We previously discussed the controversy over the FBI granting immunity to former State Department staffer, Bryan Pagliano, who set up a server in Mrs. Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y., and worked for her at the State Department. Pagliano had refused to cooperate after invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. He was an obvious target of potential criminal charges if he knew that the server was meant to circumvent federal laws, including the mishandling of classified information. The granting of immunity removed the threat for his cooperation, a leverage often used to implication others who may be higher up in the chain of command. Now, as the record appears to confirm that email records were knowingly destroyed after the issuing of a congressional subpoena to preserve such record, it also appears that the Justice Department gave immunity to the other person most at risk of a criminal charge — and the person some are likely to argue would have been the most likely to be able to implicate others. He is computer specialist, Paul Combetta.
The Clinton campaign is now putting all blame of Combetta, who of course is now beyond the reach of prosecutors and pressure. Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said that Combetta, who worked for a Colorado company called Platte River Networks, acted alone and “neither Hillary Clinton nor her attorneys had knowledge of the Platte River Network employee’s actions. It appears he acted on his own and against guidance given by both Clinton’s and Platte River’s attorneys to retain all data in compliance with a congressional preservation request.”
Many are likely to view this defense with suspicion as a constructed scapegoat. Having given immunity to both of the most likely targets for indictment, both specialists are the perfect fire walls for anyone who had knowledge or failed to move to preserve the material. In fairness to the Clinton camp, the account of the FBI could support a claim that the specialist realized on his own that the final record had not been scrubbed and took this action unilaterally in what is described as an “Oh Shit” moment. Indeed, that conversation with unnamed Clinton aides could be exonerating rather than incriminating if they stressed that all records should be preserved. Most investigators however would be curious why a contractor, if expressly told by a client to preserve any emails, would unilaterally destroy them.
What is particularly interesting is that Combetta reportedly changed his testimony on critical elements but ultimately acknowledged knowing about the subpoena. Combetta reportedly told the bureau in February that he did not recall deleting the emails, but then changed that account in May. He added to speaking with unidentified Clinton aides in March 2015 and then decided on his own to use BleachBit to delete the messages. While he denied knowing about the preservation order in February, he reversed that critical fact in May and said that “he was aware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton’s email data” on the Platte River server.
Some might argue that the Justice Department would most likely move to charge him and then offer a plea bargain if he could implicated others and remember names like those on the telephone call. Instead he was given immunity.
The House appears to be moving to seek his testimony and he may not be out of the legal woods. Witnesses are generally given “use and derivative use” immunity rather than the broader form of transactional immunity. If so, Combetta would be protected from the use of his statements or any evidence derived from those statements against him. If testifying in Congress, he would face the risk of perjury as well as other collateral crimes. It would create a messy situation with a previously immunized witness. Generally, the prior grant of immunity does not roll over to separate investigations by another branch, though he would remain protected from the use of his statements in the prior proceedings. Thus, he could carefully repeat those answers and try to stay within the scope of his prior statements. If he does not want to risk the uncertainty, he could invoke his privilege against self-incrimination and refuse to testify absent a granting of immunity from Congress.
I say the movie Sully last night. Eastwood is a great filmmaker. Like Apollo 13, we knew the outcome but both flicks have you on the edge of your seat. I know those 150 passengers that landed in the Hudson thank God they had an ace pilot in Sully and not some ham n’ egger Clintonista washout piloting their plane.
Thanks to the U.S. National Security State, voters will elect or “elect” Clinton. Trump is a shade too unreliable to be entrusted with being CEO for the majority of the richest 1%ers and their partners in Israel.
No one here gets fees for listening to you. Take it somewhere else.
If you want to make a Spastic mad, tell it a lie. If you want to make it furious, tell it the truth.
Is your name Clinton? No it isn’t, and noone here or anywhere else gets fees for paying any attention to you. Nice try, Sport.
Just tossing this out for fun. Among the hundreds of suspicious actions associated w/9/11…the Twin Tower’s Judaic owners were saddled w/hundred of millions of dollars in required earthquake and other retrofits. Shortly before 9/11, the owners modified their insurance policy, increase their payout in case of incident like 9/11. The owners profited hundreds of millions of dollars as direct result of the “attack” (false flag event).
One of the authors of the 9/11 Congressional Report/Whitewash has blood and/or marriage relationship to the person at the insurance company who wrote the payoff check to the Twin Tower owners, a fact the Report did not disclose.
