{"id":38255,"date":"2020-02-25T07:33:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38255"},"modified":"2020-02-25T07:33:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:33:06","slug":"two-track-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38255","title":{"rendered":"Two-Track Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The National Review<\/a> posted an article with the title, “With Liberty and Two-Track Justice for All.” Unless things change quickly, we will officially become a banana republic.<\/p>\n

The article notes the contrasts in the way similar charges against Americans were handled:<\/p>\n

\u2022 President Trump\u2019s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is doing seven and a half years<\/a> at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., for his pre-Trump<\/em> tax and bank fraud.\u00a0Manafort has endured solitary confinement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Former campaign aide George Papadopoulos served twelve days in the slammer for false statements to FBI officers. His steep legal bills and spooked clients drove him back into his parents\u2019 house.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Former national security adviser Michael Flynn awaits sentencing, and wants his charges dropped, after pleading guilty to false statements. Flynn reportedly took a plea after selling his house to pay his lawyers. DOJ prosecuted Flynn, although no less than Andrew McCabe acknowledged that \u201cthe two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn\u2019t think he was lying<\/a>.\u201d Indeed,\u00a0the G-men who spoke with Flynn later reported: \u201cThroughout\u00a0the interview, Flynn had a very \u2018sure\u2019 demeanor and did not give any indicators of deception. He did not parse his words or hesitate in any of his answers.\u201d Never mind those details;\u00a0Flynn still<\/em> could wind up in an orange jump suit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article compares the above scenarios with the fate of James Comey:<\/p>\n

As the OIG concluded:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comey violated applicable policies and his Employment Agreement<\/strong><\/a> by failing to either surrender his copies of Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 to the FBI or seek authorization to retain them; by releasing official FBI information and records to third parties without authorization; and by failing to immediately alert the FBI about his disclosures to his personal attorneys once he became aware in June 2017 that Memo 2 contained six words (four of which were names of foreign countries mentioned by the President) that the FBI had determined were classified at the \u201cCONFIDENTIAL\u201d level.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, Comey did<\/em> spill state secrets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBy not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his FBI employment, and by using it to create public pressure for official action,\u201d the OIG concluded in August, \u201cComey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees \u2014 and the many thousands more former FBI employees \u2014 who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, is Comey breaking rocks? Awaiting his prison sentence? Preparing for trial?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes the activities of Hillary Clinton:<\/p>\n

Despite 588 security violations<\/a> that the State Department attributed to Hillary Clinton and her associates in the Emailgate scandal, as well as her role in purchasing the \u201cdirty dossier\u201d that triggered the Russia hoax, the former first lady has suffered zero consequences for an entire career of professional misconduct. Anyone who survived her husband\u2019s presidency recalls Hillary as a latter-day Ma Barker, or Bonnie to Bill\u2019s Clyde. Regardless, Hillary always walks away, Scot-free. And she always gets paid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Her 2014 book Hard Choices<\/em><\/a> scored her some $14 million. The next year, Business Insider<\/em> reports, she made $12 million in speaking fees to well-connected organizations<\/a> and huge corporations. A sample of these for 2015 included:<\/strong><\/p>\n

California Medical Association: $100,000 (via satellite!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce: $150,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institute of Scrap Metal Recycling Industries: $225,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

National Automobile Dealers Association: $225,500<\/strong><\/p>\n

United Fresh Produce Association: $225,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

eBay Inc.: $315,000 (for a 20-minute speech)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cisco: $325,000 (She reportedly sat onstage with the CEO)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biotechnology Industry Organization: $335,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Qualcomm Incorporated: $335,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

GTCR Private Equity: $780,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Atop this steady cash, Hillary never stops playing presidential-campaign hokey-pokey: She puts her left foot in, she takes her left foot out, she puts her left foot in, and she shakes it all about. Rumors that Michael Bloomberg is considering her as a potential running mate gives this entitled woman yet another opportunity to show some West Wing ankle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lois Lerner also made the list of insiders with minimal consequences for breaking the law:<\/p>\n

Lois Lerner ran the IRS unit that perpetrated the systematic political profiling of conservative groups that sought tax-exempt designation. IRS\u2019s wingtip-dragging, relentless demands for paperwork, and Orwellian questions (\u201cplease provide the percentage of time your organization spends on prayer groups<\/a>\u201d) all subjected to extra scrutiny 94 percent of center-right and Tea Party groups<\/a> that sought 501(c)(3) and (c)(4)status, versus 6 percent of analogous liberal outfits, the House Ways and Means Committee found in August 2013. Consequently, rather than educate citizens on limited-government principles before the 2012 election, scores of these organizations either failed to launch or did so, only to run out of fuel and tumble back to earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lerner supervised this virtual gag-the-Right scheme. When GOP congressional overseers sought Lerner\u2019s laptop hard drive, they learned that it was shipped to a Federal Bureau of Prisons recycling facility in Florida. As the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration testified in 2015, \u201cthis shipment of hard drives was destroyed using an AMERI-SHRED AMS-750HD<\/a> shredder.\u201d The industrial-strength machine chopped the drives into quarter-sized pieces. The Feds then sold this material as scrap.<\/strong><\/p>\n