Posted on 07/30/2015 9:35:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As former Secretary of State and current 2016 Democrat Party frontrunner Hillary Clinton prepares her version of the successful defense her husband used during his impeachment trial, we need to anticipate what exactly Hillary will be claiming.
Her husband Bill used the “it depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is” defense successfully, and now Hillary has already begun to lay the groundwork for a hybrid of her husband Bill’s “is” defense and Al Gore’s famous “no controlling legal authority” defense. With her recent comments that no information that was classified “at the time” was transmitted over her private e-mail server, it is obvious what her strategy is going to be.
Amazing how Democrats can twist and gyrate through the English language to come up with a means of defending themselves when they’ve been caught with their hands in the proverbial cookie jar.
One can certainly expect her defense strategy to be trumpeted by her Democrat colleagues and accepted without question by the low information voters Democrats always cater to. But anyone with even the normal number of functioning brain cells knows that one doesn’t need to have “Top Secret” stamped across a document to understand that the information contained within it might be sensitive in nature and perhaps even highly classified.
My concern is if Hillary was unable to determine that she was discussing highly classified information across an unsecure server, then was she even qualified to serve in a high public office with access to a great deal of highly sensitive and classified information on a daily basis?
Government employees who routinely handle highly classified information through the course of their daily duties are required to possess a government security clearance. Obtaining a clearance requires the prospective employee to go through an extensive background investigation to determine their loyalty, trustworthiness, and “good judgment.”
One may be considered loyal and trustworthy but if during the investigation it’s determined that they are a scatterbrained individual who possesses questionable judgment, they will not be approved to receive a government security clearance.
The same holds true for a government employee who may possess a security clearance. If they start displaying judgment lapses in protecting classified information and mishandling highly sensitive information on a regular basis, their security clearance will be suspended and they will no longer have access to classified information.
It’s a pretty good bet that based on her long history of having shady associates-including her husband Bill- and record of corruption and lying, Hillary Rodham Clinton would never pass a government background investigation and be awarded a security clearance.
That makes one wonder how Hillary will be able to do her job if she is elected president, since she’s clearly shown lapses of judgment and carelessness in handling and protecting classified and sensitive information. One would assume as president she will be surrounded by high level and highly classified information daily.
I can see it now. At her first cabinet meeting after being elected, with all her cabinet officers seated and ready to discuss issues of national and international importance, an FBI agent steps into the Cabinet Room, clears his throat and says, “Madam President, can you step out of the room please? The discussion will include classified information.”
CLINTON CONFIDENT ON PROPER HANDLING OF E-MAILS.
Is is
google ‘Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world’ and you will get 170,000 plus hits.
And if you don’t believe google, there is always MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and all the other networks that will agree.
Sigh.
Since she was the “classification controlling authority” for the State Department she has the overall authority and should have known what was classified information whether it was marked or not. If the was any remote possibility of the information being classified, she should have reported a spillage.
Eventually she will say she didn’t know it was classified. That should disqualify her as being too stupid to be president, but the bar is set pretty low these days.
Bottom line. Nicely done.
today, Hillary, “is” means “Islamic State”. You witch.
One suspects that these are not mere "lapses", or "errors"; rather that these just might be major violations of black letter law.
That’s a nice picture of Rick James serving a beer!
Free at last!
Not relevant. It is still a crime.
“Classified”? Hillary thought they were referring to Craig’s List.
The actual document markings are on the next sheet. Every paragraph is marked (U), (S), (TS) or (SOMECODEWORD) and there are probably other variations.
Hillary ether knows this and chooses to ignore it or she is just stupid. I believe it is the former. She doesn't care about security.
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No, he didn't. Clinton could have said "I will not eat green eggs and ham," and the result would have been the same.
-PJ
Even if completely unintentional, the fact that this occurred because of a systematic attempt to bypass proper security and accountability controls would have anyone else already rotting in federal jail.
Although it does provide a critical clue as to the depths of deceit with which she enjoys full comfort, and to the reciprocal priority which she affords to national security, were she ever (cough, cough...wince) selected president (shudder).
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