An August 5 edition of the New York Times reported, “Hillary Clinton on Friday sought to explain her recent mischaracterization of the F.B.I. investigation into her private email server, saying she ‘may have short-circuited’ in her remarks during a television interview on Sunday when she asserted that the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had called her statements about her private email servers ‘truthful.’”
That one is right up there with her husband’s explanation of lying. “It depends on your definition of the word ‘is’.”
I would offer that the Democrats might answer that question by saying it’s not a lie if a Democrat says it. After all, think about all the times Obama has “short-circuited” and how many times the Democrats have denied those were lies.
Well, here are the facts, direct from the July 5th FBI report:
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.
The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the private e-mail domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived government e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond.
With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level.
For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail (that is, excluding the later “up-classified” e-mails).
None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail.
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly denied that there were any classified emails on her server. The facts do not support that claim. In other words, Hillary did not “short circuit” she blatantly and knowingly lied to the American people, and to Congress.
Why did the FBI or even the Justice department not recommend prosecution? Cowardice.
Had FBI Director Comey recommended prosecution of a presidential candidate and that candidate was subsequently acquitted, he would have been accused of fixing the election in favor of Donald Trump. Instead, he stopped short of recommending prosecution and merely accused Clinton of being careless and sloppy.
Comey also said, “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case… To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.”
Of course, they wouldn’t bring such a case. The Obama justice department under Loretta Lynch would have simply kicked it out of court.
No politics here folks just plain old corruption, and cowardice, and a little short-circuiting. You can’t make this stuff up.
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