Benghazi was a partisan witch hunt — there is no doubt about that.
But Clinton’s emails, however, are an entirely different story.
She is not being investigated by a corrupt, disgusting group of GOP Congresspeople who use taxpayer money to take trips and drink: she’s being investigated by the FBI.
A new article out today in Real Clear Politics outlines the danger:
What are the key legal dangers facing Clinton and her aides? Here are just a few.
* Hillary Clinton deliberately set up a private email server for herself and her top State Department aides. She used it to store over 1,800 documents now deemed classified, some highly classified. The sheer bulk of the security violations is extraordinary. Intelligence professionals agree the server was almost certainly hacked by foreign agencies—probably by several.
* Secretary Clinton specifically instructed aides to send her classified materials on that insecure network. We know of at least one such instruction. We don’t know how many others were redacted by the State Department.
* Because her server was private, the State Department’s records did not include its contents when responding to Freedom of Information Act requests. The department wrongly told FOIA applicants that no such materials existed. Not only did the materials exist (on Clinton’s server), senior officials knew it and allowed false denials to be made.
* Some documents on the Clinton server contained the intelligence-gathering methods, the names of undercover agents, and real-time disclosures of top officials’ movements. Aside from the nuclear launch codes, these are the most closely guarded secrets in the U.S. government. That material is “classified at birth,” as Clinton, Mills, Abedin, and Sullivan certainly knew. To avoid any misunderstanding, they had all taken mandatory training in the proper treatment of sensitive and classified materials.
* Some of the classified materials on Clinton’s server originated in intelligence agencies outside the State Department and came into the department on a secure, classified network. They were marked as such. They could only be transferred to Clinton’s unsecured network by hand. Each occurrence was a felony. Since the server has now been recovered, the FBI and intelligence agencies know who sent those messages and who received them at the State Department.
* The Clinton Foundation and some private businesses were deeply involved in the State Department’s business. The lines were blurred between Hillary Clinton’s official role as secretary of state and her unofficial role at a major foundation, headed by her husband, that was showered with money from people and companies working with the State Department. At best, the arrangements were sleazy. At worst, they were criminal “pay to play.”
* Hillary’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, had blurred roles, too. While working at State, she was also employed by a private company whose clients did business with her department and the government.
I will vote for Clinton in the general if she is the nominee.
But this information, along with reports that show Clinton could lose New York — her home state — to Trump if she’s the nominee, makes me deeply worried about the viability of her candidacy.
With an overwhelming win in South Carolina, we’ll see how Clinton performs tomorrow. But if she crushes Bernie (which probably won’t happen), or otherwise looks to be our nominee later in March — I very much fear that the Democrats will be nominating someone who is going to lose the general because of this FBI investigation, not to mention her trust and honesty issues (although Trump is low in the favorability game, as well).
I will support Clinton, of course, and work on her campaign, but this idea that we might be in the middle of summer campaigning when the FBI investigation hits the fan?
That is deeply, deeply troubling.
And it’s all the more reason to vote for Bernie!
Sanders 2016 — the Revolution will only manifest if we WORK for it!
So get phone banking, canvassing, donating, and otherwise fighting!
Let’s put this human in the White House!