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Why weren't there any posts about this back in 2016?
If Democrats Think Invoking The Fifth Amendment Is Proof Of Guilt...
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That was a rhetorical question, of course. It's the same reason nobody here besides me was concerned with DNC primary interference, the Clintons profiting from deals with Russian oligarchs, and Hillary saying we should have interfered in a Palestinian election. In Democratic partisan logic, these acts are only criminal when committed by Trump and his team.
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Excerpt from an interview of former FBI Director James Comey by ABC News’ chief anchor George Stephanopoulos:
Full article here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/comey-admits-mistakes-describing-clintons-sloppy-handling-classified/story?id=54487996
Another point of criticism that Comey dismissed was the talk of how Clinton and her team destroyed their Blackberries and acid washed the server, which some, including Trump, implied was done to cover their tracks. Comey saw it more as a standard form of digital management.
“I think a fair number of people do to make sure that if [an old Blackberry is] resold, someone doesn’t end up with your information,” Comey said.
“They used a software program to clean the server to make sure there was nothing on it, or clean laptops to make sure there's nothing on them. They did that. But as investigators, our question is, when they did that, are they trying to obstruct justice in some ways? And we could never establish … evidence that anybody who did that did it with a corrupt intent. And most importantly, any indication that Secretary Clinton knew that was happening and knew that it was an effort to obstruct justice,” he said.
“I think a fair number of people do to make sure that if [an old Blackberry is] resold, someone doesn’t end up with your information,” Comey said.
“They used a software program to clean the server to make sure there was nothing on it, or clean laptops to make sure there's nothing on them. They did that. But as investigators, our question is, when they did that, are they trying to obstruct justice in some ways? And we could never establish … evidence that anybody who did that did it with a corrupt intent. And most importantly, any indication that Secretary Clinton knew that was happening and knew that it was an effort to obstruct justice,” he said.
Full article here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/comey-admits-mistakes-describing-clintons-sloppy-handling-classified/story?id=54487996
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Whether one believes those devices were wiped as a form of digital management or not, it's a valid defense to make on the part of the Clinton team.
However, it's not really the core of my argument. Many Dems are claiming that pleading the 5th (as Michael Cohen is doing) is an admission of guilt. Yet when employees who worked on Hillary's private email server plead the 5th, they didn't say a word. That's why I became an independent. Partisans generally don't hold their own party to the same standards.
