only herself to blame for the mess she’s in. Yup. But why wouldn’t she have done it. The media and her party have enabled her for decades. Why wouldn’t she think she could continue to get away with it?

[Update a couple minutes later]

The FBI has an intense ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. As well they should be, but it’s getting to be kind of late. What happens once she’s president elect? Does Obama pre-emptively pardon her? Not sure that’s Constitutional.

[Update a while later]

Former FBI official: The Clintons are a crime family:

“The Clintons, that’s a crime family, basically,” Kallstrom said. “It’s like organized crime. I mean the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool.”
Kallstrom, best known for leading the investigation into the explosion of TWA flight 800 in the late ’90s, said that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, was a “pathological liar.”

He also blasted Attorney General Loretta Lynch, claiming that she impeded the investigation into Clinton’s private server.

“The problem here is this investigation was never a real investigation,” he said. “That’s the problem. They never had a grand jury empanelled, and the reason they never had a grand jury empanelled, I’m sure, is Loretta Lynch would not go along with that.”

Because the fish rots from the head.

Jeffrey Toobin doesn’t know the slightest thing about his legal legacy.

Analysis: Zero Pinocchios.

…and we’re not going to stop now.

But don’t say there’s voter fraud!

[Yes, I know I linked this piece yesterday, but I want it to get more love from the search engines]

…used terror to wage a war on honesty.

He’s a Democrat. It’s what they do. It’s who they are. Going all the way back to Reconstruction.

In many ways, but also in the way that the last one was: By the IRS, which continues to target conservative groups. And it may continue under Trump, albeit possibly with different targets, but it definitely will under her. And he can be impeached and removed.

[Update a few minutes later]

Six ways the State Department tried to cover up her emails.

Man, that Trump dude is just crazy to think the game is rigged. I guess he was listening to these people too much.

…proves in and of itself that she broke the law.

If those agents are patriots, they’ll come forward before the election.

Also, related: Hillary’s security detail requested reassignment due to her abuse. This is totally in character; numerous Secret Service agents reported similar behavior when she was First (non)Lady. A young Chelsea reportedly followed her parents’ lead and called them “trained pigs.”

[Update a few minutes later]

More at the Daily Caller:

People inside the bureau are furious. They are embarrassed. They feel like they are being led by a hack but more than that that they think he’s a crook. They think he’s fundamentally dishonest. They have no confidence in him. The bureau inside right now is a mess.”

He added, “The most important thing of all is that the agents have decided that they are going to talk.”

They need to talk before the election. After will be too late.

[Update a few minutes later]

Hillary’s sworn deposition reveals more public lies. Of course it does. She’s been getting away with lying, under oath and otherwise, for decades. Why would she think she can’t continue, particularly on the verge of becoming totally beyond the law?

[Update a couple minutes later]

Victor Davis Hanson: The case for Trump:

Trump’s defeat would translate into continued political subversion of once disinterested federal agencies, from the FBI and Justice Department to the IRS and the EPA. It would ensure a liberal Supreme Court for the next 20 years — or more. Republicans would be lucky to hold the Senate. Obama’s unconstitutional executive overreach would be the model for Hillary’s second wave of pen-and-phone executive orders. If, in Obama fashion, the debt doubled again in eight years, we would be in hock $40 trillion after paying for Hillary’s even more grandiose entitlements of free college tuition, student-loan debt relief, and open borders. She has already talked of upping income and estate taxes on those far less wealthy than the Clintons and of putting coal miners out of work (“We are going to put a whole lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”) while promising more Solyndra-like ventures in failed crony capitalism.

The damage done by the lawlessness and corruption of the Democrats is incalculable. Trump is and will be terrible, but here’s my simple case to vote for him:

1) He’s not her.
2) Unlike her, he can be impeached and removed, and will provide an opportunity to rein in a tyrannical executive branch.
3) It would issue a huge and well-deserved F**k You to the media.

[Update a while later]

“It’s almost impossible to keep up with the evidence of Clinton misconduct, wrongdoing and illegality that continues to emerge. It is overwhelming.”

And three weeks before an election, the most important one of our lifetimes, I think.

This, folks, is prima facie obstruction of justice.

ALERT: After subpoena @JohnPodesta suggested withholding emails between HRC & BO.

I'd say those were pretty damn material to investigation. pic.twitter.com/4EopMQvvb3

— Harlan Hill (@Harlan) October 14, 2016

Congress should demand that Comey reopen the investigation.

Free them.

And did Comey lie to Congress? Well, duh.

[Update Saturday morning]

Comey lied, and the scandal died.

[Update a while later]

It’s worth remembering that one of the charges against Richard Nixon was interfering with an FBI investigation. Everything that Nixon would have been charged with, Obama has gotten away with.