Post #2795789

@opendna@mastodon.sdf.org No. It doesn't matter if you're the original classification authority or not. You've still broken the law if you didn't follow the mandated process in EO 13526 for handling classified material. That's literally what Deutch and Petraeus both got charged for—even though they were the respective classification authorities for the marked material that they leaked. But as I explained in the original post, none of that applied to Clinton. I don't care about the non sequiturs regarding her schedule. The critical detail in her case is that she forwarded emails from a FOUO system—which by definition does not handle classified material. Thus her use of a personal email account was never relevant in any discussion of potential mishandling of classified material, and she in fact had a reasonable assumption that no classified material would be present in the emails she received. That's why I noted that her case barely had anything at all to do with handling of classified material. And I honestly don't care what's been claimed by supposed former IC personnel. The vast majority of commentary around this has been blatantly wrong the whole time. That's why I wrote a post explaining the facts of the situation.