Things were bad enough for Hillary Clinton in recent days. The number of emails with classified information that she generated and kept on her unsecured computer system has risen to sixty after review of only about ten percent of the total she turned over to the State Department. That alone may result in her indictment for violation of federal law. Now, however, we are learning that Hillary has been getting special treatment by the State Department during this investigation. First of all, when State realized that some of Hillary's email contained classified information, it left the electronic copies of those email with Hillary's personal lawyer, even though that lawyer did not have a security clearance or a secure system on which to keep the files. The State Department even gave the lawyer a special safe in which to keep the drives with the email on it. That is a clear violation of the rules for handling classified info. There are also claims by State Department employees who work on the Freedom of Information Act requests that are disquieting. The Washington Times reported the story this way:
Amid the tensions, some career State employees have now alerted the intelligence community to irregularities that they fear may hide from the public the true extent of classified information that passed through her personal account, people familiar with the matter told The Times.
Their concerns include that one or more State Department attorneys involved in the production of the former secretary of state’s emails to Congress and a federal court have ties to Mrs. Clinton’s private attorney’s firm, creating at least the perception internally of a conflict of interest, sources told The Times, speaking only on the condition of anonymity.
Given the nature of the information involved and Hillary's status as a political candidate, one would think that the State Department would have made certain that its investigation was above reproach, but instead, the Clinton penchant for trying to get and edge by pushing the rules seems to have won out.
I wonder how many more such disclosures the Clinton campaign can take.
Amid the tensions, some career State employees have now alerted the intelligence community to irregularities that they fear may hide from the public the true extent of classified information that passed through her personal account, people familiar with the matter told The Times.
Their concerns include that one or more State Department attorneys involved in the production of the former secretary of state’s emails to Congress and a federal court have ties to Mrs. Clinton’s private attorney’s firm, creating at least the perception internally of a conflict of interest, sources told The Times, speaking only on the condition of anonymity.
Given the nature of the information involved and Hillary's status as a political candidate, one would think that the State Department would have made certain that its investigation was above reproach, but instead, the Clinton penchant for trying to get and edge by pushing the rules seems to have won out.
I wonder how many more such disclosures the Clinton campaign can take.
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