Hillary Clinton Never Came Close to Compromising National Security - Mother Jones

[Bill USA]

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/hillary-clinton-never-came-close-compromising-national-security

Since everyone is going bonkers over the fact that Hillary Clinton sent and received some emails containing classified information, here's a quick reminder that we've known this for a long time. We've also known just what that classified information was. Here is Fred Kaplan:

As anyone who’s ever had a security clearance will tell you, the labels secret and confidential mean next to nothing.... Top secret information is another matter, but the stuff that showed up in Clinton’s private email wasn’t so special. Seven of the eight email chains dealt with CIA drone strikes, which are classified top secret/special access program....Everyone in the world knows about these strikes; nongovernment organizations, such as New America, tabulate them; newspapers around the world—including the New York Times, where some of the same reporters are now writing so breathlessly about Clinton’s careless handling of classified information—cover these strikes routinely.

The other top secret email chain described a conversation with the president of Malawi. Conversations with foreign leaders are inherently classified.

If you choose to believe that top secret is top secret, and it doesn't matter if the classification was ridiculous, that's fine. Knock yourself out. The rest of us can examine Emailgate in a real-world sense and try to decide if Hillary Clinton actually did anything that might have compromised national security. The answer, pretty clearly, is no. We've seen virtually all the emails. We know what the top secret emails were about. We know that Russia could have hacked into her server and read every word and learned nothing of interest.
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[liberal N proud]

1. If only this which hunt was about National security

If only!

[Bill USA]

5. The GOP's endless use of inquisitions as political hit squads & to intimidate Government employees

...in the performance of their duties - is a threat to our Democracy. Anybody interested in standing up for rational, responsible, democraticly elected government should contact their Senators and Representatives to register your outrage at the Republican party's use of totalitarian tactics in the furtherance of the plutocracy they are prostitutes for.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512244227

[DURHAM D]

2. All Hillary was trying to do was HER JOB !

Provided an antiquated communication system she figured out a way to get to work.

She was not revealing state secrets. She was not looking to make money like Petraeus and Sterling and others. She was NOT careless with communications that mattered.

SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO PUT THE WORLD ON A MORE EVEN KEEL.

TOO F*CKING BAD SHE CARED SO MUCH.


Some people are just too damn sick to occupy the planet, let alone the Congress or a news studio.

[Surya Gayatri]

3. A-friggin'-men! So spot on!

[Bill USA]

4. The GOP's endless use of inquisitions as political hit squads & to intimidate Government employees

in the performance of their duties - is a threat to our Democracy. Anybody interested in standing up for rational, responsible, democraticly elected government should contact their Senators and Representatives to register your outrage at the Republican party's use of totalitarian tactics in the furtherance of the plutocracy they are prostitutes for.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512244227