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House Dem: Clinton May Have ‘Disqualified Herself’ With E-Mail Scandal
National Review ^ | 08/20/2015 | Joel Gehrke

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Kentucky; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; clinton; democrats; election2016; emailscandal; hillary; hillaryclinton; hitlery; johnyarmuth; kentucky; newyork; wipewater; ythink
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To: SeekAndFind
He is not upset that she is a no-good skunk of a person.

He is just upset that it all is being noticed.

21 posted on 08/20/2015 8:04:20 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: isthisnickcool

“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.”


Yeah, because Obama hasn’t been divisive. [/s]

I think Hillary would have been every bit as divisive as Obama, but I don’t think even she would have been treasonous enough to go for this Iran “deal”.


22 posted on 08/20/2015 8:13:27 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: VRWCarea51

Ohhhhh.....good point.


23 posted on 08/20/2015 8:14:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

All they have to do now is figure out how to lay all this on Republicans.


24 posted on 08/20/2015 8:26:15 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Rational Thought
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?

Someone made that point on Fox News yesterday. It was an obvious and excellent point that I didn't see at first.

25 posted on 08/20/2015 8:27:32 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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“As Secretary of State, she never had any e-mails or wrote any e-mails with classified or “Top Secret” information? “

Well, maybe Cheryl and Huma read SIPRNET messages and sent them, sans marking, to Hillary, and she’d respond, the girls would re-mark them, and transmit securely?

Otherwise no way could text get to and from an embassy.


26 posted on 08/20/2015 8:34:33 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: SeekAndFind

I will really enjoy seeing her fume as she melts away like the wicked witch of the west, realizing that her dream has just gone away.


27 posted on 08/20/2015 8:41:26 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: isthisnickcool
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.

I'll tell you what it means... It means the same as "I take full responsibility' - which in dem-speak means 'shut up it's time to move on"...

Also the dem fetish with 'apologies'... as if an apology erases a crime. Are they drinking 'stupid water' in DC?<

In the real world no one gives a damn if a criminal apologizes 'with passion'... Democrat elites are fools for buying into this 'political consultant' crap.

28 posted on 08/20/2015 9:35:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (The term "New York Times' is offensive to me - it's microaggression aimed at traditional Americans)
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To: SeekAndFind

Eh while Obama is likely holding it over her head, I’m sure it is just to get her to dance his dance, whether its letting him pick the VP or something else. In the end the Dems always cover for the Dems.


29 posted on 08/20/2015 10:31:36 AM PDT by Reaper19
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To: SeekAndFind
"May have"? It's already been done, given we know that classified emails were stored on that private server.

The e-mail mess is only the beginning. Just wait until we get to the financial shenanigans of the Clinton Foundation--possibly being used as "laundering" conduit for bribes to and from FIFA officials at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

30 posted on 08/20/2015 10:45:42 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Rational Thought
As Secretary of State, she never had any e-mails or wrote any e-mails with classified or "Top Secret" information?

Makes perfect sense. With her shady past, she couldn't get a security clearance.

31 posted on 08/20/2015 2:15:30 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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32 posted on 08/20/2015 5:30:05 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Say what you will about The Donald! He has all the right enemies!)
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She “did something that was clearly against the rules...”
.....................

Is way worse than against the rules.


33 posted on 08/21/2015 8:23:52 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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