{"id":28736,"date":"2016-07-08T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28736"},"modified":"2016-07-08T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:17:38","slug":"the-history-behind-the-decision-not-to-charge-hillary-clinton-with-mishandling-classified-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28736","title":{"rendered":"The History Behind The Decision Not To Charge Hillary Clinton With Mishandling Classified Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are at a critical point in America&#8211;we have lost the concept of equal justice under the law. However, we did not get here overnight, and the characters involved are simply acting in ways they have acted in the past. It is time to clean house in Washington and see if we can replace the current elites with people who love America more than they love their own personal advancement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/07\/comey-has-long-history-of-clinton-related-cases\/#!\" target=\"_blank\">World Net Daily<\/a> posted an article yesterday that gives an amazing amount of insight into how Washington works and the characters involved in the latest Clinton scandal. I would strongly suggest that you follow the link and read the entire article, but I will try to summarize the article below.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In 2004, Comey (James Comey, FBI Director), then serving as a deputy attorney general in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.89325,-77.0249722222&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.89325,-77.0249722222 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Justice)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Justice Department<\/a>, apparently limited the scope of the criminal investigation of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sandy Berger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandy_Berger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Sandy Berger<\/a>, which left out former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Bill Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Clinton administration<\/a> officials who may have coordinated with Berger in his removal and destruction of classified records from the National Archives. The documents were relevant to accusations that the Clinton administration was negligent in the build-up to the 9\/11 terrorist attack.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\"><strong>&#8230;Curiously, Berger, Lynch and Cheryl Mills all worked as partners in the Washington law firm <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hogan Lovells\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoganlovells.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Hogan &amp; Hartson<\/a>, which prepared tax returns for the Clintons and did patent work for a software firm that played a role in the private email server Hillary Clinton used when she was secretary of state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p><strong>&#8230;After Attorney General John Aschroft recused himself in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Plame affair\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plame_affair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Valerie Plame affair<\/a> in 2004, Comey appointed as special counsel <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patrick Fitzgerald\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Fitzgerald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Patrick J. Fitzgerald<\/a>, who ended up convicting <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scooter Libby\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scooter_Libby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">\u201cScooter\u201d Libby<\/a>, a top aide to then <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dick Cheney\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Cheney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Vice President Dick Cheney<\/a>, of perjury and obstruction of justice. The charge was based on the accusations of Plame and her former ambassador husband, Joe Wilson \u2013 both partisan supporters of Bill and Hillary Clinton \u2013 that Libby outed her as a CIA agent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/Judith-Miller-Scooter-Libby-trail-false-testimony\/2015\/04\/07\/id\/636958\/\">New York Times reporter Judith Miller\u2019s 2015 memoir strongly suggests Fitzgerald improperly manipulated testimony<\/a> and withheld crucial evidence in obtaining a conviction against Libby in his 2007 trial.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p><strong>&#8230;When Dukakis was defeated, Berger returned to Hogan &amp; Hartson until he became foreign policy adviser for Bill Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign in 1992.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On March 28, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/03\/loretta-lynchs-law-firm-tied-to-hillary-clinton\/\">WND reported<\/a> Lynch was a litigation partner for eight years at Hogan &amp; Hartson, from March 2002 through April 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mills <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/03\/loretta-lynchs-law-firm-tied-to-hillary-clinton\/#%21\">also worked at Hogan &amp; Hartson, for two years, starting in 1990<\/a>, before she joined then President-elect Bill Clinton\u2019s transition team, on her way to securing a position as White House deputy counsel in the Clinton administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to documents Hillary Clinton\u2019s first presidential campaign made public in 2008, Hogan &amp; Hartson\u2019s New York-based partner Howard Topaz was the tax lawyer who filed income tax returns for Bill and Hillary Clinton beginning in 2004.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In addition, Hogan &amp; Hartson in Virginia filed a patent trademark request on May 19, 2004, for Denver-based MX Logic Inc., the computer software firm that developed the email encryption system used to manage Clinton\u2019s private email server beginning in July 2013. A tech expert has observed that employees of MX Logic could have had access to all the emails that went through her account.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1999, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bill Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonlibrary.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Bill Clinton<\/a> nominated Lynch for the first of her two terms as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Attorney_for_the_Eastern_District_of_New_York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York<\/a>, a position she held until she joined Hogan &amp; Hartson in March 2002 to become a partner in the firm\u2019s Litigation Practice Group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you get the picture. Washington needs a major housecleaning. Our justice system is seriously compromised and needs to be cleaned up and staffed with people who believe in equal justice under the law. I suspect our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are at a critical point in America&#8211;we have lost the concept of equal justice under the law. However, we did not get here overnight, and the characters involved are simply acting in ways they have acted in the past. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28736\">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":[1554,3947,3174,420,1457,10095,269,10164],"class_list":["post-28736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attorney-general","tag-benghazi","tag-bill-clinton","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey","tag-justice-department","tag-sandy-berger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736","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=28736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28737,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736\/revisions\/28737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}