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MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server

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Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server

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MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Trump and his allies repeatedly went after Clinton for not using proper government channels to send messages containing classified material.
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    Nothing on Hillary Clinton’s server was classified at the time it was put on the server. Some items were subsequently reclassified to the lowest level above Unclassified.

    So there’s really no comparison between the two situations. It stinks of bothsidesism for the journalist to even mention it. A better contrast is between screeching outrage at nothing, versus the current sneering complacency about a major security fuck-up, though I’m sure it pales with what Trump is sharing with Russia and what he’s waving around in front of his cronies to brag about what he knows.

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      Nothing on Hillary Clinton’s server was classified at the time it was put on the server

      From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification.

      Some items were subsequently reclassified to the lowest level above Unclassified.

      Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.

      So there’s really no comparison between the two situations.

      I agree. I just wanted to correct the record and to highlight that a normal government employee would have been fired for what Hillary did.

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      In my opinion the most relevant commonality is the hypocrisy of all the involved parties. Hillary had sent out a notice to the entire State Department saying to only use official communication platforms, and then did the opposite as if she thinks she’s above the rules.

      Then these Republicans who condemned the actions also used a non-official platform.

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      Here we go with the “Democrats can do no wrong…” speech…

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        Ah, cool, another account to block.

        Bye!

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          Blocking them doesn’t silence them, it’s just plugging your own ears. Call them out instead.

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            They want the attention. I have no interest in giving it to them.

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        Please explain how you can read “that one thing everyone was mad at wasn’t as bad as they said” to “they’re perfect angels who never do anything bad” without being either braindead or a pathetic partisan hack

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          Ah but you see it’s a very logical and reasonable conclusion. Allow me to explain.

          ahem

          DEMOCRATS BAD

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          Just ignore/block them. They just want the attention.

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        Any government business should be conducted solely on government equipment, classified or unclassified. What the poster is saying is that the two don’t compare, what Hillary did was conduct government business on a private server, what the trump administration officials did was share sensitive compartmented information (SCI) on a private app.

        Both actions were wrong, it’s just that revealing SCI information is far far worse.

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        Where did it say that?

        This is the projection we were talking about.

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