I wonder if she can brush this off by blaming her subordinates? If its true, I dont think she can.
Pretty neat trick - define the relevant population (two people out of dozens of cabinet level WH officials) so you can exclude the White House email scandal of the latter Bush years and MILLIONS of deleted emails. That's relevant, sorry, especially when you're recommending a JAIL term for Hillary over this. That's fine, and we can jail her in the same cell block as Karl Rove and the rest of the Bush WH.
Besides, as you can tell from what you quoted, I'm conceding wrongdoing on Hillary's part, including that IMO she clearly used a private email server to effectively manage what does and doesn't get released - or delete any that might prove damaging if you prefer. That's relevant and highly damaging. The only thing I get a little tired of is the fact that it's a Clinton involved, so if there's a problem she ought to be arrested, tried, convicted and JAILED!!!! Give me a break. The only people buying that are still worried about BENGHAZI!!!!
I don't think she'll get out from under this, either.
Probably the best she can do is string things along until the next election...hoping her Democratic base won't let such things prevent them from voting for her. If she can't do that, I'm afraid her campaign is going to be over before it gets started...and she could end up with a criminal record.
Oh...wait, there are a couple other possibilities though I don't give them very high chances of happenings. The State Department might tell a pack of lies to keep her off the hook or she might get convicted really quickly...and Obama pardons her.
That decision was made despite direction from her boss - President Obama - that administration officials should use official email accounts. It also came despite his - and her - promises of improved government transparency. And despite her 2007 criticism of Bush administration use of "secret White House email accounts."
Why didn't someone on her team push back, and insist Secretary Clinton reconsider?
Flashback to January 1996. Writing in The New York Times, reporter David Johnston wrote of Mrs. Clinton's secretive role in the firings of White House travel office staffers and, significantly, "a climate of fear in which officials did not dare question Mrs. Clinton's wishes."
What is past is prologue.
Then, and now, Clinton loyalists describe shortcuts taken on her behalf as inadvertent and innocent. For convenience, they say, not protection. Clinton critics, then and now, see cutthroat use of power and a trademark penchant for control and secrecy.
Her camp's response to the email controversy so far is textbook Clinton crisis management: say -- and do -- as little as possible, just enough to keep inevitable controversy from ballooning into unpredictable crisis.
Sorry Jasper, the reason for focusing on your Powell red herring is because AT LEAST that sounds related. The so-called "Bush staff e-Mail scandal" is even less related. But as you insist:
Second, White House staff did not, as far as known, generally use the private email for government business. While there may have been many exceptions, the primary purpose of the system was not to conceal official business - which was the ONLY real purpose of Clinton's system. There may have been violations by Bush staffers of the Presidential record act but that is uncertain.
It's not unrelated. The relevant population isn't other Federal SoS's - basically her and Powell. At a minimum, it's executive branch cabinet level officials.
LMAO. That's really all you need to say to let everyone know you're not even trying to be subjective here. Were you asleep during that entire controversy and haven't even read the wiki article on it since?
It's not "known" that Hillary didn't turn over all her work related emails. If she has, and no one has credibly alleged she has not, the big violation here is she didn't transfer them contemporaneously as sort of required by regulations at that time.
You disagree that most pols in both parties routinely act like hypocrites??
Hypocrisy is inherent in politics...What is dishonest is the ability to own up to it.
Owning up to hypocrisy is dishonest??? I've figured your ass for some time now.
You have nothing 'figured'...I made a mistake in wording...The dishonesty is in NOT owning up to it....But, I don't expect you to be honest and own up to your own....
Monty seems compelled to pick the wrong side. I still have hope.
Hypocrisy is inherent in politics...What is dishonest is the ability to own up to it.
I don't think she'll get out from under this, either.
Probably the best she can do is string things along until the next election...hoping her Democratic base won't let such things prevent them from voting for her. If she can't do that, I'm afraid her campaign is going to be over before it gets started...and she could end up with a criminal record.
You have nothing 'figured'...I made a mistake in wording...The dishonesty is in NOT owning up to it....But, I don't expect you to be honest and own up to your own....
You know, no one has come up with a good reason why this is a major crisis NOW. Everyone who emailed her - or got an email from her - knew she was using a private account. If there was a problem, it should have been brought up then.
I can only assume this is a fake crisis to try to derail her run for the presidency.
You know, no one has come up with a good reason why this is a major crisis NOW. Everyone who emailed her - or got an email from her - knew she was using a private account. If there was a problem, it should have been brought up then.
I can only assume this is a fake crisis to try to derail her run for the presidency.
I hope who ever this matters to investigates her to the fullest. I wish them all the best in their investigations and hearings.
I hope she is released from prison in time to take the oath of office...If not She will be the first President in US history to have her swearing in... in prison.
So tell me what is unclear about it? First you claimed she broke it, then it was unclear? The powers given in the 1950 bill does not use the word "records", and it strictly limits what can be collected. The amendment passed in 2014 broadens the powers to the words "records defined" which gives a much broader amount of power.
But none the less I guess it was just "unclear" in my pasts posts. Maybe this will make it a bit more clear: "Finally, like the amendments to the PRA, the amendments to the FRA also include language that would provide that an employee of an executive agency may not create or send a record from a nonofficial electronic messaging account without ensuring such record was submitted to an official electronic messaging account.". http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-113srpt218/pdf/CRPT-113srpt218.pdf I mean, I thought it was pretty clear before... Is it still "false" or "unclear"? Or has it been made clear yet?
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