Subject: Re: Texiera on what the d's should do
"Yep. But here, we don't have a dispute about intent. Hillary couldn't be prosecuted because she didn't send the messages. She received them. Which means she couldn't be prosecuted for sending classified information, because there was no way to prove that she intended for classified information to be sent - she wasn't the one who sent the messages.

That's not true of Hegseth and Waltz, who intentionally sent classified information about the national defense through unsecured channels. Unlike Clinton, they're the authors of these messages."

To be fair, Clinton did forward emails she received that contained classified information. Obviously she didn't know that they contained classified information because they were sent to her unsecured so she had no reason to think they did.

To your greater point, Clinton wasn't prosecuted because prosecutors could not show intent. She testified not knowing there was classified information in the emails.

This stuff with Waltz and Hegseth is a whole lot worse. It is clear they knew information was classified. They were the one's initiating sending the classified information.

It should also be noted that apparently CIA Director John Ratcliffe broadcast the name of an active CIA intelligence officer into the chat. This may or may not be a crime depending upon the officers classification (which is unknown), but even if it doesn't rise to the level of a crime it is dangerous and unprofessional and a CIA director should know better.

What makes it even worse is the Steve Witkoff (Trump's Ukraine and Middle East envoy) was in Moscow talking to Putin during the exchange of messages and was one of the people on the thread. Russia has long been trying to hack into the Signal app and at the very least they very likely were collecting messages from the cell towers for decryption later. So the Trump administration is literally messaging classified information using an unsecure form of communication to someone who's cell phone is using cell towers inside Russia that is collecting all of the data. That is brutally unprofessional and can get people killed. What a clown show.

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