The Republican-wired Beltway media has been doing its best up until now to breathlessly report on any leak (fed to them by Congressional Rethug sources) regarding classified e-mails on former Secretary Hillary Clinton's private system. It's a perfect, pseudo-scandal for them -- one that's easily presented but hard to understand -- to help bring their hated Hillary's poll numbers down and give whoever's going to oppose her a better shot at election. All of their manufactured Hillary adjectives fit: "secretive," "untrustworthy," etc. Sadly for them, a large fly landed in their ointment yesterday with the disclosure that former Bush Administration Secretary of State Colin Powell also had classified e-mails on his private system, along with those of the staff of former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
While this development won't stop our broken political media from getting their pound of flesh from a Hillary Clinton that both distrusts and dislikes them with good reason, perhaps it will slightly alter their narrative that "she thinks the rules don't apply to her." There's certainly a "rules" problem underlying this kerfuffle, but more and more it seems to lie with people at State who don't yet have their procedural act together in the handling of classified materials in a smart phone world, and an Inspector General who seems to be selectively leaking information intended to damage Ms. Clinton.