I guess Prof Turley has not read the Wapo editorial about the so called e-mail “scandal”. It is even worse since he has chosen to ignore the actual facts about Trump and his many illegal acts. The latest is the bribery scandal against Bondi, since she is obviously guilty using the same criterion he uses against Clinton. It looks bad so it must be true that she was bribed. She admitted calling Trump personally, and a few days later he ILLEGALLY gave her PAC $25,000 from his foundation. He then had his foundation pay the IRS fine for using a non-profit for political donations. There is NO word as to whether or not she had her PAC return the ILLEGAL donation. THAT is a good question that needs to be answered. If she did not SHE is also GUILTY of illegally KNOWINGLY accepting such a donation. Now I can believe Trump since he says he did not talk to her since he cannot remember what he said yesterday. He also can hold two incompatible views at the same time, a true feat of incompetence unmatched by most people. So I think the FACT is that she DID call him, and he does not remember since $25,000 is chump change for Trump.
Now we should have ICE investigate the illegals that Trump has hired in his modelling agency. He brought them over on tourist visas and put them to work, just as he did his current wife. So much for his idea of enforcing immigration laws. They apply to all employers except himself. Then we have Trump’s payment to Texas AG Abbot for ignoring Trump U’s fraud and giving him a slap on the wrist. Then we have the fact that the PA AG rated a full story for malfeasance, and silence on Texas AG being indicted and arrested for FELONIES in which he defrauded people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Incredible this blindness and waste of time on gnats while ignoring felonies. At least the PA AG did not steal thousands of dollars, and ignore other criminal conduct, OR get arrested for a misdemeanor DUI as the Travis county DA did, which rated a full column. Why this difference?
Trump has so many scandals popping that it is a full time job to keep up with them. Finally the lame stream media is starting to cover them. Maybe some day this blog will catch up but I am not holding my breath. Trump is as corrupt as they come plus he lies on a daily basis.
Someone’s reporting them or they wouldn’t be ‘popping’. By the way, how do you measure corruption for a private citizen? “he lies on a daily basis.”? Then he is overqualified for the office he seeks.
Right you are. He’s had four major shake-ups in staffing
His second major group of advisors just quit.
The first group said he was less informed than Sarah Palin, if that is even possible.
His clear bribery of a Florida AG
The more than 1,000 lawsuits he had been involved in.
His failure to pay senior staff.
Hiring illegals through his modeling agency.
Leaving hundreds of subcontractors unpaid and left to go broke through his business dealings.
Child rape (stay tuned if you think it’s not real)
Just a partial list. The outright lies and self-contradicting statements he has made just while running for office would fill a book.
Then there are his business failures and his multiple affairs (of course conservatives aren’t bothered by serial adulterers…oh wait!)
The first group said he was less informed than Sarah Palin, if that is even possible.
Back in the real world, Sarah Palin had 11 years as a public executive under her belt. Barack Obama and Joseph Biden had zero.
Partisan Democrats play status games, because that’s what gets them out of bed in the morning and few if any of them know anything about policy.
Whatever are you talking about? Sarah Palin was totally unprepared for national office. She knew nothing about what was going on in the world. She is one of those willfully ignorant bible thumpers who think talking in tongues is a thing, and that she didn’t have to learn about international issues because, well, because it’s hard and jesus will take the wheel.
If are counting her years in politics as her time in Wasilla and whatever town council she was on, then by god I hope you’re kidding. Or is it the half-term she served as governor of Alaska, a state with fewer people than Columbus OH. Is that it?
Joe Biden has a lifetime of national service and there’s probably a VERY small handful of people who know more about world or national goings on than he.
It’s not about status. It’s about intelligence. Sarah Palin has none. Donald Trump is smarter than her in some respects, but it turns out if he had just taken his daddy’s money and put it in an index fund he would be richer than he is now. Plus he wouldn’t be getting sued for ripping off all those suckers who signed up for Trump U. Or (hopefully) going to jail for bribing a public official. They are both professional dumbasses and they wear it like a badge of honor.
Joe Biden is a plagiarizing, buffoon, idiot. But you know he’s kicking himself in the ass deferring to the loser, lesbian, Hillary. She’s going down like the Hindenburg. “Oh the humanity!!”
I sooo hope you are right about Hillary losing, but I am scairt that we have way more idiots in the country than smart people. Plus, we have a lot of college-educated white idiots with a bad case of MAS. (Marie Antoinette Syndrome.)
