2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: FBI Dir. Comey sent a second letter today - to FBI employees. He seems to have some doubts about.. [View all]Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)for the American people to know MORE. Not less, more. She's fighting against "old hands" classifiers, saying "what I talked about is open knowledge, or should be." The faceless national security "experts", lurking in the shadows, are pushing for us to know less.
The fight over classification was one where she and her aides were saying "This shouldn't be classified. That shouldn't be classified.", in the original Comey e-mail investigation.
Here, she's telling Comey, "show America exactly what you're investigating, exactly what you've got". But he can only tell 8 repug congress committee chairs. (He doesn't remember they leak like a sieve, all the time.)
What was in the 3 header-less e-mails, that had the "c" in the body? Nothing. There's no explosive revelation that shows national security classified in any of them, or we'd see at least one story. No intel gathering method revealed, no location revealed, no asset revealed, no Plame like agency cover blown, there's nothing there. This whole thing is them yelling in the headlines "National Security. Top secret. Loose e-mails.", and there is a big blank space below the headlines, where the body of the article should be.
The bad guys know how they hit us. The non political Libyans in the area know how the bad guys hit us. All the intel and military people in the gov know how the bad guys hit us. Who is the "top secret" info not supposed to be seen by?
They're doing this to hurt the candidate that wants us to know more, and back the candidate who won't show us his taxes, won't show us his charitable foundation's donation records, won't let any info from his thousands of court cases be unsealed, won't show us his financial ties to Putin, Libya, China, won't let any former employees reveal anything about him -- they're doing this to back the candidate that wants us to know less.