{"id":2830,"date":"2018-11-21T08:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2018-11-21T08:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T13:17:34","slug":"a-single-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/a-single-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Single Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.\u00a0Presidential adviser Ivanka Trump’s e-mails.<\/p>\n

My<\/em> e-mails.*<\/p>\n

If any of us violated the terms of our security clearances, nondisclosure agreements, or training, in the course of sending US Government information by e-mail, we should face the same penalty.<\/p>\n

If any of us\u00a0mishandled classified US Government information by sending it over an unclassified e-mail system, whether a government-owned system or a system in the private sector, and whether by intent or through negligence, we should face the same penalty.<\/p>\n

If any of us deleted US Government information that was meant (or especially required) to be archived, we should face the same penalty.<\/p>\n

We have enough double standards in the world.<\/p>\n

\"Double<\/a>
\n(Image: “Double Standard,” by Andy Mangold, on Flickr under Creative Commons.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Must we continue to excuse wrong behavior, or apply a different standard, based on who is involved?<\/p>\n

Can there ever be a single standard?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n*In whatever official positions I held: Speechwriter to the Under Secretary of the Air Force, Technology Security Policy Program Manager, Detachment Commander, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.\u00a0Presidential adviser Ivanka Trump’s e-mails. My e-mails.* If any of us violated the terms of our security clearances, nondisclosure agreements, or training, in the course of sending US Government information by e-mail, we should face the same penalty. If any of us\u00a0mishandled classified US Government \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[405,392],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-government","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}