This is the “smoking gun”. It is misprision of a felony. There is no explanation or excuse. She promoted the alteration of a confidential document which is one felony. She promoted its transmission on an insecure media. That is a second felony. She has now been caught red handed and it is not going away. 18 USC 207 precludes her from holding public office. I think David Kendall is negotiating to exchange her withdrawal as candidate, “for health reasons” , if she will not be prosecuted. That is an absurd proposal and should be strongly rejected but I speculate this is or will be happening very soon.
[[It is misprision of a felony. There is no explanation or excuse. She promoted the alteration of a confidential document which is one felony. She promoted its transmission on an insecure media. That is a second felony. ]]
I hope you’re right- hopefully my above scenario is wrong and it is an actual felony to even write suggestions like that and transmit via email-
It does seem like a smoking gun but, honestly, even without that smoking gun, her crimes seem pretty evident to me. Even if the files were labeled secret after she put them on her private server, they were still classified ultimately and, as a result of her decisions, those documents were unsecured and likely made available to foreign intelligence agencies. What difference does it make really if they were classified later? the country was damaged either way. The end result is the crime here, not the manner in which the end result was achieved.