2016-07-07, 05:28 PM
KhainiWest Wrote:The thing is, they should. Like, I'm surrounded by family and work with security clearances, there were people who did less, with just as much negligence and face years in prison.
Keep in mind that Snowden is kind of not applicable as his was clearly intentional, while Hilary just practiced something the Obama administration tried to squash but I guess overlooked it or had confidence in specific staff. Overall we still don't know if it was harmful, it's just a big slap on the face to pretty much the entire community that holds any type of security clearance as their essential boss is held to a lower standard than they are.
Anyone with any sort of clearance is not given the "gross negligence only counts if you did it on purpose" treatment, if someone takes home a laptop by accident with classified data on it without saying anything they get courtmartialed even if it's proven that they didn't do anything with the information, because, as judges and cops love to say, "ignorance of the law excuses no one". His entire argument in the press conference was worthless because the underlying fact was that she did it, even if it wasn't on purpose, and if she is held to a different standard than why are there even laws to begin with?
Hillary was caught lying on the subject too multiple times, which is also usually something that can get people screwed over even if they did nothing at all, lying to a judge and the public is a big deal.