By Rolf Yungclas ——Bio and Archives--October 17, 2016
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"(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer--Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."In response to Trump's stated plans to jail Ms. Clinton, the Democrats went on the attack on Twitter:
Trump's pledge to jail Clinton - which Pence just defended today - was literally one of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon: pic.twitter.com/CjTbC8OHGz
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) October 10, 2016
So @realDonaldTrump will ORDER his AG to take certain actions-When Nixon tried that his AG courageously resigned. Trump is dangerous/unfit
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) October 10, 2016
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"The FBI and Department of Justice have formally closed the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state. So the notion of a new president seeking to force the re-opening of the case, because a new party is in office, is essentially unprecedented."That, however, is baloney. As we saw with Comey, unprosecuted doesn't mean unlawful. The law cannot be reinterpreted by the FBI Director to make it lawful. Attorney General Lynch's disregard for the law to not prosecute is, as I see it, an impeachable offense. Problem is, no Democrat in the Senate is going to follow the law above Democrat party line and convict Lynch on a House impeachment so she is removed from office. So the only way to prosecute Clinton's illegal actions is for a Trump administration Attorney General to file charges or to call a grand jury to determine what charges should be brought against Clinton. In addition, an Attorney General who is not willing to let Clinton slide on her violation of "18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information" would also have had to prosecute Ms. Clinton on a Title 18, Section 2071 charge, the penalty of which would disqualify her from holding office again:
"(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States." (my italics)It's just too bad Hillary Clinton won't be charged and convicted before November 8.
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Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years