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State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader sends this report from NBC News:
The State Department on Thursday released 5,500 more pages of Hillary Clinton's emails, but fell short of meeting a court-ordered target of making 82 percent of the former secretary of state's messages public by the end of 2015. The email dump is the latest release from the private server Clinton used during her time as America's top diplomat. The State Department said it failed to meet the court's goal because of "the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule." Portions of 275 documents in the batch were upgraded to classified, though they were not classified at the time they were sent to Clinton's personal email, according to the State Department. In total, 1,274 of her emails were retroactively classified by the government before their release.
However, if the information in those messages wasn't classified when it was sent or when she read them, she wasn't breaking any laws by leaving them on her server. And, to be fair, she wouldn't have had any reason to clear them off the server unless she learned later that somebody had decided that the information should be classified. I'm no fan of hers, and can't imagine any circumstances that would make me want to vote for her but I'm not going to blame her for this. If you want a scapegoat, look at whoever sent those emails and didn't bother to let her know about the change in status.
Of course she was breaking the laws. Who do you think classifies information? She was not some Joe off the street she was the Secretary of State. She was in a position to know how to classify information and she should have known better AND she should have classified them herself. So 1,274 retroactively classified emails tells me 1,274 times the country was put at risk.
Unless the State Department gives you explicit permission to do as she did. Which they did. Until they didn't.
Trump is running the most successful false-flag operation in the history of American politics.
He's also running one of the most successful campaigns this season.
I just read an article where the polls show that Bernie would have a better chance of beating Trump than Hillary.
The Republicans don't want Trump as their candidate, and the Democrats don't want Bernie.
We could very easily have an election where no one wants *either* candidate!
This is turning out to be a most hilarious election season.
That is irrelevant. Each individual who has access to classified information is not allowed to make such decisions without going through the process of declassifying the information.
It appears that you believe a crime that doesn't actually harm anyone should not be prosecuted. If someone that dislikes you shoots at you every time you leave your home to go to work or the market, as long as they miss (and the bullet doesn't harm property or someone else), is it your position that there's no crime (no one is hurt) that should be prosecuted until such time as they manage to put a bullet in your brain stem?
The DoJ has done a lot of "deciding it wouldn't be worth their time" to prosecute Obama cronies though. One of Hillary's top aides, Huma Abdelin, got caught claiming to be at the office (for pay purposes) while she was on vacation and other types of leave, to the tune of a few hundred thousand. Plenty of VA corruption (whistleblower retaliation and bonus fraud) also went unpunished. (Keep in mind, the relevant Inspectors General recommended that the DoJ pursue jail time in the cases on my list.)
A couple years ago a rancher, Cliven Bundy, had a dispute with the Feds. A lot of "supporters" showed up armed and the feds backed down when it looked like they would have to start shooting civilians to get their way. I hadn't seen any evidence Cliven was in the right, but the rules the feds were using seemed unethical.
So, yea, that boom-boom stick can mean something to the feds. I suspect that kind of thing will happen more if they keep doing crap to the "little people" with boom-boom sticks.