{"id":253866,"date":"2016-07-04T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=253866"},"modified":"2016-07-05T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:29:07","slug":"hillary-clintons-email-operation-violated-least-six-criminal-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/hillary-clintons-email-operation-violated-least-six-criminal-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton’s Email Operation Violated At Least Six Criminal Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not an exclusive list, nor does it relate to charges that might possibly be made against Ms. Clinton on grounds other than the unquestionable and basic ground that she moved all of her State Department email operation to a private and non-secured computer outside the State Department, and then attempted to destroy the record of those emails<\/b>. Here are the six criminal laws of that type<\/b>, which, I here allege, she clearly<\/b> broke:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

18 U.S. Code \u00a7 2232<\/b><\/span> \u2014 Destruction or removal of property to prevent seizure<\/span><\/p>\n

(a)<\/b><\/span>\u00a0Destruction or Removal of Property To Prevent Seizure<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever, before, during, or after any search for or seizure of property by any person authorized to\u00a0make such search or seizure, knowingly destroys, damages, wastes, disposes of, transfers, or\u00a0otherwise takes any action, or knowingly attempts to destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, transfer,\u00a0or otherwise take any action, for the purpose of preventing or impairing the Government\u2019s lawful\u00a0authority to take such property into its custody or control or to continue holding such property\u00a0under its lawful custody and control, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5\u00a0years, or both.<\/span><\/p>\n

(b)<\/b><\/span>\u00a0Impairment of In Rem Jurisdiction<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever, knowing that property is subject to the in rem jurisdiction of a United States court for\u00a0purposes of civil forfeiture under Federal law, knowingly and without authority from that court,\u00a0destroys, damages, wastes, disposes of, transfers, or otherwise takes any action, or knowingly\u00a0attempts to destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, transfer, or otherwise take any action, for the\u00a0purpose of impairing or defeating the court\u2019s continuing in rem jurisdiction over the property, shall\u00a0be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

18 U.S. Code \u00a7 1512<\/b><\/span> \u2014 Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant<\/span><\/p>\n

(c)<\/b> Whoever corruptly<\/span><\/p>\n

(1)<\/b>\u00a0alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to\u00a0impair the object\u2019s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or<\/span><\/p>\n

(2)<\/b>\u00a0otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,<\/span><\/p>\n

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

18 U.S. Code \u00a7 1519<\/b><\/span> \u2014 Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record,\u00a0document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper\u00a0administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case\u00a0filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title,\u00a0imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

18 U.S. Code \u00a7 2071<\/b><\/span> \u2014 Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally<\/span><\/p>\n

(a)<\/b><\/span> Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or,\u00a0with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed\u00a0or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or\u00a0public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.<\/span><\/p>\n

(b)<\/b><\/span> Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully\u00a0and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title\u00a0or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any\u00a0office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term \u201coffice\u201d does not include the office held by any\u00a0person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

18 U.S. Code\u00a0\u00a7 641<\/b><\/span> \u2014\u00a0Public money, property or records\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use, or the use of another, or without authority,\u00a0sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department\u00a0or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the United States or any department or\u00a0agency thereof, \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years or both. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

18 U.S. Code \u00a7 793<\/b><\/span> \u2014 Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

(f)<\/b><\/span> Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal\u00a0book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or\u00a0information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its\u00a0proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed,\u00a0or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to\u00a0anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such\u00a0loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer \u2014\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shall be fined not more than $10, 000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(g)<\/b><\/span> If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such\u00a0persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy, shall be subject to the\u00a0punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

If we are a nation \u201cof laws, not of men\u201d<\/span><\/a> (as that old basic description of democracy phrased it), then Ms. Clinton will be prosecuted, at least through the grand jury stage, on (at least) those grounds. The decision regarding her innocence or guilt will be made by jurors, not by the broader public \u2014 and also not by the nation\u2019s Executive: the President and his appointed Administration. That is what it means<\/b> for a government to be a functioning democracy. Any government which violates this principle \u2014 that it is \u201cof laws, not of men [including women]\u201d \u2014 is not functioning as a democracy: it\u2019s something else. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to these criminal laws, there are federal regulations also against these matters, but violations merely of federal regulations (such as these<\/span><\/a>) are far less serious than are actions that violate also<\/i> federal criminal laws (such as the six that are listed above)<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse This is not an exclusive list, nor does it relate to charges that might possibly be made against Ms. Clinton on grounds other than the unquestionable and basic ground that she moved all of her State Department email operation to a private and non-secured computer outside the State Department, and then attempted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":253868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,461,18],"tags":[115,30,1036,96,974,535,698,59,524,754,523,49,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-253866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-editorials","9":"category-latest-news","10":"tag-barack-obama","11":"tag-big-brother","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-cover-up","14":"tag-democracy","15":"tag-global-news","16":"tag-hillary-clinton","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-syria","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-usa-news","22":"tag-white-house","23":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}