As of today,
the State Department has
confirmed that Sec. Clinton violated the internal policies and the Federal
Records Acts by not complying with the mandatory storage and filing of personal
emails. Her defense to the breach of Executive Order 13526 and 18 U.S.C Sec.
793(f) consists of the following (with rebuttals):
1) I did not
know the communication was “confidential.”
Apart from the fact that EO 13526
covers all Department communication, confidential or not, it is impossible not
to know that the communication is confidential. I worked for the European Union
as well as CIA and in both capacities, I had to sign twice “under oath” when
receiving anything even marginally confidential. This argument Sec. Clinton is
trying to make is absurd.
2) I sent
most of my emails to government officials, thus they are stored on their
hard-drives.
Yes, but they were still stored on
your bathroom sever outside State Department’s security purview. Obviously, we
know that when we are sending emails to other people, our emails are stored in
the “sent” folder on the computer, thus susceptible to hacking (especially if
your server is in someone else’s bathroom, as was the case with Madam
Secretary).
3) State
Department technology was inadequate, thus I had to use my own to make my
communication faster and “more convenient.”
Department of State expended $68mil last year on its internal expenditures including technology
and email. Is that not sufficient to have updated computers and servers?
Further, if preserving our national security is inconvenient for your
high-paying perk-laden position, maybe you should not do the job.
4) No-one
told me.
This is a typical socialist excuse:
you are a cog in the wheel, part of the system, and there is always someone
else to blame… Except, in this case, Secretary Clinton was the top honcho who
was in charge of the policies. Two FBI agents spent two hours explaining to her
the State Department’s email and privacy policies, upon which she signed the
Oath informing her of the severity of consequences should she breach SCI
(Secure Compartmentalized Information) laws. What is more, when a member of her
staff voiced concerns about violating email policies they were told to keep
quiet and “never speak about Madam Secretary’s email’s again!”
5) Others
did it.
This is another typical socialist
excuse: “Everybody is stealing, why not I? If I don’t steal from others, I am
stealing from my family.” However, let us examine all prior Secretaries of
State who had access to emails: Madeleine Albright never used any email.
Condoleezza Rice never used any email (private or Department’s). Secretary
Colin Powell wanted to show the Department they should move ahead with
technology, he used private email only sometimes because the Department network
did not reach outside the building at the time and he could only send email to
another agency from a personal email. Thus, he had a special line installed in
his office. It was inspected by the Department’s security and under
surveillance. All his emails were filed with the Department – a far cry from
Clinton’s bathroom server which no-one in the Department knew about! Finally,
Secretary John Kerry has always printed out and filed his personal emails with
the Department, pursuant to President Obama’s 2009 regulations.
In conclusion, Secretary Clinton
breached Sections 793, 794, 798 and 952, Title 18 United States Code, Section
1236.22 of the 2009 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
requirements. In particular, her repeated violations of the Espionage Act
constitute knowing disregard of the law, which means she acted recklessly
which, under given criteria, amounts to gross negligence, standard necessary for
prosecution.
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