Immunity for ex-staffer who set up Clinton email server

__DonDiego confesses ? ? ? Umm, no. Of course DonDiego does not know the contents of the classified e-mail. Unless they've been published somewhere, poor old DonDiego doesn't know the contents of any of Her e-mails; he is not on Her distribution list.

__DonDiego never mentioned anything about classification being "obvious". It is the senders responsibility to know if what She is sending is classified; if She does not know it is her responsibility to find out. Is it not obvious that the Secretary of State, a member of the President's Cabinet, should know this stuff?

__DonDiego knows the Law pertaining to handling of classified information. DonDiego knows that She signed the standard "Classified Information Non-Disclosure Agreement [SF-312]:
HR CI NDA

__DonDiego knows that beyond the SF-312 NDA, She also signed another Non-Disclosure Agreement addressing more sensitive classified information, Sensitive Compartmented Information [SCI]:
HR Clinton SCI NDA

The SCI NDA includes the following:
"I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation.
“I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with appropriate management authorities in the Department . . . in order to ensure that I know whether information or material within my knowledge or control that I have reason to believe might be SCI."
[boldface added - DD]

The State Department said in September that Clinton’s private email system, set up at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home, was not authorized to handle SCI.
Clinton received at least two emails while secretary of state on her personal email server since marked TS/SCI—Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information—according to the U.S. intelligence community’s inspector general.


pjstroh is correct that DonDiego had not seen the comments by Colin Powell.
__ So poor old DonDiego cannot and does not know if Mr. Powell and She "engaged in the same exact practices." DonDiego is not absolutely certain that pjstroh knows that either.

Oh, . . . and that the "everybody does it" excuse is awfully weak, especially pertaining to national security.

Nonetheless, as always DonDiego recommends anyone who violates the Law should be prosecuted to the full extent of the Law. (DonDiego has stated this opinion many times within the LVA Forum)

That DonDiego recommends it does not mean it will happen, unfortunately.

"You have a madman running for President"......"but you want to obsess over emails?" Billryan

Yes, Bernie Sanders scares me too!

What else did it say? What did the other 100 say?

Propaganda sites? Really? Which sites would that be PJ, the Wash. post? CNBC? My Comcast homepage? which propaganda sites have i been unknowingly reading, I'm really interested which ones and I'll certainly quit reading them.

I'm not making the "everybody does it" excuse. I'm simply judging people on the same scale - which is why I dont single out political opponents to make an argument. Maybe DonDiego should try it sometime - it does wonders for one's perceived integrity.

On the issue of classified emails/personal accounts - the specific contents of both Clinton's and Powell's emails is not known to the public. yet DonDiego ascribes accountability to Clinton... and then plays the "gee whiz, I dont know the specifics" card on Powell. And that tells us all we really need to know about DonDiego's integrity, doesn't it?

DonDiego does not know the content of the e-mails or other documents in question applicable to either The Hillary or General Powell.

DonDiego is aware of the present controversy involving The Hillary. Based upon the reported facts that The Hillary did, in fact, mishandle and mis-classify official classified documents and placed classified (TS/SCI) data onto Her personal server which is illegal, and placed classified data onto a flash drive and gave it to Her lawyer who kept it in an insecure file cabinet in his office, which is illegal . . . DonDiego supports appropriate legal prosecution and punishment.

DonDiego does not know any details of how General Colin Powell is alleged to have mishandled classified information. If, in fact, he violated the Law DonDiego recommends appropriate legal prosecution and punishment.
[Perhaps pjstroh would enlighten DonDiego and other readers so that the behaviors of General Powell and The Hillary may be judged side-by-side, as pjstroh has already indicated General Powell and The Hillary engaged in "exactly the same practices". He might start with the question: Did Secretary of State Colin Powell maintain a private server in his home which was not secure so to handle classified information on which he conducted all official State Department communications? And proceed from there.]

If there is anyone else of whom DonDiego is unaware who mishandled classified documents, DonDiego recommends appropriate legal prosecution and punishment.

More generally, if someone breaks the Law generally DonDiego recommends appropriate legal prosecution and punishment. PERIOD.

DonDiego has supported this policy repeatedly in this Forum.

Alllow me to help out! Neither a private server nor a Google account is secured by government IT departments. So before you try to nitpick Clinton and Powell on that ground - perhaps you should ask Sarah Palin how secure an ISP email address is...or show me how any perceived infracted law in this case differentiates between a private server and a public ISP.

Which brings us back to the original point. DonDiego can confidently point to Hillary's mislabeling of emails on her server as some sort of criminal offense. Colin Powell fully admits to the same behavior - I posted the link where he does. But DonDiego struggles with the latter example. Hence my conclusion in my last post.

If the Hillary chasers would admit Powell should be imprisoned too then I would disagree - But at least they would be honest with tehmselved and provide a thoughtful argument to a debate. But when they have two standards for two different people then ...well....why would any thoughtful person take them seriously?

(ps - I'll let you in on a secret, DonDiego. The FBI does not have double standards - and if the idea of Colin Powell going to jail seems far fetched to you then you should prepare for a similar judgment against Hillary. Just trying to give you a heads up for what will surely be a disappointment.)

Clinton is the only person who set up an email system from day 1 to operate outside of the state dept system. Remember there are 30.000 emails that were deleted before anyone could examine them. She said they contained emails to Bill, but we now know he doesn't do emails.

DonDiego has just gotten done agreeing with pjstroh that General Colin Powell should be prosecuted/punished for his transgressions.
And DonDiego has already stated that The Hillary should be prosecuted/punished for her similar, . . . although not exactly the same transgressions.
And now pjstroh suggests no one is gonna be punished. That is a disappointment.

Is pjstroh saying that The Hillary and General Colin Powell will not be punished for violating the Law, . . . and approving of that outcome.
Having TS/NCI on a server in one's own home is a violation of the Law. And pjstroh just convinced poor old DonDiego that General Colin Powell is guilty of violating the same Laws, . . . although not exactly the same.

Why should anyone obey any law if that's how things are nowadays?

This is just the sort of behavior that leads to the downfall of civil order and sometimes even civilizations altogether.

Boiler has pointed out all along that Hillary is a liar and a crook, that Liberal voters know that Hillary is a liar and a crook, and most Liberals voters don't care that Hillary is a liar and a crook.

PJ, I thank you for agreeing with me.