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Amen! They are all into that “We are just sooo smart, and good, and tolerant!” schtick. That is why the whole idea of Hillary being an incompetent, influence peddling crook is such an anathema to them. It’s like they are being slapped upside the head with The Dead Fish of Reality. Have you seen those videos where somebody asks a Democrat what Hillary’s accomplishments are, and they go into BrainFreeze Mode, like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH7iidU5BhQ
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Seems like the press might be finally stepping up to the plate. Trump has had a free ride while the focus has been on on the email scandal. Well that is getting kinda stale so maybe they can focus on the new Benghazi – the Florida bribe scandal. And for entertainment value it stars a real lie Tea Party Barbie. .
Oh Boy! A real live Trump scandal! Let’s see, $500 to Pam Bondi by Trump and Ivanka! Yep, a thousand smackeroos will buy a lot of influence in Florida!
Oh, and a $25,000 donation to Justice for All in Kansas! But wait, it was the other Justice For All. The one in Florida that supported Pam Bondi! I hope the press keeps looking and maybe they find the 46 other bribes to the other 46 states that did not pursue charges against Trump University.
And since I am sooo mad about that $25,000, I am going to be proportionately madder about the billions to the Clinton Foundation! Because that is only fair, isn’t it??? If a $25,000 bribe gets my attention, and $25,000 goes in One Billion about 40,000 times, then I should be 40,000 times more suspicious about a billion dollar bribe shouldn’t I???
Oh, and wait. . .Trump may have paid OUT to Bondi for favors if this pans out to be a scandal. But people paid INTO the Clintons. Sooo that puts Bondi and Hillary into the same boat, doesn’t it???
And maybe my 40,000 times as concerned number is too low, by a factor of 100:
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
So true.
Trumps’ scandals prove so much that Hillary’s email mishandling is a non-issue.
Thank you for that.
Now we can rest assured about both.
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No respect for lawful orders.
philat………..thanks for the laugh. On this site, only Democrats are guilty until proven not guilty and then the story goes away never to be heard from again…………
Good news professor!
A formal complaint has been filed with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division regarding Donald Trump’s bribery of Florida AG Bondi.
I knew you were waiting for something like this because you never post random stuff about rumors of investigations or meaningless allegations about the presidential candidates.
Have at it, and you’re welcome!
Bondi elected not to join a lawsuit against a Trump business which was being prosecuted by the Attorney-General of New York. So did the attorneys-general of 47 other states.
Partisan Democrats lie. All the time and about everything.
Thank you for the daily dose of Hillary Clinton is a criminal who always gets away with it.
You’re such a libera! hahahahahahahaha
If you feel up to covering a good story about good American kristians. How about the baptists from North Olmstead OH whose “youth pastor” raped a 16 year old girl, and who are now demanding that the rape victim apologize to the pastors wife before she comes back to church?
http://fox8.com/2016/04/06/north-olmsted-youth-minister-accused-of-sexual-battery/
You know, if you ever get tired of posting about the Democratic criminal mastermind, I mean, presidential candidate.
That’s outrageous! The mother should seek out the assistance from that ever “compassionate towards female victims” HIllary Clinton. She knows exactly how to handle these predato…………..
All she really needs is a good attorney to sue the bejeezus out of them. From the looks of it, they already have WAY too much bejeezus.
Nice try on trying to besmirch Clinton’s excellent record on women and children’s issues though!
At first I was going to say something snide to you, like maybe since you are always trying to distract people from “Bad Democrat” stories, that you should change your avatar to a Squirrel, instead of a German Shepherd. You know, the “Hey look! A squirrel!” meme. . .
But, then my heart melted just a teeny bit, sooo I thought instead I would just offer you some needed psychological insight. Do you know why these stories about Bad/Evil/Corrupt Democrats bother you sooo much on a personal level??? It is because you have a personal and faith-based belief in Democrats. Being a Democrat is all tied up in your self-image of who you are. You see yourself as a good, smart, tolerant person in large part because you identify as a Democrat. Its not just a political party to you. (And others here.) It’s part of who you are.
In other words, the stories about Bad/Evil/Corrupt Democrats bothers you for the same reason that Bad Homosexual Pedophile Priests stories bother some really dedicated Catholics. They know in their hearts that being a homosexual pedophile priest is a bad thing, but they they think that all the focus on that issue damages the Church. Sooo, they just wish people would shut up about it.
That is also why you and other Democrats are unable to assimilate new facts about failed Democratic programs and beliefs. It is why you persist in acting as if the country was 1930’s Alabama and some poor black boy was about to be lynched for looking sideways at a white woman. Or that requiring photo ID to vote was racissst!
