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Does FBI Director Comey Think Hillary Clinton Is Above the Law?

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In a clear indication that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton understood this policy, she sent out the following under her name on June 28, 2011. "A State Department cable is issued under Clinton's signature " orders all employees to 'Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal email accounts' because it has been discovered that hackers are targeting the personal emails of government employees. " (The Washington Post, 3/10/2015) Clinton Investigation Timeline

The fact that Clinton sent a cable out under her name stating official policy indicates that she was thoroughly aware of federal guidelines. The use of her private email server and account before, during, and after this announcement shows a clear intent to violate federal regulations. This is beyond question. How can Director Comey state that lack of intent is an excuse for failing to indict Clinton when, in her own words, she knew of the regulations that she was violating?

2) "Evidence tampering in contemplation of future proceeding" violates federal code. Tampering includes destruction of evidence. Tampering with Evidence, Criminal Defense Lawyer

According to her lawyer's narrative, around February 5, 2015 Clinton a) destroyed over 30,000 emails well into the Benghazi investigation and b) Clinton had her email server set to delete all emails on a 60-day cycle. Clinton Investigation Timeline. These are two instances of of tampering with evidence. Clinton admitted tampering with thousands of pieces of evidence and the purge cycle for deleting emails set well into this scandal is absolutely outrageous.

If your name is Clinton, are you allowed to blatantly tamper with evidence? Deleting past emails that would normally be reviewed in a legal proceeding and automatically deleting future emails indicates clear intent to violate the laws against tampering with evidence.

We have a right to be outraged that Director Comey explained his actions with such an obviously flawed rationale in the face of very public evidence documenting Clinton's violation of law and intent to do so. Don't we rate first-rate lies for these grand deceptions by the power elite?

Are they just throwing out any excuse as a matter of form?

Do they really think we're stupid enough to buy this?

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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