Saturday, September 3, 2022

Just a reminder for those who have rewritten history...

What did Hillary actually have on her personal server?


  • Approximately 2100 overall emails that were either "classified" or "up-classified" 
  • Unknown amount of classified document that had been deleted from her server
  • 8 "chains" of emails contained documents of the highest classification of "Top Secret" at the time sent
  • 36 "chains" of emails contained documents that were classified as "Secret" at the time they were sent
  • 8 chains" of emails contained documents that were classified as "Confidential" at the time they were sent
  • 2000 more emails contained document that were up-classified to "Confidential" after the fact

Keep in mind that by all accounts, her server was certainly hacked by multiple sources. She also accessed her server with an unsecured blackberry, even when out of the country where those communications would be under the authority of other governments. While Comey suggested she was not trying to commit any crimes, the reasoning for Clinton was to keep her business as Secretary of State out of reach from the Freedom of Information act, which in itself was a crime. 

Clinton also testified under oath that she did not understand the classification markings that showed up on some these documents. Claiming that the marking of "C" meant something different:
When asked what the parenthetical “C” meant before a paragraph within the captioned email, CLINTON state she did not know and could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order. 

The bigger problem with the email situation that Clinton was using is that she was able to send and receive "information" that was classified outside of a classified document itself. Meaning the FBI had to look for "information" on top of actual documents "marked" as classified. 

On the flip side the President has authority to declassify any document he wants for any reason. This was confirmed in USSC decisions and a 2009 Obama executive order exempting both a President and Vice President from having to follow any of the classification procedures that a Secretary of State would be required to go through. Not ot mention that Trump's Mar-a-Lago was a classified as a secured location (just as Biden's personal residence was when he became President). Lastly Mar-a-Lago is guarded by Secret Service and under constant surveillance.

Now explain to me how what Trump did was worse than what Clinton did?


From James Comey's speech:

From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.

The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the private e-mail domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived government e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond.

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Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

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Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.


(already a comment thread on the subject in next post down)