Ulaven_Demorte
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DizzyBooby insisted that there was harm to national security (there has been exactly zero proof of this).
The difference between the two cases is this:
Petraeus' knowingly leaked classified material to his mistress and biographer. His so-called "black books" held reams of classified information, including conversations with the president, top-secret code words, as well as "the identities of covert officers, war strategy, intelligence capabilities and mechanisms, diplomatic discussions, quotes and deliberative discussions from high-level National Security Council meetings. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about handling classified information knows that the sort of note books that Petraeus was keeping should never have left a secure environment and should have been marked classified at the very least. He KNEW that the information that he was treating so carelessly and sharing with his mistress was classified since the information came from classified briefings. He had ZERO defense. Yet he was let off with the proverbial slap on the wrist.
The "classified material" found in Clinton's emails were not marked as such and there is no indication that the information was leaked to anyone either accidentally or intentionally. The contents of some of the emails were only determined to be "Classified" after the fact.
The difference, is that Petraeus is a GOP Golden Boy and so was allowed to plea down and received for immunity from future prosecution, (Petraeus was allowed to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal of classified material and retention of classified material despite the reams of classified material contained in his black books), pay a $40K fine and serve two years of probation AND be immune from future prosecution. Sweet deal for him. Curious considering that he outright lied to investigators, as court documents show: Petraeus lied to investigators when he said "(a) he had never provided any classified information to his biographer, and (b) he had never facilitated the provision of classified information to his biographer," the court documents state. "These statements were false."
Meanwhile the GOP has spent the better part of four years trying to find something, anything that they can use to try to destroy Clinton politically. BENGHAZI! failed, so they pivoted to e-mails, so far they've found no leak, just the same misdemeanor they allowed Petraeus to plea down to KNOWING that he intentionally leaked classified information.
