Good day all. Things just took a turn for the worse for Hillary Clinton. The Department of Justice has just granted immunity from prosecution to the man who set up her bathroom mail server.
The Systems Admin, Bryan Pagliano, was called to testify in front of Congress a while back, He refused to answer per his rights under the 5th Amendment of the Constitution. Many people wondered why he needed to do so, and also wondered why he wasn’t granted immunity from prosecution. Well, that immunity has just been granted. Here are the details from the Washington Post:
The Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.
The operative word here is “Criminal” investigation. Since this mess started, Clinton and her cronies have been calling this a “Security Review.” This has never been a “review.” It’s always been a criminal investigation.
As the FBI looks to wrap up its investigation in the coming months, agents are likely to want to interview Clinton and her senior aides about the decision to use a private server, how it was set up, and whether any of the participants knew they were sending classified information in emails, current and former officials said.
Now here we may have a problem with the Washington Post story. You don’t immunize someone from prosecution when you are finishing up an investigation. You do that when you are really digging into things and it looks like you will be asking for indictments. This is why I think that they FBI has found things and want Pagliano’s testimony to “Close the loop” as it were in the chain of evidence.
Without a doubt, the investigators will be hauling Cankles aides in, and might force Cankles herself to answer questions. Of course, since these people are also targets for investigation, the 5th Amendment kicks in and they can’t be forced to testify against themselves. Hillary Clinton taking the 5th in a criminal investigation against her would be priceless. While we won’t know about it officially until the full investigation is completed, I have no doubt it will be made known through “Informed, Anonymous Sources.”
The inquiry comes against a political backdrop in which Clinton is the favorite to secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency. So far, there is no indication that prosecutors have convened a grand jury in the email investigation to subpoena testimony or documents, which would require the participation of a U.S. attorney’s office.
The Grand Jury won’t be requested until the FBI finishes their work. Even then, if they find nothing, they won’t make any announcements until they are done. If they do find enough to indict, then they will turn this over to Loretta Lynch and she will be forced to decide. From what has already been made public, Cankles and her minions are looking at serious rock breaking time. As to Hillary Clinton?
In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said: “As we have said since last summer, Secretary Clinton has been cooperating with the Department of Justice’s security inquiry, including offering in August to meet with them to assist their efforts if needed.”
The delusions from the Clinton Crime Cartel continue. This is not and never has been a “security inquiry.” It has always been a criminal investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation does not do “Security Reviews.” They are called in after the reviews have been completed and it is determined that a crime may have been committed.
He also said the campaign is “pleased” that Pagliano, who invoked his Fifth Amendment rights before a congressional panel in September, is now cooperating with prosecutors. The campaign had encouraged Pagliano to testify before Congress.
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And if your believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you. I’m just surprised this guy hasn’t ended up missing, moved to Paraguay, or dead from “Mysterious causes.”
Any decision to charge someone would involve Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, who told Congress when asked last month about the email inquiry: “That matter is being handled by career independent law enforcement agents, FBI agents, as well as the career independent attorneys in the Department of Justice. They follow the evidence, they look at the law and they’ll make a recommendation to me when the time is appropriate.”
I don’t have an issue with Lynch’s dodge here. This is an ongoing investigation and ethically she can’t comment on it. However, you know that the last thing she wants to do is make a decision that will sink Clinton’s chances of being President. This is one reason I think that the FBI is taking so long to finish up.
The evidence now publicly available is enough to arrest Clinton and the others. However, because of the political nature of this case, the investigators want this wrapped up nice and tight with a big pink bow before they drop it on Lynch’s desk. In other words, they don’t want to give her ANY wiggle room to drop the whole thing.
Current and former officials said the conviction of retired four-star general and CIA director David H. Petraeus for mishandling classified information is casting a shadow over the email investigation.
And why is that?
The officials said they think that Petraeus’s actions were more egregious than those of Clinton and her aides because he lied to the FBI, and classified information he shared with his biographer contained top secret code words, identities of covert officers, war strategy and intelligence capabilities. Prosecutors initially threatened to charge him with three felonies, including conspiracy, violating the Espionage Act and lying to the FBI. But after negotiations, Petraeus pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information.
This may be true, but there was one major difference. The damage done by Petraeus was minimal. None of the information went past his girlfriend. Hillary Clinton’s mail server was loaded with classified information, some of it Top Secret, Special Access Program, (Which is about as top secret as you can get), and there is little doubt foreign governments hostile to the United States hacked her server and cleaned out every single message. Clinton and the State Department have been claiming that none of the messages were marked as classified at the time she had them on her server.
Clinton and the State Department have said that none of the material was marked classified at the time it was sent.
Which is an absolute lie. All classified information is classified at the point of generation. The Special Access Programs were apparently kept on a separate network with no connection to the internet. The only way it could jump would be if someone either used a thumb drive to copy the data, (Difficult since that capability is locked down), or just transcribed it. Basically, looking at the computer with the information and hand typing it into an email to Cankles through her wide open server. That alone breaks the law.
The State Department has said that, at the request of intelligence agencies, it has classified 22 Clinton emails as “top secret” and will not release those emails, even in redacted form. “Top secret” is the highest level of classification, reserved for material whose release could cause “exceptionally grave damage to the national security.”
That sound Hillary is hearing is the sounds of handcuffs being pulled out. These were the messages that were on the secure network with no connection to the internet at all. How they ended up on her server is the question of the day.
With the immunity deal in place, Bryan Pagliano has no choice but to spill the beans. I really doubt the DOJ would have wasted their time by offering him immunity if he didn’t have information germane to their investigation, and also if his information wasn’t going to net a bigger fish. Those fish would be Clinton’s aides and Hillary Rodham Clinton herself. It was her server, she was briefed on security procedures, and she was the one who ignored them and the law by setting up and using that home email server.
I think the only question now, is when will they charge her? Before or after the convention or before the election? If she somehow scams her way into the White House, it will probably be only a matter of months before impeachment hearings begin.
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