Security violation can occur regardless of intent, if you are not handling classified material according to the rules, which are designed to keep unauthorized people from having access.
She was using an unclassified home server for highly classified material, so it was not protected appropriately. Anyone could break into it, he was putting her convenience ahead of national security.
I think Hillary has mens rea.
Huma is that you?
Intent is not the point. Ineptitude and flagrant disregard for security policy and procedure IS.
The mere fact that she knew the rules for handling secure information and thwarted it without concern for the security of the American people was malicious and intentional.
This is so clearly irrelevant to the case it can only be intentional disinformation.
So the question is, are the folks at the post really so stupid that they fell for it, or are they consciously cooperating?
Honestly, either choice is completely plausible!
What is interesting is the comments at the Post indicate that there are a lot of stupid people that are 100% convinced she will get off. Bill Clinton lost his law license and was fined 80K$ for his lies, very small change relative to the she devil. Hopefully things will end soon. I am so sick of H.
YES SHE DID!
PROFIT!
SHE PERSONALLY PROFITED BY GIVING INFORMATION TO HER CRONIES TO USE IN NEGOTIATIONS.
Now it wasn’t “malicious” in that she planned to do harm.
But she profited from distributing this information and she knowingly distributed this information wrongly.
Any other prosecuting attorney would be throwing the book at her.
1. it is not “just” about the emails.
2. remember this is the Washington ComPost.
3. The Clinton Foundation pocketing “donations” from those who paid Bill Clinton huge sums to give a speech and those paying received preferential treatment from the Secretary of State. Soliciting Bribes in return for favors from Hillary.
Number 3 is the real kicker.
Idiots! Give Petraus back his job an exhonorate him!
Obviously most of you missed the asterisk at the end of the Federal Criminal Code which clearly states that “being a Democrat, especially if running for President indemnifies any individual from being charged for violation of these codes”.
Who believes these lies ????????
When dealing with classified information intent is NOT required for criminality to have occurred. Just recklessness. She WwAS at a minimum revkless
You don’t have to have intent, you are still guilty if you are irresponsible!
Hillary: Take that, you little gnats!
Depends what the meaning of is is.
My understanding is that a person doesn't have to have an intent to break the law, they merely have to have the intent to do that which the law forbids.
It is said that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" and I think there are very few exceptions to that.
If a person is sleep-walking and manages to rob a bank, without having intended to rob the bank, then I think perhaps "mens rea" might be an issue.
If, however, a person intentionally robs a bank, but explains that they didn't know it was illegal to rob a bank, I doubt that a jury would be required to decide whether the person did or did not know the relevant law. The intent to rob is sufficient.
In Hillary's case she most certainly intended to have an unsecure server which she used for all of her business as Secretary of State. I don't think a reasonable juror would believe that she intended to never send or receive any email containing classified information.
In at least one case, she instructed Jake Sullivan, I believe, to strip markings from a document and send it unsecure. The intention then to handle the information other than required by law is clear. She may not have intended to break the law, but she most certainly did intend to do that which the law forbids.
The entire body of secure systems, classification of documents, and laws regarding the handling of classified information is predicated upon the idea that it should not be necessary to prove that a person passed information to the enemies of the United States in order to punish them. It is sufficient that they failed to conform to the legal expectations on handling classified information.
Hillary is guilty as hell of probably many dozens of counts of violation of national security laws and deserves severe punishment for it.
Being drunk and stupid is not an excuse for violating secrecy laws.
COVERUP
Her itnent was to bypass normal proceedures and have a hoem computer with top secret information on it in an un-secured manner- endangering America- Her INTENT was NOT to follow the rules- KNowingly puttign classified informaiton at risk-
How the hell can they suggest otherwise?