Interesting Take

Ah, the E-Mail saga of Hillary, the slow-motion scandal that never disappoints has been covered by BRT in a blurb titled, Hoisted on one's petard, has been further addressed by Ray McGovern, an insightful 27 year Senior CIA Operative, who knows the drill down cold when it comes to secret data and how best to handle it. 

Whether Napolitano has it right or not, it seems likely that Clinton is reading President Obama correctly – no profile in courage is he. Nor is Obama likely to kill the political fortunes of the now presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Yet, if he orders Lynch and Comey not to hold Hillary Clinton accountable for what – in my opinion and that of most other veteran intelligence officials whom I’ve consulted – amounts to at least criminal negligence, another noxious precedent will be set.

This is where it gets interesting.

This time, however, the equities and interests of the powerful, secretive NSA, as well as the FBI and Justice, are deeply involved. And by now all of them know “where the bodies are buried,” as the smart folks inside the Beltway like to say. So the question becomes would a future President Hillary Clinton have total freedom of maneuver if she were beholden to those all well aware of her past infractions and the harm they have done to this country.

It gets better.

“When the unclassified systems of the United States government, which has a full-time information security staff, regularly gets hacked, the idea that someone keeping a private server in the renovated bathroom of a server farm in Colorado is more secure is completely ridiculous,” the National Security Agency whistleblower (Edwin Snowden) told Mehdi Hasan in an interview that will air Friday on the debut episode of UpFront, Hasan’s new weekly talk show on Al Jazeera English. 

Read the entire piece, McGovern's take on Benghazi, from the intel perspective, is something yours truly and the Repugs completely missed without question.