But we aren't talking about who they are or where they came from just the act itself. At least Shane will admit Powell was wrong too.

HRC used a personal cell phone and a personal server in direct opposition to her boss's directive. She lied several times about whether she did, why she and when she did. She destroyed the server when asked for the information. Some of the emails that was or should have been classified. There was an investigation by the IG of State and IG of Intelligence that concluded further investigation by the DOJ was needed. These are facts only @red55 would have the balls to dispute.
Whether this was illegal or not only further investigation and maybe a trial will determine.
This tells me she lacks judgement, is untrustworthy, a poor leader and at least amoral. She has demonstrated these traits throughout her time in public life. Why is this a big deal? Because it demonstrates that she isn't worthy of high office.

Name a candidate that is.

And I truly love Powell, think he is a fine man and glad I got to serve under his command. Do o think he did anything close to the magnitude of what hrc did, hell no but you can't have a double standard so call his ass to the carpet. Like I said, this guy was the high command for the entire force, I trust his judgement. Hillary is married to a creep that at one point said he loathed the military. Very large gap in morals there. In the end, it should be looked at and whatever happens happens.

one that is less of a crook than she is. No worries, this WILL keep her from the goal. I'm not convinced she will even get the democratic nomination. Could be too much baggage to risk it.

Not many to be honest. But the difference in these discussions seems to be that liberals defend dishonest and even criminal behavior by liberal politicians to the death(see Red). While at least a large percentage of conservatives call a scumbag a scumbag. Hillary could behead babies live on tv and liberals like Red would come to her defense. Both Red and CNN would find a way to blame it on Bush. Both GW and his dad were POS. I wouldn't vote for a 3rd Bush if you held a gun to my head. However both Hillary and Obama are worse. They have far less integrity and are far less honest. Liberals could care less, as long as the Liberal politician promises free shit. Liberals are the least honest group of humans on planet earth. Bagdad Bob has more credibility.

So who would get it? That pussy that had to apologize for saying "all lives matter" when someone in the crowd shouted "black lives matter"? What's his name? 2 M's Martin O'Malley or something. Every single candidate has dirt. Every one.

That's the kind of thinking that got Obama reelected. The Republican party keeps sticking to the hope that the Democratic candidate is so bad that they can offer up any idiot and win. The slogan of the Republican party is "we're not as bad as them, so vote for us". Pretty pathetic if you ask me. It could just as easily be "we have no answer, but neither do they so give us a shot to fuck it up". At least the Democrats are smart enough to vote farm. The Republican party can't even claim to be that smart. I'm definitely a conservative, but the incompetence of the Republican party is more baffling than Les Miles inability to put a competent QB on the field.

Who says black lives matter? Certainly a large percentage of black people don't believe that to be true. Otherwise they wouldn't kill each other at such an alarming rate. It's easier to make an argument that white people believe that black lives matter than it is to make an argument that black people believe that black lives matter.