Interesting news on the email front

[about_average]

Powell and Rice received sensitive info through private emails

I wonder if there will be hearings.

 

[someoneyouknow]

No, not really. I read the same basic story on CBS tonight and what Powell said was at the time the emails were sent they were not classified or secret. Instead, the State Department is now trying to retroactively claim the emails (about 12 total) were classified as the result of the inspector's investigation.

I was going to post but upon reading the article the events are disproportionately different. I'll take Powell's words over MSNBC.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Probably not. Powell and Rice are old news. Clinton is flavour of the month with Rep sights on her. And no one in the US wants to hear how badly their intelligence agencies are run and how the politicos rule them.

Mishandled e-mails, mistakes in outing operatives, sometimes not a mistake, telling politicos what they want to hear, being selective in what they tell their own analysts to get result that works for politico bosses (Iraq WMD), failure leading up to 9/11, failure to predict Crimean takeover,

Getting bin Laden only public high point in US intelligence recent history. Careless and incompetent. Their political bosses too. Indulgent and entitled.

 

[about_average]

No, not really. I read the same basic story on CBS tonight and what Powell said was at the time the emails were sent they were not classified or secret. Instead, the State Department is now trying to retroactively claim the emails (about 12 total) were classified as the result of the inspector's investigation..

So basically the same as with Clinton.

 

[Eyereadtoo]

So basically the same as with Clinton.

Did they set up their own servers in order to circumvent the rule of law because, in their own minds, they were above the law? Therein lies the answer to the question I'd like to hear.

 

[JackLuis]

Shouldn't Congress assign a "Special Persecutor" to this issue? IF the DOJ can't decide one way or the other?

 

[Aglaopheme]

Did they set up their own servers in order to circumvent the rule of law because, in their own minds, they were above the law? Therein lies the answer to the question I'd like to hear.

What rule of law did she circumvent? The one enacted after she left office?

 

[sr71plt]

Clinton is also the only one to setup her own server. What's the count now? Something like 28 - 30 emails that are too secret to release?

Right. When Thomas Jefferson was SecState, he didn't set up his own server. Folks become the first to do such things as setting up their own server when the capability to do so rolls in, not before--and when you are pioneering the use of new technology is when you first are finding out the pitfalls to do so. I'd go after her on a pattern of showing she was trying to hide certain things from historical review that were subject to historical review (and I can easily see that she could have been). I wouldn't go after her for glitches in using new technology (as long as it was fixed when the glitch was found) and I certainly wouldn't go after her for e-mails that others have sent her that were classified unless they were marked as classified or if someone could reasonably be expected to know they were classified by just scanning them.

I was working quality control in an intelligence office going to Internet communications as the Internet was coming in, and there were multiple security glitches in learning how to use the new technology. They weren't purposeful or malicious breaches and we worked at closing the holes.

Look for the purposeful/malicious patterns. They may, in fact, be there. Or they may not.