I find this extremely puzzling. Many of the people who believe the person who committed one of the most damaging espionage acts in American history, described as “"huge, grave damage" to U.S. intelligence capabilities” is some type of hero, while an Ex Secretary of state who kept a private email server for non security sensitive emails, has somehow committed the crime of the century.
Snowden took massive amounts of top secret information and first went to China, and then Russia. There’s a pretty good possibility that people died because of his action and others had their lives put in danger. Not one single email of the 10’s of thousands that Secretary Clinton turned over to officials were classified as secret at the time she received or sent them. Some have been reclassified since. Instead of Clinton getting credit for exposing the absurd over classification system of many government agencies, something previous Secretaries of State agree with, she is accused by RWNJ’s of exposing secret information to “possible” abuse.
I think there are some things that we need to keep in mine about this entire crazy situation.
1) The Republicans told us they were going to ramp up a propaganda campaign in the house to drive down Clinton's poll numbers.
"Everybody though Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?" McCarthy asked. "But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought."
"I give you credit for that," said Hannity. "I'll give you credit where credit is due."
They came right out and told us what they were doing! I fully expect the Tea Party who are suckers and believe any conspiracy to fall for this propaganda, but I’m extremely disappointed that more than a few progressives have bought into the propaganda nonsense.
2) Both Secretaries Powell and Rice have admitted to using non State Dept. email servers for official communications and both have said this entire thing is way out of proportion.
3) The State Dept email servers have suffered massive hacks:
Federal law enforcement, intelligence and congressional officials briefed on the investigation say the hack of the State email system is the "worst ever" cyber attack intrusion against a federal agency. The attackers who breached State are also believed to be behind hacks on the White House's email system, and against several other federal agencies, the officials say.
So the State Department admits to terrible hacks, and yet there is no evidence that Clinton’s private email server was ever hacked. Anyone who has ever had anything to do with IT knows that attempted hacks on computer systems are constant. So it turns out that Clinton’s email was actually safer on her personal system than on the government system.
So what does all this mean? Just as in 2014 when the right wing propaganda machine cranked up for the election and had everyone believing that Central American children with Ebola were storming the U.S. boarders, now they’ve got the media and too many “liberals” believing that this entire bull shit story about email is sooooo important! We’ve got Donald Trump talking about giving nuclear weapons to other countries, and not ruling out using them in the Middle East, and what is the media talking about? Email!
The right wing propaganda machine said they were going to do it, they used the house Republicans to do it, and our pathetic news media has fallen in line to promote irrelevant nonsensical bull shit to be the hottest story of the year, while civilization ending stories like Global Warming are seldom mentioned.
I fully expect the GOP party of ignorance and some uninformed Independents to fall for this crap, but to see it here at DailyKos is beyond disappointing.