Justice asked to consider probing Clinton emails

The US Justice Department has been alerted to a “potential compromise of classified information” from the private email used by Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state.

It remains unclear if the classified information was included in emails sent by Clinton, or only in those received by her. The inspectors general do not say whether they believe Clinton was aware the information was classified.

In March 2015, Hillary Clinton and her team were accused of lack of transparency after The New York Times revealed she had used a personal e-mail address for official business during her tenure as Secretary of State.

Other memos from the two officials said the State Department risked the release of potentially classified information if they did not take a series of steps, including requesting support from the intelligence community and Justice Department to help review the e-mails. After publication, The Times altered the report to remove the implication that Clinton was the target of the requested probe – with no acknowledgement of a correction.

Clinton, 67, “followed appropriate practices in dealing with classified materials”, reported by her campaign spokesman Nick Merrill.

But the chances of Clinton being prosecuted for “mishandling classified information” are about as close to none as you can get – not because she didn’t break the law (one suspects it will eventually come out that she technically did, if only because the secrecy laws are impossible not to break), but because the prosecution “crimes” involving classified information in the US is so shamefully biased.

Just look at the hundreds of thousands of leaked State Department cables addressed to Clinton in 2010 and 2011, published by Wikileaks, that caused her State Department so many headaches.

One of the writers of the story, Michael Schmidt, explained to Politico early Friday that the Clinton campaign had complained about the story to the Times. Charles McCullough, and his counterpart at the State Department, Steve Linick, said that McCullough’s office found four emails containing classified information in a limited sample of 40 emails.

History tells us much about the future.

In the middle of the night, with no notification, update or clarification, the New York Times made significant changes to a story on two inspectors general calling for a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email use – to no longer impugn the Democrat front-runner directly after the campaign complained.

He added, “This incident shows the danger of relying on reckless, inaccurate leaks from partisan sources”. Instead, she opened her New York City speech by addressing the controversy, decrying a few reports as inaccurate. It’s because there have been a lot of inaccuracies – as Congressman (Elijah) Cummings made clear his morning.

“Maybe the heat is getting to everybody”.

Mediaite chronicled the critical responses of a few in the media-from both Left and Right-to the Times’ “stealth edit”. “If Secretary Clinton truly has nothing to hide, she can prove it by immediately turning over her server to the proper authorities and allowing them to examine the complete record”, Boehner says in a statement to the press.