TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016
They’re Building A Very Strong Pillory For A Very Naughty Hillary
Joe DiGenova was US Attorney for DC, Staff counsel for various Senate committees, and is pretty wired into Washington. He gave this interview to Laura Ingraham (guest host, Fox News).
DiGenova: Her biggest problem right now is the FBI. They’re not going away. They have reached a critical mass in their investigation of the Secretary and all of her senior staff. And, it’s going to come to a head, I would suggest, in the next sixty days. And, I predict that Hillary will not make it to the finish line. She’s not going to be able to complete her campaign.
This criminal investigation must, of necessity, focus on her and all the people around her. And, if Jim Comey, the FBI director, is doing his job — which I expect him to do as an honorable man — she cannot be the nominee of the Democratic Party. She’s going to have to be charged with a crime. It’s going to be a very complex matter for the Department of Justice, but they’re not going to be able to walk away from it.
She and her staff have committed numerous federal crimes involving negligent and improper handling of classified information. They are now at over 1,200 classified emails, and those are just for the ones we know about from the State Department. That doesn’t include the ones that the FBI is, in fact, recovering from her hard drives.
She has definitely made false statements, under oath, both in interviews and on Capitol Hill. She has not yet been interviewed by the FBI in their investigation. That will be the final step in their investigation. The Bureau has so much information about criminal conduct by her and her staff that there is no way that they walk away from this. They’re going to make a recommendation that people be charged, and then Loretta Lynch is going to have the decision of a lifetime.
Ingraham: Do you have confidence that Loretta Lynch, from what we saw with her handling of the Baltimore riots and all that, is going to okay to green light an indictment of Hillary Clinton in an election year?
DiGenova: I believe that the evidence that the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that unless she agrees to the charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an Attorney General. It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable. The evidence against the Clinton staff and the Secretary is so overwhelming at this point that if, in fact, she chooses not to charge Hillary, they will never be able to charge another federal employee with the negligent handling of classified information.
The intelligence community will not stand for that — they will fight for an indictment, and they are already in the process of girding themselves to, basically, revolt against the Attorney General if she refuses to bring charges. There is a massive breach between the intelligence community, the military community, at the Department of State, and the national security superstructure inside the intelligence community. There is vitriol of an intense amount developing — you can hear it in your conversations with people in the intelligence community. They will fight to the death if the Attorney General attempts to bury this case.
It’s going to be very, very ugly for her. And it’s going to be an awful ending to the Obama Administration, but one which they richly deserve.
