Thread by @AF632

Once again for the paint-chip-eating crowd, those emails weren't just "deemed personal." They were classified information, up to and including Top Secret/Special Compartmentalized Information, held on a personal, nonsecure server likely hacked by our enemies.

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1490353672009748480

Petty Officer or Sergeant Clinton would still be doing hard time in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for that.

Mrs. Clinton skated off scot-free because she is tightly connected to those in power who believe their allies are above the law.

And, I might add, because they have intrepid journalists like Peter who are willing to lie and cover for them. It's a privilege like no other on Earth.

And before you whip out that "but she had no ill intent" defense, I'll assure you that doesn't matter a bit. In a community where Seaman Schmukatelli *at least* loses his clearance for accidentally bringing classified home one night, running a server of it is highly prosecutable.

And that doesn't even cover deleting 33,000 emails that were under subpoena. That's not "they were just yoga emails between me and Chelsea so they weren't important," that's "it's far less damning to delete every single State Department email than have them see them all."

But sure, you pillars of journalistic integrity, "Trump got elected in part by attacking Clinton for deleting emails that she deemed personal."

If Americans had seen and fully understood all the evidence, she'd have made Walter Mondale look like a winner, no matter her opponent.

And she knows what she got away with because she is above the law. She's throwing it in the face of the American people as we speak. Her contempt for America is clear.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1490732135854096388?t=0KSppf8aNEhVBfPHSKcRVA&s=19

Yes, classified information and national security are hot-button topics for me. No, I'm not particularly sympathetic to any excuses for violations.