- Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:45 am
#70476
Four of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides now represented by the same ex-Justice Department attorney in the FBI’s investigation of Clinton's private email server.Sounds like a blatant conspiracy to me which is a crime of it's own.
Beth Wilkinson, a well-connected former assistant U.S. attorney best known for prosecuting Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, is listed as representing three of Clinton’s top State Department staffers, according to a congressional letter obtained by POLITICO and dated Feb. 10. A fourth Clinton aide, Philippe Reines, is also represented by Wilkinson, according to sources familiar with their representation.
The united front suggests they plan to tell investigators the same story with Wilkinson keeping them in line. Hiring the same attorney allows Clinton’s advisers to have one gatekeeper for the DOJ's inquiries — and it likely indicates that they expect to offer substantially similar testimony if they're questioned.
“The premise of employing the same counsel is that they believe there is not likely to be a situation where they start pointing a finger at one another to save their own skins — or perhaps at Secretary Clinton,” said Dan Metcalfe, founding director of the DOJ's office of information and privacy. “And there’s a sense that if one of them goes down, they all go down. It shows they think they can coordinate the defense to everyone’s benefit.”
