Posted on 08/20/2015 7:19:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A House Democrat thinks that Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server scandal has the potential to ruin her political career.
“I think if she intentionally misled or lied to the American people and did something that was clearly against the rules, and knowingly did it against the rules, if that is the ultimate conclusion, then I think she has disqualified herself,” Representative John Yarmuth (D., Ky.) told a local political reporter. Yarmuth endorsed then-Senator Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential bid against Clinton. “I’m not saying she is more divisive,” he said at the time. “[But] she is less capable of bridging the gap in the country.”
Clinton denied ever violating the rules about how to handle classified material in March. “I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail,” she told reporters. “There is no classified material.”
The intelligence community inspector general’s office has flagged over 300 e-mails that may contain classified information — including at least two that contained “top secret” information — prompting Clinton to modify that denial. “’I did not send classified material. And I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified — which is the way you know whether something is [classified],” she said Tuesday.
In keeping with that new theme, Clinton’s spokesman described her as a “passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became classified” during a conference call with reporters Wednesday.
That represents another shift from her March press conference, when she said, “I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”
Former National Security Agency official John Schindler argues that the law holds Clinton to a higher standard. “There is no doubt that she, or someone on her State Department staff, violated federal law by putting TOP SECRET//SI information on an unclassified system,” Schindler wrote in The Daily Beast:
"Claims that they ‘didn’t know’ such information was highly classified do not hold water and are irrelevant. It strains belief that anybody with clearances didn’t recognize that NSA information, which is loaded with classification markings, was signals intelligence, or SIGINT. It’s possible that the classified information found in Clinton’s e-mail trove wasn’t marked as such. But if that classification notice was omitted, it wasn’t the U.S. intelligence community that took such markings away. Moreover, anybody holding security clearances has already assumed the responsibility for handling it properly."
— Joel Gehrke is a political reporter for National Review.
Of course she disqualified herself. But this is nothing new and isn’t going to stop her. Frankly I hope she gets the nomination as I think she’s an incredibly weak candidate.
What the hell does that mean? I will tell you. Nothing. It is worthless pablum vomited out of the pie hole of some moron Democrat. Yea, sure, he is referring to the Orange Pantsuit Monster but I don't care who uses such tripe, it is BS!
Please let politically correctness end this election cycle along with the "careers" of Heb Bush, That Homo Graham, Boehner, McConnell and most everyone in Washington. Let the Republican party handlers be FIRED from the top down.
As Martha Stewart found out, a lie to the investigator is worse than the crime being investigated.
Help me with this.....As Secretary of State, she never had any e-mails or wrote any e-mails with classified or "Top Secret" information?
From the context, that could be from 2008, talking about POTUS Barry
It won’t be long before the Comeback Crook will be labeled the Comeback Kid by her toads in the “media”.
What does this guy not understand about the concept of “above the law”?
Especially for democrat “royalty”.
As Mark Levin has pointed out, knowledge and intent don’t matter when gross negligence in handling classified material is concerned.
What is amazing is that Martha lied with her attorney in the meeting. He should have advised her to take the Fifth.
John Yarmuth (D-Ky), walking point in the War on Women.
She did that with Whitewater, presuming she committed no crimes earlier than that, which I do not presume.
“I think if she intentionally misled or lied to the American people and did something that was clearly against the rules, and knowingly did it against the rules, if that is the ultimate conclusion, then I think she has disqualified herself,”
This goes back to at least Watergate, and that has been no impediment to her.
But this is nothing new and isn’t going to stop her.
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If one more scandal should suddenly pop up, she’s definitely through. And the Obama operatives might just have another one in store for her. Time will tell.
Won’t happen. The government has gone totally corrupt (except for the military). The only thing that will change the status quo is 1) active civil disobedience, most probably followed by 2) active violence aimed at taking progressives out.
Sorry, but dat’s the truth.
Guess what, John-boy - the gap is irretrievably unbridgeable. Unfortunately for all of us, the monsters of the Left aren't interested in debate or discussion - only surrender and submission. That's why it'll take pitchforks and torches, the barrel of a gun and the hangman's noose to properly rid ourselves of them. By their own devices, this the only 'argument' they have left. Ultum Ratio Regum
Hillary Clinton sold their dirty underwear for money.
Does anyone think she bought her own computer and server and Blackberry because she didn’t want the free computer and server and Blackberry from the government?
She is a cheapskate.....a money-grubbing cheapskate.
She would never spend her own money for this equipment unless she had a good reason. Has anybody come up with that reason?
I was thinking about how to respond. Then I read your response and you nailed it. Good job. Let the house cleaning commence by who, what or how and any legal means necessary.
Not only that, she had served on the Senate Intellegence Committee when a Senator. She had multiple training/reviews on what is classified and what is not. She was also one of the Administration people that had the authority to Classify Material.
The skank knew exactly what she was doing.
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