The False Equivalence of Comparing Hillary’s Server and Trump Sharing Intel

by Scott Creighton

I have heard several well meaning journalists drawing a false equivalence between the story of Trump sharing intel with Foreign Minister Lavrov and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Specifically, these two guys.

Let me make this very clear… there is no comparison between these two things. It’s not even apples to oranges… it’s apples to adverbs.

According to every report, even the one out of the Washington Post which is the most damning (with no evidence provided mind you), what Donald Trump was accused of doing was providing intel from the Israelis regarding a serious threat centered on “ISIS” using laptops to take out commercial airliners in acts of terrorism. Clearly Russia is attacking “ISIS” in Syria and they could very easily be targeted in this fashion.

On the other hand, Hillary Clinton used a private unsecured email server to handle classified information in order to keep certain communications out of the public record… for her own good.

In the case of what Trump did, he shared intel in an effort to keep civilians from being killed in a horrible way, via an attack on an airliner while in transit.

Hillary Clinton did what she did to save her own ass and to be able to conduct her criminal activity without worry of being discovered.

And let me say this: to those who think it would be more important to protect an Israeli “method” rather than a plane full of civilians… you’re just a horrible monster who knows nothing about the purpose of counter-intelligence. Any agent, worth a damn, would much rather give their life or their operation to save a plane load of civilians. And it doesn’t matter if they are U.S., British, Israeli, Syrian or Russian civilians. Or it shouldn’t.

Now we all know that is a Pollyanna understanding of many intelligence assets out there. A lot of them kill civilians on a regular basis.. which might lead one to ask why the Israelis had some asset hanging out with “ISIS” making bombs in the first place and why the Israelis routinely target Syrian military assets rather than that laptop bomb making facility… but that’s a different question for a different, more in-depth discussion.

Right now, anyone squealing about how illegal it was or how treasonous it was for Trump to share that intel … not only do they not understand the law (president can declassify anything he wants, anytime he wants, to anyone he wants).. apparently they don’t understand what it means to be a human being anymore.

If I was alive during WWII and got wind of some small group planning to bomb a German civilian airliner in an effort to undermine the country’s faith in their Nazi leader… I would share that intel with Hitler himself in an effort to help protect those civilians. Now I know it’s not what we did. I do know what Dresden was. Don’t get locked up in that.

I’m saying this is what I would do or any normal, well balanced human being would do.

I’m also not comparing Trump to Hitler. Reagan is more apt I think. But again… different discussion.

Anyone who says (and I don’t care what side of the fake divide they are on) Trump was wrong to share intel on potential terrorist acts (false flags or not) with the Russians because they are now our adversaries … are simply monsters. They have been made mentally ill by the endless stream of pro-war anti-Russian propaganda and they need to take a step back and look at themselves in the mirror … real fucking hard.

With all due respect to those two Youtubers, there is no comparison between what Trump did and what Hillary did. Trump knew his action would cost him politically, but he did it just the same because it was the right thing to do. Hillary’s action was in spite of the damage it would cause others and in an effort to more freely be able to CAUSE damage to others and she did it for purely self-serving reasons.

Not even close to the same thing. Not even remotely close.

Source: https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-false-equivalence-of-comparing-hillarys-server-and-trump-sharing-intel/