Hillary Clinton -- Sandy Berger in Drag

From The American Thinker Blog:

Director Comey did some parsing of his own, rewriting the statutes Hillary clearly violated, making a distinction without a difference between the “extreme carelessness” of Hillary Clinton, which he said was not prosecutable, to the “gross negligence” of Gen. David Petraeus, who was punished as the relevant statute clearly requires.

Gen. David Petraeus was prosecuted and convicted of merely mishandling classified material, having it in his house to aid a biographer writing a book. The material never made the book and was returned. It was never exposed to hackers, which Comey confirmed, or was made available to blackmail a future president. Hillary exposed classified material to foreign hackers and governments on an unsecured server. As Investor’s Business Daily observed:

Scandal: Which is worse -- keeping classified information in a personal journal at home or doing government business and transmitting classified data on a private email account managed from the Clinton family home?

This adds a new level of premeditated secrecy and deceit to the actions of the presumptive 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.

It also adds a new level of hypocrisy to the most transparent administration in history’s pursuit of former CIA Director and commander of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus.

What Hillary did and got away with, the mishandling of classified material to intentionally avoid political embarrassment occurred at least once before, at the hands of notorious Clinton crony Sandy Berger, who put classified information in another type of drawers – his own -- to help the Clintons dodge the truth and the responsibility for their actions.

A report released in 2006 by National Archives inspector general Paul Brachfield on Wednesday that concluded Berger in 2004 “knowingly removed classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration and stored and retained such documents at places,” including temporarily under a construction trailer outside the main Archives building.

This seems to blatantly contradict the feeble mea culpa Berger issued when in the summer of 2004 he was caught stuffing and removing said documents in his clothing, documents that directly contradicted his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.

Back then Berger said, “I made an honest mistake,” a mistake which included, according to his plea bargain which netted him no jail time and a meager fine, taking five classified documents, using a scissors on three of them, then lying to the National Archives when asked about them.

Wow, the similarity of excuses by one of the Clinton Cabal, which was eerily similar to the excuses given by Comey.