Until you confront the faith-based nature of your own political beliefs, you are going to continue to be just like those people in North Olmstead above, those people that you think are stupid and heinous. Because you and them have exactly the same mindset. You are brothers and sisters under the skin.
Now, wasn’t that nicer than than the “squirrel” thing???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
This analysis courtesy of someone who has adopted the nom de plume of a Manson follower.
Please. Do carry on. It’s bloody delicious.
If you’d like to ever actually know why I believe what I believe is be happy to tell you. But I can see that projection works so well for you.
Uh, you tell me what you believe every time you comment. After a while, and enough comments, it is pretty easy to pigeonhole you right into that stereotypical mindless Democrat. Who can see the mindlessness of others, but not their own mindlessness.
There’s nothing unusual about that. Heck every drunk/dope addict etc. out there goes through the same delusions and denial. That is why the programs that fix them start with, “My name is Bob, and I am an alcoholic.” Non-drunk people often live in delusion and denials, too. It’s just that most people are unaware of their own shortcomings.
One place where you can go to hear somebody tell you about your own shortcomings is church. But, some people don’t go, for various reasons, sooo they never get to hear somebody tell them about the moat in their own eye. Which is the source of a lot of watery eyes, maybe???
But, look on the bright side! I can bring self-analysis and insight right to you! I can already see that you grokked part of what I said, and lashed out in anger. That’s OK. Anger is often the first step to recovery.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
You remind me of the shrinks I used to work with. Totally full of crap but so full of themselves that they could only ever project their neuroses, fear, and malice onto those around them inlcuding patients, families, nurses and administrators.
If you ever get over yourself and want to have a real conversation, let me know. Otherwise you may continue both sides of this dialogue with full abandon.
Ta
OH, I will never get over me! I think you are just upset because I gave you something to think about. You see, if the opposite was true, if you were NOT personally invested in the Democratic Party, then you say something like:
“Oh thank you, Professor Turley! For letting me and other Democrats knows just how crooked our party is! While this distresses me, I would sure rather know the truth than to continue to support a political party that is this horribly crooked! Us good Democrats really need to do some house cleaning! Oh Bless You for keeping us informed!”
But we will never hear that from you, or some of the other die-hard Democrats here. Because you really don’t want to know. It is more important to you to continue to pretend that Democrats are smart, and good, and sooo much smarter and good-er than those mean old racissst! Republicans! It is what is legally called, “Willful Ignorance.” Here, wiki has something to say about it:
There is a lot more at the link about it. Anyway, that is what you demonstrate every time you complain about all the Crooked Hillary stories. FWIW, I was once a Hillary supporter (in 2008) and even worked as a volunteer along with my BFF, Penelope Dreadful, Esq., an attorney. And I supported her in the full knowledge that she was a liar, a crook, and a grifter. BUT, I presumed the Republicans would run somebody just as crooked as she was, only more sophisticated.
I admit to that being a cynical stance. It was only after the email stuff came out that I decided not to support her, because that is beyond just crooked, and shows her to be downright stupid and careless. Plus, the Republicans have run someone I believe to be a genuinely good, and basically honest person. So, it is possible to divest yourself of the personal investment in the party, and see things for what they are.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
So perfect. You know what I think. You know why I’m upset. You know what makes me mad. You know the very roots of my psyche.
Just.
So.
perfect.
Thank you for confirming my every statement about this one-sided conversation you are having with yourself. You must be an utter delight at parties.
What can I say? You guys are just sooo predictable! What is funny, is that you think you aren’t predictable, and that you are wise, and unique, and non-conformist free thinkers. But you aren’t. You have minds, and it isn’t like you are just totally stupid or anything, but there is an adherence to what I think is some kind of “class” type, something like a Jungian Educated Fool archetype. But once you pick up on the fact that you have the same kind of thinking patterns as the super-religious types, then it is like child’s play. Now true, that only works about 95%+ of the time, and there are few outliers here and there within that 5% range, but hey, I will take a 95% success rate anytime!
And at parties, yes I am pretty fun. People are always laughing at my wisecracks. Of course, that may just be all the alcohol. . .
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Thanks Squeeky
I won’t waste another second on this.
She has your number.
If by “having your number” you mean that she would rather make uninformed subjective and negative statements about me than to engage in an honest dialogue and find out what I actually think about things, then yes, she really has my number.You got me there.
than to engage in an honest dialogue
The term ‘honest dialogue’ does not mean what you fancy it means. You’ve made repeated false statements in this thread.
