Posted on 10/18/2019 4:04:32 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The law, as written in the U.S. Code, does not care if the misuse was systemic or deliberate. It only cares, “Was there misuse or wasn’t there?” There was.
This is how the Democrats skate all the time. It’s a straw man argument. They misrepresent the actual situation and then find themselves innocent of the misrepresentation. Then they pretend that they are innocent of the actual action.
They also do this to find Republicans guilty of something that isn’t actually a crime. Again, they misrepresent some legal action by Republican as if it were a crime and find him guilty. Yes, guilty of a legal action.
The word 'deliberately' in that sentence is a deliberate whitewash. It is meant to obfuscate the fact that intent is not required to be in violation of the law.
Ask Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier who spent a year in prison, six months of electronic monitoring and a total of three years of supervised release for taking a photo in the submarine he was stationed on.
“found no “persuasive evidence” of classified information being systematically, deliberately mishandled.”
The mere existence and use of the non-Government server was evidence of systematic and deliberate mishandling! What total BULL SPIT!
“...found no “persuasive evidence” of classified information being systematically, deliberately mishandled.”
According to the law, that doesn’t make any difference.
classified information being systematically, deliberately mishandled.
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