The article below is a reminder of who Judge Andrew Napolitano was three years ago. He is a very different man today - what happened?
Top-Secret Material Among Hillary's 'Lost' Emails
Andrew Napolitano | December 17, 2015
While we've been fixated on Trump, federal prosecutors continue to examine Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
The basic facts are well-known, but the revealed nuances are important, as well. When the State Department responded to the Judicial Watch FOIA request by telling Judicial Watch that it had no emails from Clinton, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit. When the State Department made the same representation to the court—as incredible as it seemed at the time—the judge accepted that representation, and the case was dismissed.
Then The New York Times revealed that Clinton used a private email server instead of the government's server for all of her work-related and personal emails during her four years as secretary of state. After that, the Judicial Watch FOIA case was reinstated, and then the judge in the case demanded of State that it produce Clinton's emails.
When Judicial Watch expressed frustration to the judge about the pace at which it was getting emails, the judge ordered Clinton, "under penalty of perjury," to certify that she had surrendered all her governmental emails to the State Department.
Eventually, Clinton did certify to the court that she did surrender all of her governmental emails to the State Department. She did so by sending paper copies of selected emails, because she had wiped clean her server. She acknowledged that she decided which emails were personal and which were selected as governmental and returned the governmental ones to the State Department. She has denied steadfastly and consistently that she ever sent or received any materials marked "classified" while secretary of state using her private server.
All of her behavior has triggered the FBI investigation because she may have committed serious federal crimes. For example, it is a crime to steal federal property. What did she steal? By diverting to her own venue the digital metadata that accompany all emails—metadata that, when attached to the work-related emails of a government employee, belong to the government—she stole that data. The metadata do not appear on her paper copies—hence the argument that she stole and destroyed the government-owned metadata.
This is particularly troublesome for her present political ambitions because of a federal statute that disqualifies from public office all who have stolen federal property. (She is probably already barred from public office—though this was not prominently raised when she entered the U.S. Senate or the Department of State—because of the china, silverware, and furniture that she and her husband took from the White House in January 2001.)
Clinton may also have committed espionage by failing to secure the government secrets entrusted to her. She did that by diverting those secrets to an unprotected, nongovernmental venue—her own server—and again by emailing those secrets to other unprotected and nongovernmental venues. The reason she can deny sending or receiving anything marked "classified" is that protected government secrets are not marked "classified."
So her statement, though technically true, is highly misleading. The governmental designations of protected secrets are "confidential," "secret," and "top secret"—not "classified." State Department investigators have found 999 emails sent or received by Clinton in at least one of those three categories of protected secrets.
Back when Clinton became secretary of state, on her first day in office, she had an hour-long FBI briefing on the proper and lawfully required care of government secrets. She signed a statement, under penalty of perjury, acknowledging that she knew the law and that it is the content of emails, not any stamped markings, that makes them secret.
Earlier this week, my Fox News colleagues confirmed the certain presence of top-secret materials among the 999 emails. Intelligence from foreign sources or about foreign governments is always top-secret, whether designated as such or not. And she knows that.
As well, she may have committed perjury in the FOIA case. When the House Select Committee on Benghazi, in its investigation of her role in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, gathered emails, it found emails she did not surrender to the State Department.
Last week, the State Department released emails that give the FBI more areas to investigate. These emails may show a pattern of official behavior by Clinton designed to benefit the financial interests of her family's foundation, her husband, and her son-in-law. Moreover, the FBI knows of a treasure-trove of documents that may demonstrate that the Clinton Foundation skirted the law and illegally raised and spent contributions.
Two months ago, a group of FBI agents sat around a conference table and reviewed the evidence gathered thus far. Each agent was given the opportunity to make or detract from the case for moving forward. At the end of the meeting, it was the consensus of the group to pursue a criminal investigation. And Clinton is the likely target.
(Reprinted here under the Fair Use Doctrine of American and international copyright law)
COPYRIGHT 2015 ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO |
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Bond Robin - Commentary
You have lived this history - most of you TOTALLY Asleep, totally unaware, totally brainwashed by the Luciferian/CIAmerican Media.
Let me remind you that the unraveling of the Globalist Cabal and the Deep State, (related but not identical) began with Obama's conspiracy with the Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, to kidnap Ambassador Chris Stevens so he could be exchanged for Omar Abdel-Rahman the Blind Shiek who was the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing.
Obama had floated The Blind Shiek's release on humanitarian/health
grounds like the Scots did with the Lockerbie bomber the year before.
Morsi had formally requested his release via the U.S. State Department
and to Obama directly, twice. Obama floated the idea and got huge
pushback from Congress and the public. So then, Morsi and Obama planned
the kidnapping and fake negotiations that would make them both look like
HEROES, before Obama's election, but the "operation" went sideways
when the CIA contractors at the Consulate, did not surrender and fought
back. This was Benghazi.
The reason that forces that were lined up to help the victims of Benghazi were told for hours to "stand down" was because they (the conspirators) did not have a clear understanding where Stevens was, thinking he was alive in the hospital, being treated, and not wanting to disturb Obama's Kidnap Plot. This was of course after Obama with the help of Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and other internet powers, CIA/MB (Public Record) created the "Social Media Revolution" in Egypt that placed the Muslim Brotherhood in power.
The truth about the kidnap plot and the fact that Obama was Muslim Brotherhood, gave the Egyptian people the understanding that created the revolution in Egypt several months later when 33 million of them stood in the streets for weeks shutting down the country until Morsi was deposed and arrested, thousands of MB members were executed and the MB was again conquered and outlawed. Would that it were conquered and outlawed HERE. In a panic, losing control, Obama literally went Nuclear and only the mutiny of the U.S. Military saved us from Nuclear Holocaust and war with Russia.
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The reason that forces that were lined up to help the victims of Benghazi were told for hours to "stand down" was because they (the conspirators) did not have a clear understanding where Stevens was, thinking he was alive in the hospital, being treated, and not wanting to disturb Obama's Kidnap Plot. This was of course after Obama with the help of Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and other internet powers, CIA/MB (Public Record) created the "Social Media Revolution" in Egypt that placed the Muslim Brotherhood in power.
The truth about the kidnap plot and the fact that Obama was Muslim Brotherhood, gave the Egyptian people the understanding that created the revolution in Egypt several months later when 33 million of them stood in the streets for weeks shutting down the country until Morsi was deposed and arrested, thousands of MB members were executed and the MB was again conquered and outlawed. Would that it were conquered and outlawed HERE. In a panic, losing control, Obama literally went Nuclear and only the mutiny of the U.S. Military saved us from Nuclear Holocaust and war with Russia.
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