The Comey Firing: It’s All About Prosecuting Hillary for Allegedly Violating the Espionage Act

The Federal Espionage law and the facts of Hillary Clinton allegedly violating that law on multiple occasions over the four year period of being Secretary of State are very clear. Crystal clear. Recall the classic film courtroom drama, “A Few Good Men”, starring Jack Nicolson as Colonel Jessup and Tom Cruise (Kaffee) as the defense attorney trying to persuade Nicholson to admit to wrongdoing on the witness stand.

Jessup: We follow orders, son. We follow orders or people die. It's that simple. Are we clear? Kaffee: Yes, sir. Jessup: Are we clear?! Kaffee: Crystal. Colonel

According to an airtight bipartisan legal memo prepared by newly appointed and highly respected Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein, he recommended that Comey should be terminated by the President for cause. Rosenstein concluded, “The way the Director handled the conclusion of the email investigation (referring to the Hillary emails) was wrong. As a result, the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a Director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. Having refused to admit his errors, the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.” Specifically, Rosenstein criticized Comey for seriously overstepping the FBI’s role as an investigator and wrongly crossing into and supplanting the role of Attorney General, prosecutor and the Justice Department.

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“The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General’s authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the F.B.I. had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors.”

With the Comey firing, it is now open to the new FBI Director to reopen the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton for having in her possession multiple classified documents removed from government control on her unsecure private email system. Note the relevant section of the Espionage Act 18 U.S. Code s793, that I and millions of Americans believe she allegedly violated. 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. The law is very clear. Mere possession of such classified documents on Hillary’s unsecure email system are grounds for conviction and imprisonment. The questions for the new FBI Director. Is Hillary Clinton above the law? Or is America a country of laws where no man or woman is above the law? Millions of Americans who voted for Trump want the FBI do their job and restore respect for the law in America.