Obstruction of Justice - A Must For Hillary

Obstruction of Justice - A Must For Hillary

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2015-03-28 07:37 by Karl Denninger
in Editorial , 62 references 

Obstruction of Justice - A Must For Hillary

 

It's time for those who claim to uphold the rule of law (cough-Republicans-cough!) to appoint an independent prosecutor with the goal of determining whether a black-letter violation of the law regarding obstruction has occurred and, if so, to bring charges.

Hillary Clinton wiped her email server "clean," permanently deleting all emails from it, the leader of the House committee investigating the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi said Friday.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said the former secretary of state has failed to produce a single new document in recent weeks and has refused to relinquish her server to a third party for an independent review, as Gowdy has requested.

It does not matter when Hillary decided to do this.  All that matters is that she knew at the time that the records in question might be requested during an investigation and destroyed them so as to prevent their production.
The law under 18 USC 1519 is extremely broad and does not require that the person destroying (or ordering the destruction) of records know of an investigation at the time or even that said investigation exist.  It is only requires that the item destroyed might have reasonably become subject of a future investigation before any department or office of the United States.
18 USC 1519 was added by Sarbanes-Oxley which, incidentally, Hillary Clinton voted for as a Senator and thus knows damn well applies to both this situation generally and to her specifically.
Stand up America.

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