Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton is getting off easy for her email scandal
In an interview with Al Jazeera America's Mehdi Hasan, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden weighed in on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while in office.
"Now, this is a problem, because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state... knows how classified information should be handled," Snowden said. "And if an ordinary worker at the State Department or the Central Intelligence Agency, or anything like that were sending details about the security of embassies over unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their job and lose their clearance. They would very likely face prosecution for it."
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