To the Editor: E-mail issue disqualifies Hillary as candidate for President

To the Editor,

The President gave authority to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to classify documents. Sec . Clinton should know when a received item is sensitive to National Security and immediately classify that document. It doesn’t fly that the document received was not classified when she received it.

This, on its face, shows poor judgement and a total disregard for protecting sensitive documents. General Petraeus was prosecuted for mishandling “Confidential” documents that he authored (Confidential is the lowest level of classification). The recipient had Secret and/or Top Secret clearance.

Secretary Clinton mishandled all classifications from “Confidential, Secret, to Top Secret”, but she will be given a pass by The Department of Justice and the media. Years ago as a junior Air Force Officer I was given “Top Secret” clearance; I never revealed what I knew to anyone not authorized on a “need to know” basis. As far as I know this restriction is still in place after some 50 years. There can be no doubt that sensitive information was on this unprotected server. At the very least all information/emails on this private server should have been encrypted, there is no evidence that encryption occurred. This disregard for protection of sensitive material should be an issue that disqualifies Secretary Clinton from further Federal Office.

John Stiegelmeyer

Vinton

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TH August 20, 2015, 11:36 am Who in the race doesn\'t have any such flaw that would disqualify them? Just curious.

JH August 20, 2015, 1:15 pm I\'m sure they all have flaws, but I\'m not sure they are all so equally defiantly rubbing the citizens noses in it

JS August 28, 2015, 1:47 pm I do not have a candidate as yet. I point out that others have been prosecuted for lesser infractions and that one of the penalties besides prision time or probation is that they are disallowed from holding further Federal Office. With the Clinton\'s there is always something. Most are self inflicted. Still they get a pass. that is the most disturbing part. Jim Webb is the better Dem candidate, but will receive little traction.

GB September 3, 2015, 9:20 am The clear lack of concern for our corrupt politicians by the majority of Americans as well as being out of touch and uneducated about current events is exactly what enables these politicians to stay in their positions and worse yet they actually are able to seek higher positions of authority. It is time to wake up folks!!!! If you want to clean up the water, you have to get the hogs out of the creek!!!

Opinion : To the Editor: E-mail issue disqualifies Hillary as candidate for President

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