Clinton received 'free pass' from Obama, FBI: Analyst
The FBI has given a “free pass” to Hillary Clinton by refusing to press charges against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee over her use of a private email server as secretary of state, says an American political analyst.
Myles Hoenig, a social justice activist in Baltimore, made the comments while discussing FBI Director James Comey’s recent statements over the case.
Comey said on Tuesday that what Clinton did was “extremely careless” but there was no clear evidence that she and her team at the US State Department intended to violate the law.
“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information,” Comey said. “Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
Hoenig told Press TV on Wednesday that ever since Obama’s official endorsement of Clinton in early June, many officials in Washington are helping her in order to secure their future positions.
“Anyone following this should have presumed that she would get a pass when President Obama endorsed Clinton for the nomination,” the analyst said. “He appoints both the Attorney General and the FBI director, and both of them have a future in Washington to consider.”
Attorney General Loretta Lynch drew heavy bipartisan criticism last week, after it was revealed that she had secretly met with former president Bill Clinton ahead of the FBI’s interview with his wife, Hillary.
The pressure was so much that Lynch decided to step away from the case and promise to “fully” accept the FBI’s findings.
“We have someone conceivably who violated the Espionage Act going on to win a presidential nomination while Chelsea Manning rots in prison for exposing war crimes. Others have spent time in jail and have had their careers ruined for even the slightest of offenses regarding ‘secrets,’” Hoenig noted.
He then compared John Kiriakou to retired General David Petraeus; the former being a low level CIA analyst who was sentenced to prison for “minor infractions,” while the latter “only received a rebuke for his crimes regarding secrets.”
“There are a lot of heads shaking. Clinton has an authorized, non-secured private server in her home holding sensitive and top secret information. Her Foundation takes bribes from dictators all over the world in exchange for State Department approval of arms sales that would not have been acceptable otherwise. Bill Clinton interferes with the investigation with the tarmac fiasco. Yet the FBI sees no reason to indict,” Hoenig concluded.
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