Clinton and the FBI: Comey Got It Right... redux
Mike Walker, Col (USMC)
All,
Below is what I wrote in July and once again this will leave me with few if any friends.
The FBI and Comey got it right both in July and in October. They are right in now reopening the investigation. They have only one duty to the American people: Follow the facts honestly and determinedly.
The truth will out.
Mike (October 28)
and.....
All,
Here is another email that will leave me with few if any friends.
FBI Director Comey got it right when he did not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton and her aides.
After three decades of having access to classified information, I do not know of anyone who mishandled classified information and went to prison absent criminal intent.
It is equally true that I know of no one who was found to have been careless with classified information who did not suffer significant consequences.
If I or any of the people I worked with became the subject of an FBI investigation that concluded that any of us had been extremely careless in handling highly classified information – as the FBI determined in the case of Clinton and her aides – then our careers would have come to a dead stop.
We soon (if not immediately) would be out of a job. We would never again hold a position requiring access to classified information. We would leave the service in disgrace.
And therein lies the rub.
If Hillary Clinton is elected President then she will regain access to the fullest possible spectrum of classified information. I can swallow hard and accept that as the will of the American people.
What I would find poisonous to honest governance is the idea that her aides would suffer no consequences if Clinton wanted them to regain their security clearances so they could reenter Government service.
If any average American did what her aides did – were extremely careless with highly classified information – then… Yes, they would not go to prison and… Yes, their days of having access to classified information – in or out of government – would be over.
Will that happen? Is the game rigged in favor of the elites? Do only the little guys get hammered? Is the system corrupt?
Mike (July 5)
