Jill Stein on The FBI & Hillary in Counterpunch

...actually, Counterpunch has two pieces.

Why Hillary Clinton Should be Prosecuted for Reckless Abuses of National Security

While the FBI is giving Clinton a pass for not “intending” to betray state secrets, her staff has said Secretary Clinton stated she used her private email system because she did not want her personal emails to become accessible under FOI laws. This is damning on two counts – that she intended to disregard the protection of security information, and that she had personal business to conceal.

This is not the end of the Clinton email issues. Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court on June 29th requesting a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.

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If Secretary Clinton was conducting personal business for her family Foundation through the Secretary of State’s Office, this is a matter the American public deserves to know about. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton routinely granted lucrative special contracts, weapons deals and government partnerships to Clinton Foundation donors. The Secretary of State’s office should not be a place to conduct private back room business deals.

The blurring of the lines between Clinton family private business and national security matters in the Secretary of State Office underscores evidence on many other fronts that Hillary Clinton is serving the 1%, not we the people.

From Mel Goodman outlining how this treatment is disparate from others who have been investigated and charged:

Hillary Clinton’s Wanton Disregard for US Laws and National Security

There is a new poster child for the U.S. government’s double standard in dealing with violations of public policy and public trust—former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who will receive no punishment for her wanton disregard of U.S. laws and national security. Clinton merely received a blistering rebuke from FBI director James Comey, who charged her with “extremely careless” behavior in using multiple private email servers to send and received classified information as well as using her personal cellphone in dealing with sensitive materials while traveling outside the United States. Some of these communications referred to CIA operatives, which is a violation of a 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act to protect those individuals working overseas under cover.

Of course Trump says that Petreus received much worse sanction - here's a reminder of what that was:

A CIA operative, John Kiriakou, received a thirty-month jail sentence in 2014 for giving two journalists the name of a CIA operative, although the name never appeared in the media. Kiriakou’s sentence was praised by CIA director David Petraeus, who faced his own charges for providing sensitive materials to his biographer, who was also his mistress. Petraeus lied to FBI investigators, who wanted to confront the general with felony charges. The Department of Justice reduced the matter to a single misdemeanor, and Petraeus received a modest fine that could be covered with a few of his speaking fees.

He covers a handful of others and how they have been handled in light of reckless or other behavior.

Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of “Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” “National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism,” and the forthcoming “The Path to Dissent: A Whistleblower at CIA” (City Lights Publishers, 2015). Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org.

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Raggedy Ann's picture

is behavior we, the common people, exhibit.

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

riverlover's picture

to drown would not happen now. None of them drive themselves. --Do high mucky Senators employ body guards now? We are truly living in bizzarro world now.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

Yes Petraeous got off with a fine and wrist slap, others lower down in the food chain weren't as lucky. But, I've never in my wildest nightmares imagined that HRC's criminal behavior would be rewarded with the continuation of her campaign for the presidency. That's just Obama shitting all over the American people. Would love to see the both of them thrown in the penitentiary for life.

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ZimInSeattle's picture

to it. I'm becoming more and more convinced that the Trump campaign and the email saga are all part of a devious plan by the Clinton's to insure the implementation of TPP and other horrible parts of the right wing agenda. Trump is the only Republican that was running that Hillary could possibly have a chance to beat. Bill going on Lynch's plane and then the subsequent letting off the hook of Hillary is all designed to inflame the right wingers and us Bernie supporters and giving full reason for the House Republicans into immediately filing for impeachment upon Hillary's inauguration thus having a spectacle to keep the rabbles attention for 4 solid years away from what is really happening. The final nails being driven into the coffins of the middle and lower classes. Class war complete, and we lost. This country is so fucked up.

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featheredsprite's picture

Although you're quite correct. It is a class war.

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