Bret Baer reported last year that US intelligence sources told Fox News that it was virtually certain at least five foreign intelligence agencies penetrated Hillary’s off-the-books IT system she set up as Secretary of State.
Alan Dershowitz has been on Fox News frequently recently for the purpose of arguing Hillary’s case, that it would be “criminalizing politics” to hold her accountable.
His reasoning in trying to protect Hillary would lead to the conclusion that politicans and high government officials are beyond the reach of our criminal laws.
It’s disappointing that so much of the reporting on this has been lulled into the red herring pushed by Comey and now Dershowitz that the question was whether someone should be prosecuted for being merely grossly negligent or its synonym, extremely careless.
But this was NOT a negligence case. Hillary KNOWINGLY set up the off-the-books IT system. Hillary KNOWINGLY as a matter of standard procedure ran her emails as Secretary of State through this private system.
And Hillary KNOWINGLY ran classified information through it. She might be able to plead ignorance the first time or maybe the second time. But not the fiftieth time or the hundredth time.
It’s like someone parking her car in a parking space and knocking over a nearby motorcycle customarily parked there. The first time she runs over the motorcycle, she might say get away with claiming she was merely careless. BUT NOT THE HUNDREDTH TIME!
No reasonable jury could believe she did not know what classified information consists of and that she knew she was running it through her system so many times.
That would be a more reasonable position to take if the neo-liberal deep state had stopped trying to remove Trump after the election was over.