FYI - Fox News (with a tag-line of "fair and balanced") is neither fair nor balanced. They are unabashedly anti-liberal. I.e. not 100% objective. CBS is more liberal. CNN is somewhat liberal, too. Do you know enough now to understand what we mean by "Republican" and "Democrat" or are you still working from a general impression from Fox News?
Personally, I think Clinton should have been jailed for her email scandal
Preaching to the choir there, Jon. For me it is based on CERTAIN knowledge of what should have happened, but Hillary was above all that stuff. Remember, I worked indirectly through contract for the U.S. Government. I had to take yearly refresher courses on the subject of document security, retention, and disposal. MULTIPLE courses. And the people directly employed by the government ALSO were required to do so. Hillary, as high up as she was, was NOT exempt from the requirement.
That e-mail server violated the Federal Records Act by keeping operational records of a U.S. Department (State, in this case) on a non-government server where it was not backed up according to standards. Then, e-mails were DELETED from it and those e-mails were not backed up first. That is a SEPARATE violation of the Federal Records Act. Particularly without a good backup, that amounts to Unlawful Destruction of Federal Records - which is a low-grade felony. By keeping the mail on a non-government server, she evaded the Freedom of Information Act, which would allow people to request copies on any information available on a given topic.
But then, the REAL kicker... the server was not secured according to U.S. Government standards. And my JOB with the government was as a systems administrator, so I intimately know those standards. The investigation found Sensitive (marked as "FOUO"), Classified (C), Secret (S), Top Secret (TS), and Top Secret/Compartmented (TS/C) e-mails on the server, many of them MARKED AS SUCH, and more items that were not marked but should have been according to the standards for such marking. Not less than 22 TS/C e-mails were identified. That server should have been confiscated immediately on discovery of its existence. Each e-mail in the TS/C category would have represented one count of the highest-category of violation. I don't know how many items were found of lesser classification than TS/C, but it was in the hundreds. The LOWEST violation would have been punishable by fine and a short federal imprisonment, but the highest level was something like $25K or $50K fine and 5 years - per count.
SO many heads should roll because of this one that I can only conclude that she and Bill are spending all of their political capital to keep this from going to trial. At least she got spanked in the election badly enough that she went into a form of denial - and ended up throwing everyone under the bus because there is no way that SHE was at fault for that loss.
