In een verklaring zegt FBI directeur James Conway over het onderzoek tegen Hillary Clinton over haar privé server en het in gevaar brengen van de national veiligheid volgens de Espionage Act: ‘To be clear this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now. As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.’
Dit is een subtiele manier van James Comey om te zeggen dat het een politieke beslissing is van de FBI om het ministerie van Justitie niet te bewegen Hillary Clinton aan te klagen. De verklaring zegt dat elke andere persoon in soortgelijke omstandigheden gerede kans zou lopen om aangeklaagd te worden, maar dat ondanks overtuigend bewijs tegen Clinton de FBI in dit geval anders beslist. Comey’s verklaring is interessant in dubbelzinnigheid omdat het alle bewijzen van schuld van Clinton geeft en haar en haar persoonlijke medewerkers ‘uiterst onzorgvuldig’ handelen verwijt, maar vervolgens aangeeft niet de beslissing te nemen om uit die schuld de uiterste consequentie te trekken. Dit is de exacte beschrijving van klassenjustitie, zonder dat het woord gebruikt wordt. Maar in de komende maanden zal het naar verwachting vaak gebruikt worden.
De paradox van Comey’s verklaring is dat Clinton weliswaar juridisch wordt vrijgepleit, maar de twijfel over haar oordeelsvermogen er verder door toeneemt. Daarbij voedt deze politieke beslissing zeker de golf van anti-establishment gevoelens in de VS waar Trump op surft. Een en ander geeft Clintons tegenstanders volop wapens in handen om haar aan te vallen. Clinton heeft een slag gewonnen, maar of ze ook de oorlog tegen Trump wint is er vandaag onzekerder op geworden. Dit besluit van de FBI dient de democratie allerminst.
Foto: Schermafbeelding van deel verklaring van FBI-directeur James Comey over aanklacht tegen Hillary Clinton, 5 juli 2016.
George Knight 
Comey’s remarks are likely to cloud what was hoped would be a triumphant dual appearance, particularly if it gives fresh ammunition to Trump, who also appears in the state later on Tuesday.
The Republican candidate greeted Comey’s announcement by claiming the “system is rigged”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/05/fbi-no-charges-hillary-clinton-email-investigation
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Today’s findings did not put the issue of Hillary Clinton’s ineptitude and possible criminal mishandling of documents to rest by any means. The FBI spared Clinton a criminal indictment, but it did indict her character.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/05/fbi-comey-clinton-email-trump-bernie-politics-campaign-column/86712780/
FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday he would not recommend criminal prosecution of former secretary of State Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information. But he did suggest another remedy: the loss of her security clearance.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/05/hillary-clinton-fbi-investigation-security-clearance/86709410/
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Having women make up half of her cabinet would be historic (in recent years, a quarter to a third of cabinet positions have been held by women), and Democrats close to Mrs. Clinton say she may decide to retain Ms. Lynch, the nation’s first black woman to be attorney general, who took office in April 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/us/politics/hillary-clinton-president.html?_r=0
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The FBI is not recommending criminal charges regarding Hillary Clinton’s mishandled classified emails, an act of leniency that is bizarrely out of sync with how Washington traditionally punishes breaches of secrecy.
http://usuncut.com/politics/clinton-email-secrecy-double-standard/
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Hoover’s legacy is nothing if not complex. However, it’s abundantly clear that, were he still heading up the Bureau, he would not have been afraid of taking on the White House if he felt a matter warranted it. After all, he did so many times as the country’s secret police chief. It’s impossible to imagine Hoover concluding that Hillary Clinton broke the law but there’s nothing to be done about it.
http://observer.com/2016/07/j-edgar-hoovers-fbi-wouldnt-have-punted-emailgate/
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But the highest-level NSA whistleblower in history, William Binney – the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and code-breaker, who mapped out the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so predicted Soviet invasions before they happened (“in the 1970s, he decrypted the Soviet Union’s command system, which provided the US and its allies with real-time surveillance of all Soviet troop movements and Russian atomic weapons”) – explains why Comey’s statement is nonsense.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/07/nsa-whistleblower-clinton-emails-damaged-u-s-national-security-much-manning-assange-whistleblower.html
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