Once upon a time pols wouldn’t have been on an all-out warpath to discredit another pol with utterly unsubstantiable charges. Maybe if she didn’t get the martyr effect, allegations against her would have more meaning. But then that would have required the ratfuckers to have reined themselves in to reasonable accusations for 25 years.
Yes, if she had been a Civil Servant she " could have faced administrative sanction ", i.e. a stern note in her file,:eek: maybe even a couple weeks off without pay. meh. Appointed Government officials at the Cabinet level dont have those issues.
No. She mishandled information that was NOT classified at that time, altho perhaps it should have been.
You have clearly never worked for the Feds in any capacity where data is classified. LOTS of data is not classified that later, upon careful reflection, maybe should be. Lots of data is classified that should not have been.
You dont get in trouble for mishandling data that *should *have been classified. You get in trouble for mishandling data that WAS classified.
While this is probably true for some of the data in question, other data was very likely classified and nonetheless mishandled (which is very common). Chances are, at some point Hillary or a staff member wrote or typed into an email some little factoid that was classified without realizing it at the time (or realizing that it was a problem). For example – if I’m talking to someone about submarine design engineering and logistics (my job), and I type into a regular network email “the new sub’s maximum depth is XXX”, then I’ve just sent classified information and broke the rules.
It’s the kind of thing that happens very frequently, but it’s still a violation. Not criminal, or anything close – the typical “punishment” is (for the first time) some retraining; if it’s happened before, then maybe losing classified access for a week along with more intense retraining.
As usual when it comes to the Clintons, I think the GOP and Fox News have to take the lion’s share of responsibility when it comes to the collective ‘meh’ from the general electorate. They just can’t learn the lesson that overselling the ‘scandal’ will come back to bite them when the final result of the [del]witchhunt[/del] investigation pales in comparison to what they have been screaming about for months, even when said results are somewhat damning.
Long time fed here. Don’t deal with anything classified, just a ton of PII.
From the start, it struck me as unbelievable that she could have been so cavalier with her e-mails. I have to sign my annual systems-use agreements, and have seen folk disciplined severely for simply e-mailing a Word doc they were working on to their home e-mail. So it clearly indicated poor judgment, a sense of entitlement, etc. Not at all good things, but not at all unique among major candidates/officials.
This was the ONE charge against Hillary that I thought had some legitimacy. Yet I didn’t think it anywhere near a disqualifying event. Not knowing the legal specifics, I feared a far more harmful outcome than this.