Friday, July 29, 2016

Does Hillary Clinton deserve any charges as Edward Snowden did?



After reading the Room for Debate article, “A Double Standard for Clinton, or the Right Standard for Prosecutors”, I thought about Edward Snowden who in 2013, leaked government information to the media about the NSA spying on millions of Americans’ calls.  After the leak of classified government information he was charged with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence (I found his charges at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23123964).  To avoid any charges and for his safety, Edward Snowden left the United States and went into hiding in Russia as he got permission to enter an temporary asylum and he cannot go back to the US because he has been exiled.  He viewed the doings of the NSA as harmful to American citizen’s privacy than what it was supposed to be used for.  Now think about the Hillary Clinton scandal with her using a private email instead of a government secured email when she was serving as the United States Secretary of State.  She violated the federal requirements of officials having to use a government email for security reason, yet James Comey, director of the FBI does not charge her for violating the law even though he calls Hillary "extremely careless" with classified information. What do you guys think? Does she deserve any charges or not?

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