Washington Post: The Hillary Clinton e-mail ‘scandal’ that isn’t: (HILLARY GROUP)

[DeepModem Mom]

Does Hillary Clinton have a serious legal problem because she may have transmitted classified information on her private e-mail server? After talking with a half-dozen knowledgeable lawyers, I think this “scandal” is overstated. Using the server was a self-inflicted wound by Clinton, but it’s not something a prosecutor would take to court.

“It’s common” that people end up using unclassified systems to transmit classified information, said Jeffrey Smith, a former CIA general counsel who’s now a partner at Arnold & Porter, where he often represents defendants suspected of misusing classified information.

“There are always these back channels,” Smith explained. “It’s inevitable, because the classified systems are often cumbersome and lots of people have access to the classified e-mails or cables.” People who need quick guidance about a sensitive matter often pick up the phone or send a message on an open system. They shouldn’t, but they do.

“It’s common knowledge that the classified communications system is impossible and isn’t used,” said one former high-level Justice Department official. Several former prosecutors said flatly that such sloppy, unauthorized practices, although technically violations of law, wouldn’t normally lead to criminal cases.

Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state has been a nagging campaign issue for months. Critics have argued that the most serious problem is possible transmission of classified information through that server. Many of her former top aides have sought legal counsel. But experts in national-security law say there may be less here than it might appear....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hillary-clinton-e-mail-scandal-that-isnt/2015/08/27/b1cabed8-4cf4-11e5-902f-39e9219e574b_story.html via Washington Post

[Thinkingabout]

1. The email scandal is a GOP wannabe, they do not have a viable candidate to run against Hillary so

They have to create a conspiracy scandal in order to "get something on her".

[Kath1]

4. Exactly.

Can't match her on the issues so invent a scandal. Pathetic,

[Iliyah]

2. K & R

Investigations into the charges, their e-mails, 911.

[Kath1]

3. Thank you, DeepModem Mom.

"Are these channels misused sometimes? Most definitely. Is there a crime here? Almost certainly not."

This e-mail "scandal" is such BS. The use of personal servers is routine. We all now know this.

The only ones keeping this "issue" alive are talk radio hosts and right-wing republicans. I don't think the average voter gives a damn about this.

Hillary has survived many manufactured scandals, I think she'll survive this one , too.

Peace.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R

[Cha]

6. It's just EGhazi!!!!111 for the goPropaganda Machine & those who will try any straw in an attempt

to take Hillary down.

Mahalo DMM

[flpoljunkie]

7. Guess Ignatius won't be invited back to Morning Joe for a while

Joe certainly doesn't want to hear any of this or have it heard on his show.

[SunShine22]

8. K & R

[flpoljunkie]

9. Chuck Todd flogging the email controversy--apparently didn't read this or is willfully ignoring it

Ignatius is dead to them now.

[Sancho]

10. Thanks for the link...

Just about everyday there's another amateur lawyer in GD/P claiming that Hillary will be in jail soon or that she will face a trial by Christmas.

It's pretty crazy.

[randys1]

11. THere is a large group of posters on DU who simply MUST work for the GOP

The endless, all day long attacks on Hillary and this email thing.

You simply CANT be a Democrat or a liberal and go out of your way to smear and trash the likely Democratic candidate.

PERIOD

And I want to tell them to FUCK OFF

but I cant...if you are here to attack the Democratic Party, fine...if you are here to defend it, watch the fuck out