Washington Has Been Obsessed with Punishing Secrecy Violations, Until H. Clinton

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/05/washington-has-been-obsessed-with-punishing-secrecy-violations-until-hillary-clinton/

by ladydi • 10 years ago

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NetTechM• 10 years ago

Well written article.

I could care less about politics, what upsets me is that someone gets away Scot free with multiple crimes when we have people getting put away for years for having less pot than you can hold in one hand. Or how about all those people that got put away for 30+ years for the exact same crimes i.e. Chelsea Manning.

Freedom and Justice for Some indeed.

secfirstmd• 10 years ago

Worse.

Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden did what they did because they genuinely believed the public needed to know.

Hillary Clinton did what she did because she genuinely didn't want the public to know.

laughfactory• 10 years ago

I would hope it would become immeasurably harder to prosecute anyone for these kinds of crimes in the future--after all, if we let Hillary Clinton get away with blatant criminal conduct, how can we in good conscience hold anyone else accountable? I find it disgusting that just because she is a Clinton, and because she's running for president, we are unwilling to make her accountable for her crimes. Worse, I find it astonishing that people are so afraid of Trump that they are willing to accept Hillary Clinton and her criminal ways just to avoid him. I don't think Trump is an icon of virtue, but we KNOW Hillary isn't. And for me I still expect those politicians I suppose to maintain a veneer or respectability. To me it is astonishing that either Hillary Clinton didn't know she'd be caught--in which case she's an idiot and unfit for presidential duties--or, more likely, didn't care that she'd be caught--in which case she REALLY is unfit for presidential duties. To me it's not a matter of voting for Hillary to avoid Trump, it's a matter of not voting for either of them because neither of them deserve a vote from anyone with a conscience.

Washington Has Been Obsessed with Punishing Secrecy Violations, Until H. Clinton

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