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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Patreus comparison BS - WaPo fact check from January 2016
How does Clintons case compare?
The short answer: This is an apples-to-oranges comparison at best. Plus, we dont have all the underlying facts of Clintons case. Clinton also was emailing with aides whom she didnt believe would reveal the information. She never provided it to a journalist, as Petraeus did with Broadwell.
But there are differences that make the two cases incomparable. The dispute over the classification in Clintons emails is a major difference. Moreover, FBI officials were furious at Petreaus for allegedly lying to FBI agents and wanted to bring a felony charge with potential imprisonment. Clinton, on the other hand, has not been interviewed by the FBI, as of Jan. 17, 2016, when she last addressed the question.
Petraeus disclosed classified information to an unauthorized person. Clinton did not. Petraeus lied to the FBI. Clinton did not. Petraeus was charged with a crime and pleaded guilty. Clinton has not been charged with a criminal offense, said Steven Aftergood, director of the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/02/24/why-the-clinton-email-scandal-and-petraeus-leak-are-not-really-alike/
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)underpants
(182,834 posts)He also sent known classified info via email but he literally brought her classified info.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I'm paraphrasing it here, but it was something like "A Republican general gave classified information to his Republican mistress and then told a Republican Congressman, but it's all Obama's fault say the Republicans."