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Hillary Clinton email ‘scandal’ has been way overblown
MARCH 25, 2016 6:39 PM
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About Hillary Clinton and her email, the biggest question concerns intent.
Did her offices purposefully give secrets to people without clearance or a need to know?
So far, the answer looks like “no.”
Beyond that, what partisan people are calling “crimes” is really just handling-policy breaches.
Were secret documents stolen by hackers and delivered to people without clearance?
The answer so far seems to be “no” also, but even if it did happen, it means there was a policy breach and not a crime.
Hackers could have attacked a secure server also.
But what is the worst case?
▪ During the George W. Bush administration, one of our CIA agents, Valerie Plame, was outed, endangering those who had been in contact with her.
No one was punished. (Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff went to jail for lying to the FBI, not for passing secrets.)
▪ Gen. David Petraeus provided classified information to his mistress. His punishment? A misdemeanor for mishandling classified information. (He resigned as director of the CIA over the affair, not the handling of classified documents.)
Did Secretary Clinton’s office handle secret documents strictly by the book?
Obviously not, so therefore guidelines and rules need to be reviewed or addressed.
When our secretaries of state are trying to do their job, I think we can cut them a little slack.
Let’s fix the process, not burn the people trying to save the world.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/other-voices/article68344817.html
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About Hillary Clinton and her email, the biggest question concerns intent.
Did her offices purposefully give secrets to people without clearance or a need to know?
So far, the answer looks like “no.”
Beyond that, what partisan people are calling “crimes” is really just handling-policy breaches.
Were secret documents stolen by hackers and delivered to people without clearance?
The answer so far seems to be “no” also, but even if it did happen, it means there was a policy breach and not a crime.
Hackers could have attacked a secure server also.
But what is the worst case?
▪ During the George W. Bush administration, one of our CIA agents, Valerie Plame, was outed, endangering those who had been in contact with her.
No one was punished. (Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff went to jail for lying to the FBI, not for passing secrets.)
▪ Gen. David Petraeus provided classified information to his mistress. His punishment? A misdemeanor for mishandling classified information. (He resigned as director of the CIA over the affair, not the handling of classified documents.)
Did Secretary Clinton’s office handle secret documents strictly by the book?
Obviously not, so therefore guidelines and rules need to be reviewed or addressed.
When our secretaries of state are trying to do their job, I think we can cut them a little slack.
Let’s fix the process, not burn the people trying to save the world.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/other-voices/article68344817.html
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