11-01-2016, 01:55 PM
The Clinton campaign is in a Catch-22, they can either release the emails and say, see nothing to see here, no classified information on a device that should never have had them, or they can't release them because there is classified information on a device that should never have had them... despite claims to the contrary.
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Quote:There are at least two serious difficulties. The first is that out of the cache of over 650,000 emails, only some fraction of them is relevant. The ones that are unrelated to the Hillary Clinton server are obviously out of bounds. But the more difficult issue is that the FBI cannot release those emails that are classified without creating some serious national security complications.
The same is true, moreover, for Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, assuming that they still have these emails in their possession. They could surely release them if they contained no classified information. But they surely cannot release these emails if they do contain classified information.
But by the same token, they cannot say that they refuse to release them because they contain classified information: that admission would be evidence enough that they illegally shared information, which would be grounds for the prosecution of both women. Abedin should not have had access those emails and Clinton should not have shared them with her, unless Abedin had the requisite security clearance, which it seems she did not. Indeed, right now Clinton could well be caught in a lie if the number of emails found on the Abedin/Weiner computer exceeds the pitifully small number of emails that Clinton acknowledges she sent over her private server.