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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer
It's embarrassing to see a fellow veteran have no clue about how a security clearance works.
If you or I did what she did, we'd be in jail.
But I realize that you just don't understand and you will never understand these kind of things.
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Being as you think you are so smart, perhaps you should explain it to us. Explain to us what she could be charged with, and what the punishment could be.
Before we go after Clinton, let's talk about the State Department itself. Seems former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice BOTH used personal emails to transmit classified information, and so did their staff. In fact, it seems this was common at the State Department. It's also not uncommon in Congress itself.
At the worst it seems she can be charged with "mishandling classified information". Generally speaking the only people ever charged with this is either people who intentionally leaked information (to the press or other governments), or people who were so careless with classified information that it was leaked (to the press or other governments). This is not the case here, there was no bad intention, there was no leak, and this was a common practice allowed by two other Secretaries Of State.
In order to be charged under the Espionage Act there has to be "intent" to injure the United States, and that is clearly not the case.
Let's just keep burning our tax dollars investigating this crap. I am completely serious here - Let's keep investigating. The Republican party's plan has been to make Clinton look bad over the email server and Benghazi. We've have ten different investigations into Benghazi and not one of them have shown Clinton did anything wrong. The email server investigation is more of the same - there was no intention to leak information, no information was leaked, there is no law that says the Secretary Of State cannot use her own email server, and it was common practice to do so being as at least two other former Secretaries Of State did the same exact thing.