Posted on 09/08/2022 5:27:30 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
“The fact is that I had zero emails that were classified.”
— Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in a Twitter thread, Sept. 6
The Justice Department investigation of classified documents found at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club has brought inevitable comparisons to the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private email server that she used while secretary of state. The FBI investigation into her emails arguably tipped the close 2016 presidential election to Trump.
During the contest between Trump and Clinton, we wrote 16 fact checks on the email issue, frequently awarding Clinton Pinocchios for legalistic parsing. But in light of the Trump investigation, Clinton is trying to draw a distinction between Trump’s current travails and the probe that targeted her.
It’s worth reviewing what we know now about the emails that Clinton received on her private server. After FBI Director James B. Comey in 2016 announced there would be no criminal charges brought against Clinton, congressional hearings and several more investigations that received little media attention revealed new details that, to some extent, mitigates what Comey said at the time.
As shown in an FBI photo of some of the documents seized from Trump, many have clear markings indicating they contained highly sensitive classified information. Clinton, in her tweet, suggests none of her emails was marked classified. That’s technically correct. Whether those emails contained classified information was a major focus of the investigation, but a review of the recent investigations, including new information obtained by the Fact Checker, shows Clinton has good case for making a comparison with Trump.
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If I recall Hillary's response was she didn't know (C) meant Confidential.
When it comes to Hillary a C means something special.
Didn’t CNN host say it was illegal for someone to download Wikileak emails of Clinton?
That’s right. Zero emails don’t get classified. They get put in the spam folder.
In her defense..she probably thought C meant what many people called her.
As in the “C” word.
So that's the reason you destroyed them? And destroyed cell phones with a hammer?
Why does she bother? Doesn’t she know Stelter and Maddow have left CNN? That just leaves Morning Joe and his three viewers.
When it comes to Hillary a C means something special.
Yup. She’s been addicted to “crack” her whole life.
C stands for the Chinese company that installed spyware that forwarded every email to and from that server to China.
When Comey salvaged this……persons…. Campaign by not charging her he told the nation that she had 110 classified e-mails. Either The C is lying or the ‘Richard’ is lying. Both are known to often speak in ways that are at odds with the facts. But in this case I’m believing Comey.
She is smart to announce that she is not running in 2024 until after the Mid-terms. She doesn’t want to fire up the Repub base like Trump has fired up the Democratic base. I still think she will run IF the House remains in Democratic hands.
People gotta get over this. Something isn't classified because it is MARKED classified. It is classified because someone with original classification authority determined that it contained information in a category the disclosure of which could damage national security to some degree. That is how it is determined that something is classified - not whether or not it is marked. There are rules about marking, violation of which are infractions that can get you anywhere from a stern talking to, to some gawdawful training you did not want to take to dismissal from your job.
Going to jail takes intentional or grossly negligent disclosure of classified information to someone not authorized to receive it.
Clinton should be prison for life for selling our uranium mine in Wyoming to Russia. We also had Obozzo, a man who was not a natural born citizen. Now we have a lifetime money grabber in Biden who throws our money around like he gets it from China and Ukraine, etc. I’d say TAKE AMERICA BACK.
“The fact is that I had zero emails that were classified.” she claimed.
This is new and the first time it can be demonstrated to be a lie.
Normally, she’s very careful to say that “None of the emails I had were marked ‘Classified’”. Technically, that’s true because classified documents are not marked “Classified”. Instead, they are marked “Confidential”, “Secret”, and “Top Secret”. At least they were when I had access to them.
What Mrs. Bill Clinton did was much worse than what Trump did.
By law, Mrs. Bill Clinton was supposed to use a secure government server. Instead, she used an unsecure private server.
There’s about a 99.999% chance the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and others copied those emails from her unsecure server. Trump kept his in a safe with a near 0.000% chance the Russians copied them.
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