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Hillary Clinton emails declared 'top secret' by State Dept

33 points by augb 11y ago

sithadmin 11y ago
It is very disappointing that Clinton's head isn't on a pike for such an egregious display of malfeasance. If it weren't for her name and relations, she would almost certainly be subject to more severe action. Though the US federal government is often far too heavy handed with their response to information-related crimes, this is a pretty clear-cut example of where a heavy-handed response would be completely appropriate.
- huxley 11y ago
  Hardly, if her married name wasn't Clinton, it would have made no more than a Friday afternoon page 18 story and then disappeared. Of the terrible things perpetrated by US government officials, this doesn't even register in the top 20000.
  - brokentone 11y ago
    It is certainly most interesting that she is both a former Secretary of State and a current Presidential candidate that makes it interesting. To your point, both of those may be the result of her lastname.
- xufi 11y ago
  Funny thing is she had emails that were higher than Top Secret. Emails which only a selected very (Few including her) could only see.. This shows she was trusted with the most serious of documents. Such a shame she isnt getting in trouble for this
mtgx 11y ago
I could care less about what the State Department, which was involved in this and has all the reasons to protect itself, decides about the emails. I want to see what the FBI has to say about them.
progressive_dad 11y ago
I'm more concerned about Bernie's margins on merch. He's using shopify for chrissake!? Even on mugs... that's not going to cover your outlay. How are you gonna scale that to every field office in every state with different inventory? shudder
modulus1 11y ago
No high ranking USG official should be using insecure communication channels, as it will inevitably lead to leaks that could damage the state (secret information). What Clinton did was dumb, but no one should have sent her classified emails in the first place. If the people sending the 'classified' documents were doing it through the right channels, it wouldn't be getting to her email server.
- x5n1 11y ago
  From a human rights, civil rights, universal rights, and transparency perspective all USG communications, and communications of all government officials everywhere should be public knowledge available to anyone on the planet at any time. At the end of the day what we find is how much all of these people conspire behind each other's backs to screw each other over and get the upper hand. If citizens are not allowed to do this for fear of damaging society and government, politicians should be held to the same standards. For fear of damaging human rights of non-citizens, their livelihoods, economies of other countries, etc. It's funny how government does not trust anyone below them, and yet expects everyone below to trust them when we know that they do not do the right thing most of the time (tm).

33 points by augb 11y ago

It is very disappointing that Clinton's head isn't on a pike for such an egregious display of malfeasance. If it weren't for her name and relations, she would almost certainly be subject to more severe action. Though the US federal government is often far too heavy handed with their response to information-related crimes, this is a pretty clear-cut example of where a heavy-handed response would be completely appropriate.

huxley 11y ago
Hardly, if her married name wasn't Clinton, it would have made no more than a Friday afternoon page 18 story and then disappeared. Of the terrible things perpetrated by US government officials, this doesn't even register in the top 20000.
- brokentone 11y ago
  It is certainly most interesting that she is both a former Secretary of State and a current Presidential candidate that makes it interesting. To your point, both of those may be the result of her lastname.
xufi 11y ago
Funny thing is she had emails that were higher than Top Secret. Emails which only a selected very (Few including her) could only see.. This shows she was trusted with the most serious of documents. Such a shame she isnt getting in trouble for this

mtgx 11y ago

I could care less about what the State Department, which was involved in this and has all the reasons to protect itself, decides about the emails. I want to see what the FBI has to say about them.

progressive_dad 11y ago

I'm more concerned about Bernie's margins on merch. He's using shopify for chrissake!? Even on mugs... that's not going to cover your outlay. How are you gonna scale that to every field office in every state with different inventory? shudder

modulus1 11y ago

No high ranking USG official should be using insecure communication channels, as it will inevitably lead to leaks that could damage the state (secret information). What Clinton did was dumb, but no one should have sent her classified emails in the first place. If the people sending the 'classified' documents were doing it through the right channels, it wouldn't be getting to her email server.

x5n1 11y ago
From a human rights, civil rights, universal rights, and transparency perspective all USG communications, and communications of all government officials everywhere should be public knowledge available to anyone on the planet at any time. At the end of the day what we find is how much all of these people conspire behind each other's backs to screw each other over and get the upper hand. If citizens are not allowed to do this for fear of damaging society and government, politicians should be held to the same standards. For fear of damaging human rights of non-citizens, their livelihoods, economies of other countries, etc. It's funny how government does not trust anyone below them, and yet expects everyone below to trust them when we know that they do not do the right thing most of the time (tm).