{"id":16808,"date":"2016-08-28T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16808"},"modified":"2016-08-28T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T17:17:11","slug":"flash-gop-hillary-didnt-commit-any-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16808","title":{"rendered":"Flash, GOP: Hillary didn&#8217;t commit any crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Reince-Priebus-1024x627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16809\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Reince-Priebus-1024x627-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"FILE-In this Jan. 24, 2014 file photo, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is seen at the RNC winter meeting in Washington. Having fallen short twice recently, Ohio is making a big push to land the 2016 Republican National Convention with three cities bidding as finalists, eager to reassert its Midwestern political clout to a party that may be slowly moving away from it. In interviews, RNC chairman Reince Priebus and members of the selection committee including chairwoman Enid Mickelsen downplayed swing state status as a top factor in their decision, emphasizing that having at least $55 million in private fundraising, as well as hotel space and creating a good &quot;delegate experience&quot; were more important. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh, File)\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Reince-Priebus-1024x627-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Reince-Priebus-1024x627-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Reince-Priebus-1024x627.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said it again this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Rodham Clinton committed crimes while she was secretary of state, he told Chuck Todd on &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; The Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential nominee, he said, is a criminal over her use of a personal e-mail server. He said Clinton sent &#8220;highly classified&#8221; material out on that server, implying I guess that the material could have fallen into enemy hands.<\/p>\n<p>I expressed long ago some concern over the use of the personal server. Secretaries of state or anyone charged with handling top-secret material need to ensure it&#8217;s distributed along highly encrypted channels.<\/p>\n<p>Now, did she commit a crime?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see. The FBI investigated this matter thoroughly. The agency is run by a <em>Republican<\/em>, a guy named James Comey, who is\u00a0as thorough an investigator as they come. He&#8217;s also a former federal prosecutor. The man knows the law.<\/p>\n<p>Comey\u00a0completed his probe and delivered a scathing rebuke of what Clinton did, how she handled the material through the personal server. Comey didn&#8217;t like what he found &#8212; and he said so! He described Clinton&#8217;s use of the personal server as &#8220;reckless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then he also said that Clinton didn&#8217;t commit an offense for which she could be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>End &#8230; of &#8230; story.<\/p>\n<p>But wait!<\/p>\n<p>Comey also gave the Republican Party a bottomless supply of ammo to fire at Clinton. He&#8217;s given the GOP plenty of grounds &#8212; or <em>pretexts<\/em>, if you will &#8212; to keep harping about the e-mail issue.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP chairman this morning\u00a0continued his party&#8217;s\u00a0<em>political<\/em> attack.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton, though, is not a criminal.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said it again this morning. Hillary Rodham Clinton committed crimes while she was secretary of state, he told Chuck Todd on &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; The Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential nominee, he said, is a criminal over her use of a personal e-mail server. He said Clinton sent &#8220;highly classified&#8221; material &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flash, GOP: Hillary didn&#8217;t commit any crimes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[5354,1693,1941,2139,6242,3878],"class_list":["post-16808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-e-mails","tag-fbi","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey","tag-reince-priebus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16810,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions\/16810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}