Letter: Focus on security in email coverage

On Dec. 1, you published an almost 500-word article from the McClatchy Washington Bureau regarding the latest release of 7,825 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton. Nowhere in the article does it mention how many of these emails had been classified by the State Department but were sent/received on Clinton's private server as unclassified. The good news from the article is I now know what Mrs. Clinton's favorite TV shows are.

So far, the reliable press has reported that only 66 percent of her emails have been released. Ninety-nine of these emails have been deemed classified by the State Department while Hillary was its head and presumably would or should have known what was classified and wasn't classified.

Polls repeatedly show people don't trust our former secretary of state who now wants to be president.

Certainly, all we humans are fallible and make mistakes from time to time. To get something wrong occasionally is understandable, but to miss 99 times, with still more emails to go, forces us to not trust her. Is she that careless or just not as smart as her minions tell us she is? Wouldn't a competent manager have put in place some sort of controls to see that this didn't repeatedly happen?

On the subject of trust and competence, should we trust The Packet/Gazette/McClatchy for not even addressing this issue of security violations in such a lengthy article while telling us of her TV preferences? She does want to be commander in chief.

Richard Geraghty

This story was originally published December 13, 2015 at 10:32 PM with the headline "Letter: Focus on security in email coverage."