If Rudy Guiliani was currently the attorney general, then, yeah, Hillary would have a lot to be nervous about. Dude knows the law and he's put together quite an impressive list of potential charges that could be filed against her based on what we all know about her behavior and her personal statements relating to the use of her homebrew e-mail server.
But Rudy is not attorney general. Loretta Lynch is. The same Loretta Lynch who just let Lois Lerner slide. So while I want to believe it when Rudy says Lynch is a straight shooter and that he knows this well from personal experience, well . . . let's give him the chance to make his case first:(Scroll down for video)
I do believe the FBI is conducting the investigation independent of politics because that's how the FBI works for the most part. Even the most corrupt administration probably has to let it be that way because if they apply political pressure to honest FBI agents not to pursue certain leads, or to bury certain evidence, they know the risk is too great that someone is going to write a book or go on Fox News and talk about it.
And as for Lynch, let's say she really is the straight shooter that Rudy says she is. I'll concede that it's possible. He obviously knows her and has first-hand knowledge of what she's like in a professional setting. The problem, though, is that none of that happened when Barack Obama was her boss. If Lynch indicts Hillary now, it's not just Loretta Lynch who did it. It's the Obama Justice Department, and, yeah, as we always say, the buck ultimately stops with Obama and should.
There are all kinds of reasons for Obama not to want an indictment, aside from the obvious that he wants a Democrat to succeed him as president. A potentially even bigger reason is that a trial exposes all kinds of things that happened inside the administration to enable Hillary's behavior - not least of which would surely be Obama knowing about it and simply turning a blind eye because it was the path of least resistance.
Lynch may be a serious law woman who is of the mind that she needs to weigh the evidence and not let politics influence her final decision. She may have been of that mindset in the Lerner case as well. But you can't tell me for one second that she has no idea what Obama wants to happen. Of course she does. She may not like it as much as Eric Holder did, and I suppose we could see the day when she resigns rather than accept Obama's meddling - if she's really the honest broker Rudy says she is - but it's simply inconceivable that Lynch has the freedom to indict Hillary, independent of what Obama may want.
That's simply not how the Obama Administration operates or ever has. I want to believe Rudy's right about this. But how can I?
If Rudy Guiliani was currently the attorney general, then, yeah, Hillary would have a lot to be nervous about. Dude knows the law and he's put together quite an impressive list of potential charges that could be filed against her based on what we all know about her behavior and her personal statements relating to the use of her homebrew e-mail server.
