Hillary's Crimes #1005

Michael Mukasey, the US Attorney General from 2007-2009, produced an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on Jan 22, 2016 about Hillary's email mess.  The title is "Clinton's Emails: A Criminal Charge is Justified."

Mukasey discusses the email scandal and concludes that Hillary knew enough about the material she handled to support a conviction for at least mishandling classified information.  That is the charge brought against General Petraeus.

Further, he suggests that more severe grades of bad acts may apply and attract a criminal charge: 

• Knowledge of what she was doing regarding mishandling classified information relating to national defense
• Gross negligence in the case of mishandling classified information relating to national defense
• Bad intent relating to actual or attempted destruction of email messages
• Corrupt intent relating to State Department business

He finishes by saying, " our public officials will do their job."

Crime # 1005:  Mukasey also mentions recent reporting by Catherine Herridge at Fox, where she says the FBI are now looking at "the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed."

Hillary's Crimes #1003 and #1004

Continuing the miserable story of Hillary and her criminal email servers and mail forwarding.

#1003:  It is becoming more and more clear that Hillary transmitted top Confidential, Secret and Top Secret documents.  Many of them appear to have had the classification designations removed by her staff, who are thus also complicit.  In one discovered email. she instructs a staffer to convert from paper to "paperless" and send in the clear.

The FBI now says about 3000 emails are in this situation.  In addition, there are some 24 document that were in the four categories of Top Secret, including some in the SAP (Secure Access Programs) level of Top Secret.  These are documents that have information and often names of foreign operations and operatives and informers.

Yesterday, several generals were interviewed on TV and they were furious that she had not already been charged.  They also said it is 80% probable the SAP information is now in the hands of Iran and North Korea.  They claim Hillary's actions are much worse than what Edward Snowden did.

And what does Hillary say to all of this?  She is dismissive that it is a Republican plot and nothing bad happened.  She says that nothing marked "Classified" was transmitted.  This is a prevarication:  nothing is ever marked "Classified."

For instance, Top Secret information is that "...reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security..."

Classifications:  Wikipedia: Classified_information_in_the_United_States
Executive Order 13526:  Executive_Order_13526   Read Sec. 4.3 about Special Access Programs.

#1004:  Hillary will ruin careers if her transgressions are not moved forward.  There are about 100 to 150 FBI employees working on the Clinton Email Scandal.  The leaks and rumors are that there is more than enough evidence to indict Hillary.  Further, if the FBI Director James Comey does not recommend indictments, these staff people are angry enough to resign.  If he recommends and  Attorney General Loretta Lynch does not levee charges, the reaction will be widespread and nasty.