RE: This Was A Message To Bernie
June 9, 2016 at 5:53 pm
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2016 at 5:54 pm by Tiberius.)
(June 9, 2016 at 5:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I guess you missed the story where General Petraeus was found to have given hundreds of actual classified documents to his biographers and plead guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a fine?
Go look for it. It was just in the last few days. The FBI investigated that one, too.
Except that felony charges were pursued by the FBI (namely lying to the FBI, and violating the Espionage Act), but the DoJ decided not to file the charges (source). Now, the DoJ could decide to do the same with Clinton I suppose, but if they do I suspect they'll be a shitstorm of controversy. Petraeus for one, wasn't running for President.
The case involving Clinton is also more complex on several levels, going right back to her decision to use a private server for government emails, having people with no security clearance access that server, having off-site backups (and apparently not knowing about them) at a private company, and of course the fact that for months the server was vulnerable on the Internet, which increases the likelihood that it was hacked into.
