Cass was reported to have believed certain officers should be prosecuted for causing affray and others charged for obstruction of justice.
He was questioned by Senator James Risch, of Idaho, a Republican, who asked, "Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or, for that matter, any other criminal offense, where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?" Comey replied, "I don't know well enough to answer".
One person was arrested on a property destruction charges, five for obstruction and three on assault charges.
This one added charges of "obstruction of justice" for allegedly failing to tell them about his laptop when they came to his mother's house (it also alleged that his mother "aided and abetted" him in these acts, thus maintaining the implicit threat to indict her for having let her son into her home).
Last December, a Micron employee pled guilty to charges of obstruction of justice for altering and concealing documents relevant to the investigation.
Were the attorney general to be a private citizen, would he not be liable for indictment on charges of obstruction of justice?
Foster's comments came just a day after federal officials arrested a former BP engineer on charges of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying hundreds of text messages that described high volumes of oil flowing from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon oil well, higher than the estimates that BP was making public at the time.
In the non-Clinton world she would be facing charges of obstruction of justice as well as charges for classified material in her possession.
Republicans could spurn the offer and face charges of obstruction, or compromise and burnish Mr. Obama's reputation for leadership.
