A Simple Hillary Clinton Email Defense

Intent.

The whole story revolves around intent. There is no evidence what-so-ever that Hillary mishandled classified emails with the intent to leak them to the press or any other unauthorized personnel. Although the personal server may have been ill advised (something she admits to), it was not a crime. In addition, could somebody please point to the harm this caused. Not potential harm, real harm. Even in that case, a mistake is not a crime. It's all about intent and the intentional leaking of information. That's the major difference in the Patreaus case and this one. Intentionally passing along classified information to an unauthorized person.

Case closed. Now can we move on to more important matters, like making sure we don't put the United States Government into the hands of an unhinged, incoherent, narcissistic demagogue. After all, that's the real threat to the Republic.