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Originally Posted by Adder
You have to be kidding. You do not see the difference between an experienced prosecutor and member of the opposition party concluding that no prosecutor would charge and Barr, having auditioned for the job by calling the investigation invalid, doing what he was hired to do, arguably in direct conflict with the report itself? (Oh, which he did without reviewing any of the underlying evidence too.) Man.
Yes, if she did a thing that nobody ever claimed she did, she should have been prosecuted. Great.
Like, what kind of leeway? And what did she so to obstruct the investigation? And which investigation, because wasn't the deletion before the investigation into the deletion?
And she didn't need leeway. She didn't do anything meaningfully wrong.
No, technical non-compliance with government records processes when government systems weren't up to the task doesn't count.
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Under the rules of this political/legal game, a pass is a pass. Trump’s from Barr and Rosenstein works as well as Hillary’s from Comey. The measure is effectiveness. Neither is going to be indicted. What you or I think is immaterial.
I didn’t say she needed leeway. But the argument against her was that she purposefully erased in violation of compliance rules because it’s better to deal with that hard to prove allegation than deal with a release of all those emails. Regarding advance notice, a politician at that level, running for President no less, is aware of even the hint of an investigation way ahead of it reaching her. They have loads of people placed in positions to know about and address this stuff in an effective manner while still being able to assert plausible deniability.
I suspect her people also knew the server was an issue from the start. So they did the smart thing and Frank Quattroned it. I’ll bet Trump did the same thing with a Trump server after he was elected.
But I don’t know if she did that and it’s immaterial because even if she did, the investigations - all of them - were tainted by politics. So it’d fall under leeway granted a politician in an invalid investigation.
