Required Reading

Trigger Warning: If you religiously need to believe that Hillary didn't compromise secrets this will make you cry. http://t.co/EDofBKK4yn

— John Schindler (@20committee) September 9, 2015

I’ll try you right up front to Read the Whole Thing, because — politics aside — John Schindler has provided you with an easy-to-digest explanation of how and why intel gets classified.

But before you click over, let’s go back to the politics for a moment with this bit:

What Hillary and her staff seem to have compromised was mainly what the State Department terms Foreign Government Information and, when it involves high-level diplomatic conversations — say, discussions between a Secretary of State and a foreign counterpart — that sort of FGI is always considered classified at Foggy Bottom. Secrecy lies at the heart of international diplomacy and always has, and if Hillary planned to change that she really needed to inform the countless allies and friends abroad who confided in her with the expectation that their conversation would remain out of view of the public and foreign intelligence agencies — and not on Hillary’s unencrypted private email and server.

The most serious allegations facing Team Clinton, however, focus on the compromised intelligence. Exposing TOPSECRET information is a much more serious matter, legally and practically, than compromising less classified things. If, as now appears certain, Hillary and/or her staff placed such highly sensitive information, reported to deal with North Korean WMDs, in private unclassified email, that is something the FBI will be unable to ignore.

Hillary Clinton belongs in jail.