Looks like he's gearing up early on the contingency that this email fiasco somehow really blows up and sinks Hillary's candidacy, although I think that's incredibly unlikely, even though, frankly, the Republicans finally have found their bullseye in a quibble (without ill intent) where there is potentially an undeniable, serious controversy.
Caught this discussion on the MG yesterday:
She swore she never sent or stored any classified material on that server. Well, the intelligence community just weighed in with their review, and a sample of 40 emails revealed 4 had classified information. Small sample, but damning (because that ratio could swing up or down, and regardless, a single email alone would not only make her a liar, but incriminate her). If that ratio holds, then it means she was transmitting or storing upwards of 3,000 emails containing classified information that was egregiously insecure.
The punishment for the felony of "mishandling classified material" by the federal government is incarceration for a period of up to 1 year in prison. The question now is whether or not they were retroactively classified. There was some strange confusion regarding that in the press this past few weeks beginning with a New York Times report citing government officials. At first it was being reported that the DOJ announced the launch of a criminal investigation, but later that was "clarified" with the statement, "The Department has received a referral related to the potential compromise of classified information. It is not a criminal referral."
She's the establishment candidate as was established so brutally by the entire forum in the other thread. One wonders if they do find they were indeed classified at the time if anything will come of it, and thought I am not wont to cynicism about our government, I must admit in this case I have my doubts. Ever since the 2008 FM&FM meltdown, we've been justifiably pissed that some banks are "too big to fail". Ironically, it feels to me that this isn't restricted to corporations in what Carter just this week called our "oligarchy"; it appears that some candidates may be too big to fail, too.
We'll see.
