Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Andrew Napolitano: "The Clinton Investigation Enters a Dangerous Phase"

[B]ryan Pagliano, the one member of Clinton’s inner circle who, with either a written promise of non-prosecution or an order of immunity from a federal judge, began to cooperate with federal prosecutors last fall.
Here is what he told the feds.
Pagliano has explained to federal prosecutors the who, what, when, how and why he migrated an open State Department email stream and a secret State Department email stream from government computers to Clinton’s secret server in her home in Chappaqua, New York. He has told them that Clinton paid him $5,000 to commit that likely criminal activity.
He has also told some of the 147 FBI agents assigned to this case that Clinton herself was repeatedly told by her own State Department information technology experts and their colleagues at the National Security Agency that her persistent use of her off-the-shelf BlackBerry was neither an effective nor an acceptable means of receiving, transmitting or safeguarding state secrets. Little did they know how reckless she was with government secrets, as none was apparently then aware of her use of her non-secure secret server in Chappaqua for all of her email uses.

14 comments:

Methadras said...

Hillary Clinton recklessness extents to not only state secrets, but to the truth as well. The queen will have what the queen wants, whenever, however, and on whomever backs it requires her to step on. This is her way, this is what she will do as president. It will be a presidency of revenge against all of the people that have slighted her, which is effectively the American public. I'll be stunned if she continues her campaign under the auspices of an indictment. I'll be further stunned if she is prosecuted. I think neither will happen.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Hillary's best hope is that the law doesn't apply to her, the fix is in, and Trump wins the nomination. Say hello to the first un-indicted felon president. Cool part is that her top position in the world will institutionalize all of Obama's corruption and layer on top of it the special brand of Clinton corruption. (or) We are F*ed.

Methadras said...

April, that's what I've been saying the whole time and no one cares. Literally.

Jim in St Louis said...

I reluctantly agree that there will probably not be an indictment from the Attorney General.

But looking at the history of Hillary, I wonder if she will be responsible for her own fall. I think she will give them the knife and show her enemies right where to shove it in. Very Nixonian. Now if that happens before the election or after I don’t know.

edutcher said...

I hope Pagliano has a Ranger Battalion assigned to his security

AprilApple said...

Hillary's best hope is that the law doesn't apply to her, the fix is in, and Trump wins the nomination.

Don't be silly. The only ones in the universe who honestly think Trump wouldn't hang her are the brain-dead Cruzzers.

Jim in St Louis said...

I reluctantly agree that there will probably not be an indictment from the Attorney General.

The FBI will start leaking stuff, in that case.

AllenS said...

I'll also agree that there won't be an indictment, because, we couldn't be that lucky.

Chip Ahoy said...

I drew a picture of Napolitano holding a dangerous phaser. The top third is brown, the middle third is pink and the bottom third is white.

So it gets down to her insisting on using her Blackberry. Her refusal to take up a secured phone and learn how to use it. It's all about her and the Blackberry that she knows. That her team knows. Her team want to her own Blackberry. This is critical, she must have her own Blackberry. This is the central thing.

Because grandma doesn't want to learn a new thing?

That's absurd. She's clever as Chinese fingercuffs. See how readily and handily she's adapted to a fully bulletproof and radar stealth-engineered wardrobe? That there's adaptability. What makes a Hottentot hot to trot? Adaptability! What puts the prick in aprickot? Adaptability!

She absolutely needed her Foundation off United States property secured servers. She absolutely needed to blend Foundation work with State responsibilities. And not have all that transparent through State controlled secure phones and servers. Gawl!

This is my all time favorite election cycle. Also my all time most distressing. I love seeing titans and clever people messed with. Their disruption makes me happy. If I could draw my life in pictures I would show a boy growing into a man by having the rug constantly snapped from underneath him sending him reeling in the air to land on another rug, person grows, rug snaps, spins through the air somersaulting in propeller blur and lands on another rug, grows a little, rug snaps and so on continuously, dies, coffin, rug snap, coffin spins through the air like a propeller, lands on another rug.

I am innocent and vex no one.

So it pleases me, and not just regular pleases, it pleases me tremendously and with no sense of compunction whatsoever, no sympathy, and void of empathy, to see that same thing happen to other people who vex everyone.

Shouting Thomas said...

An interesting essay that I read a few days ago.

I have no opinion on whether the charges will amount to anything.

Who will have the courage to prosecute?

ricpic said...

All I can say is power must be one helluva drug.

edutcher said...

Ask Hitler.

Methadras said...

Jim in St Louis said...

I reluctantly agree that there will probably not be an indictment from the Attorney General.

But looking at the history of Hillary, I wonder if she will be responsible for her own fall. I think she will give them the knife and show her enemies right where to shove it in. Very Nixonian. Now if that happens before the election or after I don’t know.


Oh she will be responsible for her own fall, but she will never be accountable for it and instead will blame it on others. Even while she is falling, there will be others to help either catch her or help her up because their fortunes are tied to hers and she will waste nor brook any time reminding them of that. I'm sure she's uttered the words, "I fucking own you." on more than one occasion.

Christy said...

Would that she was in the Panama leak. That would be too delicious for words.

deborah said...

As I understand it, there are no Americans in the Panama leak. Things that make you go hmmmm.

deborah said...

Ooops, there are American, but no big fish:

"Determining a precise number of Americans in the data is difficult. There are at least 200 scanned individual U.S. passports. Some appear to be American retirees purchasing real estate in places like Costa Rica and Panama. Also in the database, about 3,500 shareholders of offshore companies who list U.S. addresses. And almost 3,100 companies are tied to offshore professionals based in Miami, New York, and other parts of the United States."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article69943337.html