Book her, Danno!

For the sake of all you unsophisticates out there, let me tell you that my title comes from the original and excellent series Hawaii Five-O with the late Steve Garret and James MacArthur, and yes, you're right, that does make me very old!  Anyway, I am put in mind of it by the slow but inexorable pursuit of that slippery villainess, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Slowly, one might even say ploddingly, the FBI is building its case against her and with her former IT consultant spilling the beans under immunity matters are coming to a head. 

Probably, before they make a move against her, they will start turning the screws on her immediate and very close female advisors who will then be faced with some huge personal difficulties because whilst they might want do everything they can to protect 'HillBilly' it is a serious offence to lie to or obstruct the FBI and that could result in the sort of unbelievably long prison sentences the 'cousins' tend to go in for.  Of course, they might be deluded enough to believe that 'HillBilly' will, to paraphrase the old song,  'stand by her girls' through thick and thin, in which case they deserve the 20 years in the 'slammer' they are likely to get for what amounts to criminal stupidity as much as anything else.  'HillBilly' will fight to the very end - to protect herself - and her 'friends' can go hang as far as she is concerned!

There are 147 FBI agents employed fulltime on this case and if they fail to come up with the goods (or the bads, depending on how you look at it) then the uproar in the media will be huge.  Equally, if they do press charges and the Department of (non)Justice, with more than a little help from the White House, refuses to take action then all of them, 'HillBilly' and 'Ol' Big Ears' will be engulfed in a scandal of such monumental proportions that his so-called 'legacy' will be ruined.  Of course, if 'HillBilly' goes down that leaves the door open for Trump who, incredibly, will appear almost saintly in comparison.

Interesting times ... and all that jazz!

Comments

[Whitewall]

David, you are on top of it alright. Add to it the NSA having a bone to pick with her too. The ripples from this run back and forth across Washington and will touch many large and small players. I think our society and government are both in need of a major upending and this could do it. If she is above the law somehow, then why should we common folk be below it? Our system is long past time for a severe shake up. Too much getting along among the elites. We will be in need of some major "forget getting along". I'm just biding my time like millions of Americans.

Come to think on it, most Western governments are in need of a severe shake up for the same reasons.

[Cuffleyburgers]

Duffers - reminds me of the splendid phrase "the mills of god grind slowly yet they grind exceeding small"

Hoping for a September arrest warrant.

[Red Admiral]

I think it's the late Jack Lord - Steve McGarrett will live for ever!
I understand there is a new "re-boot" of the series. I refuse to watch it.

[JK]

What's the English equivalent David, with 'HillBilly' in mind for ... Show us your willy!

[Dom]

My dog is a democrat. Don't miss the last line.

http://youtu.be/-5Z-jJ2Z4bU

[David Duff]

JK, that IS an English expression, JK, thought up by the late, great Auberon Waugh in advising us what to shout when you see a politician on a soapbox. What you could shout at 'HillBilly' I leave to you but as an ex-sailor I doubt you will have much trouble thinking one up!

Thanks, Dom, very funny - and true!

[Andrew Duffin]

My prediction: The process will drag on until after the Presidential election. Then, if she wins, she will claim Executive something-or-other, and whole business will be dropped, and if she doesn't win, Obummer will quietly issue a pardon on his last day in office.

Either way - or perhaps in some other way - she will get away with it.