Jim Geraghty of National Review writes in his \u201cMorning Jolt\u201d newsletter (subscription required) today that the scandal involving Hillary Clinton\u2019s use of a private email account to send and receive all of her official digital correspondence as Secretary of State is a real problem, not just another iteration of \u2018gotcha politics.\u2019<\/p>\n
Among the many problems associated with Clinton\u2019s use of a private account as her official email address \u2013 including, but not limited to, systematic evasion of federal record-keeping rules, thwarting of public FOIA requests, and irretrievably deleting potentially damaging messages \u2013 Geraghty points out a potentially even bigger concern.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know if foreign intelligence services ever cracked the (apparently flawed) code and got to read Hillary\u2019s private emails,\u201d Geraghty writes. \u201cWe do know that we would be fools to assume they hadn\u2019t. This prospect makes a lot of Obama\u2019s first-term foreign policy look a little different in retrospect. Was there any particular time when a foreign power seemed one step ahead of our policies? Did Moscow, Beijing, or other foreign capitals seem to know what we were thinking in our negotiations before we began? Any of our spies get burned, or sources of intelligence dry up? Was Hillary Clinton\u2019s email effectively a leak all along?\u201d<\/p>\n
Though we may never know for sure, \u201cif foreign spies were reading the email of the Secretary of State for four years, it represents nothing less than a catastrophe, and one that is entirely the fault of Hillary Clinton herself.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also an epic failure of responsibility that should severely undercut Clinton\u2019s claim that she has the judgment to be Commander-in-Chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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