Hillary Clinton and A Few Bad Emails

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Have you ever sent a classified government document to an associate by email and then realized that he or she didn’t have a sufficient security clearance to look at it?

Have you ever set up a private email server in your home so you could do your job with the State Department in total secrecy, and then found out that what you were doing was against the law?

Have you ever been questioned by a member of Congress or a member of the media about your illegal email activities?

Remember these lines.

I never sent any classified information.

That information wasn’t classified at the time I sent it.

I didn’t know that information was classified at the time that I sent it.

It’s time to move forward from this old business.

Repeat those lines over and over so that when you need them, they will be on the tip of your tongue. In most cases, those lines will put an end to the conversation. If they don’t, remember this line.

What difference does it make?

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Who among us has never mistakenly sent out an email that had sensitive information in it? Who among us has never sent out an email that could be hurtful or harmful if it was seen by the wrong person? People are acting as if Hillary Clinton sent and received classified information through her unsecured server all the time.

The fact is that she sent and received tens of thousands of emails and the vast majority of them had no classified information whatsoever. Out of all her emails, only 110 are known to have contained classified information. That's less than one percent, and none of those emails, which could have been hacked by just about anyone, are known to have caused any harm whatsoever to the United States or to any individual.

Note: This is satire, a joke. Satire is sometimes used to convey a meaning opposite to what is being stated or written. To anyone who doesn't understand that, I apologize.

According to Wikipedia, Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"[2]—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration,[3] juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.