2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's classified email [View all]apnu
(8,790 posts)And I don't disagree with you either.
But she didn't break the law, that I know of. She did break regulations and policies which are different from laws. She did skip security training.
However given the complexity of our intelligence system, it is literally impossible for her to know each and every thing that is or is not, should or should not be classified. No one human being can know that. What she should have done is be suspicious of the information she was being given from Blumenthal and ask someone at the DOD (Homeland Sec, CIA, Pentagon -- some or all) if this material handed to her was classified or not before doing anything with it. I haven't, yet, seen evidence to say if she checked that out or not before forwarding it on. Received and sent time stamps would give us a clue. Plus any other phone or email records around that time showing who she talked to that day and if those conversations are recorded as many of them are in our government would also verify her story or not.
The evidence probably exists, but we denizens of an obscure liberal message board on the Internet, haven't seen it yet.
There's a place between "Hillary's innocent" and "Hillary is a criminal" here and the truth lies there, not on either end of the spectrum.
I choose to work with actual data, I don't go hunting for facts and stories that backup my theories. I try to stay skeptical in all things, but open to new information that can give me a clear picture of what I'm looking at and adjust my understandings based off that.