Posted on 10/18/2019 4:04:32 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A years-long internal State Department review of Hillary Clinton's private email server cited 38 people for violations, but found no "persuasive evidence" of classified information being systematically, deliberately mishandled.
The State Department report, handed over to Congress this month and released on Friday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), found that 38 people were responsible for 91 violations.
The State Department probe included a review of approximately 33,000 emails. A total of 588 violations were found, but 497 could not be tied to a specific individual.
The report does not state what, if any, disciplinary action the individuals will face, or who is responsible for the violations. But it notes that valid violations tied to current State Department officials are sent to the Bureau of Human Resources, while former employees have the violations noted in their files.
The internal review warned that using the private email system for State Department business added an "increased degree of risk" but that it did not find "systemic misuse" of classified information.
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The law, as written in the U.S. Code, does not care if the misuse was systemic or deliberate. It only cares, “Was there misuse or wasn’t there?” There was.
This is how the Democrats skate all the time. It’s a straw man argument. They misrepresent the actual situation and then find themselves innocent of the misrepresentation. Then they pretend that they are innocent of the actual action.
They also do this to find Republicans guilty of something that isn’t actually a crime. Again, they misrepresent some legal action by Republican as if it were a crime and find him guilty. Yes, guilty of a legal action.
The word 'deliberately' in that sentence is a deliberate whitewash. It is meant to obfuscate the fact that intent is not required to be in violation of the law.
Ask Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier who spent a year in prison, six months of electronic monitoring and a total of three years of supervised release for taking a photo in the submarine he was stationed on.
“found no “persuasive evidence” of classified information being systematically, deliberately mishandled.”
The mere existence and use of the non-Government server was evidence of systematic and deliberate mishandling! What total BULL SPIT!
“...found no “persuasive evidence” of classified information being systematically, deliberately mishandled.”
According to the law, that doesn’t make any difference.
classified information being systematically, deliberately mishandled.
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