8 Cases Where Mishandling of Classified Information Went Unpunished

[mystery-ak]

8 Cases Where Mishandling of Classified Information Went Unpunished

Joel B. Pollak 24 Jun 2023

The core of the accusation against former President Donald Trump is the allegation that he retained and mishandled classified information and national defense secrets. Special Counsel Jack Smith justified this unprecedented prosecution by citing the need to protect classified information and the rule of law. But do we really have “one set of laws in this country”? Here is a list of eight past examples of high-profile individuals who were never prosecuted for the same basic or similar allegations.

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Hillary Clinton – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was found to have maintained a private email server during her four-year tenure at the Department of State. The server was located in a bathroom closet in a loft in Denver, Colorado, and included classified information. Worse yet, Clinton used 13 mobile devices to send and receive emails on the server, and five iPads. Some of the mobile devices were destroyed with hammers.

Despite Hillary Clinton’s denials, there were hundreds of emails on her private server that included classified information. As Fox News noted last year (original links):

    Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III laid out the findings of the Clinton documents review by intelligence agencies that identified “several dozen” additional classified emails – including specific intelligence known as “special access programs” (SAP).

    According to a 2018 Department of Justice inspector general’s report, “81 email chains containing approximately 193 individual emails that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time the emails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton’s personal server.”

(Clinton reportedly said she did not know “C” stood for “classified.”)

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[PeteS in CA]

Bill Clinton – In what became known as the “Socks case,” Judicial Watch, a private non-profit organization, sued the government to compel it to provide audio tapes made by the White House when Bill Clinton was president and participating in interviews with a historian. President Clinton allegedly hid the tapes in his sock drawer when he left the White House, the better to claim them as “personal” rather than presidential records.
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James Comey – Outgoing FBI director, who had just been fired by President Trump, leaked memoranda of his conversations with the president to the press, via a Columbia University professor — who later became his lawyer — who then leaked them to the media. ...
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Lyndon Johnson – As conservative radio host Mark Levin has noted, the president most associated with the Vietnam War removed sensitive federal records, sealed them for 50 years, and even destroyed some of them. From the Miller Center at the University of Virginia:

Whether what LBJ did violated then-current law would be worth asking if the MSM actually gave a @#$% about the security of classified documents. The MSM doesn't, and they regularly publish info leaked to them, if they feel it will hurt an R they hate. In brief, this whole phony kerfuffle is anti-Trump lawfare.

[christian]

If only it was possible to get through to hard core lock-stepping fools.  Some fools dearly love being degenerate, depraved lock-stepping fools.  In socialist lock-stepping land in
Germany last century or socialist/Communist land, America this century.  May God force them to0 pay the price in full!
Weeping and gnashing their teeth, too late for any repentance.
 
 

[DB]

Whether what LBJ did violated then-current law would be worth asking if the MSM actually gave a @#$% about the security of classified documents. The MSM doesn't, and they regularly publish info leaked to them, if they feel it will hurt an R they hate. In brief, this whole phony kerfuffle is anti-Trump lawfare.

While that is essentially the case, Trump provide the rope to hang himself.

[goatprairie]

While that is essentially the case, Trump provide the rope to hang himself.

The problem with Trump (well, one of the problems) is that he likes to poke the hornet's nest to see how far he can go. It's just not very intelligent to refuse to turn over all the files requested when he should know that the Biden admin will be looking for any excuse to get him into the crossbar hotel.
A lot of his excuses for not turning the docs over strain credulity. He had golf clothing and other personal things mixed in.  Sure thing, a multi billionaire just can't function without finding that golf clothing mixed in with the classified docs. Good grief.
Is the Biden admin/justice department corrupt? Sure, but don't give them the ammo to fire at you.

[Sighlass]

Sandy Berger only got a hand slap (it could also be classified in this article under both Clintons since he basically worked for them). He stuffed classified info in socks and underwear and stole originals from the archive to destroy evidence of Clinton's mishandling of Isis attacks.