Discussion for article #240197
What kind of a headline is that? “Won’t apologize” implies that there is a reason to apologize. She was not the first Sec of State to use a personal server, and the use was approved by the DoJ and State lawyers, and she paid for the staffer who maintained it.
What is it she should apologize for?
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You bet! This whole thing is purely to try to put a very undeserved stink on her.
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I have yet to see evidence of any real wrongdoing, or any real harm. Those pushing this “scandal” are blowing smoke, then saying “where there’s smoke there must be fire.” Looks to me like the only thing on fire is their pants.
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And why in hell or heaven should Hillary Clinton need to make an apology for … doing nothing wrong?
“I did not send or receive any information marked classified,” she added. “I take the responsibilities of handling classified materials very seriously and did so.”
Go, Hillary!! Go, Hillary!! – Straight back to the White House!! – Eight Years!!
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I am not going to really put that entirely on TPM. Nearly every media outlet has been running with some version of “Clinton refuses to apologize” since the Mitchell interview. She really is in a box with the media on this…they are determined to run with this non-story for rest of the election and every interview or question she answers is going to be a “damned if you do/damned if you don’t” moment.
Basically the media wants her down on her stomach groveling before her Media Masters. And if she complies they will run as an obvious admittance of criminal wrongdoing and a total lack or moral character. Plus weak. If she refuses, she is arrogant, willful and a megalomaniac whose ego is too big to run for office.
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Hillary Clinton is stubborn, arrogant and dishonest. It is not the fact of using private email accounts and server that is the issue – that was “allowed,” even if not approved. It’s HOW she used them: in an attempt to circumvent/avoid Congressional Oversight, Freedom of Information, and the commitment of the Obama Administration to HIGHER standards of ethics and transparency than previous administrations. She made a CHOICE that showed HORRENDOUSLY bad judgment.
I remember in another instance where Hillary used HORRENDOUSLY bad judgment and stubbornly refused to acknowledge it for years and years: her vote to give Bush authority for the Iraq War.
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It may have been “allowed” (which apparently means that it wasn’t illegal or against rules she herself made), but it was contrary to department policy and just a dumb thing to do. The idiocy part is the large issue, as the question of whether someone her age would be understand problems involving the modern world and technology would have been an issue even if she hadn’t clearly proven herself technologically illiterate.
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I feel let down. Here, I think you need some of these:
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Hillary created this mess, and has the option of resolving it any time she chooses. Instead, she chooses to let the drip drip drip of information continue and undermine her standing with the American people, who in a growing majority do not believe her and have an unfavorable opinion of her.
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The chattering class will tell us as often as they can what they alone believe is wrong with her because they think they’re smarter than we are especially if they see the public buys into it. But here’s what remains at the end of the day. HRC is a formidable campaigner, always on message, gaffe-free in debates and town halls, encyclopedic on policy and comfortable with confrontation competition. Her campaign is only starting and she’ll prevail and especially with someone like Trump on Quds and Kurds. “Drip, drip”? really?
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And, to me, she is standing her ground showing she has backbone – especially on something where she is totally in the right.
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Hillary Clinton did not make those rules – they were in place when she arrived.
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How exactly would she do that? This is like the Benghazi “scandal.” It’s bullshit. There’s nothing there. Like many senators, she used a private email system. She continued using that system after she became Secretary of State, breaking no laws or departmental policies in doing so. She used other, secure communication channels for classified exchanges. Nobody has found anything she was “hiding” in her email. All the business related email has been sorted out, by attorneys, and turned over to State. She’s answering the questions. Like Benghazi, the R’s are never going to let go of this. Like Benghazi, they will “investigate” and insist it’s a real scandal even as they find nothing. So, just how is she supposed to resolve this?
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How did her use of a private server circumvent/avoid Congressional Oversight, Freedom of Information, etc? What am I missing?
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In fact:
Colin Powell on Meet the Press yesterday:
“I had a secure State Department machine for secure material and I had a laptop that I could use for email. I would email relatives, friends, but I would also email in the department,” he said.
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I wish the news media would not be in the position of the need for greed. Making a fair profit over and above all true costs is totally fair, but if the majority of the biggies would just stop and get back into the business of delivering actual facts with supporting information and not all trying to one-up each other in the most salacious shit coupled with the Kardashian/Jenner sideshow and need for the most high-end advertisements, this nation would be a lot better for it.
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Ah, but he didn’t have his own private server which is apparently an absolutely crucial difference, for reasons that no human being has yet been able to articulate coherently.
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You are so right. In fact, the commercial servers leak like a sieve. I’ll tell the big problem. Hillary’s not getting any stand-up support from other Democrats. They ought to be blasting the media and the Republicans. Instead, they’ve been frieghtened into silence. They will be plenty sorry for staying aloof on this if this non-scandal hands the lection to the Republicans.
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Cheers to that, Beatty Cat!!
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