Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, charged that Hillary Clinton “probably” broke the law with her exclusive use of a private email address while secretary of state. J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Ha! you silly conservatives. From NPR: Fact Check: Hillary Clinton, Those Emails And The Law
“The bottom line is this: No one will likely ever know what was deleted from Clinton’s server. Barring one of the 30,000 emails Clinton turned over to the State Department being deemed “classified,” * it’s also unlikely she will ever be found to have violated the letter of the law.”
Since the NPR story, the State Dept. HAS classified 25 emails; and here are some excerpts from a report by “Hillary-friendly” Politico on that development!
The State Department’s decision to classify 25 Hillary Clinton emails as diplomatic secrets doesn’t mean Clinton erred by sending or receiving the messages on her private email server, State spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday.
“That doesn’t mean at the time it was sent it needed to be classified or at the time it was sent it was known there was a classification attached to it,” Kirby told reporters at a daily briefing. “It’s not uncommon that something that you’re sending now on an unclassified network could in later years or later months be deemed to be classified either because the passage of time made it so or because events on the ground have borne out perhaps the sensitive nature of that traffic that you didn’t know was sensitive at the time.” . . .
One expert in government records and Freedom of Information Act requests said Wednesday that it would be a highly unusual situation that would result in information becoming more problematic over time.
“It would be an unusual thing indeed if that would be so, even though it could conceivably be so,” said Dan Metcalfe, a former co-director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy. “For State to tell you or give you the impression that is pretty close to routine, that’s not at all so. Only rarely, if ever, would sensitivity increase with the passage of time.”
Metcalfe, who now teaches at American University’s Washington College of Law, also noted that classifying information after a Freedom of Information Act request is received requires a higher-level approval than ordinary classification actions. It appears only three officials at the State Department are empowered to approve such post-request classification.
And which “take” gets out there ?
I have a liberal acquaintance who admits that, because of the demands of work and family, his access to news is limited. It is “limited” to the extent that this educated, affluent, successful professional relies primarily on “news” reports by NPR at drive time, to and from his daily commute to work.
All of you conservatives out there are sorely mistaken if you think that the flood of information coming out about Hillary’s lies and misdeeds and concealing of information about her activities while serving as Secretary of State and since, from not just the public but from executive and legislative bodies constitutionally qualified to be informed of it, will have any impact on voters who preternaturally vote for any presidential candidate with a “D” before their name on the ballot.
The gist of this NPR “factcheck’ (see link above) is “nothing to see here…Hillary’s in the clear and good to go. Breathe easy media and liberals”.
And this is the full extent of what my liberal friend will know of this sad, sorry, and dangerous chapter in presidential politics.
(Note: Here is one definitive take on Hillary’s clandestine activities.) DLH
