Saturday, September 24, 2016

Why Were Clinton Aides Cheryl Mills And Heather Samuelson Given Immunity By FBI?


From Andrew McCarthy:
Well, what would Friday be without the latest document dump from the Clinton email investigation? Yesterday afternoon, with the public in distracted anticipation of the coming weekend and Monday’s Clinton-Trump debate showdown, the FBI released another 189 pages of interview reports. 
Along with this document dump comes remarkable news: The Obama Justice Department reportedly gave top Clinton aide and confidant Cheryl Mills immunity from prosecution for any incriminating information located on her personal computer. 
According to House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, the limited immunity was granted in order to persuade Ms. Mills to surrender her laptop computer so the FBI could check whether classified information was stored on it. This is very strange. There was no need to grant concessions to Mills. 
The Justice Department could have required the production of the computer by simply issuing a grand jury subpoena. And had there been any concern that Mills would not cooperate, would destroy the computer, or would “misplace” it (as Team Clinton claims to have misplaced so many Hillary devices), investigators could have applied for a search warrant and seized the computer. 
In normal cases, the Justice Department does not grant immunity in exchange for evidence when it has lawful power to compel production of that evidence.

4 comments:

christian soldier said...

answer to question in title-
Because they work the system and are IN the system -C-CS

Anonymous said...

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Always On Watch said...

The Banana Republic of the United States.

Pete Rowe said...

One plausible explanation is that Mills and others claimed attorney-client privilege during the last go-round. Attorney-client privilege should not apply because the government, not Hillary, would have been Mills' client. Moreover, attorney-client privilege does not apply to situations in which the client uses the attorney in furtherance of a criminal act. However, just to dispense with the argument, the government may have granted her limited immunity in return for cooperation and assistance in getting to non-privileged communications to support the latest investigation.