James Comey.
Ring a bell?
He is the head of the FBI. We read on the FBI's site:
On September 4, 2013, James B. Comey was sworn in as the seventh Director of the FBI.
A Yonkers, New York native, James Comey graduated from the College of William & Mary and the University of Chicago Law School. Following law school, Comey served as an assistant United States attorney for both the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of Virginia. Comey returned to New York to become the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 2003, he became the deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Comey left DOJ in 2005 to serve as general counsel and senior vice president at defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Five years later, he joined Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut-based investment fund, as its general counsel.
He knows how the Department of Justice works.
If he decides that Hillary Clinton committed acts that endangered the security of the United States, he can submit this evidence to the Attorney General.
This places a very hot potato in Loretta Lynch's lap. She will drop it into President Obama's lap within 24 hours.
If Obama does nothing, Comey waits 30 days. Then he calls a press conference.
Goodbye, Hillary. Hello . . .
This depends on when he does this.
If he does it before the Democrats' convention, Sanders will win the nomination. If he does it after the convention, the Republican will win the election. That probably means Trump.
Comey knows how the political game is played. He knows that, as of today, he holds all the cards. He is not holding aces over eights. He is holding four aces.
All he needs to do is say nothing for 30 days after he hands the file to Lynch -- no threats. Just silence.
If she swears him to secrecy, he can assure her that he will stay silent. Then he breaks his word. After all, it's government.
I assume that he will play ball with Lynch. He sounds like an establishment man to me. Wikipedia reports: "Comey is a registered Republican who donated to U.S. Senator John McCain's campaign in the 2008 presidential election and to Governor Mitt Romney's campaign in 2012 presidential election." He does not sound like a Trump supporter. But what if he thinks she is guilty? What if he faces a cover-up of silence? He is a lawyer. If he thinks Obama is stiffing the FBI for political reasons, he may decide to do what bureaucrats do: defend his agency's turf.
What if he waits until December, after she is elected, but before she takes the oath of office? That would create the greatest foul-up in American political history.
She would have zero legitimacy from that time forward. She would reject all calls for her to testify. She would claim executive privilege.
Does the word "Watergate" ring a bell?
He has leverage on a scale that no bureaucrat ever has. Hoover had leverage, but not on this scale. The issue is public: the security of her emails. Comey risks nothing if he goes public after about a 30-day delay.
After the press conference, if Obama fires him, Hillary is toast. So is Obama's legacy.
If Obama tells Lynch to stall until January 20, Clinton II's presidency is toast. Obama probably escapes intact.
If Comey deep-sixes the findings, the political dance goes on.
Will he deep-six it? I don't know. It depends on his sense of justice.
Sounds like it would be better for Obunghole if Hillary just disappeared
#1: sneakypete To: Stoner (#0)
Not a chance. He isn't even a Dim. He is a "out of the closet socialist". The real thing,not the pretend socialist of most professional Dims.
The DNC will either pull Biden into the fold,or call Gore back in and after a behind the scenes meeting will declare whoever they pick to be the Dim candidate,and with the full backing of the DNC,Sanders has no chance.
sneakypete posted on 2016-03-18 09:01:40 Reply Private Reply
#2: BobCeleste To: Stoner (#0)
BobCeleste posted on 2016-03-18 09:29:10 Reply Private Reply
#3: Vicomte13 To: BobCeleste (#2)
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-03-18 09:35:06 Reply Private Reply
#4: Vicomte13 To: Stoner (#0)
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-03-18 09:35:45 Reply Private Reply
#5: A K A Stone To: Vicomte13 (#3)
You're full of it.
Also it is a trainwreck if she gets away with it. It will erode confidence in government. I guess i'm not all that surprised that you want one system of justice for the little guys and another for some stupid cunt who happens to be in government.
A K A Stone posted on 2016-03-18 09:47:57 Reply Private Reply
#6: A K A Stone To: Vicomte13 (#4)
You surf child porn. Disgusting.
A K A Stone posted on 2016-03-18 09:48:34 Reply Private Reply
#7: Vicomte13 To: A K A Stone (#6)
When the government wants to get somebody, how do they get him? They try to get him with tax evasion, they try to get him with bribes, they try to get him with drugs. And if all else fails, they plant child porn on his computer, and then arrest him and railroad him.
This is WHY Hillary was so absolutely adamant about controlling her OWN server - to keep the electronic sphere within her control. Of course, she doesn't really understand the electronic world, so she has had to depend on hired hands, and they're not always controllable.
Who controls the government? Obama and the Democrats. Who does Comey threaten? Obama's legacy and the Democrats. Do you really think that some mere agency director is going to ever be permitted to derail Democrat control?
There was a moment when Obama could have considered replacing Hillary with Biden, but that time is effectively past. Hillary is going to win the nomination, and Obama and the Democrats are not going to let some pissant bureaucrat stop that.
You can bet that Comey will be sufficiently intimidated that, when the moment comes, he will not recommend prosecution.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-03-18 10:21:46 Reply Private Reply
#8: tomder55 To: Stoner (#0)
I think he will recommend charges ;and I believe they will be before the Dem convention. If Janet Lynch doesn't act on the recommendations ;there will be a mass defection in the FBI and Justice Dept that will rock the system and create a Constitutional crisis worse than the Saturday Night Massacre threatened .
I think the investigation is going beyond her obvious national security violations . I think he has the evidence of the pay-for play relationship between her State Dept and the Clintoon Foundation. There is also perjury ,suborning perjury and stuff like that too.
tomder55 posted on 2016-03-18 10:22:01 Reply Private Reply
#9: Fred Mertz To: tomder55 (#8)
Dream on, choir boy.
Fred Mertz posted on 2016-03-18 10:56:27 Reply Private Reply
#10: VxH To: sneakypete (#1)
IIRC - the historical evidence circa 2008 indicated they couldn't help the SEC find their own arse with both hands and a SQL script telling them exactly where to look for it.
Meanwhile. I passed the ensuing IRS audit.
VxH posted on 2016-03-18 12:02:57 Reply Private Reply
#11: SOSO To: Vicomte13, BobCeleste, All (#3)
Why? If the evidence is there to indict that is what should happen. Instead of pardoning her in advance (or even after the fact)the more just thing, the right thing, to do is to have her withdraw. Do you remember Nixon. It was the REPS that told him to get out of dodge. The REPS did the right thing. The DRats never have and never will. And you want to give her a pass. Another sign that you are a DRat shill.
SOSO posted on 2016-03-18 12:17:54 Reply Private Reply
#12: Vicomte13 To: SOSO (#11)
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-03-18 12:38:50 Reply Private Reply
#13: BobCeleste To: Vicomte13 (#3)
BobCeleste posted on 2016-03-19 10:06:56 Reply Private Reply
#14: randge To: BobCeleste (#13)
She may pay & it'd be poetic justice.
She's already been diagnosed and treated for a cerebral thrombosis and for blood clots in her leg.
A misfortunate occurrence would be so explicable to a credulous public.
See her pass from the scene like a Scalia, whose exit preempted an explosion of a very different kind.
randge posted on 2016-03-19 10:49:42 Reply Private Reply
#15: BobCeleste To: randge (#14)
I think she is beyond redemption so she will pay here and in the beyond.
BobCeleste posted on 2016-03-19 12:13:17 Reply Private Reply