Readers React: Hillary Clinton’s excuses for ‘top secret’ emails raise questions about her competence

To the editor: I am so fed up with Hillary Clinton. (“State Department declares 22 Clinton emails contained top secret information,” Jan. 29)

Her mantra about never having received emails on her private server that were marked “top secret” exempts her from an inability to distinguish between what is and what isn’t? A secretary of State wouldn’t know?

And that’s besides a raft of other unhelpful indications about her performance as secretary, like having John Kerry show us almost every day what competence looks like in that office. Add to this the fact that she thought a private server was just ducky in the first place, and you have a level of judgment that doesn’t bode well for us if she ultimately wins the presidency.

But there’s worse. No one running on either side appears to be any more credible.

If only Kerry had put in a second bid, this election would have the missing option: depth and quality equal to the office.

Jules Brenner, Hollywood

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To the editor: Think the GOP will stop screaming about “another Hillary scandal” long enough to notice one single fact: “None of the messages were marked top secret at the top they were sent”? Even at that, the emails questioned represent only 22 out of more than 55,000 checked out so far.

Trying to make a big deal about this now is like having a cop pull you over for running a red light — at an intersection without traffic lights — and explaining, “You see, we’ll be putting a traffic light up here next month, so that makes you guilty now.”

Let’s get real: Clinton has been a great and dedicated public servant and would make a great and dedicated president. All this smear is dirty politics, period.

Bonnie Compton Hanson, Santa Ana

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