Consider this: a very high government official with the highest security clearance has personal records that contain some highly classified information. Those personal records are things like email and personal schedules. The official keeps these records in his or her own home. As time passes, the official gives access to these personal records to a friend or attorney who has a security clearance. The problem, however, is that the friend or attorney does not have a clearance high enough to see the most secret of the classified information in the personal records. What happens?
If you recognized this as what happened to General David Petreus, then you know that what happens next is that the general gets indicted for mishandling classified information, his career ends, and he makes a plea bargain with the prosecutors. Petreus showed his schedule to his biographer (who also happened to be his mistress) and kept documents like that locked in his desk at home. For that he got a suspended prison sentence.
On the other hand, if you recognized this as what Hillary Clinton did when she gave all of her emails (including those containing Top Secret information) to her lawyer David Kendall (and the others in his firm who reviewed them), then you know that what has happened to her so far is NOTHING. We have learned today that Kendall had a low level clearance, but he did not have clearance to see or hold the Top Secret documents in Hillary's email. What Clinton did is actually worse that what Petreus did since she gave the emails to Kendall to review in detail and let him and his firm copy them if necessary. Petreus only showed some documents to his biographer; he never supplied her with copies.
The reality is that Hillary seems to have committed a serious federal crime when she gave the emails to her lawyer. The FBI better be investigating this appropriately to determine whether or not she has any valid excuse. If not, whether or not she is a presidential candidate, she ought to be indicted.
If you recognized this as what happened to General David Petreus, then you know that what happens next is that the general gets indicted for mishandling classified information, his career ends, and he makes a plea bargain with the prosecutors. Petreus showed his schedule to his biographer (who also happened to be his mistress) and kept documents like that locked in his desk at home. For that he got a suspended prison sentence.
On the other hand, if you recognized this as what Hillary Clinton did when she gave all of her emails (including those containing Top Secret information) to her lawyer David Kendall (and the others in his firm who reviewed them), then you know that what has happened to her so far is NOTHING. We have learned today that Kendall had a low level clearance, but he did not have clearance to see or hold the Top Secret documents in Hillary's email. What Clinton did is actually worse that what Petreus did since she gave the emails to Kendall to review in detail and let him and his firm copy them if necessary. Petreus only showed some documents to his biographer; he never supplied her with copies.
The reality is that Hillary seems to have committed a serious federal crime when she gave the emails to her lawyer. The FBI better be investigating this appropriately to determine whether or not she has any valid excuse. If not, whether or not she is a presidential candidate, she ought to be indicted.
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