2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"I Triggered a State Dept Leak Worse than Clinton's" - By Stephen Dujack
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/state-department-email-leak-cables-hillary-clinton-secretary-cold-war-classified-documents-213999Must read
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I have to admit, I had to double check that the Ronald I Spiers, the State Dept official in the article wasn't THIS Ronald Spiers:
He's not, and Ronald I Spiers is still alive, and should've known better that to have the NIDB open on his desk for a photo op.
FarPoint
(12,352 posts)Nobody wants to be redirected blindly to articles.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)It's worth the *full* read.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)Thirty years later, youd never know that Clintons violation was less serious than Spiers. The media coverage is more insistent; government officials are more concerned. The departmental inspector general has chimed in critically, and the FBI and the Department of Justice have been brought into the case. And yet, look closer at the facts, and you will see theres no evidence that Clintons email scandal constituted an information leak at all. None of the emails she sent or received contained material that was classified at the time, and theres no evidence that anybody but the intended recipients ever read them.
The above paragraph is towards the end.
It's funny how because it was a REPUBLICAN as Pres, this was never pursued, ain't it? Yep, stating the obvious I am.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)We don't know the full extent of what is being looked at, but I don't know of any reason to believe that the entire case rests simply on whether or not classified info was leaked (whether through a server hack, or being passed to unauthorized personnel like Blumenthal). There are other questions that have been raised, i.e. were FOIA archiving requirements intentionally being circumvented, did she cover anything up by failing to turn over all the work-related emails (she says she turned them all over, but they have found emails elsewhere that she did not turn over), was there an insufficient wall between her activities as SOS and the operations of the Clinton Foundation... until the investigation concludes and a recommendation is made, we really don't know exactly what the real concerns are (if any).