The former U.S. attorney who oversaw the prosecution of Gen. David Petraeus for unlawful handling of classified information says that Hillary Clinton’s case is nothing like it.
Anne Tompkins, who has given money to the Clinton campaign, said that the comparison between the two “has no merit” because the former secretary of state did not “knowingly” store or share any classified information. In contrast, Petraeus knowingly handed over journals with confidential information to his biographer.
“Her decision not to segregate her email accounts was regrettable, but unlike the actions and prosecution of Petraeus, there has been no evidence of criminal conduct,” Tompkins argued in a USA Today op-ed published Monday.
While Petraeus knowingly mishandled the information, Tompkins writes that the information on Clinton’s personal server was not classified at the time, so the two are in very different situations.
While the FBI is investigating the Clinton scandal, Tompkins contested that the inquiry is not criminal in nature and that the inspector general and the Justice Department are just following established protocol. Even more so, Clinton took responsibility for her actions, saying it would have been a better choice to use separate accounts.
The op-ed comes a few weeks after former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal stating that Clinton’s misuse of the private email server defiled “law and common sense.”
