2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRepublicans Request Perjury Investigation of Clinton
Republican leaders asked the Justice Department on Monday to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton lied to Congress in testimony last fall about her private email server, opening a new front in their long-running attacks on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the New York Times reports.
The Republican request, coming five days after the Justice Department closed a yearlong investigation into Mrs. Clintons handling of classified information in the emails, threatens to shadow her through the fall campaign and perhaps even into the White House if she is elected.
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https://politicalwire.com/2016/07/11/republicans-request-perjury-investigation-of-clinton/
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)bluedye33139
(1,474 posts)rurallib
(62,492 posts)quit wasting our money with their illegal partisan witch hunts.
ETA - wonder if Ryan as Speaker could be sued by taxpayers for allowing tax money to be used for partisan purposes? Working of an idle mind.
Doodley
(9,179 posts)Obama tried to be too nice to Republicans, hoping they might reciprocate, and he did not move forward with any more investigations into 9/11 or the war on Iraq. Compare that to the UK, that released the Chilcot Report last week that found that Tony Blair lied, was in cahoots with Bush, that his timeline was led by the media, that there were no plans for the aftermath of war, etc.
Here in US, Hilary Clinton's emails and Benghazi are investigated by Republicans more than 9/11 and Iraq put together. It doesn't matter how many were killed in embassy attacks during the Bush era. It doesn't matter that Bush era staff did exactly the same thing with their emails as Clinton. It is sickening and it is pathetic.
procon
(15,805 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)The anus is really wagging the dog.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)I have watched them systematically try to take down the Clinton's since the 90s. Get over it assholes...you have NOTHING!
MineralMan
(146,356 posts)sometime...maybe..."
midnight
(26,624 posts)At least 110 emails sent through her server contained information that was classified at the time it was sent, he said, meaning it should never have been sent or received on an unclassified computer network not hers, not even the State Departments official state.gov system.
That fact refutes the core argument she and others have made: that the entire controversy turned on the overzealous, after-the-fact classification of emails as they were being made public under the Freedom of Information Act, rather than the mishandling of the nations secrets.
Mr. Comeys announcement was, arguably, the worst possible good news Mrs. Clintons presidential campaign could have hoped for: no criminal charges, but a pointed refutation of statements like one she flatly made last August. I did not send classified material, she said then.
Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know, or should know, that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it, Mr. Comey said, suggesting that Mrs. Clinton and her aides were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/fbi-findings-damage-many-of-hillary-clintons-claims.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article