Keirador wrote:ruffdove wrote:Hillary Clinton belongs in prison. That's where thousands of non-celebrity-first-lady-American civil servants with security clearances would be right now if they had put classified information on the open internet for their own convenience - especially under the current administration which has doggedly punished such people whether they were being careless or were whistle blowers.
Well, one of the points Clinton supporters are making is that what Clinton did--[url]what she actually did[/url], not the wildly distorted summary you just gave--while unwise and a violation of at least the SPIRIT of government regulations, presented neither a security threat nor an actual crime, and the only reason this is a big deal is BECAUSE she's a celebrity First Lady.
I tend to concur here. The woman has enemies. If an actual specific security threat had emerged from the email hullabaloo, I'm pretty sure that that's all we would have been hearing about for the past year.
That said, I think Jack Sullivan her policy adviser won't walk away from this happy. Whereas whatever the others may have felt, known, or intended, Sullivan is on record ordering a subordinate to take the header off a document and email it unsecured (in guess what, an email).
Hillary has enemies, yes, but the Clintons also tend to make their scandals worse than they actually, or by set them up. Like, about those Wall Street speeches-whichever aides or advisers didn't tell her that would be a bad idea before she ran (She was already making her superpac that year) is so horribly incompetent that they should be fired on the spot.