Hillary Clinton and her problem with personal honesty
Clinton's persistent problems with personal honesty have brought her face to face with three more criminal investigations. One is for public corruption. The second is for perjury. And the third is for misleading Congress.
The public corruption investigation has been underway for a few months. The allegations are that she exercised the powers of her office as secretary of state to enrich her husband and herself.
The second investigation Clinton faces is for perjury. This arises out of a Freedom of Information Act civil lawsuit during which she swore in writing and under oath, citing the phrase "under penalty of perjury," that she surrendered all of her work-related emails to the State Department.
Finally, Clinton will most likely be confronted with charges of misleading Congress. She did this when she denied to the House Select Committee on Benghazi that she had sent or received emails via her home servers that contained state secrets.
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http://www.njherald.com/20160715/hillary-clinton-and-her-problem-with-personal-honesty (July 15, 2016)
The perjury and misleading Congress charges, even though they are both felonies, are tame in comparison to the public corruption allegations. It has been reported by Fox News that the FBI has been investigating the Clinton Foundation since the first of the year. When asked about the investigation, FBI Director James Comey pointedly refused to answer during his recent testimony before the House Oversight Committee: “I’m not going to comment on the existence or non-existence of any other investigations,” Comey responded.
It is the public corruption charges that carry the most severe and harshest penalties, including life in prison; even punishment by death.
The Clinton Foundation has taken in nearly $60 million in donations from unsavory foreign governments (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, et al); governments that have been accused of funding terrorism, persecuting homosexuals, and violating women's rights.
U.S. Code 18, Section 794 - Gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government:
"Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life."
