Opinion

Publishing Clinton story promoted falsehood

Posted September 03, 2015 1:00 am

To run Ken Dilanian's article about experts not seeing any criminal violations in Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information is a disservice to journalism.

In Dilanian's own writing, paragraph 7, he quotes expert Leslie McAdoo as saying "a case would be possible if material emerges that is so sensitive Clinton must have known it was highly classified, whether marked or not".

Given that 100 percent of Hillary's information handling was done on an off-the-grid system, the probability then becomes 100 percent that some was Top Secret.

Otherwise, the writer is making an argument that, for the first time in the nation's history, a secretary of state never handled classified information in four years. And that, my friends, is preposterous.

Giving this article full second-page status makes the Herald complicit in promoting this false narrative.

Lyle Rapp

Elk Grove Village

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