Re: To help Hillary THE FBI DIECTOR broke the number 1 law of the land.. JURY JUDGEME
The evidence is overwhelming, the decision not to charge her was not made because of lack of evidence it was made because he didn't think he could prove intent, but that is not for him to decide. Many military personnel have been dishonorably discharged for a single breech of security with no question of intent even being considered. This is clearly the case of one set of laws for the Clintons and one for everyone else.
Have to differ with you about the intent. What makes this thing even worse than you're describing is that in section 793(f) (which is a small part of the Espionage Act), Congress purposely did not require intent, as crimes ordinarily do. Instead, to give everyone who handles secret government documents even more reason to stay on their toes, 793(f) requires only
gross negligence--which is far easier to prove.
Director Comey never suggested he was recommending against prosecuting Mrs. Clinton because of any problem proving intent--he knew very well it didn't need to be proven. In fact, if you read his comments carefully, he laid out very strong evidence that Clinton had checked all the boxes for a violation of 793(f). Choosing his words very carefully, he said she had been "extremely careless" in her handling of the documents. Because there is no significant difference in meaning between "extremely careless" and "grossly negligent," that clever use of language allowed him to say she acted with the state of mind needed to violate 793(f) without ever using that statute's words.
Comey was saying, in a coded sort of way, that there was strong evidence Clinton had violated 793(f). But no sooner had he said that than he said--without ever explaining why--that it would be unreasonable to prosecute her. I think he found a clever way out of an impossible position. I am convinced his superiors had put him in that position by leading him to believe, without ever saying it, that he could not be sure they would support him if he recommended prosecuting her. That would have made him look like a relatively minor official who had overreached by trying to affect the outcome of a presidential election, and he is too smart to be made the goat.
Something similar happened to Director Hoover in the 1945
Amerasia scandal, in which Hoover knew that his superiors in Truman's Justice Dept., including the Attorney General himself, had rigged the grand jury proceedings. They did that to make sure a foreign service officer was no-billed by the grand jury, even though the FBI knew for dead certain he had passed dozens of secret military documents regarding U.S. plans in China to a Communist publisher, and that that man had then met with foreign Communist agents. The FBI Director is an important official, but he works for the Attorney General, and ultimately, for the President. Hoover had to bite his tongue in 1945, just as Comey did 70 years later.