Posted on Aug 13, 2015
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Now that classified material has been found on Hillary’s personal email server, should she be prosecuted? What would happen if you or I took this material home?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/12/the-spy-satellite-secrets-in-hillary-s-emails.html
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Sgt Kelli Mays
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If it is found she is in violation and clearly she knew and broke the law...then HELL YES...but unfortunately I feel even if she is found guilty without any doubt....she'll somehow avoid jail/prison time.

using a personal server and not the designated government server for ANY emails is unlawful....it's against the law....why are they only looking for classified documents...bottom line is SHE BROKE PROTOCOL...SHE BROKE THE RULES.... PERIOD!

General Petraeus did far less, in my opinion with his pillow talk than Hilary did with her emails not being secured.....and he was punished for it.
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PO3 Bob Walsh
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The Genera's pillow talk was to a person who had Security Clearance, the issue must have been, A Need To Know. Her security clearance was in early press reports but I haven't heard anything about it for a long time.
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When does the question that even if it wasn't marked with a classification that the sender or receiver reasonably knew that the information had a classification come into play?. Her defense seems to be based upon the assertion that the info was not classified at the time she received it. Just because the football doesn't have a TS/SCI banner on the briefcase doesn't make the codes within any less classified.
Just because I put a red sticker on a piece of paper doesn't make the info secret. It implies that the paper should be treated as such based upon what I know of the information. I personally don't have the ability to say that one thing is actually classified but I can recognize that it has been declared as such by a proper authority. With that in mind, failure to classify something appropriately or failure to report that something was inappropriately labelled is a security violation at the least.
We also have a problem of overclassifying information as it is (by mistake or as a broad brush trying to protect) which makes FOIA more difficult.
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
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When was the material found?
According to the article....
"There’s still a lot we don’t know about Hillary’s Emailgate. Exactly how many emails contained TOP SECRET//SI information is unclear. We may never know since thousands of emails were already destroyed by Clinton. Who exactly placed the classified information in emails—it may not have been Hillary Clinton—and how did they access the information in the first place? How many of Hillary’s staffers at Foggy Bottom were also using her personal server?"
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I am waiting for the server backups to be "discovered" That will prove interesting. :)
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
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I think that this is one of those cases where nobody wants to be caught napping so they are reporting without waiting for the investigation to develop. If Classified information was sent to her, my question is "who the fuck is putting classified information in an E-Mail?" If it was generated by her, then I want to know "Why the fuck are you putting classified information in an E-Mail?"
The other problem is that some of the information was not marked as classified, but was deemed that it should have been marked classified. If it should have been marked as classified, why wasn't it marked as classified before this scandal started breaking.

This morning NBC was reporting that there were messages that contained Top Secret information in them. IF that is the case, not just Hillary needs to be taken to task for that. Everyone who had anything to do with those messages is equally culpable. If I send an E-Mail with Top Secret information in it to an outside source, you receive that information, and don't report that a breach in protocol (at the least) or security (most likely) has occurred, you are no less guilty than the person who sent the information. Operational Security is not a one person show. It is everyone within a chain of information's responsibility to maintain the security of information. This means that Hillary is at least in part culpable for this debacle.
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COL Ted Mc
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PO3 Steven Sherrill - PO; Can we all agree that there are some people who simply don't give a damn about whether something is "classified" or not provided that they can gain some personal advantage out of releasing it - regardless of the damage to others that that release might cause?

Can we also all agree that those people are neither all Democrats/Liberals or all Republicans/Conservatives?

Can we also all agree that there are people out there who don't give the ethics of faking evidence and/or making baseless allegations a second thought if the first thought is "If I do __[fill in the blank]__ then I will benefit personally from it."?

Can we also all agree that those people are neither all Democrats/Liberals or all Republicans/Conservatives?
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
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COL Ted Mc I agree fully. I think that most of the people "serving" in Washington (not military folks, politicians) think about political gain first, everything else second. I agree that it is not something that any political party has a monopoly on. My biggest problem in general is the question how many lives, American Service Members lives, could have been put in jeopardy. The political posturing bores the Hel out of me.
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COL Ted Mc
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PO3 Steven Sherrill - PO; Considering that the Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Israelis, Japanese and at least ten other countries are "reading America's mail" I wouldn't get too upset about it.

After all, if it's really important then some "highly placed confidential government source speaking on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the matter" would have told the major media all about it by now.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
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COL Ted Mc - Too true!
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