Hillary Spox: Comparing Hillary to Petraeus Is ‘Dancing on the Head of a Pin’
MUKASEY: "Thanks for having me."
BREAM: "All right. Joining us now from San Francisco, former Democratic Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher, a close friend and supporter of Hillary Clinton, who also worked under her at the State Department, and was an early backer of Ready for Hillary. Congresswoman, welcome to 'Fox News Sunday.'”
TAUSCHER: "Thank you, Shannon. Nice to be here."
BREAM: "OK. Let’s talk about some of what we discussed with the former attorney general, this idea of federal statutes that have swept up some very important people. Former CIA Director John Deutsch was investigated under the same law as was General David Petraeus, for keeping classified material on a government-owned computer at his house. The CIA has said, the inspector general, that the computer was designated only for use with only unclassified material and referred this investigation to the DOJ. Reportedly, Mr. Deutsch was in talks for a plea deal when he was pardoned by then-President Clinton. Obviously, that was a good deal for him in the end. General Petraeus a different end. And he narrowly avoided jail, but two years probation, $100,000 fine. How is — how are those cases different than Mrs. Clinton’s?"
TAUSCHER: "Well, they’re completely different. You’re talking about classified information.
"I mean, I think part of the problem we have here — and by the way, you know, I think that former Attorney General Mukasey did a very good job as an advisor to Jeb Bush just now, but I was embarrassed by his complete lack of understanding of the Federal Records Act, the low side and high side, classified/unclassified systems at the State Department and, you know, going way out there and talking about things like the Espionage Act and perjury when this is not a criminal investigation.
"This is about the low side computer system at the State Department which is unsecure which only carries unclassified e-mails. That’s what we’re talking about. And to some extent, we’re talking about whether some e-mails, some people in the intelligence community and some people in the State Department differ on whether they should be classified one way or the other.
"But what is clear is that while she was secretary, Hillary Clinton did not receive on her unclassified, unsecure e-mail system, the same as the dot-gov system at the state department anything that said header/footer that it was classified.
"So, you know, we can quibble about whether things should be reclassified as they go out to the public, but there is no question all of the classified e-mails that Hillary Clinton used, saw and supervised as secretary are on the classified server. There’s no question about that.
"So, this idea that we’re spinning everybody up about perjury and talking about previous cases between John Deutsche and Dave Petraeus, it’s just dancing on the head of a pin, and frankly, partisan politics."