Tailor’s name is Taylor??
WOW and WHEW, all that effort to discredit Liberal Democrats for what?? Made from whole cloth generalizations. My favorite, Mark Twain, once said “Generalizations and no damn good, including this one.”
Bad Homosexual Pedophile Priests stories bother some really dedicated Catholics.
Not really, at least not vociferous Catholics in fora like this. When all the grunge came out, the usual reaction among Catholics was to blame the bishops, often in ways that were unfair. Traditionalist Catholics of various sorts had been alienated from the hierarchy for some time; they were not surprised at what had transpired and were not all that disarranged by it: they had no emotional investment in the bishops. Eastern-rite Catholics could let it slide because it was not much of a problem in their eparchies. Liberal Catholics just blamed Authority or pretended what was happening was not happening or was a consequence of the celibacy requirement or a consequence of the all-male priesthood. Conservative Catholics had a variety of responses, mostly centered on blaming the Lavender Mafia (a problem, to be sure), liberal bishops (a problem, but the worst bishops weren’t liberals), Vatican II (a problem, to be sure, but the grunge was worse among priests formed in the 1950s than among priests formed in the 1980s). What was not often remarked upon (because you could cherry-pick stories of luridly bad judgment by bishops) was that bishops were being asked to evaluate accusations from laymen which were typically lodged 15 years after the fact and modally concerned groping. Making correct decisions in those cases in a reliable way was well-nigh impossible.
Just remember what happened to John Stossel . . .
Once the liberal’s liberal, with a never ending faith in the power of the government to effectuate what’s best for the people, a pro-regulation consumer advocate and lead anchorman for ABC.
Then something happened. He caught a virus, a virus for more individual liberty, and it transformed his liberal-progressive brain into a libertarian brain.
Don’t forget this cautionary tale, it may very well happen to Jonathan Turley — who knows, maybe the infection has already begun to take hold.
Let’s see we are now the “AA” “Aristocracy of America”, I can see it now Hilly standing before a mirror as her taylor measures her for her inauguration pants suit and wondering where her humongous a*# starts and her cankles end. In walks hand maiden Huma and says “Your Highness, the delegates of Chicago are at the White House gate throwing the K-rations you sent them”, Hilly turns to Huma and says: “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”. Hilly then turns to the Taylor and tells him “Hey little man make sure you spray and extra coat of Teflon on that suit”!
With the exception of Trey Gowdy and a couple of others, most Republicans are terrible at Congressional investigations. And since Hillary is a Democrat, the Democrats on the committee have no interest in uncovering the facts. They will spend their time attacking the Republicans on the committee for holding the hearing; giving speeches to excuse Clinton’s behavior; or doing whatever they can to blame someone else or shift attention elsewhere. It’s all a farce.
I’d forgotten until the other day that Billy Carter’s shenanigans were investigated by a congressional committee with a Democratic majority and a Democratic counsel. During the years running from 1969 to about 1990, the Democratic Party in Washington was if anything marginally cleaner than the Republican Party, and astoundingly scrupulous by today’s standards.
Dear American Citizen, we regret to inform you that your rule of law is dead. The coroner’s report will reflect the cause as a possible homicide but the 1000 cuts appear suspiciously self-inflicted. We’d ask you to come down and identify the body but sadly your progeny is unrecognizable. Anyway, we would like to ask you a few questions, such as, what inspired you to abandon your parental rights to a group of sociopaths known throughout history to rape and pillage every civil society they encountered?
Signed,
Reason and Logic
I was in the waiting room at the ER this morning and someone asked me: what is a lepo? I said it was a male leopard. No. A male leopard is a leopardo. It went on and on. Someone asked me if my last name was Johnson. I said no. What is all this about?
Right on, Dr. Green, and note the word “reportedly”, not very precise, eh?
All very interesting, but, ultimately, irrelevant. I have already explained the way things work, but I’ll happily ‘splain again for those who are a little dense. Hillary Clinton is untouchable because she has been a loyal employee of the Elite Establishment for decades and has sufficient powerful political connections to guarantee immunity from most and and all criminal charges. Period. End of story. As for Pagliano and Combetta, they had a choice. Play ball and shut-up about Clinton, and be granted immunity. Or attempt to tell the truth and face immediate termination: the permanent kind. They chose the former, and that too closes the story for them, though they must still be sure to remain perpetually silent on the matter or face option two again. Okay? Is everything absolutely clear now?
Good. That ends today’s lesson, if you’re not already familiar with these unwritten rules of life under the Elite Establishment.
