The U.K. Daily Mail posted an article today about some problems with HIllary Clinton‘s email server that have not been widely reported in the American mainstream media.
On the 60-Minutes news program on Sunday, President Obama stated that he did not know Clinton sidestepped security protocols with her a home-brew email setup while she was his secretary of state.
This is the part of the Espionage Act that applies to the situation:
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Hillary’s email server totally violated this rule. She was obligated to inform the President of her computer set-up. However, I find it rather odd that the President never looked at the return address on an email from his Secretary of State. The question, of course, is whether or not she will ever be prosecuted.
The article reports:
A raft of FBI agents vented anonymously to the Times about seeing the White House step on their investigation.
Ron Hosko, a retired senior F.B.I. official who now leads the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, said it was wrong of Obama to ‘suggest what side of the investigation he is on’ while an investigation is still underway.
‘Injecting politics into what is supposed to be a fact-finding inquiry leaves a foul taste in the F.B.I.’s mouth,’ Hosko told the Times, ‘and makes them fear that no matter what they find, the Justice Department will take the president’s signal and not bring a case.’
Obama previously found himself in hot water with federal investigators following a Super Bowl Sunday interview in February 2014 when he downplayed a then-swirling scandal over the IRS targeting right-wing groups politically.
Asked while federal investigators were poring through documents whether mass corruption inside America’s tax-collection agency was a factor, he responded: ‘Not even mass corruption – not even a smidgen of corruption.’
Those remarks were widely seen as prejudicing an ongoing investigation, or sending a televised hint to the FBI that the Oval Office didn’t want to see any aggressive prosecutions.
I think it is unlikely that the Obama Justice Department will do anything about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they have been totally politicized under the Obama Administration. However, the FBI may be another matter. This is far more serious than the charges against General Petraeus, and he was charged and convicted. We are about to see if equal justice under the law for all Americans will apply in the remaining day of the Obama Administration.