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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 09:03 AM Apr 2018

Andrew Napolitano Calls on Jeff Sessions to Prosecute Hillary Clinton For 'Espionage'


by Ken Meyer | 7:44 am, April 19th, 2018

Judge Andrew Napolitano wishes the Department of Justice would hurry up and bring charges against Hillary Clinton already.

Yesterday, almost a dozen Republican congressmen signed a criminal referral asking the DOJ to launch new investigations into a host of former Obama officials and other fresh GOP foes. Clinton is the prime target of the referral, though the GOP is also demanding probes on figures like Loretta Lynch, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe. In terms of whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions will take action, Napolitano joined Fox & Friends on Thursday to say “I wish he would.”

“The evidence of Mrs. Clinton’s guilt of espionage, failure to safeguard state secrets – that’s the 22 or 23 top secret pieces of information that were on her private server – the failure to do that, the evidence of guilt is overwhelming.”


Napolitano went on to talk about the “serious felonies on [Clinton’s] part” and how she shouldn’t be immune from prosecution. He also said that Comey has undermined his rationale for not bringing charges against her over the course of his ongoing media tour.

In the end, however, Napolitano says he doubts the DOJ will go after Clinton “contrary to all reason.”

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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/andrew-napolitano-calls-on-jeff-sessions-to-prosecute-hillary-clinton-for-espionage/
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Andrew Napolitano Calls on Jeff Sessions to Prosecute Hillary Clinton For 'Espionage' (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
these fuckers never quit. despicable deplorables. spanone Apr 2018 #1
Moron ProfessorGAC Apr 2018 #2
Assholes are desperate dalton99a Apr 2018 #3
Go ahead.... C_U_L8R Apr 2018 #4
The disgusting part is they're never held accountable. KY_EnviroGuy Apr 2018 #7
Didn't Jared Crutchez_CuiBono Apr 2018 #5
I hope Mueller nails Jarvanka HARD Exotica Apr 2018 #6
So Nappy knows Trump is ... GeorgeGist Apr 2018 #8
Then what do you call directly handing over top secret information in the Oval Office? Treason? sinkingfeeling Apr 2018 #9
Projecting is their favorite tactic. Greybnk48 Apr 2018 #10
what bastards they are. bdamomma Apr 2018 #11
Why can't they let this go? What is their obsession with Hillary? smirkymonkey Apr 2018 #12
Because they've has almost 30 years to grow oh-so comfortable hating her... JHB Apr 2018 #13
Gorin vs US 1941 immunized Hillary Cicada Apr 2018 #14
FUCK ALLL OF YOU TRAITORS AND CRIMINALS AT FUCKEDNEWS blake2012 Apr 2018 #15

ProfessorGAC

(65,068 posts)
2. Moron
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 09:04 AM
Apr 2018

Proof it does not take smarts or ethics to become a judge. Might be a highly desirable set of qualities, but clearly not a requirement.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
7. The disgusting part is they're never held accountable.
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 09:28 AM
Apr 2018

Apparently, a deplorable's duration of memory is only overnight at best - rattled by a media fog of lies, deceptions and beer commercials.

It's a safe bet Napolitano will not be called out over this statement five or ten years down the road.

...... ..........

 

Exotica

(1,461 posts)
6. I hope Mueller nails Jarvanka HARD
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 09:11 AM
Apr 2018

Would LOVE to see them both in orange for multiple decades, along with big orange Daddy.

Greybnk48

(10,168 posts)
10. Projecting is their favorite tactic.
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 10:31 AM
Apr 2018

A large chunk of the RepubliCON party is complicit in espionage with Russia, so of course this moran accuses a Dem of espionage.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. Why can't they let this go? What is their obsession with Hillary?
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 12:11 PM
Apr 2018

She is not in office. She's not running for office. She probably won't ever run for office ever again, so why are they so determined to take her down?

JHB

(37,160 posts)
13. Because they've has almost 30 years to grow oh-so comfortable hating her...
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 12:21 PM
Apr 2018

... as familiar and comforting as their favorite ratty old tee shirt.

They "know" she's guilty guilty GUILTY of the constant stream of things they've accused her of, and, like Dirty Harry, there's nothing they hate more than crooks "getting away with it".

Actually proving an "it" is superfluous to them.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
14. Gorin vs US 1941 immunized Hillary
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 01:33 PM
Apr 2018

Gorsuch just joined 4 liberals to block a deportation because the statute was too vague to give fair warning of what was outlawed. The Espionage Act faced that same problem in a case before the Supremes in 1941. The Espionage Act punished release of information related to national defense, a vague standard. Is pistachio output related to national defense? Maybe, in the economic output supports military spending. To avoid that defense by someone who sold information to a foreign country the court held that because the defendant got paid by foreign military interests he had to know his leak related to national defense. After Gorin no one was convicted of violating the Espionage Act unless the intended the information to go to an unauthorized recipient. The statute has the words “gross negligence” as sufficient for guilt but without actual intent the law fails as too vague. A vague law can be interpreted many different ways meaning it fails to satisfy the due process of law requirement. Due process of law requires fixed knowable rules.

That is why Comey said no reasonable prosecutor would charge Hillary. Scalia, replaced by Gorsuch, took this view about the problem of vague criminal statutes so it is fitting Gorsuch took the same view this week. Without actual intent Hillary can not be convicted. The examples of others prosecuted without intent? They were charged with a different law, one in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Hillary is not in the military so that law does not apply to her.

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