2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"Oops. Here are the ‘Experts’ Who Blew it Predicting a Clinton Indictment"
This is from Dan Abrams' website
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/oops-here-are-the-commentators-who-blew-it-predicting-a-clinton-indictment/
Oops. Here are the Experts Who Blew it Predicting a Clinton Indictment
by Ronn Blitzer | 12:49 pm, July 5th, 2016 953
On Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey announced that he will not recommend that Hillary Clinton be indicted for her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State. There had been much debate over what the FBI and Attorney General Loretta Lynch should do about the case, but a number of experts were confident that they knew what would happen. And boy were they wrong. Here are some of the notable personalities who were confident that Clinton would be indicted:
1. Judge Andrew Napolitano
Judge Napolitano was seemingly ever-present on Fox News during the Clinton investigation, confidently discussing the likelihood of an indictment. Just this past Friday, Judge Napolitano said on Fox Business that there was clearly enough evidence to indict and convict Clinton. He went on to say that likelihood of an indictment had increased dramatically when it was reported that Lynch would accept the FBIs recommendation.
2. Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay may have had the worst prediction of all of them. I have friends in the FBI, and they tell me theyre ready to indict, theyre ready to recommend an indictment, the former House Majority Leader said way back in January. Not only was he wrong about the outcome of the investigation, he acted like he had inside information on the innerworkings of the investigation! On top of that, he thought the announcement was going to drop months ago. Well done, Mr. DeLay.
3. Joseph diGenova
A former US Attorney for Washington D.C., diGenova was so confident that the FBI would at least recommend an indictment, that he said in a radio interview that there [would] be a massive revolt inside the FBI if Lynch did not agree to the charges. The [FBI] has so much information about criminal conduct by her and her staff that there is no way that they walk away from this, diGenova said.
4. Frank Luntz
Luntz, the conservative pollster, had expressed doubt over whether or not Clinton would be indicted, but changed his tune after Lynchs announcement that she would accept the FBIs recommendation. I actually do believe now that if this is true that she will be indicted, Luntz told Fox and Friends.
5. General Jerry Boykin
General Boykin, who served as Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under President George W. Bush, was quite certain that an indictment was forthcoming. He said in a June 4 radio interview with Breitbart News, I think ultimately shes going be indicted. She has to be. This cannot stand.
6. Susan Sarandon
Even Hollywood got it wrong! Go figure. The actress, who had been supporting Bernie Sanders, said in an MSNBC interview that Clinton would be indicted. Theres going to be, its inevitable, she declared.
It will be interesting to see if these commentators continue to be so outspoken about the subject now that theyve been proven to have missed the mark.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)her to be indicted?
emulatorloo
(44,238 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)In a better world this would destroy them, but there is and will continue to be a clamoring market for what they are willing to deliver.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)That's what I would do. HA Goodman is a shameless self-promoter. Excluding him from the conversation is the best attack on him possible.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I also couldn't read his articles or watch any of his videos. Something abrasive about it.
riversedge
(70,362 posts)having a issy fit
pnwmom
(109,015 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)and was willing to bet money, limbs, eating road kill, leaving the board forever, et cetera that on that proposition.
-DemocratSinceBirth
quickesst
(6,283 posts)And I salute you. I was really really really hoping someone would take you up on the money bet.
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)But I never - ever believed - that she would. When I explained why, I was told - in some cases quite stridently - that I didn't know what I was talking about.
Since no one here actually knows me from a hole in the ground, it really didn't bother me at all. But I am very happily having the last laugh, as are those who do know me.
I am especially enjoying GOPer exploding heads!
LiberalFighter
(51,191 posts)The automatic delegates would had been dropping like flies as Clinton supporters long before the announcement. They would had been in the loop about this.
Anyone that had actually read the report would see that any possible charges would be very flimsy.
If Republicans are by and large the only ones throwing the charges in the air then there is little credibility.
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)There was also the fact that Prez O had announced that he would be campaigning with Hillary. There is no way that would have happened if there had been ANY question whatsoever.
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)Joseph diGenova is the most despicable. I loath this slimy man and his equally slimy wife, Victoria Toensing, during the Lewinsky matter. Vile doesn't describe those two.
emulatorloo
(44,238 posts)Was odd to see them presented as truth-tellers.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_E._diGenova
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Victoria_Toensing
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)be an indictment based on lack of criminal intent. That alone prevented an indictment in a system that made an effort a security. This system did. Also, the system wasn't actually hacked, and the only information that it was came from an obviously lying criminal, aka Guccifer, who claimed it, but released no data to prove it. The fact that it wasn't hacked would also prevent an indictment. Again, all by itself.
The 25 years of lying about Hillary Clinton are the first line of attack against liberalism in America, and really, the fascists have abandoned the other lines of attack to the point that they might as well not exist.
emulatorloo
(44,238 posts)http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/07/fbi-director-guccifer-lied-didn-t-have-access-to-hillary-s-server.html?
Pretty clear to most people Guccifer was full of shit. Glad Comey confirmed it.
An Op-Ed you might enjoy:
Opinion: All the terrible things Hillary Clinton has done in one big list
By Brett Arends
Published: Feb 7, 2016 3:19 p.m. ET
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-the-terrible-things-hillary-clinton-has-done-in-one-big-list-2016-02-04
mercuryblues
(14,550 posts)http://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-the-terrible-things-hillary-clinton-has-done-in-one-big-list-2016-02-04
35. In order to suppress the billing records from her time at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, she cleverly packed them up and took them to the White House rather than shredding them.
36. When she handed over the documents to public officials, they couldnt find any evidence shed committed any crimes, so she must have doctored them.
37. Congress spent tens of millions of dollars and six years investigating her investment in the Whitewater real-estate project, and, while they didnt actually find anything, they wouldnt have spent all that money if there werent something there.
38. By cleverly hiding all evidence of her crimes in the Whitewater affair, she caused Congress to waste all that taxpayers money.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,021 posts)Another annoying bunch of crap brought to you by the Right wing.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)on so many levels.