Special Prosecutor for Crooked Hillary?

2016-07-06T14:08:56-04:00

Should there be an independent special prosecutor appointed to investigate Clinton, Obama and the FBI over the mishandling of classified emails?

Response by Sgt Tom Cunnally made Jul 6 at 2016 2:11 PM

2016-07-06T14:11:19-04:00

Let's wait & see how tomorrow's House hearing with Comey and/or other FBI agents goes

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 6 at 2016 2:29 PM

2016-07-06T14:29:18-04:00

FBI Director Comey is a republican who during the Bush administration was the Deputy Attorney General for the US. When the Attorney General was ill in the hospital, he served as acting AG. In that capacity he refused to sign off on Bush's illegal wiretapping program. Bush tried to go around him by sending his Chief of Staff to the hospital to get the ailing AG to sign off on it. The attempt failed. So Bush met in person with Comey and made adjustments to the wiretap program to get it signed off on by Comey.

So you have a republican Deputy AG with the moral courage to stand up to the political pressure from a republican president, who now serves as the Director of the FBI. So who exactly does anyone think a republican House would appoint who would be more independent of poltical ties than that? The answer is no one. The whole notion of an "independent" prosecutor selected by a partisan political body is a joke.

The repubs simply want to keep the Hillary investigations going until after the election. That's what they did with the absurdly long Benghazi investigation, which took far longer than congressional investigations into the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War. Talk of a special prosecutor is simply more campaign bullshit by the republicans who can see that their chances of winning the White House are fading into the far distance each day Trump continues to open his mouth. They are realizing that the high school level name calling and retweeting about internet conpiracy theories that worked so well on the republican base in the primaries don't cut it with the rest of the population, who can easily see through that BS.

Response by MCPO Roger Collins made Jul 6 at 2016 2:48 PM

2016-07-06T14:48:49-04:00

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_section_archive/crimjust_standards_pfunc_blk.html

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Response by SGM Erik Marquez made Jul 6 at 2016 3:12 PM

2016-07-06T15:12:51-04:00

Should there be? Of course. A political appointee should not be investigating, nor deciding on charges of your personal choice for a political spot, a person you owe your current and future political position to.
Will there be a special prosecutor appointed, no not likley.

Response by SFC J Fullerton made Jul 6 at 2016 3:18 PM

2016-07-06T15:18:35-04:00

There comes a point where it becomes a pointless witch hunt (no pun intended). That would only add fuel to the fire that the GOP is to out get her, and turn more voters against them and for her. She got the FBI to basically call her an incompetent and negligent idiot, leave at that and let the voters decide.

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 6 at 2016 4:52 PM

2016-07-06T16:52:24-04:00

If the evidence does not fit the parameters of a criminal charge then so be it. So no, I do not believe a special prosecutor should be hired to waste more tax payer dollars. The FBI did conclude that classified information was passed by non-secure means. That the State Department was careless in they're handling of information. Now it is up to the public to decide if Hillary Clinton is trustworthy and has proven she is beyond reproach to fill the position of POTUS. Is she really the best choice to lead this country to prosperity?

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 6 at 2016 8:06 PM

2016-07-06T20:06:21-04:00

If anyone believes that they would have not been charges and jailed for the exact transgressions that were committed then I am comfortable with the answer no. However, it is my believe that if any of us on RP had done the the same we would be wearing prison orange.

Response by SPC Kirk Gilles made Jul 6 at 2016 11:59 PM

2016-07-06T23:59:04-04:00

There is no one neutral to pull it off. It's done. Opportunity lost.