"I Triggered a State Dept Leak Worse than Clinton's" - By Stephen Dujack

[Hawaii Hiker]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/state-department-email-leak-cables-hillary-clinton-secretary-cold-war-classified-documents-213999

Must read

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Fascinating article!

I have to admit, I had to double check that the Ronald I Spiers, the State Dept official in the article wasn't THIS Ronald Spiers:

He's not, and Ronald I Spiers is still alive, and should've known better that to have the NIDB open on his desk for a photo op.

[FarPoint]

2. Why can't you discuss the issue.

Nobody wants to be redirected blindly to articles.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. It's an article in defense of Secretary Clinton...

It's worth the *full* read.

[DemonGoddess]

4. Good read

Thirty years later, you’d never know that Clinton’s violation was less serious than Spiers’. The media coverage is more insistent; government officials are more concerned. The departmental inspector general has chimed in critically, and the FBI and the Department of Justice have been brought into the case. And yet, look closer at the facts, and you will see there’s no evidence that Clinton’s email scandal constituted an information leak at all. None of the emails she sent or received contained material that was classified at the time, and there’s no evidence that anybody but the intended recipients ever read them.

The above paragraph is towards the end.

It's funny how because it was a REPUBLICAN as Pres, this was never pursued, ain't it? Yep, stating the obvious I am.

[thesquanderer]

5. The assumption in this article is that Hillary's biggest concern is the possibility of leaked info.

We don't know the full extent of what is being looked at, but I don't know of any reason to believe that the entire case rests simply on whether or not classified info was leaked (whether through a server hack, or being passed to unauthorized personnel like Blumenthal). There are other questions that have been raised, i.e. were FOIA archiving requirements intentionally being circumvented, did she cover anything up by failing to turn over all the work-related emails (she says she turned them all over, but they have found emails elsewhere that she did not turn over), was there an insufficient wall between her activities as SOS and the operations of the Clinton Foundation... until the investigation concludes and a recommendation is made, we really don't know exactly what the real concerns are (if any).