Posted on 09/26/2017 9:41:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Clinton's private email issue is often vastly oversimplified, and the two situations just aren't analogous at this point.
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As the Times's Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman noted in their story, her private emails were problematic 1) because she set up her own server and used private email exclusively, and 2) because she was discussing potentially sensitive national security matters on that private server. That latter one was the big one — and the focus of the FBI investigation — because it meant classified information could potentially have been jeopardized. Here's what FBI Director James B. Comey said in recommending no charges against Clinton in July 2016:
Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system in violation of a federal statute that makes it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way.
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From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department in 2014, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was top secret at the time they were sent; 36 of those chains contained secret information at the time; and eight contained confidential information at the time.
These findings were significant, because Clinton had maintained that she never sent or received classified email on the server. She later amended that statement to clarify that she never “knowingly” did. So this added credibility issues to her email issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
We’re learning. Colin Powell’s errors were not as damming as Hillary’s. Remember, Hillary is complaining about Russian hacking yet she exposed her communications to that hacking.
Private emails are not a crime. People send you stuff on private emails all the time. What is against the law is using restricted government information on an unsecured system. We have not heard that. But passing notes from a private email to a government email is not illegal, and if it were they would lock down the government email so it could not accept outside emails.
Even using private emails for non-classified government business is not illegal, so long as you eventually submit those emails to the government for archiving to satisfy the public records laws.
ATPWDDIM?
From the WaPo? I am gobsmacked.
If they want to indict Kushner that’s fine with me.
Powerful politicians are above the law. It is an unspoken rule among the ruling class.
How have things changed from the days of renting out the Lincoln Bedroom or the rest?
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