Hillary Got Busted for Mishandling Classified Information. Why Didn't the FBI Ransack Her Home? Matt Vespa | Aug 16, 2022 5:30 PM
Hillary Got Busted for Mishandling Classified Information. Why Didn't the FBI Ransack Her Home? Source: AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque
Did Donald Trump have classified documents at Mar-a-Lago? We don’t know since the affidavit supporting that allegation remains under seal. Federal prosecutors moved to block its release yesterday because it could degrade the investigation's integrity. In other words, they don’t have any smoking guns linking Trump to the January 6 riot, a theory tossed around as the actual objective of the FBI’s August 8 raid on the home of the former president. The classified material found isn’t damning, along with records already declassified by the Trump White House. Trump declassified all documents relating to Crossfire Hurricane in the waning days of his presidency.
As we’ve noted today if this was a classified records search, what’s with the seizure of his passports? With classified material being hurled as one of the debates following his arguably unlawful ransacking of Mar-a-Lago, why didn’t FBI agents swarm Hilary Clinton for her actual mishandling of classified records?
I was resigned that nothing would ever happen to Clinton when the FBI refused to press charges following their investigation into her unauthorized email server from which she conducted official State Department business. Yet, in the aftermath of this raid and liberals idiotically bringing up her emails, let’s go down memory lane again.
She carelessly handled sensitive materials for four years while serving as Obama’s secretary of state.
She said State approved the homebrew server. It wasn’t, with the State Department inspector general adding that if she had brought it up with officials at the agency, it would have been rejected for obvious reasons. It wasn’t secured, and she transmitted classified information through that system, ordered aides to alter classification markings, and all of this was done to avoid records requirements and standards established by the National Archives.
She deleted over 30,000 emails that were under federal subpoena. The intentional evasion of records standards with her email system, the wanton disregard for regulations, and the destruction of State Department Blackberries, done by hammers no less, warrants a search given the bar set by the Justice Department with their raid on Trump.
I don’t mean that right now, but retroactively applied, you bet the feds should have knocked down the doors of Clinton’s home.