Good day all. In the aftermath of the Coward James Comey’s whitewashing of Hillary Clinton’s rather blatant crimes, lawyers for people charged with similar actions are now demanding that they be treated just as Cankles was.
Gee, who could see that one coming? How about EVERYONE?!?!? Defense lawyers, when they heard Comey broom the criminal activities of Cankles, couldn’t believe their ears. It didn’t take long for the first use of the “Cankles Defense” to be made. Here are some of the details from McClatchy DC:
The FBI recommendation not to prosecute Hillary Clinton and her staff on charges of mishandling classified information will give those accused of flouting national security rules a new line of defense even as it highlights a dual standard in how senior government officials are treated, several experts said Wednesday.
Gee, ya think?
FBI Director James Comey recommended Tuesday that no charges be filed against Clinton or her team for their handling of classified information while she was secretary of state, even though she was “extremely careless” in using a private email address and servers. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Wednesday that she agreed with Comey’s assessment.
As Donald Trump said that night and last night in campaign appearances, since Clinton said she would like to keep Lynch on, and we have Bill Clinton secretly meeting with here, it looks an awful lot like some quid pro quo is taking place. Now lawyers are champing at the bit. They can’t wait to try this out in a courtroom.
Lawyers who specialize in representing government and military officials who’ve had security clearances revoked said Comey’s recommendation offered them a new tactic in seeking to rehabilitate their clients, especially if Clinton is elected president in November.
“I intend to use the Hillary defense,” said Sean M. Bigley, a lawyer whose firm handles dozens of cases a year involving national security clearances. “I really question how any agency can say someone is a security risk if the president of the United States did something similar.
He added, “We’ve had people lose 20-year careers for doing less than what she did.”
Mark F. Riley, a former military intelligence officer who became a lawyer defending those accused of national security violations, said he, too, would invoke the Clinton recommendation.
“I’m going to use it every chance I get, particularly in oral arguments. I’m going to bring it up over and over and over,” Riley said, adding that he thinks Clinton and her team engaged in “an egregious, egregious security violation.”
“Any other person would have had their security clearance revoked,” he said.
It didn’t take long for the first use of this new defense, provided by the cowardly and incompetent James Comey to be used. According to US News and World Report:
Major Jason Brezler, center, holds a meeting of local governors on May 3, 2010, outside of Nowzad in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Brezler faces a possible discharge after emailing a classified document. Attorneys for people who allegedly mishandled classified information say the outcome of the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton could be good news for their clients.
The argument that a free pass for Clinton should allow leniency for others soon will be tested in federal court as attorney Michael Bowe argues Marine Reserves Maj. Jason Brezler should not be separated from the military.
Brezler used a personal email account to send a classified report about an alleged child-raping, drug-dealing Afghan police official to a fellow Marine as a warning, two weeks before one of the man’s apparent rape victims murdered three Marines. He reportedly knew the document was classified, but felt its status may have changed with time.
So a United State Marine, trying to protect American forces, sent a classified report to another marine outside of classified channels. Hmm, sounds like he did the wrong thing for all the right reasons, unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton who did all the wrong things for all the wrong reasons.
Bowe intends to argue that Brezler deserves leniency and that his recommended punishment is arbitrary and capricious, particularly in light of Clinton’s conduct. He expects a ruling this fall.
“We intend to cite the treatment of Secretary Clinton as one of the many — and most egregious — examples of how the severe treatment of Major Brezler was the very definition of an arbitrary and capricious double standard,” Bowe says.
He adds: “It is impossible to reconcile the commander-in chief’s statement [in April] that Secretary Clinton’s intentional act of setting up a secret, unsecured server on which rested the most sensitive classified information did not ‘detract from her excellent ability to carry out her duties’ with the completely opposite finding for Major Brezler based on an allegedly inadvertent mistake involving infinitely less sensitive and limited information.”
Congratulations Director James “You incredible cowardly moron” Comey, you have just tossed decades of legal precedent right out the window because you were to gutless to do your job. This Marine broke the law in order to try and save lives. The criminal you are protecting did what she did in order to protect herself from Congress, and the general public. With your refusal to do your job, you have just opened up a can of worms under the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution. Time for you to resign in utter and complete disgrace.
Thatisall
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His only possible apology is to suck start his pistol.