The Justice Department’s Hillary Investigation Reeks Of Corruption

The Justice Department’s Hillary Investigation Reeks Of Corruption

The Federalist - Friday September 23, 2016

by David Harsanyi

The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI had reached criminal immunity deals with three of Hillary Clinton’s close advisers in exchange for information that could have been attained through subpoenas or search warrants – or, perhaps, simply by asking.

Since I’m not a lawyer, though, I’m assuming there are rational, completely non-corrupt explanations for why the FBI surrendered all its leverage granting immunity to Cheryl Mills, and two other high ranking staff members – all potential co-conspirators in a criminal case.

After all, Clinton’s former chief of staff, Mills, was granted immunity in exchange for the kind cooperation any non-guilty person would freely offer. According to a number of reports, Mills was given partial immunity in exchange for handing over her computer – which might have proved she too illegally handled classified information. Does the Justice Department regularly grant immunity for mere cooperation? If Mills was the beneficiary of immunity before the FBI even knew what was on her computer, what influence would prosecutors have to impel her to give up the target of the investigation should they find illegality?

And how often is a political operative like Mills granted immunity and then allowed to represent the target of the investigation in an interview with the investigators and Congress?

Mills is widely reported as one of Clinton’s closest confidants, her former chief-of-staff; a person who is likely to be thoroughly familiar with Hillary’s illegal private email system – even helping set it up and dismantle it. And yet, as Andrew McCarthy noted back in May, the Justice Department had worked with Mills’ lawyers to block the FBI from asking pertinent questions about the case. Why would the Justice Department limit the scope of questioning?

This question is especially significant when you consider that the FBI had to engage in forensic searches to recover tens of thousands of emails that Hillary and her staff tried to delete after news of the private server became public. These are government records that were illegally hidden and deleted. Some of them are still being recovered. Some of them will never be recovered.

Here’s FBI Director James Comey’s surreal statement arguing that Hillary was completely guilty but not prosecutable:

It is also likely that there are other work-related e-mails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all e-mails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.

Here’s what he forgot to mention: One of the people tasked with deciding which of emails were deleted and retained was Heather Samuelson, who, if reports are correct, was also given immunity before anyone got to look at her computer. Again, I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me she’d be a really useful person to have leverage over if she broke the law. I’m sure there’s a good explanation for why Samuelson was preemptively given immunity.

Also, let’s not forget that Hillary’s technology director at the State Department, who it looks like was on Reddit seeking advice on how to wipe servers clean, and who is now in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify, also got himself an immunity deal from the Department of Justice.

Does this strike an open-minded person like an investigation seriously concerned about getting to the truth?

Reminder: According to the FBI, Clinton, who spent years on the foreign relations committee and was Secretary of State of the United States of America and who is more qualified than any person who’s ever run for president, sent 110 emails that contained clearly marked classified information. Thirty-six of them contained secret information. Eight of those email chains contained “top secret” information. Comey, you’ll remember, claimed that hackers working for foreign nations probably had access to her emails, but would have been far too sophisticated to leave behind any evidence – which is the very reason we have laws about the mishandling classified information, in the first place.

Hillary is above these laws. She was never going to be indicted. Now we know none of her friends had to worry, either.

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