(02-07-2019, 04:27 PM)hazard Wrote: As a result of the Ken Starr investigation, President Bill Clinton was accused of and tried before Congress for perjury and obstruction of justice. While no Democratic Senator voted against him, of the 55 Republican Senators then serving, only 50 voted against him on the perjury charge, and 45 on the obstruction of justice charge. This means 5 and 10 Republicans decided the man was not guilty and voted accordingly on those charges.
I can only assume that the reason Clinton wasn't accused again after the handover to the George Bush presidency was because of double jeopardy rules.
The Republicans have just finished a 2 year span of time in which they held every branch of government. For all of President Trump's rhetoric, Hillary Clinton has not been charged with any such crimes in any of the USA's jurisdictions. Not while she was Secretary of State and thus lacking the protections of a high ranking elected official from criminal proceedings, and not after she resigned in 2013 when she had only the protections due any given citizen of the United States.
If, after all these years and in both cases exhaustive investigations the decision was made not to prosecute such crimes any further it might just be because there's nothing to prosecute.
Or, it would have been labeled as a banana republic dictators move by the media and been pushed as such on top of, and as a reason why the Russia probe was necessary. Quite frankly it was a political decision not to prosecute after Comedy's ursurption of the AG's job, (and he was hardly an unbiased person), and while I didn't agree with letting it go, it wasn't my decision to make.
Let's see a truly unbiased investigation into Hillary and her smashing of supeona'd electronics and deleting of supeona'd emails and see what happens.
Oh yeah, she's a Rodham and a Clinton, that won't happen.
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