From the New York Times
Intelligence officials reviewing emails on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private computer server have found information they consider to be of a higher level of classification than “top secret,” according to a letter sent to lawmakers last week by the intelligence agencies’ inspector general.
The letter, dated last Thursday, says that some of the information in Mrs. Clinton’s emails has been determined to be “top secret/SAP.” That designation is usually given to information about “special access programs” — often intelligence-gathering programs and other secret programs run by the Pentagon and the C.I.A. — that are among the government’s most closely guarded secrets.
A Clinton candidacy may well end up as a trap for the Democratic Party. What’s really going on here? We don’t know, everything is classified. What should be obvious by now is that at some point the U.S. Attorney’s office and the intelligence community will need to make a decision about prosecution for mishandling classified data. One of the dangers of a strong intelligence apparatus is that is tends to pick up authoritarian leanings. If there were ever an authoritarian candidate to run for the American presidency it would be Trump.
So what happens if we nominate Clinton, the Republicans nominate Trump and he then goes on a tear about the fact that she hasn’t faced prosecution. An “independent decision” is made i”n consultation with” the intelligence community IG. All of a sudden we have a candidate that is being perp walked and Trump has managed to show, one again, his "power” (creating an impression of power being very important to authoritarians). The left is stuck talking about an “intelligence agency coup” and there is probably nothing that can stop a Trump presidency. Moreover, this sets the country up for an alliance between the intelligence community and the white supremacist right that is terrifying.
This might be a worst case scenario, but given the choice I’d rather risk the socialist that the perp walk.
