Yes, he very well could “assume everyone else would make a big deal about it”. You are on pretty safe ground there, you need not fear contradiction. But he had to inform Congress that he had nothing to inform them about, except that he might have something someday. Which was why it was so urgent the he inform them.
And the urgency of telling Congress that he had nothing much to tell them outweighed the assumed consequences. OK, then, if that works for you, that works for you.
Well, somebody needs to do it.
Maybe not. If HRC wins comfortably enough (defined as a complete and utter massacre) leaving him in place might make a good gesture towards Broderistic comity and collegiality. And it avoids the issues with replacing him.
If she has them by the short and curlies, that is.
He was apparently intelligent enough to not receive, store, or send top secret and classified data through unsecure channels. As he was a former 4 star general, this is unsurprising to me. There is absolutely no comparison here, and in any event “other people did it too” is weak sauce. Good try, though.
If it makes you feel better, if he was found to have broken the law, they can throw his ass in jail too.
You gave no idea what he sent, because we haven’t gone through his emails. And Clinton didn’t do what you said either. She had 3 unmarked emails and a hundred that broached on sensitive topics.
Actually, it was the 110 that were completely unmarked and a further 3 that had portion markings. No markings in the header.
I did know that, I was trying to make it as simple as possible. But yeah, that’s more accurate.
Are we still having this argument? For God’s sake why?
Because despite endless refutations, there continues to be people who don’t want to get it.
Yeah. What’s the point of further beating a horse that’s been dead for years now that it can’t hurt Hillary Clinton politically? I predict a quick, “we’re glad this whole ugly business has been put behind us,” any day now. Ditto, Benghazi.
I hope this ends here. But with Trumps promise to throw hillary in jail, I am afraid that there may be much more to argue about.
So your contention is she did not utilize unsecured computer servers to conduct official government business during her tenure as secretary of state? It begs the question did she ever use official channels? You can try to defend the indefensible, but there’s no getting around this. This was an epic blunder.
There is no possible way for the TS and classified to migrate
to unsecure networks. Unless someone does so on purpose. Period. The end.
Her server was used for staff communications. Classified materials were not supposed to go there. Her staff did use the govt. secured system.The problem was there were 110 **UNMARKED **emails that wound up on the private server. Plus a further 3 that were not marked in the header but did have portion markings.
Yep, it is pretty easy. Clinton. setup her own insecure server without asking for legal or policy advice from the State department legal or IT staff, so that she would have complete control over the email servers contents in direct violation of government policy in a way that may have broken federal law. (This is all in the FBI report)
Not very difficult. Note, the only speculation in the above paragraph is the reason why Clinton did what she did. But given that the whole mess started when FOIA requests did not turn up any Clinton email account on State servers and that when Clinton did turn over the emails, she did not turn over all of the emails, it is a reasonable supposition to make.
But it doesn’t really matter. She lost, the Clintons power is basically gone and the likelyhood of her being in government again is zero.
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And if Trump does not follow through on his promise to reopen the investigation into everything that Clinton has or could have done, then this may be the end of it.
If The Trump admin starts going after her, then yes, we’ll be revisiting this whole thing over and over, and over again.
I don’t think he’ll go after her. What does he have to gain from it? It’s a useless distraction at this point.
Which was, of course, the whole point of the “investigation.” “Lock Her Up” will join the rest of Trump’s Unfulfilled Campaign Promises.
Remind me again, how many have been jailed for committing her alleged “crimes”?
So why aren’t they arresting the people who sent those unmarked but maybe/sorta classified emails to her?
I would guess because they were not Democrats running in the last election.
As iiandyiiii has pointed out to the point he’s probably ready to reach through the monitor and throttle someone, careless handling is not criminal, the person is retrained and reprimanded and possible temporary or permanent loss/reduction of security clearance.
As Comey said, criminal is deliberate releasing of materials to an unauthorized person. That’s what Petraeus did. Plus he tried to hide the materials and lied to the FBI. They still plead down to a a misdemeanor.