From Andrew P. Napolitano at antiwar.com:
The federal criminal investigation of former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s failure to secure state secrets was ratcheted up
earlier this week, and at the same time, the existence of a parallel
criminal investigation of another aspect of her behavior was made known. This is the second publicly revealed expansion of the FBI’s investigations in two months.
I have argued for two months that Clinton’s legal woes are
either grave or worse than grave. That argument has been based on the
hard, now public evidence of her failure to safeguard national security
secrets and the known manner in which the Department of Justice
addresses these failures.
The failure to safeguard state secrets is an area of the law in which
the federal government has been aggressive to the point of being
merciless. State secrets are the product of members of the intelligence
community’s risking their lives to obtain information.
Before she was entrusted with any state secrets – indeed, on her
first full day as secretary of state – Clinton received instruction from
FBI agents on how to safeguard them; and she signed an oath swearing to
comply with the laws commanding the safekeeping of these secrets. She
was warned that the failure to safeguard secrets – known as espionage –
would most likely result in aggressive prosecution.
In the cases of others, those threats have been carried out. The
Obama Department of Justice prosecuted a young sailor for espionage for
sending a selfie to his girlfriend, because in the background of the
photo was a view of a sonar screen on a submarine. It prosecuted a
heroic Marine for espionage for warning his superiors of the presence of
an al-Qaida operative in police garb inside an American encampment in
Afghanistan, because he used a Gmail account to send the warning.
It also prosecuted Gen. David Petraeus for espionage for keeping
secret and top-secret documents in an unlocked drawer in his desk inside
his guarded home. It alleged that he shared those secrets with a friend
who also had a security clearance, but it dropped those charges.
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