What we should ignore

As team Clinton leads the next election cycle with……a scandal, their defenders are out in droves. You will see them on TV lying about Hillary Clinton in an effort to get us to ignore her criminal behaviors. Once again the Democrats need someone to tell them how and why they should look the other way on crimes.

Here is a list of a few things that people like Geraldo Rivera and Howard Dean want Democrats to ignore:

Ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton was running the State Department with one eye on the White House and — because of her own political needs, she established, contrary to the rules and basic common sense, a private means of communication that placed America’s national security at risk.

We should ignore the fact that she intentionally and unlawfully transmitted classified and confidential information crucial to our national defense through an unsecured, private e-mail system.

We should ignore the fact that she negligently stored confidential national defense information on unsecured and unauthorized private devices, including a server located in the bathroom of a loft apartment in Denver.

In short, we should simply ignore the fact that she committed federal crimes.


We should ignore the fact that she initially tried to cover up the fact that she sent and received classified information on her civilian account even though this reality is now beyond dispute.

We should ignore the fact that audits have revealed that hundreds of her e-mails contained classified information, including information deemed Top Secret.

We should ignore the fact that she mishandled information from U.S. Africa Command detailing “Libyan troop strength and movements.”

We should ignore the fact that she stored this information on a private, unsecured server, and transmitted it on a private, unsecured Smartphone.

We should ignore the fact that she intentionally did not use the State Department’s standard, secure device.

We should ignore the fact that absurdly in her defense, she says she’s innocent because she never sent or received e-mails with information that was “marked” classified, which she claims is, “The way you know” how to handle such information. We should ignore this outrageous lie.

We should ignore the fact that every single federal employee who handles classified information including the Secretary of State and her administrative assistants are required to protect both “marked and unmarked” classified information.

We should ignore the fact that she and all of her employees signed a classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement that clearly states this responsibility, a responsibility that’s not just a legal mandate, but is also a matter of sheer common sense.

We should ignore the fact that Mrs. Clinton knows all of this. Because of her position she had the power to classify unmarked information herself. In effect we should ignore the fact that Clinton is one of a handful of people in the United States government charged with having the expertise to know and discern when information is or should be secret.

Essentially we should ignore all of the evidence that confirms that Mrs. Clinton knew that satellite intelligence, information about troop movements, and other sensitive materials on her personal e-mail system were exactly the kinds of knowledge she’d been charged by law to protect.

We should ignore the law: 18 U.S.C. Section 793(f) says this: (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

We should ignore the law that says the “proper place of custody” for the classified and even unclassified national defense information is a secure government server, computer, or Smartphone.

We should ignore the fact that she displayed “gross negligence” in placing classified information on civilian servers.

We should ignore the fact that she displayed gross negligence in keeping classified information on her personal Smartphone. And ignore the fact that she displayed gross negligence when she handed that same information to her own lawyer.

We should ignore the fact that Mrs. Clinton — working with key aides — ran for her own political convenience a communications system that wasn’t just shoddy or sloppy, but illegal.

We should ignore the fact that all other public servants respect the extraordinary precautions that other government officials take to protect information vital to America’s national security, which includes using entirely separate e-mail systems and storing servers in secured rooms guarded with thick walls and armed personnel.

We should ignore the fact that many others have gone to jail for failing to respect and obey these laws.

We should ignore the fact that it may take years to determine the full extent of the damage Clinton did to our national defense.

Beyond gross negligence we should ignore the fact that actions were intentional. 18 U.S.C. Section 1924 says: (a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. (b) For purposes of this section, the provision of documents and materials to the Congress shall not constitute an offense under subsection (a). (c) In this section, the term “classified information of the United States” means information originated, owned, or possessed by the United States Government concerning the national defense or foreign relations of the United States that has been determined pursuant to law or Executive order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure in the interests of national security.

We should ignore the fact that Clinton’s private server and her personal smart phone were “unauthorized locations” for classified information and when it was obvious she was in trouble we should ignore the fact she ordered others to destroy the evidence.

We should ignore all of this because she is a Democrat. And we all know dozens of Democrats personally, who will ignore all of this.

Ignoring all of this is treason.