2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBREAKING: HILLARY'S FBI INVESTIGATION 'FAR FROM OVER'
The officials say these interviews were planned well in advance, based on what has long been known about their use of the private e-mail server.
As for where the investigation stands, these officials say it is a long way from over.
FBI Director James Comey himself said recently that there's no deadline for finishing it. Asked if the Democratic National Convention would be such a deadline, he said no.
No conclusions have been reached about whether any laws were violated in setting up or using the system, the officials say.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/fbi-has-interviewed-hillary-clinton-aides-over-email-investigation-sources-n568916
niyad
(113,458 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)The DOJ is calling it a Law Enforcement Effort and has prosecutors involved
villager
(26,001 posts)I mean, the ones that might help the less-connected, and hinder the powerful?
I may be voting Bernie in the primary, but there's zero reason to trust the DO"J" about anything, anymore.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Sure, you can go to prison for stealing food if you are a serf, you can go to prison for growing a plant even. But the rule of law only applies to peasants. If you are a high government official, a thug doing their dirty work (rape, murder, torture, kidnapping, anything really) or are a billionaire that profits those in high public office (stealing billions in money or real estate, killing people by denying procedures and medicines as the "gatekeepers of health", or imprisoning people for the sake of profit) you are above the law, the law simply doesn't apply to you.
Once when these same facts were true in a monarchy that made the same distinctions regarding royalty and serf classes, there were those that rebelled against such an immune royalty which were allowed to abuse the people, steal everything from them (there homes, their health, even their lives) and face no consequences. Revolutions were fought and promises were made by the victors, Promises such as the rule of law applies to all or it applies to none. Promises that now ring hollow as the champions of a fair government slowly over time devolved back into what was and what always had been, a system of an elite few above laws possessing nearly all the wealth while laws were used exclusively against their victims - the majority that go hungry and grow sick under the rule of that elite.
We have come full circle now. Now it is common for a financial and political higher class to never have to fear laws that would imprison any commoner and we are supposed to accept this, cheer it even as the lord of our castle defeats the lord of some other castle. But the bread and circuses grow ever more scarce. The illusions of fairness ever more transparent, and the cruelties ever more severe.
If we are to follow laws that do not apply to our masters. If our masters are given the fruits of all of our labors while we search our dirt floors for crumbs as they laugh in their mansions discussing ways to extract even more from their impoverished serfs. Perhaps we are less than serfs, perhaps we are dogs that now only lick the hands of the masters that beat us. Perhaps the dream of shared prosperity and happiness has finally died within our hearts and our minds.
Perhaps we deserve our fate because we so meekly, even proudly in some cases accept it.
[font size="1"; color="191970"](originally posted by me as an OP Mon Apr 21, 2014, 01:40 PM http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024852198)[/font]
[font size="1"; color="green"]*this OP was inspired by this one that went largely unread as well as what is common knowledge regarding the financial elite in the speculative and banking "industries" that break laws with impunity and the blessing of our government[/font]
villager
(26,001 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Any day now... yeah, you just wait, it's a comin'. Pow! Bang! Boom! To the moon, Alice... er, I mean Hillary!
niyad
(113,458 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)It will be months before anything is known. I hope we have time to replace the worst
candidate for president ever before it's too late.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)Pete Williams is known to be a really cautious reporter that doesn't like to report things without double checking.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Feel better?
BlueStateLib
(937 posts)It all depends on her intent
Prosecutors and FBI agents investigating Hillary Clintons use of a personal email server have so far found scant evidence that the leading Democratic presidential candidate intended to break classification rules,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/federal-prosecutors-in-virginia-assisting-in-clinton-email-probe/2016/05/05/f0277faa-12f0-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df_story.html
Vinca
(50,285 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)And she was grossly negligent.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)and google 'crooked'
Tarc
(10,476 posts)We've known for awhile that there is no deadline.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Nancyswidower
(182 posts)"As for where the investigation stands, these officials say it is a long way from over."
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)I wonder who is right.