With exactitude based on firsthand, in-the-field experience, NR essayist David French has exposed one of the more maddening aspects of the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal: that if she had been Private First Class Clinton, her handling of classified material would have landed her in a heap of trouble. Likely: criminal charges, a court martial, and maybe even imprisonment.

Last week David wrote:

If Hillary Clinton was a soldier, she would lose her security clearance, face administrative action, and face the specter of criminal prosecution. I’ve not only seen the pattern, I’ve also participated in the process. Here’s how it would work.

You can read the “here’s how” here. Like David, you will come to the immediate conclusion: “The double standards are painful.”

There is so much to this staggering scandal: the sheer volume of transgressions perpetrated; the relentless, bald-faced, knowing lies; the failure of the FBI to recommend prosecution; the unethical actions of both the president and the attorney general; and so much more.

With great depth and with unsurpassed intelligence, National Review writers, like David, have covered all this and more over the past months, producing what is widely considered the most in-depth and consistent coverage of Hillary Clinton’s brazen abuse of national security.

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Which team makes a better case for the former secretary of state’s absolute unsuitability for higher office? The answer: None

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