After numerous GOB debates, people were interested to
finally see a debate between the Democratic candidates earlier this week. These
debates have been beneficial in revealing many candidates goals,
accomplishments and views on many crucial topics. Both Democrats and
Republicans have been asked important questions on the issues surrounding our country
today helping the public form an opinion about the candidates, one of whom will
be our next President. Within both parties, there are candidates who are the
center of scandal and attention and it was intriguing to the public to see how
such matters would be addressed during the debate. Trump made light of the
accusations to him about not treating women well and not being a “full
republican. Clinton defended herself when accused of flip flopping on certain
political matters but in regards to her infamous email scandal…she was quick to
dodge the question and make it seem so unimportant compared to other things
that could be talked about. Even Senator Bernie Sanders belittled the email
scandal by saying “That is that the American people are sick and tired of
hearing about your damn emails.” My first thought was, “wow, they are really
making a big deal of these emails when there are other important things to talk
about and focus on in the world”. This email situation was made to seem silly
and over exaggerated especially since other candidates on the stage seemed to
think so as well, not just Hillary.
But is the nature of these emails really not that important?
Here is a background of the issue: While service in the office
of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton used her personal instead of her official
government email account that is maintained on secure Federal Government
servers to conduct official business. While she claimed there was no classified
material discussed using her personal email, the FBI found an incredible about
of emails that contained classified information. This is dangerous because
there servers were not protected, they could have easily been hacked revealing
such classified information to potentially the wrong people. Federal rules
prohibit the sharing of classified information on personal systems.
While looking into many sources about this issue, it seems
like it is something that is very important, so important in fact that she has
been encouraged to hire a criminal defense lawyer. She could be facing charges
because of violations of the Espionage Act for “gross negligence”. It has even
been reported the Secretary of State is one of the most targeted from intelligence
agencies to get classified information from. The FBI has been able to uncover
emails that have been deleted proving more and more classified information has
been shared under that person email account.
In other cases, other political officials have received
quite the punishment in regards to the law and dealing with classified
information. Sentences have not been lenient on others who have let classified
information get into the hands of people it was never intended for.
During the Democratic debate, many candidates discussed this
issue as being almost silly and light hearted and completely undermining the
severity of the situation. If I wouldn’t have looking into to other additional
sources for information about this situation I too, would have thought it as
not being a big deal. However, when it comes dealing with classified and sensitive
Federal government information being negligent is always a serious matter.
What do you think about this situation bloggers?
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