Dear Editor:
If this presidential election is not remembered for anything else, it will be remembered for Hillary Clinton's email controversy and its association with the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on Bengazi.
Donald Trump has made it the centerpiece of his campaign for POTUS even inviting a foreign adversary to conduct cyber espionage against the former secretary of state. "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
And on another occasion invited violence against Hillary by suggesting"maybe the Second Amendment people can stop her "
And at the last debate Trump voiced the chant from the Republican National Convention that "when he is president, he would 'put her in jail.'"
So is there any legitimate evidence that Trump is correct that Hillary's private email server would provide proof that she is guilty of mishandling the Bengazi attack and a massive cover up after the attack?
The FBI's final judgment on the matter is, "that Hillary did send and receive 110 classified emails on her personal server." (She said otherwise in a debate with Senator Sanders, on "Meet the Press" and other public interviews.)
The FBI's conclusion was "that Hillary was extremely careless in (her) handling of very sensitive, highly classified information" but "no charges are appropriate in this case." Careless is not a felony.
And the House Special Committee on Bengazi after spending $30 million found only what seven other previous investigations had found: "that there was no evidence of wrongdoing or culpability by Hillary in the 2012 attack on Bengazi."
To put the 30,000 emails into perspective, when President Bush 43 left office, it was discovered that 22 million emails had been "lost" from a server owned by the RNC that he, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials used.
Included in the emails deleted from the RNC's server were those sent particularly during the gin up for the invasion of Iraq, the illegal firing of eight U.S. attorneys and Assistant Attorney General John Yoo's drafts of legal opinions justifying torture and warrantless wiretapping. After several congressional investigations no charges were made and no special house committee ever appointed.