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SFC Mark Merino
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Once again, the military shows the people that there is little that is required to take away a security clearance. They don't mess around and they will drop that hammer down and crush the little people. Meanwhile, Hillary can operate without impunity. It sickens me.
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SSG(P) Photographer/Owner
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What sickens me even more than that is the fact that there's a bunch of morons that are willing to vote for this traitor (HRC).
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SGT Damaso V Santana
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Liar, Traitor, Cheat...simply a thug
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TSgt Frank Shirley - If there was a law against being stupid, you would be in prison for the rest of your life.
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SPC Shaun Eaves
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TSgt Frank Shirley - There are laws against mishandling classified information. 18 USC 793 (f) states: (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

There are federally mandated security requirements for any systems that handle classified information as outlined in NIST Special Publication 800-53, there are no exemptions to these security requirements.

Since Clinton's home server was unsecure, not only with appropriate networking and firewall security for the TS/SCI information that we know was sent to and through the server, but also it did not meet requirements for security as to personnel access (have you ever tried to walk into a SCIF? Pretty sure Clinton's home security did not have armed guards checking clearances at the closet door). We also know that Clinton's server was hacked by foreign actors, so the question is not whether she deliberately transmitted classified information to unqualified possessors, but only if through an act of gross negligence allowed the information to be stolen, lost, or destroyed. Since she had her hard drives destroyed by private companies (with no oversight as to whether or not they accessed the information on the drives prior to destruction) this in and of itself is another potential violation of the law.

Had Clinton not been Clinton, there is no way she was let off the hook. Ignorance of the law is never an applicable defense (especially for someone in high levels of government who themselves hold a JD). She knew, had reason to know, or at minimum should have known as Secretary of State that classified information would be transmitted to her electronically as part of her position. In addition, she turned down secure systems from State and insisted that State contact her through clintonemail and her private server (and due to the leaked exchange between herself and Sec. Powell) seemingly in order to bypass FOIA...which is yet another violation of federal law.

This is not a matter of Clinton being stupid, this is a matter of her believing that laws do not apply to her. Considering that it took more than one person to break these laws, and numerous people involved understood the violations of law that Clinton was involved in and they did not stop the crimes committed, the threshold for conspiracy should have been met. Had this been anyone other than Clinton (or other highly connected politico) there would be a string of charges they would be brought up on (considering the intermingling of Clinton Foundation business with state business) probable RICO charges in addition to the security violations.
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Ah...amazing.
Listen, get the stance but...you're in uniform it's a damn far shot from being an NFL player.
Number one, how you protest is very limited.
Number two, when you protest the flag in uniform, it's a large difference.
Also as an intel soldier myself, our community is so on guard after Manning and Snowden. You can't be this dumb because we're tired of our folk making us look incompetent.
So...no sympathy for the devil here.
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SSgt Terry P.
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SSG(P) (Join to see) Only one reason good enough to allow this----disabled and can't.
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