Boca
Governor
...it's been utterly destroyed.
While it is clearly within the power of the Attorney General of the United States to decline bringing charges after a full and complete investigation, even one begun pursuant to the Espionage Act, it is equally clear, and by definiton, obstruction of justice, when the Attorney General refuses to allow an investigation to commence.
And to underscore how utterly destroyed the system is...consider that there was a private meeting between the Attorney General of the United States and what would have been one of the targets of that investigation.
Moreover, little can be done about it. It is also the Attorney General of the United States, or Congress, who have the power to appoint a Special Prosecutor. A legal mechanism designed solely for that purpose.
While it is clearly within the power of the Attorney General of the United States to decline bringing charges after a full and complete investigation, even one begun pursuant to the Espionage Act, it is equally clear, and by definiton, obstruction of justice, when the Attorney General refuses to allow an investigation to commence.
It has been revealed that while federal investigators were probing Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State, the Obama Justice Department denied an FBI request to investigate the Clinton Foundation.
“The FBI went to Justice Department earlier this year asking for it to open a case into the foundation, but the public integrity unit declined,” CNN breaking news writer Daniella Diaz reported Wednesday.
“The FBI went to Justice Department earlier this year asking for it to open a case into the foundation, but the public integrity unit declined,” CNN breaking news writer Daniella Diaz reported Wednesday.
And to underscore how utterly destroyed the system is...consider that there was a private meeting between the Attorney General of the United States and what would have been one of the targets of that investigation.
Moreover, little can be done about it. It is also the Attorney General of the United States, or Congress, who have the power to appoint a Special Prosecutor. A legal mechanism designed solely for that purpose.
A special prosecutor generally is a lawyer from outside the government appointed by an attorney general or, in the United States, by Congress to investigate a government official for misconduct while in office. A reasoning for such an appointment is that the governmental branch or agency may have political connections to those it might be asked to investigate. Inherently, this creates a conflict of interest and a solution is to have someone from outside the department lead the investigation.
