Maybe instead of measuring the White House curtains, Hillary Clinton and her enablers should start measuring the jailhouse curtains.
Last week, Fox News’s Catherine Herridge reported that the FBI has an “A Team” looking into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, and highlights 18 US Code 793 of the Espionage Act that the former secretary of state might have violated.
Herridge’s sources claim that violating that code is a felony. Writing in the Washington Times, Daniel Gallington, who served in several national security positions over several decades, makes a similar claim.
Now we’re getting somewhere. With the FBI on the case, we may finally get some answers—and some indictments.
Other laws requiring the reporting of possibly compromised classified information also may have been breached. And there is always perjury.
For her part, Hillary is standing by her claim that she never sent or received classified information on her personal email account. And the State Department just released 7,000 more emails, with some 150 redacted because they supposedly became classified after Hillary handled them.
Letting Clinton and her team sift through the emails and determine which ones were relevant to congressional subpoenas would be as insane as letting the Iranians inspect their own nuclear sites to determine if there was an infraction! Oh, wait…
But Hillary’s claim just doesn’t pass the stench test. She says she never had a government email account; she only used her private email on her private server.
If that were true, it would mean the secretary of the State Department never sent or received—even inadvertently—one classified email in her four-year tenure. Does that even sound possible? Especially given that underlings, eager to let the boss see their names and know they’re actively engaged—which is one way to move up in a bureaucracy—would have copied her on important, classified emails directed at other State personnel.
Now Clinton confidante Huma Abedin and others are being dragged kicking and texting into the scandal, and there will likely be several more before this is over.
That means if the case against Clinton gets much worse, President Obama might have to consider pardoning her and her enablers before he steps down.
Just imagine the irony of a departing president pardoning the incoming president just before she’s sworn in.
But Hillary’s only one of many. There’s IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who has arguably lied under oath, and, of course, Lois Lerner, who seemingly singled out and harassed conservative- and libertarian-leaning organizations applying for nonprofit status. Remember them?
We’ve recently found out more about Lerner’s emails, including that she used a private email account to conduct official IRS business.
A new presidential administration should prosecute all of these cases to the fullest—and a Republican probably will. We’re not talking about criminalizing politics; this is about administration officials and career bureaucrats who broke the law.
House Speaker John Boehner may have been prophetic when in April 2014 he told Megyn Kelly of Fox News’s The Kelly File, in reference to the IRS-Lois Lerner scandal, “I don’t care who’s going to be fired, I want to know who’s going to jail.”
As Boehner explained to Kelly, “Somebody at the IRS violated the law.” And apparently at the State Department, too.