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United States News Title: Is Hillary Morally Unfit to Be President? Does Hillary Clinton possess the integrity and honesty to be president of the United States? Or are those quaint and irrelevant considerations in electing a head of state in 21st-century America? These are the questions put on the table by the report from FBI Director James Comey on what his agents unearthed in their criminal investigation of the Clinton email scandal. Clinton dodged an FBI recommendation that she be indicted for gross negligence in handling U.S. security secrets, a recommendation that would have aborted her campaign. But Director Comey dynamited the defense she has been offering the country. Comey all but declared that Clinton lied when she said she had State Department approval for the email server in her home. He all but declared that she lied when she said she had only one server, and that no classified or secret material was transmitted. He also implied that she lied when she said she had used only one device and had turned over all of her work-related emails to State. The FBI found “several thousand” more. Clinton said her emails were stored in a secure area. This, too, was false. Hostile actors and hostile regimes, said Comey, had access to email systems of those with whom she communicated. Comey said he found no criminal “intent” in what Clinton did. Yet, he charged her with having been “extremely careless” with U.S. national security secrets, a phrase that seems synonymous with the gross negligence needed to indict and convict. While recommending against prosecution, Comey added, “This is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequence. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions.” [ Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System , June 5, 2016] Translation: Were Clinton still the secretary of state and were such recklessness with secrets to be discovered, she could have been forced to resign and stripped of her security clearance forever. Yet if Clinton is elected president, our commander in chief for the next four years, and her confidantes Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, will all be individuals the FBI has found to be reckless and unreliable in the handling of national security secrets. We will have security risks running the armed forces of the USA. Nor is this the first time Clinton’s truthfulness has been called into question. In 2008, she fabricated a tale about crossing a tarmac in Bosnia “under sniper fire,” in 1996 and running with “our heads down.” Photos showed a peaceful arrival featuring a smiling little girl. Family members of the dead heroes of Benghazi’s “13 Hours” say Clinton told them she would see to it that the creator of the anti-Islamic video that incited the mob that killed their sons would be run down, all the while knowing it had been a planned terrorist attack. In 1996, The New York Times’ William Safire went over all of the statements Clinton had made in Whitewater and related scandals of Bill Clinton’s first term, compared them with subsequently revealed truth, and pronounced Hillary Clinton a “congenital liar.” She has claimed she tried to join the Marines in 1975, and long contended she was named for famed mountaineer Edmund Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest. Only Sir Edmund climbed Everest when Hillary was 6 years old. The perfect running mate for this serial fabricator would be the Cherokee lass Elizabeth Warren. Still, a question arises as to Comey’s motives in airing the findings of an FBI investigation. Normally, the bureau passes on the evidence it has found, along with its recommendation, to the Justice Department. And Justice decides whether to prosecute. Instead, Comey called a press conference, documented the charge that Clinton was “extremely careless,” contradicted, point by point, the story she has told the public, then announced he was recommending against prosecution. What was behind this extraordinary performance? By urging no prosecution, but providing evidence for a verdict of criminal negligence in handing classified material, Comey was saying: I am not recommending prosecution, because, to do that, would be to force Hillary Clinton out of the race, and virtually decide the election of 2016. And that is my not decision. That is your decision. You, the American people, should decide, given all this evidence, if Clinton should be commander in chief. You decide if a public figure with a record of such recklessness and duplicity belongs in the Oval Office. Comey was making the case against Clinton as the custodian of national security secrets with a credibility the GOP cannot match, while refusing to determine her fate by urging an indictment, and instead leaving her future in our hands. And, ultimately, should not this decision rest with the people, and not the FBI? If, knowing what we know of the congenital mendacity of Hillary Clinton, the nation chooses her as head of state and commander in chief, then that will tell us something about the America of 2016. And it will tell us something about the supposed superiority of democracy over other forms of government. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.
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No. When serial, grave crimes are committed, it is the responsibility of the FBI to prosecute, not leave the "punishment" up to the people, with such "punishment" amounting to taking away the shiny office she wants and sending her back to her mansion in uber-rich Chappaqua to live an opulent life. It was the duty of the FBI to destroy her. They failed their duty, because they are a corrupt organization that always puts politics first. They prosecute some people "to make an example" - which is politics - and they refuse to prosecute the most powerful - because of politics. We do not need a political investigative bureau in America. The FBI has outlived its usefulness. The FBI has been involved in scandal after scandal over the years, and has done a piss poor job at law enforcement. They are a disgrace, a very expensive one, and an unprofessional joke. Nobody can ever trust them again. Trusting them with law enforcement is like trusting priests with a day care. The agency should be dismantled and its employees sent home to find other work.
No. The FBI is an investigative agency and does not do prosecutions. It is the responsibility of the Justice Department to prosecute. AG Lynch or an appointed official in the DoJ should have received the FBI report and made the decision to prosecute. Director Comey was wrong to even offer his opinion whether Hillary should be prosecuted. The FBI has no prosecutorial function. https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/faqs Yes. Although the FBI is responsible for investigating possible violations of federal law, the FBI does not give an opinion or decide if an individual will be prosecuted. The federal prosecutors employed by the Department of Justice or the U.S. Attorneys offices are responsible for making this decision and for conducting the prosecution of the case. What does the FBI do with information and evidence gathered during an investigation? If a possible violation of federal law under the jurisdiction of the FBI has occurred, the Bureau will conduct an investigation. The information and evidence gathered in the course of that investigation are then presented to the appropriate U.S. Attorney or Department of Justice official, who will determine whether or not prosecution or further action is warranted. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, evidence is either returned or retained for court.
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