You may or may not be interested to read investigative journalist Michael Piper’s evidence supporting his conclusion that the CIA apparently recruited B. Clinton, John Kerry, and H. Rodham while they attended University.
Clinton and Rodham have long documented history of organizing “radical” anti-US and anti-war groups on campus. Once recruited, w/obvious guarantees of a King’s ransom in financial wealth and power, and lifetime protection from criminal prosecution, C and R gave the “Farm” first hand information on every real, fake, and perceived so-called activist “threat” against US “security.”
Nothing else known better explains and justifies the Clinton’s virtually endless list of confirmed felonies w/absolutely no charges ever. Piper’s hypothesis is consistent with good evidence that the C’s ran drugs for the CIA while the couple occupied the Arkansas State House.
If any reader has a better theory consistent with the list of about fifty and counting of the C’s closest business and personal associates who died premature deaths under the most ridiculous and suspicious circumstances, please state your case now. The most recent (known) dead C associate was within the last five weeks, a youngish DNC employee apparently associated w/the alleged DNC hacking was found dead in suspicious circumstances.
The most obvious case of assassination was that of three close Arkansas C buddies together in a Starbucks coffee shop. Pro assassin enters, corrals the three horizontal face down in the back office, shoots them in the back of the head, and leaves, taking no valuables. The list of strange premature deaths of the C’s Arkansas security team members is quite impressive.
“If you dine w/the devil, bring a long fork.”
I am sick of Trump, and find him a to be a lying, bigoted, disgusting SOS. But felon, not so sure. Anyone doubting the C’s felonious past is naive, lying, or both.
Email, email, bo me mail…
banna fanna mo meal
EMAIL!
If the BS is always the same..
You repeat the apCray and say the name..
HILLARY!
EMAILs!
GUILTY!
D.G.
What part of JT’s post do you find to have incorrect facts? Are you able to answer that question?
It is getting ever more so obvious that Clinton fukt up royally, that there was easily multiple violations of the law, but the FBI intentionally cast a blind eye here, gave immunity to witnesses there that they didn’t use any of their inculpatory testimony – almost using the immunity to avoid getting their testimony.
It was an unspoken gentlemen’s agreement that they would make all motions of an investigation, make all the appearances of them trying, but at crucial intersections of the investigation they would not look there, or would go down a path that they knew would go nowhere.
The problem in their plan is that there are too many loose ends, such a major conspiracy always has dozens of people who know what happened and are also trying to CYA, including the people as noted here who still face investigation and ancillary prosecution from other entities.
I just hope no one drops the ball on this one and joins the gentlemen’s agreement, the truth on this needs to be revealed.
There is just too much smoke and obviously a fire, but when the investigators don’t want to find what is obviously there, they will give passes and passes on top of passes just to avoid the raging bonfire right in front of them.
I’ll ask again JT……after Benghazi failed you never said a word later about it…..And you went on vacation, after you and others fail on this matter are you going away again?
Now that the Constitution is a dead letter, what shall we call this country?
I propose the United Sates of Shamerica.
Or maybe US Whatever.
Why risk testifying to anything other than his Sixth Amendment right if DOJ has given him blanket immunity without the condition of purposeful, helpful testimony? He was probably long before now given the “we take care of our own” speech from some sleazeball Clinton foundation donor, so he’ll be set for life by just staying quiet.
DOJ has more important matters like ruining John Kiriakou.
Sorry, Fifth Amendment right.
He’ll take the 5th, and if HRC is elected, she’ll appoint him head of NSA.
As a person compelled to appear before a grand jury to persecute my fellow VVAW members I can tell you that use, AKA useless, immunity is just that. I went to jail. The DA screwed up and while I was listed as a co-conspirator I was not indicted. Nothing but a blatant attempt to silence VVAW to prevent the truth about the American War in Vietnam. The jury in the “trial” was out for an hour or so, lunch time. Members including the foreperson came to our reunions. Gainesville 8+4.
These guys have the useless immunity, they better stick to the 5th. This is not the same as the government knew we had committed no crimes.
Nothing but a blatant attempt to silence VVAW to prevent the truth about the American War in Vietnam.
VVAW was promoting the ‘Winter Soldier’ hokum. Truth was not in their larder.
There was not person testifying there that was not vetted. I knew many of those that did testify and those on the Winter Film Collective that filmed the testimony. Were you in Vietnam? No, didn’t think so. Just another right wing hack. You sir, lie. BTW your site “name” reeks of the kind of person you are.