All this angers Americans with experience in our military and intelligence services who understand what Ms. Clinton and her staff did—and that they would be held to far harsher standards for attempting anything similar. They know that brave Americans have given their lives protecting Top Secret Codeword information. They know that in every American embassy around the world, our diplomatic outposts that worked for Hillary Clinton, Marine guards have standing orders to fight to the death to protect the classified information that’s inside those embassies. That Hillary Clinton gave similar information away, by choice, is something she needs to explain if she expects to be our next Commander-in-Chief.
She has no explanation, at least not one that doesn’t make it look even worse.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Her disregard wasn’t casual. It was a conscious and involved scheme to avoid the Freedom of Information Act, and possibly also Obama Administration scrutiny of her actions. She put the nation as a whole at risk, along with individual lives of intelligence sources, for political reasons: to avoid accountability.”
As she’s been doing, and gotten away with, for decades. Why wouldn’t she assume that she’d continue to not be held to account?
[Update a while later]
The FBI director would like to indict both Clinton and Abedin.
Analysis: Likely.
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I’m truly no longer worried about her becoming President. I’m tempted to vote for her in the primary so the DNC is trapped with her. Hillary has lost Susan Sarandon. That will be the start of the media moving (oh yeah, Hillary even lost MoveOn) away from her. Hillary is literally becoming an old fart.
Remind we what that was called — Operation Pandemonium or something?
And didn’t it get us Mr. Obama as President?
You mean Operation Chaos?
That was still a win for us…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sudCmrAsF4
Paul,
My line of thinking is similar to MikeR’s below. Although I used the rhetorical “literal”, Hillary’s lawlessness stinks, and the younger “righteous” progressives (the ones that are buying the BS sold to them in college, but haven’t realized yet that it is all really BS) are going to struggle to pull any levers for her. Add in the black vote that will see a privilege white woman able to skate major crimes; and I don’t see Hillary GOTV in the general.
I don’t think she could have done in 2008. At the time, I listened to Hannity on the radio, and his daily trumpeting of the dangers of a Hillary Presidency. Hannity was at least a month late in realizing how much worse Obama would be in the general. Hannity was too busy taking victory laps when Hillary started to lose primaries. I haven’t listened to Hannity, or much of AM radio or cable news, since then.
Why isn’t her mishandling of classified information bigger news? Perhaps it is because in the scope of catastrophic intelligence failures of the Obama administration, it ranks low.
Under Obama, we have had Snowden, Manning, OPM, massive Chinese penetration of government and business, heads of the CIA and DIA hacked, a captured stealth drone, a captured stealth helicopter, and those are just the larger ones I can remember off the top of my head.
Why would Hillary’s actions draw notice? So what if Russia and every other nation had access to everything on her server, they already had access to everything anyway. The damage done by the Obama administration to our national security will be haunting us for generations.
Reading social media today, apparently the lie about the material not being classified until later is still making the rounds. Seems a lot of useful idiots don’t know about the email in which Hillary! instructs an aid to send classified material insecure, stripped of headers.
That lie, spread by the Clinton campaign, is actually quite useful; it sets up a lot of misinformed people to be very surprised when the FBI starts leaking juicy details to the media. This is the sort of tactic that damps a fire in the short term, but throws fuel on it later. I need more popcorn.
I note that even MSNBC is reporting that the e-mail scandal is far more serious than Clinton is saying. I wonder how long it’ll be before she claims that MSNBC is part of the vast right wing conspiracy?
Leaking? Leaking classified information, even if redacted, is likely to get someone sent to jail. Even if no classified info is leaked, leakers are likely to be persecuted and prosecuted.
@ Wodun;
Poor phrasing on my part; I meant leaking juicy details of the case, not leaking the actual classified data itself.
As for getting prosecuted and persecuted for leaking case details, that’s not illegal, so we’re left with persecution. Didn’t stop them with Petraeus, and that was a far less glaring case.
Ya, I’m just jesting poorly.
I wouldn’t doubt that if leaks did occur, that the leakers would be hunted down and have the book thrown at them though.
“The FBI director would like to indict both Clinton and Abedin.
Analysis: Likely.”
Rand:
Are you saying it’s likely they will indict?
Or likely that they want to indict?
Likely that he would like to. He has no power to do it, all he can do is recommend.
Anyone have any speculation as to what the effect would be on Hillary’s campaign if she’s not indicted, but the FBI director makes plain that he’s recommended she be on numerous major felonies?
It would kill her campaign. A large number of Democrats, even if they don’t care about her crimes, would decide she is far more unelectable than they imagined.
Mike, I agree, but then I run up against the Sanders problem – a large number of Democrats realize the obvious: having Sanders as their nominee guarantees a landslide loss like 1972 (McGovern Vs. Nixon, with Nixon winning 49 states).
Basically, damned if they do, damned if they don’t. My hunch is they’d jump to Biden if he makes himself available, but it’s too late for the primaries; a lot of filing dates have passed.
My guess; stronger than expected showing for O’Malley in Iowa, as Dems fervently try to find any alternative to the two doomsday scenarios or Hillary and Sanders.
Democrats will end up having a brokered convention and choose Trump as their nominee leaving the GOP scrambling.
Looks like the O’Malley surge didn’t happen. If the email story hurt Clinton it only helped Sanders.
‘This was all planned’: Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying
The State Department is lying when it says it didn’t know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal e-mails and a private server to conduct official business — because it never set up an agency e-mail address for her in the first place, the department’s former top watchdog says.
“This was all planned in advance” to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency’s inspector general from 2005 to 2008.
The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov e-mail address like previous secretaries.
“That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private e-mail server until later,” Krongard said in an exclusive interview. “How else was she supposed to do business without e-mail?”
I didn’t realize that there was no IG at State for her entire tenure.
They seem to be waiting on this so they can have Hillary beat Sanders, then get driven out of contention, so they can nominate someone of their own choosing.
Paul, that’s been my guess as well. I’ve been further guessing that it’s Biden.
“The FBI director would like to indict both Clinton and Abedin.” Should be corrected. Issa thinks that the FBI director would like to indict both Clinton and Abedin. Not nearly as relevant; not evidence for anything.
Should be corrected. Issa thinks that the FBI director would like to indict both Clinton and Abedin.
The FBI director can correct that impression any time he wants to.