The national GOP leaves open a wide and fertile field for the Dems. Barring the unforeseen - including that that the Trump Administration gets its act together - the Dems ought to retake the House by miles, retake the Senate and, in 2028, win the presidency. If this doesn't happen, then the Dems should be imprisoned for stupidity.
The national GOP leaves open a wide and fertile field for the Dems. Barring the unforeseen - including that that the Trump Administration gets its act together - the Dems ought to retake the House by miles, retake the Senate and, in 2028, win the presidency. If this doesn't happen, then the Dems should be imprisoned for stupidity.
"I argued then, and have argued in the years since, that Clinton should have been prosecuted.
"But she wasn’t. From a legal perspective, she was entirely let off the hook."
You ought to read James Stewart's "Deep State." Stewart is an investigative journalist and a lawyer. He is nonpartisan, although the "work the ref" crew on both sides might disagree. Stewart details the legal research and discussions lawyers in the DOJ did on the statute pertinent statute. They all concluded that then Sec. Clinton's case was unprosecutable because, based on the case law regarding this statute and even though her conduct appears to violate the statute, she didn't deliberately hand over classified info or documents to someone unauthorized.
Not all unacceptable behavior is criminal. Your argument is that the statute in question should be modified to make clear that negligent conduct is prosecutable.
Although she wasn't prosecuted, but for this scandal Hillary undoubtedly would have been elected pres. in 2016 - i.e. there would be no press conference in July of 2016 by then FBI Dir. Comey and, more importantly, there's be no torpedo rocking the Clinton campaign sent by Comey and then Special Agent Peter Strzok ten days before the election..
I'm pretty sure it's already a crime to disseminate classified information on unapproved networks. Not only because it's a security breach, and the consequences of that can cause grave danger to the USA, but also because it circumvents official record keeping requirements mandated by the government and thus avoids transparency and accountability on official decision making.
If it's not illegal or prosecutable to conduct business outside of trusted platforms then the system is broken. If you can't trust the government to do the right thing, then what signal (pun intended) does that send to the broader populace?
It's basically the same tactics that organised crime (Mafia) use so they can create plausible deniability 'Eyyyy, it wasn't us!'
Apparently, it wouldn't be illegal per se under the statute under which the national GOP wanted to prosecute Sec. Clinton. Maybe there's another statute. As then FBI Dir. Comey said at his infamous press conference, if Hillary was a federal employee at the time, she may well have been fired.
The Keystone Cops are making matters worse. I think it was Bill Clinton advisor Paul Begala who wrote a book titled something like "Tell it All, Tell it Early, Tell it Yourself." It's amazing how these politicians let their siege mentality override their reason.
The national GOP leaves open a wide and fertile field for the Dems. Barring the unforeseen - including that that the Trump Administration gets its act together - the Dems ought to retake the House by miles, retake the Senate and, in 2028, win the presidency. If this doesn't happen, then the Dems should be imprisoned for stupidity.
"I argued then, and have argued in the years since, that Clinton should have been prosecuted.
"But she wasn’t. From a legal perspective, she was entirely let off the hook."
You ought to read James Stewart's "Deep State." Stewart is an investigative journalist and a lawyer. He is nonpartisan, although the "work the ref" crew on both sides might disagree. Stewart details the legal research and discussions lawyers in the DOJ did on the statute pertinent statute. They all concluded that then Sec. Clinton's case was unprosecutable because, based on the case law regarding this statute and even though her conduct appears to violate the statute, she didn't deliberately hand over classified info or documents to someone unauthorized.
Not all unacceptable behavior is criminal. Your argument is that the statute in question should be modified to make clear that negligent conduct is prosecutable.
Although she wasn't prosecuted, but for this scandal Hillary undoubtedly would have been elected pres. in 2016 - i.e. there would be no press conference in July of 2016 by then FBI Dir. Comey and, more importantly, there's be no torpedo rocking the Clinton campaign sent by Comey and then Special Agent Peter Strzok ten days before the election..
I'm pretty sure it's already a crime to disseminate classified information on unapproved networks. Not only because it's a security breach, and the consequences of that can cause grave danger to the USA, but also because it circumvents official record keeping requirements mandated by the government and thus avoids transparency and accountability on official decision making.
If it's not illegal or prosecutable to conduct business outside of trusted platforms then the system is broken. If you can't trust the government to do the right thing, then what signal (pun intended) does that send to the broader populace?
It's basically the same tactics that organised crime (Mafia) use so they can create plausible deniability 'Eyyyy, it wasn't us!'
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/stephanie-foster-signal-australian-home-affairs-secretary-trump-scandal
Apparently, it wouldn't be illegal per se under the statute under which the national GOP wanted to prosecute Sec. Clinton. Maybe there's another statute. As then FBI Dir. Comey said at his infamous press conference, if Hillary was a federal employee at the time, she may well have been fired.
The Keystone Cops are making matters worse. I think it was Bill Clinton advisor Paul Begala who wrote a book titled something like "Tell it All, Tell it Early, Tell it Yourself." It's amazing how these politicians let their siege mentality override their reason.