President Obama has the DOJ and specifically lynch on the chopping block. She either does what he wants or the administration throws her under the bus for failing to "connect the dots". Lynch cannot win ... the FBI's hands are shackled for failing to bring a case, and Lynch is guilty for failing to integrate and understand the evidence before her. And imagine if Hillary becomes President. Lynch is trapped in a Chinese finger puzzle!
One history of the Chinese Finger trap goes back centuries to the court of Imperial China. Legend has it that Emperors would select officials based on how they responded to the Finger Cuffs. Those who pulled hard, grew angry and became stuck in the tightening trap were deemed unsuitable, while those candidates who remained calm and escaped the trap got the job.
The more recent State action evidently concerns 18 specific emails that were sent/received over Clinton’s home server. It seems quite likely that in the eighteen emails classified information was discussed as conceived under federal statutes, and as McCarthy points out, one of Obama’s own executive orders regarding dissemination of foreign intelligence. That includes conversations with foreign officials and leaders that are what you would expect the Secretary of State to discuss with the President, and which are born classified. State Department spokesman John Kirby did not deny that these emails contain classified information, but rather only stated that that they “have not been determined to be classified,” claiming that they are being withheld because of concerns over confidentiality between the President and his aides. But again, if Obama and Clinton were not discussing foreign leaders and policy, then what on earth were they emailing each other about? The White House tried to block the release of emails between Obama and Clinton last fall, with the same claim, denying that they were asserting executive privilege but rather maintaining confidentiality between the president and his top aides. Presumably, these 18 emails are these very same ones. The White House has gotten around using executive privilege to hide the emails by having State block court-ordered FOIA production on these vague confidentiality grounds. McCarthy says that this is a backhanded way of asserting executive privilege and effectively classifying the documents without saying so, since otherwise Obama’s transgressions might be obvious. It is hard to argue with that conclusion. Moreover, State’s action (clearly at Obama’s behest) is circumstantial evidence that the information contained within the emails is indeed classified -- born classified -- and thus subject to security protocols whether marked or not, which both Obama and Clinton violated. And circumstantial evidence is as probative of guilt as direct evidence if a jury (or the Senate) chooses to believe it.
