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Hillary Clinton’s defense against overwhelming evidence she broke the law requiring her to keep national security information secret amounts to what a teenager might say after getting a parking ticket. It just isn’t fair, Clinton says. After another rel

Hillary Clinton’s defense against overwhelming evidence she broke the law requiring her to keep national security information secret amounts to what a teenager might say after getting a parking ticket. It just isn’t fair, Clinton says.

After another release last week of evidence Clinton used her private email server to handle top-secret information, her presidential campaign spokesman had this reaction: “This appears to be over-classification run amok.” In other words, the State Department and intelligence agencies labeled too much information top secret when that was not necessary. Again, that is something like a teen driver insisting he parked illegally in a space for handicapped drivers because the designation was not really needed.

But “over-classification” is not Clinton’s problem. Whatever the rationale for labeling information secret, it was designated as such and she knew that. As secretary of state, she knowingly broke the law regarding how top-secret information is safeguarded.

Ignorance of the law is no defense, it has been said. Even more so, as any judge would – and may, in the near future – remind Clinton, disagreement with the law is no defense, either.

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