Tribune columnist John Kass points out something the IG report has made plain:
Just chew on this apiece: How could Hillary Clinton ever be prosecuted without implicating Obama, who emailed her using a pseudonym?
Obama might have been portrayed as a victim of her use of a private server. She used that server to hide her dealings with the controversial Clinton Foundation from congressional inquiry. She should have been prosecuted.
But then, two things would have happened.
Her campaign would have fallen apart immediately, and along with it, Obama’s legacy.
The Obama White House, the senior pro-Obama bosses of the FBI and just about all the political suits thought Clinton would be our next president.
And who wants to anger the next ruler? Careers were at stake, promotions, perks, power, just as it was back in the day, in old Versailles.
You should read the report for yourself. Ignore the spin that there was no bias found at Obama’s DOJ and FBI.
It crawls with bias. Deals were cut. Then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch met on the tarmac with Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton was shielded from a federal grand jury. Witnesses were allowed to sit with her during questioning. Comey had already decided to clear her before the investigation was complete.
and issues a warning:
But one thing should be understood here: The Clinton investigation went wrong when it was taken away from capable field agents and handed to the political suits and intriguers. Bias is their coin. Comey was their boss. His reputation has been hurt by the report.
And Trump, vulgar and boastful, was overjoyed to see Comey, a likely witness against him, take such a big public hit.
Trump is no angel. He’s famous for lies. Mueller may indeed be closing in with the Friday jailing of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who’s accused of witness tampering.
But Trump’s lies are obvious and blustery, like those told by a bad carny hustler.
Trump is no Obama.
Obama was the silky one.
And the silky ones prosper, in Washington, and as they did for a time, at Versailles.
Among the many reasons that so many people voted for Donald Trump, an obvious huckster, over President Obama’s designated successor was that not just Republicans but Democrats and, especially, independents are dissatisfied with the country’s direction and have been for some time:
After Trump’s election approval of the country’s direction spiked, briefly, to a level higher than at any time since George W. Bush was president. That wasn’t simply because of racism or bigotry or misogyny although those might have been factors and it wasn’t just because of economic conditions but because they recognize, increasingly, that those hired to serve them despise them and it’s all right there in microcosm in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s outlaw email server.
Kass makes definitive statements without proof. Anyone can make a winning argument that way.
Steve
Obama might have been portrayed as a victim of her use of a private server. She used that server to hide her dealings with the controversial Clinton Foundation from congressional inquiry. She should have been prosecuted.
He had to have known about it from the beginning, and his failure to appoint an IG for State shows that he was basically an accomplice. His IG scandal deserves much more attention than it has gotten.
“people voted for Donald Trump, an obvious huckster, ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBQWsBiM5YY
Yes! Smooth, silky ,good looking, deep baritone, read the prompter correctly. But a liar, and that’s why Trump.
“She used that server to hide her dealings with the controversial Clinton Foundation from congressional inquiry.”
So this is now unquestioned fact? I thought it was so she could exchange emails with old cronies and gloat over killing Vince Foster. So hard to keep up.
Steve
Kass isn’t a rank partisan, like a certain commenter willing to publicly make a fool of himself by willful denial and guffawing about straw man conspiracy theories, is the best explanation.
On the particulars, that Obama was communicating with her and her kitchen server, under an alias has been known for quite some time. The IG report simply noted it. You might not know that if you just listen to MSNBC or CNN or The Times…….
You might even be amazed that it’s an unquestioned fact.