Do you sense there is a double standard of justice in Washington?
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano has this to say about the “word games” the FBI and DOJ are playing in the Hillary scandals:
“What has become of the rule of law — no one is beneath its protections or above its requirements — when the American public can witness a game of political musical chairs orchestrated by Bill Clinton at an airport in a bizarre ruse to remove the criminal investigation of his wife from those legally responsible for making decisions about it?
How hairsplitting can the FBI be in acknowledging “extreme carelessness” while denying “gross negligence” about the same events, at the same time, and in the same respect?
. . . in the past two years, the DOJ has prosecuted a young sailor for sending a single selfie to his girlfriend that inadvertently showed a submarine sonar screen in its background. It also prosecuted a Marine lieutenant who sent his military superiors a single email about the presence of al-Qaida operatives dressed as local police in a U.S. encampment in Afghanistan — but who inadvertently used his Gmail account rather than his secure government account.
And it famously prosecuted Gen. David Petraeus for sharing paper copies of his daily calendar in his guarded home with a military colleague also in the home — someone who had a secret security clearance herself — because the calendar inadvertently included secret matters in the pages underneath the calendar.
The criminal case against Mrs. Clinton would have been overwhelming. The FBI acknowledged that she sent or received more than 100 emails that contained state secrets via one of her four home servers. None of those servers was secure. Each secret email was secret when received, was secret when sent and is secret today. All were removed from their secure venues by Clinton, who knew what she was doing, instructed subordinates to white out “secret” markings, burned her own calendars, destroyed thousands of her emails and refuses to this day to recognize that she had a duty to preserve such secrets as satellite images of North Korean nuclear facilities, locations of drone strikes in Pakistan and names of American intelligence agents operating in the Middle East under cover.
Why do we stand for this?
Comey has argued that somehow there is such a legal chasm between extreme carelessness and gross negligence that the feds cannot bridge it. That is not an argument for him to make. That is for a jury to decide after a judge instructs the jury about what Comey fails to understand: There is not a dime’s worth of difference between these two standards. Extreme carelessness is gross negligence.”
Word games? If you and I had done this, we would be charged with “gross negligence” and getting free medical care in some federal prison.
Clearly a “double standard” said Derrick Hogan, defense attorney for Kristian Saucier, a Navy Sailor who was charged revealing “state secrets” when he inadvertently took a selfie of himself in front of a Navy submarine to send to his girl friend.
Justice? There is no justice. Words mean what lawyers want them to mean. “There is not a dime’s worth of difference between these two standards. Extreme carelessness is gross negligence.”Laws are vigorously applied to little people that can’t even afford an attorney while the rich and famous are exempt.
Washington is a joke, a circus, a dog and pony show, phony baloney, coconut bacon, a cruel prank, propaganda, buffonery, political burlesque, entertainment, a tripple decker saurkraut toadstool sandwich with arsenic in it for the politically naive.
The next time you are traveling through Sweet Lips Tennessee and are stopped by a gang member in black with a gun and he charges you with speeding and endangering all of society, just say, “I didn’t intend to break the law.” See how that works out for you. It worked in the District of Criminals with Queen Hillary, but I don’t think it will work in Sweet Lips for an insignificant, dirty, low-down, lawbreaking cockroach like you.
Storm Brooks
Posted: July 8, 2016
Transcript for Judge Napolitano from Fox News: July 7, 2016
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