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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 14, 2017, 02:11:02 pm

Title: Guess who has immunity from subpoena, now? Giant legal hole could impede review of Clinton email probe
Post by: rangerrebew on January 14, 2017, 02:11:02 pm
Guess who has immunity from subpoena, now? Giant legal hole could impede review of Clinton email probe
January 14, 2017 | BPR Wire | Print Article   


By Kathryn Watson, DCNF dcnf-2-1

Key Department of Justice (DOJ) officials may escape being interviewed in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review of the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a home-brew email server to do official government business.

Inspectors General only have authority to compel current government employees to comply with interview requests under the Inspector General Act, so they are unable to force testimony from officials like Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Peter Kadzik once they leave office along with President Barack Obama, potentially leaving Horowitz to deal with gaping holes in his review.

“Once they’re gone, the IG has no jurisdiction over them,” former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/01/14/guess-immunity-subpoena-now-giant-legal-hole-impede-review-clinton-email-probe-435340
Title: Re: Guess who has immunity from subpoena, now? Giant legal hole could impede review of Clinton email probe
Post by: sneakypete on January 14, 2017, 04:02:54 pm
Quote from: rangerrebew on January 14, 2017, 02:11:02 pm
Guess who has immunity from subpoena, now? Giant legal hole could impede review of Clinton email probe
January 14, 2017 | BPR Wire | Print Article   


By Kathryn Watson, DCNF dcnf-2-1

Key Department of Justice (DOJ) officials may escape being interviewed in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review of the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a home-brew email server to do official government business.

Inspectors General only have authority to compel current government employees to comply with interview requests under the Inspector General Act, so they are unable to force testimony from officials like Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Peter Kadzik once they leave office along with President Barack Obama, potentially leaving Horowitz to deal with gaping holes in his review.

“Once they’re gone, the IG has no jurisdiction over them,” former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/01/14/guess-immunity-subpoena-now-giant-legal-hole-impede-review-clinton-email-probe-435340

@rangerrebew

I see nothing preventing a Grand Jury from issuing subpoena's to them,though.
Title: Re: Guess who has immunity from subpoena, now? Giant legal hole could impede review of Clinton email probe
Post by: Sanguine on January 14, 2017, 05:37:24 pm
Quote from: sneakypete on January 14, 2017, 04:02:54 pm
@rangerrebew

I see nothing preventing a Grand Jury from issuing subpoena's to them,though.

True.  And, if he had nothing to hide, you'd think he would want to do that before it ever got to a grand jury situation.