FBI Director Comey frees Hillary Clinton
E. Ablorh-Odjidja
July 06, 2016

You must be in awe to have seen how Hillary has managed to escape prosecution.

After 13 minutes of damning evidence from the FBI Director James Comey , at his press conference yesterday, regarding Hillary's email server she installed at home, he still found no reason to bring her in to face justice.

Comey's conclusion not withstanding, it was obvious for all who could be reasonable to conclude that Hillary was guilty. That Director Commey's conclusion was a dodge and that Hillary had skated free on a dubious technicality.

But it would not be a dodge to think that the establishment Republicans, who in all things tactical against Democrats come up  short, missed the cue long before it happened; starting with Comey's appointment as the FBI  Director by President Obama and ending with Bill Clinton's visit to his one time appointtee, Attorney General Loretta Lynch's plane parked on a tarmac.

What is amazing about this presumably favorable FBI decision now is the ease with which the Clintons have always managed to skate out of tight legal spaces that would have squeezed the very political life out of the most astute politician!

The Clintons are masters of information gathering.  The FBI raw files that were lost and found in the same Clinton's White House was an example.

The political ill that negative information can bring led Hillary to keep her mail on a private server at home,  despite the fact that it was against the law, as cited by Director Comey in his prologue.

On the other hand, and like late President Lyndon Baines Johnson of old, the Clintons could deal from the bottom with this type of information, as a card sharper would at a game of poker. The sleight of hand with which they do this is also more refined than the most accomplished magician at work.

So what did they do this time?  Did they have something on Obama?

Look at Hillary's political trajectory now.  After a bitter campaign against Obama in 2008, she landed the most plump job of cabinet post as Secretary of State in Obama's government.  And now he is out supporting her, on Air Force One!

So Bill Clinton went on the Attorney General Lynch's plane. Why?

Well, Bill wanted to be seen. He knew he shouldn't be there.  He is a smart lawyer who knew the conflict of interest issues the visit could raise. He went anyway.He had something more important at stake. And he needed to do something fast.

On behalf of whom and under what condition the visit was made are not necessary now because it was obvious from the start of the visit.

The visit was meant to compromise Attorney General Lynch and/or to get her to punt the decision making.  But this was where the Republicans missed the cue.

Or could they have missed it purposely to thwart Trump's insurgency?

Indeed, Clinton's visit created the reason for the Attorney General to punt. In a press conference explaining the meeting with Bill, she declared that she would defer to the FBI's recommendation.

Poor Attorney General Lynch, a Black lady. Like Betty Currie, President Bill Clinton's personal secretary from 1993 to 2001, who sat at the door during the Monica Lewinsky scandal,  she has been misused. And poorly.

About Betty Currie, according to Wikipedia,  “ Chelsea Clinton’s White House cat, lived with her from the time she left the White House until Socks was euthanized after a long battle with cancer in February 2009."

But let's shift back to the Attorney General.

Attorney General Lynch's punt would be comfortable to understand if she knew the outcome of the FBI director's decision beforehand. So was this the mission Bill Clinton delivered?

You would think that after all the thirteen minutes prologue that condemned Hillary's mishandling of confidential information,  the  press conference statement would lead to an indictment. But it did not. The FBI Director let Hillary off the hook. And walked away from the press without answering a question.

Director Comey was the judge, the jury and the grand jury. Hillary had no intent to harm the nation, he had concluded.

The shocking part was “Comey's comments constitute a form of legal sophistry in that prosecutors did not need to prove that Clinton intended to commit a criminal act. Comey and staunch Clinton apologists keep providing cover by adding that element — intent — that simply is not needed. Indeed, under federal and state laws, negligence roughly means an "indifference" or careless attitude toward the proscribed conduct and with Comey calling the conduct "extremely careless," an argument can be made that Clinton was grossly negligent in her acts.” Wrote Chuck Hobbs for The Hill.

Bill Clinton must be happy with the outcome. He had to make the visit to the plane. The flack he caught for doing so would pale compared with the shellacking the Clinton Foundation and family would have received if Hillary had been indicted.

The Republican establishment, led by the Romneys and the Bushes would be happy too. From scratch they never wanted a nominee they deemed an interloper.

The Bushes who are tied to the Clintons would be very happy. The path had been cleared by Director Comey, a George W. Bush appointee to Deputy Director FBI post in the previous administration and now Obama appointee, for Hillary to defeat Trump because in their world dynasty is more important than competence.

For the Bushes, former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida would have been the perfect President. But he was trounced by Trump in a bloody primary. So a Clinton would do until next time.

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, July 06, 2016.

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