FBI director Comey and the Obama Justice Department applied a double standard in their handling of the Clinton-email and Trump-Russia investigations.
In a feat of dizzying ratiocination, Director Comey explained that to prosecute Mrs. Clinton would be to hold her to a nitpicking, selective standard of justice not imposed on other Americans.
Yes, the entire "Russia hacked the election" narrative the nation has endured for nearly two years hinges on the say-so of CrowdStrike, a private DNC contractor with significant financial ties to the Clinton campaign.
Her underlings weren't prosecuted either - Clinton confidants Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin both told the FBI they were unaware that Clinton was using a private server while they worked for four years as her top State Department staffers; as the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross points out, Mills explicitly asked Abedin about the server in a 2010 email.
Attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson worked for Clinton at the State Department and were deeply involved in determining which emails Clinton surrendered to the State Department and which she destroyed.
Despite all of that, the Justice Department and FBI not only failed to object to Mills's and Samuelson's representation of Clinton; they permitted these lawyers to sit in as counsel representing Clinton in her FBI interview - during which she was questioned about activities undertaken with Mills and Samuelson.
In what I'm sure was a total coincidence, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who stood a very good chance of keeping her coveted job in a Hillary Clinton administration, gave FBI Director Comey an order: In his public statements and testimony, he was instructed to refer to the Clinton emails probe as a "Matter," not an investigation - otherwise, what might people think the Federal Bureau of Investigation was up to? This may have been an improper, politically motivated attempt to influence an FBI criminal probe, but on this occasion, there were no leaks to the New York Times about it; Comey complied, calculating that Lynch's politicization of the, er, "Matter" was not "a hill worth dying on."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/clinton-email-trump-russia-probes-justice-department-double-standards/
In a feat of dizzying ratiocination, Director Comey explained that to prosecute Mrs. Clinton would be to hold her to a nitpicking, selective standard of justice not imposed on other Americans.
Yes, the entire "Russia hacked the election" narrative the nation has endured for nearly two years hinges on the say-so of CrowdStrike, a private DNC contractor with significant financial ties to the Clinton campaign.
Her underlings weren't prosecuted either - Clinton confidants Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin both told the FBI they were unaware that Clinton was using a private server while they worked for four years as her top State Department staffers; as the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross points out, Mills explicitly asked Abedin about the server in a 2010 email.
Attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson worked for Clinton at the State Department and were deeply involved in determining which emails Clinton surrendered to the State Department and which she destroyed.
Despite all of that, the Justice Department and FBI not only failed to object to Mills's and Samuelson's representation of Clinton; they permitted these lawyers to sit in as counsel representing Clinton in her FBI interview - during which she was questioned about activities undertaken with Mills and Samuelson.
In what I'm sure was a total coincidence, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who stood a very good chance of keeping her coveted job in a Hillary Clinton administration, gave FBI Director Comey an order: In his public statements and testimony, he was instructed to refer to the Clinton emails probe as a "Matter," not an investigation - otherwise, what might people think the Federal Bureau of Investigation was up to? This may have been an improper, politically motivated attempt to influence an FBI criminal probe, but on this occasion, there were no leaks to the New York Times about it; Comey complied, calculating that Lynch's politicization of the, er, "Matter" was not "a hill worth dying on."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/clinton-email-trump-russia-probes-justice-department-double-standards/
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