Another day, another bullet into the Hillary narrative on her use of a private server for her emails. This time the shot comes from her own campaign manager, The Washington Post. It now appears that Clinton herself wrote 104 emails that are now classified as confidential and must be, by law, sent over the secure server provided to all people with security clearances high enough to have access to such materials. The WaPo did not give any examples because the emails are redacted and can’t be seen.
I can guess what many of those are. Among authorities in all of the countries around the world, any conversation is “Born Confidential”. This is necessary, because if you want information that the other country wants kept secret, they need to know that they can trust you to respect their privacy. Hillary Clinton knows this and she made the decision to ignore it. We do know that one of her emails to Sidney Blumenthol included portions of a conversation she had with the Germans.
The Post analysis is based on an examination of the 2,093 chains of Clinton’s email correspondence that the State Department decided contained classified information. The agency released 52,000 pages of Clinton’s emails as part of a court-ordered process but blocked the sensitive information from public view. The Post identified the author of each email that contained such redactions.
The analysis raises difficult questions about how the government treats sensitive information. It suggests that either material is being overclassified, as Clinton and her allies have charged, or that classified material is being handled improperly with regularity by government officials at all levels — or some combination of the two.
The analysis did not account for 22 emails that the State Department has withheld entirely from public release because they are “top secret,” the highest level of classification.
The handling of those emails has drawn particular criticism from Republican lawmakers and officials in the intelligence community, who have argued that Clinton’s use of a private server exposed some of the government’s most closely guarded secrets to hacking or other potential breaches.
I’ve been wondering something. Normally, the establishment liberals would be pressuring or bribing Bernie Sanders to drop out of the race, but that’s not happening. Are the democrats hoping for a brokered convention? They won’t say it out loud because they fear the Clintons but they are also afraid Clinton will be indicted.
There are two very important things to remember here. The first is that you do not have to intentionally reveal secrets to be found guilty under the Espionage Act. You only have to be sloppy or careless. The second thing you need to know is there are various charges that can be filed ranging from a misdemeanor to a felony, but all these charges have one thing in common. Besides being fined and possibly going to prison, you are from that moment barred from ever working for the federal government again. That includes as president of the United States.