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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 09:36 AM Jul 2016

Republicans Request Perjury Investigation of Clinton

“Republican leaders asked the Justice Department on Monday to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton lied to Congress in testimony last fall about her private email server, opening a new front in their long-running attacks on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee,” the New York Times reports.

“The Republican request, coming five days after the Justice Department closed a yearlong investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s handling of classified information in the emails, threatens to shadow her through the fall campaign and perhaps even into the White House if she is elected.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/07/11/republicans-request-perjury-investigation-of-clinton/

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Republicans Request Perjury Investigation of Clinton (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2016 OP
They know they can't beat her in November so they have to keep attacking her liberal N proud Jul 2016 #1
Bless their little hearts bluedye33139 Jul 2016 #2
As tax payers we need to inundate them and tell them to rurallib Jul 2016 #3
Thanks Obama! Doodley Jul 2016 #4
It's like a Republican disease. They really can't help themselves. nt procon Jul 2016 #5
Were they even specific about which Clinton? Orsino Jul 2016 #6
They can go eff themselves... tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #7
Comey: "Yah, we'll get right on that... MineralMan Jul 2016 #8
Republicans attack via this right wing News agency prints... midnight Jul 2016 #9
Welcome to the next 4 years. bullwinkle428 Jul 2016 #10

rurallib

(62,426 posts)
3. As tax payers we need to inundate them and tell them to
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 09:45 AM
Jul 2016

quit wasting our money with their illegal partisan witch hunts.

ETA - wonder if Ryan as Speaker could be sued by taxpayers for allowing tax money to be used for partisan purposes? Working of an idle mind.

Doodley

(9,095 posts)
4. Thanks Obama!
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 09:51 AM
Jul 2016

Obama tried to be too nice to Republicans, hoping they might reciprocate, and he did not move forward with any more investigations into 9/11 or the war on Iraq. Compare that to the UK, that released the Chilcot Report last week that found that Tony Blair lied, was in cahoots with Bush, that his timeline was led by the media, that there were no plans for the aftermath of war, etc.

Here in US, Hilary Clinton's emails and Benghazi are investigated by Republicans more than 9/11 and Iraq put together. It doesn't matter how many were killed in embassy attacks during the Bush era. It doesn't matter that Bush era staff did exactly the same thing with their emails as Clinton. It is sickening and it is pathetic.

tallahasseedem

(6,716 posts)
7. They can go eff themselves...
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 01:08 PM
Jul 2016

I have watched them systematically try to take down the Clinton's since the 90s. Get over it assholes...you have NOTHING!

midnight

(26,624 posts)
9. Republicans attack via this right wing News agency prints...
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 02:21 PM
Jul 2016

At least 110 emails sent through her server contained information that was classified at the time it was sent, he said, meaning it should never have been sent or received on an unclassified computer network — not hers, not even the State Department’s official state.gov system.

That fact refutes the core argument she and others have made: that the entire controversy turned on the overzealous, after-the-fact classification of emails as they were being made public under the Freedom of Information Act, rather than the mishandling of the nation’s secrets.

Mr. Comey’s announcement was, arguably, the worst possible good news Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign could have hoped for: no criminal charges, but a pointed refutation of statements like one she flatly made last August. “I did not send classified material,” she said then.

“Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know, or should know, that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it,” Mr. Comey said, suggesting that Mrs. Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/fbi-findings-damage-many-of-hillary-clintons-claims.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

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