Subject: Re: ELON! With Sorkin
Dope1: I’m waiting for you to properly denounce Hillary! for her emails...

I've addressed Clinton's emails a number of times, so what's one more time.

Here's what the Justice Inspector General's report concluded after its investigation:

"There was no evidence that the senders or former Secretary Clinton believed or were aware at the time that the emails contained classified information. The emails in question were sent to other government officials in furtherance of the senders' official duties. There was no evidence that the senders or former Secretary Clinton intended that classified information be sent to unauthorized recipients, or that they intentionally sought to store classified information on unauthorized systems.”

The three emails that were marked classified at the time they were sent -- the only emails with classification markings on her server -- concerned proposed talking points for Clinton when she called a foreign leader. The State Department later said the (C) markings should have been removed as a matter of course once Clinton decided to place the call but through "human error," they had not been deleted.

When Rex Tillerson was secretary of state, president Trump had him launch another investigation.

Tillerson's investigation concluded: There was no classified material in the emails, but that her use of a personal email server itself was a security violation. A letter sent by Tillerson's State department explained that Clinton had "no individual culpability" for the email security violations.

Next up, Pompeo launched a Diplomatic Security investigation in 2019 and determined that "a typical security violation involves premarked classified information discovered contemporaneously with the incident. None of the emails at issue in this review were marked as classified."

In short, Clinton's use of a private email server was a security violation but she did not intentionally mishandle classified information.

Now for Trump:

The indictment first covers classified documents retrieved by the National Archives (NARA), and which are not the basis of these charges. These are:

15 boxes provided by Trump to NARA in January 2022. These contained 197 classified documents: 98 at SECRET; 30 at TOP SECRET; the remainder at Confidential. Some additionally had Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP) markings.

During the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago Club, a further 102 documents, recovered from Trump’s office and a storage room. These included 17 documents at TOP SECRET; 54 at SECRET; 31 at CONFIDENTIAL. Of these, Trump’s office held 6 at TOP SECRET; 18 at SECRET; and 3 at CONFIDENTIAL.

These documents were all clearly marked.

Of the nearly 300 classified documents taken by him, Trump was only charged for 31 documents in the indictment.

In summary:

Clinton was emailed improperly 3 marked classified documents -- all other documents later considered classified were reclassified after Clinton received them and were not considered classified at the time -- while Trump took nearly 300 top secret, secret, confidential, SCI, and SAP national intelligence documents which he left in an unlocked toilet and a ballroom, and which he openly shared -- at least some of them -- with ghostwriters and others at Mar-a-Lago.

So I agree that Clinton made a bad decision, one that cost her the presidency, but did not commit a crime. Trump though, faces four indictments and intentionally removed and retained some of the nation's most sensitive intelligence documents.


https://www.documentcloud.org/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...