No. of Recommendations: 15
And YOU kept banging the “intent” drum for Hillary!, who obviously had intent to willfully store and distribute classified information.
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.
Wiles, Gabbard, Rubio, and other participants in the chat are analogous to Clinton - they received the classified information on unsecured devices through unsecured channels. And I will maintain, just as I did with Clinton, that any effort to prosecute them would be unsuccessful, because there's no proof that they intended for classified information to end up in an unsecured channel on their (probably) non-secured devices.
The same is not true of Hegseth and Waltz. They were the senders of this information. They intentionally and knowingly chose what information was put into the Signal app and distributed through non-secure channels to (probably) non-secure devices.
Under your reading of the statute means that they've committed prosecutable crimes. But (I expect) you won't call for their prosecution, or lament that we have a "two tiered" justice system because they're escaping the type of criminal charges that any lesser official would be subject to immediately. The President has pulled the security clearance of scores of prior officials for no articulated reason, and yet these guys are not only going to keep their clearances despite knowingly placing classified information about a pending operation, but they'll keep their jobs as well.
I understand why you're not going to say that Hegseth and Waltz should be prosecuted. But I don't think you're in a position to criticize those on the left who are correctly pointing out that what they did was grossly incompetent.
