Could Crooked Hillary Resort to Begging Obama for a Pardon?

Is an Obama pardon the only way for Hillary Clinton to stay out of Prison and continue to run for President? Could Hillary Clinton be the first presidential candidate in history to have been pardoned?

Debra Saunders reports today

Last year, Clinton said that she used the private server “for convenience.” She talked as if she had not given the matter much thought. That claim was unbelievable at the time. Given the family’s extensive history of being under investigation, she of all lawyers had to know that government correspondence belongs to the people, not the place holders. As the Washington Post editorialized, the new report shows that Clinton’s decision “was not a casual oversight.” The Secretary of State was so busy trying to protect her self-interest that she repeatedly ignored warnings about cybersecurity risks.

Even after the inspector general’s report was released, Clinton continued to spin lies. She told ABC News and CNN that her use of a private server was “allowed.” It was not. Indeed, the report found that her modus operandi presented “significant security risks.” State Department officials warned of hacking attempts, which she did not heed. In an email she explained, “I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.” So she risked national security. According to the report, when staff spoke up about those risks, a staffer was told “never to speak of the Secretary’s personal email system again.”

Jermone Corsi of WND reported Wednesday

NEW YORK – The Obama administration continues to suppress at least 12 versions of a 451-page draft indictment charging Hillary Clinton with criminal misconduct in the Whitewater case, according to an index in the National Archives obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request by the Washington-based watchdog Judicial Watch.

One of the indictments specifically lists “overt acts” allegedly committed by the former first lady.

It follows Judicial Watch’s release on Jan. 28 of 246 pages of previously undisclosed internal memos from Ken Starr’s Office of Independent Council investigation in 1998. The memos showed prosecutors had evidence that Hillary Clinton and her associate Webb Hubbell at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, were guilty of criminal fraud in the Whitewater affair.

“From the public record, we know that the Whitewater case centered around whether Mrs. Clinton, while first lady, lied to federal investigators about her role in the corrupt Arkansas [savings and loan], concealed documents (including material under federal subpoena) and took other steps to cover-up her involvement,” Judicial Watch said.

Federal prosecutors ultimately decided not to indict Hillary Clinton, concluding they could not win the complicated, largely circumstantial case against such a high-profile figure.

Judicial Watch has insisted that a thorough examination of Hillary Clinton’s past will find a history of lying to federal investigators while aggressively taking steps to hide, destroy or cover-up evidence that might incriminate her in her role with the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas. The cover-up, Judicial Watch said, has continued through her tenure as first lady, her term as U.S. senator from New York, her service as secretary of state under President Obama and her current presidential run.

October 2015, the Free Beacon Speculated that a pardon would be the only way out for Hillary’s mounting troubles.

A pardon is necessary because political pressure may not be enough to save Clinton. Investigations are unruly, unpredictable. “Even if the Department of Justice is highly politicized—as it is—there is a powerful legal procedure here that will be hard to kill off,” writes University of Chicago professor Charles Lipson.

But the FBI inquiry will cease as soon as the pardon is issued. There’d be no reason to proceed—Clinton would be forgiven for whatever she did or might have done. Not to pardon her would risk another “long national nightmare” of I.G. reports, committee hearings, depositions, subpoenas, betrayals, media leaks, tell-all books, grand juries, and indictments.

Richard K. Davis further speculated in January

Obama is already on record in a 60 Minutes interview in October stating that he didn’t believe Clinton’s use of a private email server, though a “mistake,” endangered national security.  “I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” he told Steve Kroft.  “I do think that the way it’s been ginned up is in part because of – in part – because of politics.”

If he feels that way after an indictment, and the indictment is only for email offenses, Obama could pardon Clinton from further prosecution, much as President Clinton pardoned the indicted financier Marc Rich 20 years ago.  He could claim that a pardon was crucial to preserve the election process and therefore necessary for the good of the country.