She may never get jail time for this, but I think it will cost her the nomination. Her camp carefully parsed and described the ‘process’ of review for those emails, and now when it looks bad, they revise and extend their claim. No.
What she did was illegal in the framework of the Open Records Act of 1978 and laws since then (even if they weren’t in force when she put the server in, it was operating after their enactment.)
Additionally, she has no way to prove the emails deleted did not contain classified information - they are supposedly lost. This is a security violation in itself. And, even if HER people reviewed EVERY email, every word and comma, it is a violation because cognizant government security professionals did not do the review.
This legality aside, like Bill’s sex peccadillos, these are two different horses. Bill has/had the aura of likeability and down to earthiness many were drawn to. No so with Hillary. It’s more of a tinge than an aura. She isn’t likeable, she is not ‘motherly’, not ‘grandmotherly’, not a hard working corporate woman freeing all the women from that glass ceiling. If someone had thrown a bucket of water on her during the UN presser, she’d have melted. She is in it for herself. She owes no one and is controlled by no one.
If it is true that Valarie Jarrett is the one who secretly leaked the existence of the server, Hillary is not the administration’s chosen replacement. Possibly the best thing Obama could do for himself is cut her loose. Let the AG appoint a special prosecutor and let the melee run up to 2016 begin.
She’s out there twisting in the wind, and she only has Lanny Davis, Paul Begala, Georgie Stephanopolis and James “Lizard” Carville to bleat out ridiculous agitprop. No NYT, LAT, AP, WaPo, etc. Things aren’t looking good for her.
These people who supposedly reviewed her emails...do you suppose they also had the necessary security clearances if they saw emails they shouldn’t have?