{"id":27726,"date":"2016-03-03T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27726"},"modified":"2016-03-03T15:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T20:19:40","slug":"some-of-our-justice-department-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27726","title":{"rendered":"Some Of Our Justice Department Actually Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scott Johnson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.attask.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Scott Johnson<\/a> posted an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2016\/03\/comey-speaks-tersely.php\" target=\"_blank\">Power Line<\/a> about the ongoing investigation of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails. Scott Johnson is an attorney and understands what words mean when they are carefully used.<\/p>\n<p>A few highlights from the article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>On the rare occasions when she is asked about the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.894465,-77.024503&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.894465,-77.024503 (Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">FBI<\/a> investigation arising from her use of an insecure <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Message transfer agent\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Message_transfer_agent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">email server<\/a> to conduct official business as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Secretary of State\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Secretary_of_State\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Secretary of State<\/a>, Hillary Clinton refers to it as \u201ca security review.\u201d It is, moreover, \u201ca security review\u201d that \u201cwas requested,\u201d as though the FBI is doing someone a favor. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;Clinton makes it sound routine. The FBI, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2016\/02\/06\/fbi-intelligence-sources-hillarys-email-scandal-answer-at-debate-was-nonsense-n2115814\">does not perform \u201csecurity reviews.\u201d<\/a> It conducts criminal investigations. Its handling of the Clinton email matter clearly constitutes a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Criminal investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Criminal_investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">criminal investigation<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday FBI Director <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James B. Comey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_B._Comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">James Comey<\/a> was questioned about the investigation by Representative <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Steve Chabot\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Chabot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Steve Chabot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is Director Comey&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cAs you know we don\u2019t talk about our investigations. What I can assure you is that I am very close, personally, to that investigation to ensure that we have the resources we need including people and technology. And that it is done the way the FBI tries to do all of its work: independently, competently, and promptly. That\u2019s our goal and I\u2019m confident that it\u2019s being done that way but I can\u2019t give you any more details than that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the article at Power Line, Scott Johnson notes that Director Comey is taking responsibility for the investigation. Because Director Comey has a reputation for being an honest man, this could get interesting. I have never believed that Hillary Clinton would pay any price for mishandling classified information. I hope I am wrong. Director Comey&#8217;s statement is encouraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Scott Johnson posted an article at Power Line about the ongoing investigation of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails. Scott Johnson is an attorney and understands what words mean when they are carefully used. A few highlights from the article: On the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[420,9704,6031,68],"class_list":["post-27726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-hillary-clintons-emails","tag-james-b-comey","tag-united-states-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27727,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27726\/revisions\/27727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}