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Update: Ryan said through spokesman Doug Andres: "We have no way to know what was said, but protecting our nation's secrets is paramount. The speaker hopes for a full explanation of the facts from the administration."

Speaker Paul Ryan spoke on the importance of classified information at a press conference on July 7, 2016. (Speaker Paul Ryan)

In July 2016, few in Washington were more incredulous that the FBI decided not to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime for sending and receiving classified information on her private email server than House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).

Ryan issued one of the Republicans' irate statements:

No one should be above the law. But based upon the director's own statement, it appears damage is being done to the rule of law. Declining to prosecute Secretary Clinton for recklessly mishandling and transmitting national security information will set a terrible precedent. The findings of this investigation also make clear that Secretary Clinton misled the American people when she was confronted with her criminal actions.

And then he held a news conference, where he asked the Obama administration to stop giving Clinton, who was the Democrats' newly minted presidential nominee, classified briefings. Individuals who are 'extremely careless,' close quote, Ryan said, using the term then-FBI director James B. Comey used to describe Clinton's email practices, should be denied further access to information. (That proposal never got anywhere). (Ryan's office reached out to underscore that he thought Clintonshould be able to receive classified briefings if she became president, since you can't deny presidents classified information.)

The message was clear: Ryan thought the FBI should have charged Clinton for a crime for sending and receiving classified information on a private email server she used exclusively as secretary of state.

Ryan piped up again about this 11 days before the election, when Comey told Congress his team had found new emails related to Clinton that they were looking into. The FBI did not describe it as a reopening of an investigation, but Ryan sure did:

We're spending so much time parsing Ryan's words about a candidate in an election that is now over because suddenly, it's not Clinton who is on the receiving end of criticism about the way she handled classified information. It's President Trump.

[Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador]

The Washington Post's ace national security team reported Monday that while in an Oval Office meeting last week with top Russian officials, Trump told them highly classified information about the Islamic State. The information he told to the Russian ambassador and foreign minister is so secret it's not even relayed to some U.S. allies, let alone a country that most intelligence officials think meddled in the U.S. election.

During the May 10 meeting at the White House with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, Trump began describing details about an Islamic State terror threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft, according to current and former U.S. officials. (The Washington Post)

It is all kind of shocking, a former senior U.S. official who is close to current administration officials told The Post's Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe. Trump seems to be very reckless and doesnt grasp the gravity of the things hes dealing with, especially when it comes to intelligence and national security. And its all clouded because of this problem he has with Russia.

Reckless. That's exactly the word Ryan used in another statement, issued in September, after the FBI released its report of its interview with Clinton. The FBI's investigation demonstrates, Ryan said, Hillary Clintons reckless and downright dangerous handling of classified information during her tenure as secretary of state.

It's also the exact word that at least oneformer intelligence official used to describe the fact Trumpshared information so secret it requires a code word just to talk about it among U.S. officials.

The Fix's Aaron Blake rounded up their comments to Miller and Jaffe:

Perhaps reckless is in the eye of the beholder. As president, Trump has the authority to declassify government secrets, while anyone else in government (like secretaries of state) does not.

In his initial statement about Trump's comments to Russian officials, Ryan made no attempt to provide cover for the president.

But it's going to take a lot more explaining from Ryan and all the other Republicans who bashed Clinton, including Trump why this situation is somehow less careless and less reckless and less dangerous than the one they lambasted Democrats for just a few months ago.

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One of the lefts favorite weapons against Republican President Donald Trump has been comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Attempts to paint Trump as on par with the mass-murdering Nazi dictator have been going on for a while now and have been dismissed as nonsense.

Not that its curtailing the comparison, which keeps getting pounded home to this day:

Which brings us to the grave case of New York Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss.

Seems the NHL player who hails from Germany hopped on Instagram during the presidential campaign and liked a meme comparing Hitler to Hillary Clinton, Newsday reported. Greiss also liked a couple of other anti-Clinton memes.

The Hitler-Clinton meme showed an image of Hitler and read, Never arrested. Never convicted. Just as innocent as Hillary.

The other two memes featured a T-shirt that read, Guns dont kill people. Clintons do, and a gladiator affixed with Trumps face holding aloft a severed head that looked like Clintons.

Anyway, outrage hit Greiss like a flurry of slapshots particularly from the German hockey federation, which has Greiss on its World Championships roster, Newsday said.

So the goalie quickly issued his mea culpa.

I apologize for interacting with several posts that appeared in my timeline, which were wrong to engage with, Greiss said in a statement issued by the Islanders. Liking these posts was a mistake, and I sincerely apologize again.

It doesnt appear Greiss will be disciplined by the Islanders or Team Germany, the Sporting News said.

All athletes have an important role model in the public arena, German Olympic Sports Confederation president Alfons Hrmann told German news agency SID, according to Puck Duddy. Political extremism has nothing to do with sport. We will continue to emphasize the special importance of the values of sport for the Olympics our team in Germany Zero tolerance. Therefore, maintaining this communication would be a clear exclusion criterion for this or other player.

