Random political thoughts: 1-paragraph mini-editorials

[AlwaysWrite]

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Some random political thoughts in a simple, one-paragraph format ...]

* Regardless of opinions about Donald Trump, his election has rendered a great service to the nation. It has effectively closed the book on the Bush and Clinton family political dynasties, and the American people will no longer be effectively cursed by either.

* Hillary Rodham Clinton was a great MIS-leader, whether about Benghazi, her e-mails, the Clinton Foundation, or whatever. And SHE is deplorable ... NOT the multi-millions of those who voted for Donald John Trump.

[... and three one-paragraph mini-editorials regarding FBI Director James Comey ...]

* If Comey said that Hillary Clinton lied under oath to Congress but didn't lie to the FBI, that would mean that she told the FBI something different than she told the American people and under oath to Congress. Therefore, she lied to the FBI or she lied under oath to Congress. One has to be true, and both are crimes.

* Comey concluded that no reasonable prosecutor would pursue the case against Hillary, and that makes it clear that Comey himself is NOT a reasonable prosecutor.

* Nothing frames a conclusion that Hillary is "above the law" better than Comey's statement: “To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a(nother) person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences."

 

[Robadat]

All good points, however;

Comey, as head of the FBI is not a prosecutor of any kind. He is an investigator. The FBI investigations found wrong doing by Clinton in a couple of areas. Lying to Congress under oath or to the FBI. Using a personal server for government business for the purpose of hiding information from FOIA requests and also transmitting classified information via unsecure, non-government approved servers to persons who were not authorized to receive such information.

These are prosecutable offenses under Federal law and as such, all findings by the FBI should have been turned over to the DOJ for prosecutorial action.

In the short term, this may have been in Hillary's best interest as there would have been no way she could have continued her run for the Presidency had she been under federal indictment. In the long term, that may be a disastrous move in that if the investigation is renewed under the current administration she will have no protection and could very well end up behind bars for a long, long time.

Your last point is perfect. We are a nation of laws, no one is above the law.

 

[AlwaysWrite]

All good points, however;

Comey, as head of the FBI is not a prosecutor of any kind. He is an investigator.

... but he HAS BEEN a prosecutor ... and perhaps a HAS-BEEN prosecutor at that.