Clinton's 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card

Fortunately for Clinton, criminal indictment will likely never happen because she has a "get out of jail free" card from her Constitution-shredding bedfellow.

Kayleigh McEnany

Kayleigh McEnany

Hillary Clinton might narrowly have won a caucus against a self-proclaimed democrat socialist on Monday, but she doesn’t have a “get out of jail free” card… yet. However momentous her slender – and some have suggested fraudulent – victory against Bernie Sanders, the real Clinton news broke Friday, not Monday.

For some time, we have known the bare contours of the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Narcissistically obsessed with her own political future, Clinton chose to keep her State Department correspondences concealed on a private server in her home in Chappaqua, away from the secure protections of the Department, vulnerable to hackers, and in violation of federal law.

So began the FBI probe into whether Clinton violated federal law and naively or intentionally endangered American secrets. For months, Clinton insisted that she did not send or receive “classified information,” and then she changed the wording to she did not send or receive information “labeled as classified” – crafty footwork on her part to avoid blame since she did in fact send classified information.

The FBI probe, in no uncertain terms, has revealed that Clinton did send classified information – to the tune of 1,340 classified emails. But the real bomb came last Friday, when the State Department announced that 22 of Clinton’s emails contained not just classified information, but “Top Secret” information. In fact, the emails contained “operational intelligence” that endangered the “sources, lives, and methods” of U.S. government officials.

This information is especially disturbing when coupled with the fact that a Romanian hacker named “Guccifer” was attempting to hack the email correspondences of Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton advisor with whom Hillary frequently corresponded, thus exposing her emails directly to these dangerous hackers. Shielded from the protections of the federal government, Top Secret emails were fully exposed. McClatchy reports: “A State Department official said the department could not do anything in response to the March 2013 hack of longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal because it occurred on a non-governmental computer system.”

The depth of Clinton’s idiocy becomes all the more disconcerting when the facts lead us to the conclusion that Clinton’s transgressions were not the result of idiocy but intentional decision-making for personal gain – the gain of retaining her privacy in anticipation of a presidential bid.

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Howard J. Krongard, a Harvard law graduate who served as inspector general of the State Department (2005-2008), believes that “this was all planned in advance” to circumvent federal recordkeeping requirements. Krongard goes on to tell the New York Post how unusual it was that Clinton’s State Department did not have an inspector general, calling the nearly six-year absence of an inspector general “unprecedented” and “the longest period any department has gone without an IG,” signaling once more Clinton’s attempt to keep things off the books.

Whether the result of idiocy or intention, one thing is clear: Hillary Clinton sidestepped the law and State Department protocols. It’s no wonder then that the FBI is now reportedly ready to recommend indictment of Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, though, the decision to indict rests not with the FBI but with Obama’s Justice Department.

The New York Post reports, based on comments by Krongard, that “any criminal referral to the Justice Department from the FBI ‘will have to go through four loyal Democrat women’ — Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who heads the department’s criminal division; Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.” Even in the face of a plethora of damning information that surfaced and will continue to surface as a result of the FBI probe, it is hard to imagine a scenario where Obama’s politicized Justice Department chooses to indict the leading Democrat nominee for the presidency.

While disheartened, we should not be surprised, because this is what the modern-day Democrat does – circumvent the law when it’s inconvenient, whether it is Obama shredding the Constitution via executive order (see here and here) or Hillary Clinton dodging the law for personal gain (see here).

For the high-profile Democrat, the law is merely suggestive, not mandatory, and that is no more evident than in the cases of Clinton and Obama. Fortunately for Clinton, criminal indictment will likely never happen because she has a “get out of jail free” card from her Constitution-shredding bedfellow.

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Kayleigh McEnany is a conservative writer and commentator who appears regularly on Fox and CNN. She is currently in the third year of pursuing her J.D. at Harvard Law School. Kayleigh graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and also studied politics at Oxford University. You can reach her by email at Kayleigh@PoliticalProspect.com or follow her on Twitter: @kayleighmcenany.