According to the Sporting News, German Ice Hockey Federation Vice President Marc Hindelang told The Associated Press that Hitler is a no-go, thats clear but added that players have the right to express their political opinions.

Thats democracy and we all have to deal with it. Theres a fine line between tastelessness and intolerable things,Hindelang said.

The Islanders said the team does not condone the actions of Thomas Greiss on social media and are addressing the situation internally. And Thomas regrets his actions and recognizes that he made a mistake.

Greiss signed a three-year, $10-million contract with the Islanders in January, the Sporting News said.

This story has been updated.

(H/T: The American Mirror)

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While Fox News lagged behind other cable news outlets in broadcasting reports that President Donald Trump had disclosed highly classified information to Russias foreign minister and ambassador to the United States, the network eventually hosted a series of guests who downplayed the reports. If [National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell] thought what Trump was doing was a really, really bad idea, they probably would have spoke up, Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts said on air.

Guest Charles Krauthammer argued that Hillary Clinton had committed worse leaks. The only implication here is that hes unschooled, Krauthammer said of Trump. This is his first go around with sensitive information and he mightve slipped up. If he did, its not good. On the other hand, if its not deliberate, its not exactly a high crime and misdemeanor, he said, implying that Clinton committed worse security infractions by using a private email server.

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Fox News: Hillary Clinton Was Worse - Daily Beast

Donald Trump is president today in large part because of voters concerns about protecting classified material. There are several layers of nuance to that point, of course, including that those concerns were generally a subset of critiques of Hillary Clintons use of a private server as secretary of state. But the sticking point for conservative critics of Clintons behavior was that her use of a private server included the transmission of classified information, per the FBI thereby putting that information at risk of being intercepted by foreign agents, should her server have been compromised. (Clintons team repeatedly insisted that the server hadnt been breached; the FBI saidthere was no evidence that it was.)

While Trump campaign events were powered by chants of lock her up, the reason for the locking up was generally a pastiche of concerns about Clintons purported transgressions. On occasion, though, the rationale for that urgent demand crystallized over concerns about the release of classified information. For example, there was former national security adviser Michael Flynns speech at the Republican convention in July.

I have called on Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race, Flynn said, because she, she put our nations security at extremely high risk with her careless use of a private email server. He then joined in the chants: Lock her up! Lock her up!

Given The Washington Posts report on Monday that, as president, Trump himself revealed classified information in conversation with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, its worth revisiting what he himself said about Clintons email security a subject that came up regularly in his freewheeling stump speeches.

During the May 10 meeting at the White House with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, Trump began describing details about an Islamic State terror threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft, according to current and former U.S. officials. (The Washington Post)

Redding, Calif., June:She could have used the government stuff, assume everybodys listening to you I always do. Every time I pick up a phone, I assume people are listening, you know. Now, you sue their a off if they are. If you can find them, you drop a little lawsuit on them and make them pay, bigly. For her to do what she did puts our country at risk. Shes secretary of state.

New York, June:We cant hand over our government to someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies.

Doral, Fla., July: So how can Hillary Clinton be briefed on this unbelievably delicate information when it was just proven that she lied and that her server shouldnt have had it and that theyre missing 33,000 emails and thats just the beginning. I dont think that its safe to have Hillary Clinton, in light of what just happened, and in light of what we just found out, I dont think its safe to have Hillary Clinton be briefed on national security because the word will get out.

Portland, Maine, August: Her email scandal put our entire country at risk. Made our sensitive secrets vulnerable to hacking by foreign adversaries.

Greenville, N.C., September: This is really, if we bring it up, this is like Watergate, only its worse, because here our foreign enemies were in a position to hack our most sensitive national security secrets. We cant have someone in the Oval Office who doesnt understand the meaning of the word confidential.

Geneva, Ohio, October: Hillary even sold out our nations security with her illegal private server, knowing full well it would put you and your family in danger. As moms across this nation put their children to bed each night with a prayer for safety and peace, Hillary was knowingly putting those same families at risk by putting our confidential secrets on this illegal, private server. But for Hillary, it seems anything is okay as long as it increases whatever it was she was looking for.

Concord, N.C., November: Its believed that no less than five foreign intelligence agencies successfully hacked into Hillarys illegal insecure server. In other words, Hillarys corrupt criminal scheme put the safety of every American family in danger, thats whats happened.

Trump wasnt alone, of course. Conservative media and others on the right were quick to question Clintons fitness for office.

On at least two occasions, Republicans on Capitol Hill explicitly described Clintons email server as treasonous.

There was Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), who made the claim on Fox News.

And there was Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) who on Monday coincidentally announced plans to run for U.S. Senate in his home state who suggested impeaching Clinton should she be elected president thanks to her lax use of classified information, since Hillary Clinton has, in my opinion, committed a high crime or misdemeanor or treason, which is the constitutional standard.

She betrayed her country by exposing national security information to risk by our adversaries, Brooks said. That is a criminal offense. That makes it an impeachable offense. She probably has committed an impeachable offense, therefore she probably should be impeached. But in all likelihood she wont be because Congress doesnt have the political will to do so.

Whether Brooks feels the same way for Trump remains to be seen as does Congresss will to weigh in.

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