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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2251634" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook" target="_blank">FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook, by Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review</a>In essence, in order to give Mrs. Clinton a pass, the FBI rewrote the statute, inserting an intent element that Congress did not require. The added intent element, moreover, makes no sense: The point of having a statute that criminalizes gross negligence is to underscore that government officials have a special obligation to safeguard national defense secrets; when they fail to carry out that obligation due to gross negligence, they are guilty of serious wrongdoing. The lack of intent to harm our country is irrelevant. People never intend the bad things that happen due to gross negligence. I would point out, moreover, thatthere are other statutes that criminalize unlawfully removing and transmitting highly classified information with intent to harm the United States. Being not guilty (and, indeed, not even accused) of Offense B does not absolve a person of guilt on Offense A, which she has committed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2251634, member: 12952"] [URL='http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook']FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook, by Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review[/URL] In essence, in order to give Mrs. Clinton a pass, the FBI rewrote the statute, inserting an intent element that Congress did not require. The added intent element, moreover, makes no sense: The point of having a statute that criminalizes gross negligence is to underscore that government officials have a special obligation to safeguard national defense secrets; when they fail to carry out that obligation due to gross negligence, they are guilty of serious wrongdoing. The lack of intent to harm our country is irrelevant. People never intend the bad things that happen due to gross negligence. I would point out, moreover, that there are other statutes that criminalize unlawfully removing and transmitting highly classified information with intent to harm the United States. Being not guilty (and, indeed, not even accused) of Offense B does not absolve a person of guilt on Offense A, which she has committed. [/QUOTE]

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