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Awkward Petraeus precedent as Hillary may face criminal liability over her secret email system
American Thinker ^ | March 5, 2015 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 03/05/2015 8:34:29 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time to prosecute General David Petraeus over mishandling of classified material. But that was before it came to light that Hillary Clinton did not bother with an official and secure State Department email account, instead preferring to use a private server under her own control that lacked the kind of security measures in place at the state.gov domain. Now, explicit comparisons of the two former officials are being drawn.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; email; hillary; patraeus
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These are the questions that I want someone to ask Hillary, preferably under oath.

Identify all of the flunkies in Hillary´s shadow government who went through all of her e-mails to decide what to turn over or who otherwise had access to her e-mail account after she left office.

Were each of these people legally authorized to access, read and copy classified information? Or are we to believe that during her entire time as Secretary of State Hillary never sent or received a single e-mail that contained classified information?

Finally, how do you distinguish Hillary´s gross mishandling of classified information from the actions that cost Patraeus his career and for which he has now been convicted? Laws are for the little people?

1 posted on 03/05/2015 8:34:29 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I Just asked this question on a previous post


2 posted on 03/05/2015 8:39:22 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Toast, dry.


3 posted on 03/05/2015 8:39:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
YouTube: Hillary Clinton Complains about Secret Email Accounts 6/2007
4 posted on 03/05/2015 8:44:26 AM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Yea but this is Hillary! we are talking about, she is exempt from everything because she is Hillary! don’t ya know.


5 posted on 03/05/2015 9:06:08 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Who else had access to her private server? Were the Russians or Chinese regularly reading all these emails? Is this why the famous reset button failed so miserably? Or did she set this up so China could easily read them and know all our secrets just like the Clintons did with our missile tech?


6 posted on 03/05/2015 9:08:51 AM PST by Deathtomarxists
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To: Deathtomarxists

Unless she had a very sophisticated server with the highest encryption and security then she was probably hacked or more to the point gave her Chinese friends unlimited access to her server.


7 posted on 03/05/2015 9:13:28 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Bubba_Leroy

This is not a coincidence that this Hillary scandal would break at the same time Petraeus pled guilty to a similar scenario. No way.


8 posted on 03/05/2015 9:15:55 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Bubba_Leroy

When America’s enemy noticed Hillary’s! return address you cannot tell me that they did not recruit their best and brightest on the case to hack her private email server.
UNBELIEVABLE......
Woman needs jail time.


9 posted on 03/05/2015 9:16:39 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: Toespi
This is not a coincidence that this Hillary scandal would break at the same time Petraeus pled guilty to a similar scenario.

Clearly there is no love lost between Obama and Hillary and Obama would much prefer that a more committed far left wing liberal take over the White House after he is forced to leave.

Of course, I am still of the opinion that Obama will refuse to ever leave. His idols Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez never had to deal with stupid term limits.

10 posted on 03/05/2015 9:19:47 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: mowowie

I can understand setting up her own server to handle personal, political and Clinton Foundation e-mails. But also using the same e-mail address and server for ALL of her official state department e-mails is either so arrogant or so stupid that it boggles the mind.


11 posted on 03/05/2015 9:21:55 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: mowowie

Did Sandy Berger ever pay for his mis-handling of 911 classified documents?

The Clintons and their cronies are so crooked.


12 posted on 03/05/2015 9:22:46 AM PST by ncpatriot
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Petraeus will be prosecuted,
Hillary will be excused,

and you’re a racist for saying anything about it.


13 posted on 03/05/2015 9:24:02 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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He got some sort of wrist slap.

Berger pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material on April 1, 2005. Berger was fined $50,000,[16] sentenced to serve two years of probation and 100 hours of community service, and stripped of his security clearance for 3 years

14 posted on 03/05/2015 9:25:40 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: eyeamok

It will all depend on whether Zero’s justice dept. wants to destroy HRC the same amount or more than it needed to destroy Petraeus. I don’t know the answer to that one.

Jail/not Jail. Entirely discretionary with the ruler. Sounds like tyranny to me.


15 posted on 03/05/2015 9:26:19 AM PST by ModelBreaker (')
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To: MrB
If I were Patraeus, at this point I'd withdraw my plea and see what develops.

We now have two Cabinet officials, CIA and State, both entrusted with top secrets, both with security violations. Patreaus' is minor, Clinton's is massive.

I'd demand equal treatment under the law.

-PJ

16 posted on 03/05/2015 9:29:29 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Oh, no problem.

All the royalty will be treated equally,
and all the peasant class will be treated equally.


17 posted on 03/05/2015 9:35:56 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I imagine that anybody that sent classified info to Hillary’s server also broke federal law.


18 posted on 03/05/2015 9:45:58 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Who paid for the server?


19 posted on 03/05/2015 9:47:20 AM PST by buridan
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To: buridan

Who paid the flunkies that went through all of her e-mails to decide which ones to turn over to the State Department?


20 posted on 03/05/2015 9:50:17 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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