Can a third party candidate win?

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(07-14-2016, 11:33 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(07-06-2016, 01:12 PM)radind Wrote: Which is more secure is not relevant to current US policies on the handling of classified information. My concern is that Clinton was not treated as anyone else in the government would have been treated. Looks like special treatment to me. 
There may be other cases, but I have never heard of any involving Top Secret/Special Access Program information where no action was taken.

I agree.  Hillary has monumental bad judgement when it impacts her privacy, and this fell far enough from the tree to be actionable.  On the other hand, we don't actually know what was compromised, so it may be trivial.  When I held the clearance to see the stuff, we had plenty of TS/SCI material that was classified for no apparent reason ... or more often, to prevent embarrassment.  For reference, I saw most of the traffic from the Pueblo incident.  If it touched that topic it got the full treatment.

It looks like Clinton was doing what her predecessors did. But being Clinton, her opponents smelled blood and attacked.

Quote:ABC News detailed a final State Department investigation which concluded that past secretaries of state, including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice's immediate staff, "handled classified material on unclassified email systems." The findings come as the FBI investigates a private email server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state.

For months, conservative media figures have attacked Clinton, baselessly accusing her of wrongdoing for receiving State Department emails on her private email account while secretary of state. On February 4, reports emerged that Colin Powell and aides to Condoleezza Rice also used private email accounts when they served under former President George W. Bush, and some of their emails similarly contained information that was retroactively classified.

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