{"id":42159,"date":"2016-07-06T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=42159"},"modified":"2016-07-06T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T18:32:09","slug":"fbi-director-james-comey-sure-has-changed-a-lot-since-he-prosecuted-martha-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=42159","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director James Comey Sure Has Changed a Lot Since He Prosecuted Martha Stewart\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY VIRGINIA KRUTA<br \/>\nIndependent Journal<\/p>\n<p>This morning, FBI Director <a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/2016\/07\/642990-fbi-director-james-comey-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">James Comey<\/a> made an announcement concerning Hillary Clinton and whether or not, after a lengthy investigation, he would recommend that the Department of Justice prosecute the former Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>But despite finding that\u00a0110 emails contained classified information,\u00a08 contained top secret information, and nearly 2,000 additional were emails classified later, Comey\u2019s final assessment was to recommend against an indictment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But as some noted on social media, FBI Director\u00a0James Comey is<strong>definitely not<\/strong>\u00a0U.S. Attorney James Comey \u2013 who opted to prosecute Martha Stewart in 2003:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Martha Stewart went to jail for far less&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Comey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Comey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClintonEmails?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClintonEmails<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sitric (@Earendil82) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Earendil82\/status\/750362398398160896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bet Martha Stewart is pretty pissed right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Comey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Comey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; laurie allee (retired account) (@laurieallee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurieallee\/status\/750365788603752449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/750359629801152512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>At the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/newsgram\/articles\/2013\/05\/30\/james-comey-fbi-pick-took-on-martha-stewart-and-dick-cheney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Comey explained<\/a> his reasoning for prosecuting the domestic diva:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf it was Jane Doe she would have been prosecuted. [T]here were 2,000 cases by the Justice Department that year for providing false statements during an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of my hesitation about the case due to someone being rich and famous, and how it shouldn\u2019t be that way. I decided we had to do it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, some people feel that the fact that Hillary is a Clinton absolutely factored into the \u201cother\u201d Comey\u2019s decision to not ask for an indictment:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/patmurphy41\/status\/750403551373979648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Hillary was a Republican she would be in shackles and chains right now.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83d\udc3e\ud835\udcda\ud835\udcf2\ud835\udcfd\ud835\udcfd\u2764\ufe0f\ud835\udcda\ud835\udcea\ud835\udcfd\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud835\ude4d\ud835\ude47\ud835\ude49\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfd2\ud835\udfd5\ud83c\udd70\ufe0f\ud83d\udc18\ud83c\udfc8 (@jkittkat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jkittkat\/status\/750363046166401024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Because she&#39;s Hillary Clinton she got a pass. Period. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RiggedSystem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RiggedSystem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lisa (@Rockprincess818) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rockprincess818\/status\/750356006454960128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Sense_of_common\/status\/750383462528397312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>Clinton is <a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/2016\/06\/623436-hold-obama-endorses-hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">continuing her campaign<\/a> for the presidency, with current President Barack Obama at her side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3474918\/martha-stewart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Martha Stewart<\/a> spent 5 months in prison\u2026after being jailed\u00a0for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/05\/22\/it-s-time-for-america-to-pardon-martha-stewart.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">lying<\/a> to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2016\/07\/643354-fbi-director-james-comey-sure-has-changed-a-lot-since-he-prosecuted-martha-stewart\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=owned&amp;utm_campaign=ods&amp;utm_term=ijamerica&amp;utm_content=politics\">http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2016\/07\/643354-fbi-director-james-comey-sure-has-changed-a-lot-since-he-prosecuted-martha-stewart\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=owned&amp;utm_campaign=ods&amp;utm<br \/>\n_term=ijamerica&amp;utm_content=politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}