While I imagine that there´s probably no ẗhere there, I do have to question HRC´s judgement in allowing even the hint of impropriety to enter into her time as SoS.
Except there was none. No emails on the personal server were “classified” then. QED.
“Law enforcement officials have said that Clinton is not the target of the investigation.”
Buried at the end of the Politico story of course. And won’t be mentioned by the MSM.
Even considering most time-consuming bureaucratic picayunities, Comey’s posture and crafty email release dates on this matter smell.
I really think they need to conclude this investigation post-haste, and give voters a Final Answer on whether she will be indicted for anything. I think the answer is No, but Democrats certainly deserve to Know before they nominate her.
I guess it must be “Non-Story Tuesday” or something.
True but only those suffering from the worst case of Hillary Derangement Syndrome will think this is an important issue in the grand scheme of things. At least Banana Republics have decent bananas.
And you know the GOP and right wing media will play this like a violin with a crescendo scheduled for around the last week in October!
Go to any media outlet and you will see the “teasers”: "How e-mails could end the Clinton campaign, " “The bombshell mails that might sink Clinton,” “One secret that Hillary doesn’t want you to know,”
They are like those clickbait junk bombs (23 of Hollywoods’ worst plastic surgery cases…you won’t believe #17) and they are out there daily…without a shred of evidence. As Media Matters has noted, you can follow the path of this stuff pretty clearly. GOP forms committee specifically to search for dirt on Clinton (yes you Trey Gowdy), finds nothing, leaks anonymous and unfounded claims to friendly reporters, reporters run stories without attribution. They often start with the junkiest sources…Drudge, Breitbart, Fox and then of course the supposedly ethical side of the media fence HAS to go along. GOP gets another victory in the effort to weaken Clinton.
Last time it was the Reverend Wright and Obama and of course the birth certificate. Swiftboating for Kerry…and on and on the system rolls and the media just pulls out its stenographers pad and transcribes the crap.
Actually, the Washington Post actually did a fair story in covering this. Apparently it started with her literally not being able to bring her personal Blackberry even onto the same floor as her State Department office, let alone the same room, due to “security concerns”.
In that light, all of a sudden workarounds start to look a heck of a lot more attractive.
Nobody listens to me but I have been saying for years that the Clintons (all of them) need a professional Court Jester/Devil’s Advocate that tells them which of their ideas are crappy and should be changed. This would have solved the Wall St speeches problem (take the money and donate 90% to Planned Parenthood or Eliz. Warren’s political campaign) and Server problem (get 13 govt lawyers to sign off on the plan) and Clinton Foundation greed (take less salary and donate where it hurts your opponents) and Bill’s Hound-dog appetites (polite, professional prostitutes).
One does begin to wonder just a little what political result Comey is angling for. He’s certainly not a Sanders type. My cynical bet is that he’s waiting for the outcome of the GOP race.
They are their own worst enemies sometimes, it seems.
Agreed. Terrible judgment. I would never conduct business outside my business’ email platform. I would never set up my own email server to avoid using the official email. And the business I’m in is way less sensitive than the Dept of State. Furthermore, her excuse is absurd. She claimed that she didn’t want to carry more than one mobile device to keep track of multiple emails accounts. Who doesn’t know (and didn’t know 7 years ago) that you can add as many email accounts to your smartphone as you want. Furthermore, she’s the friggin’ Sec State. She doesn’t have an entourage to help carry multiple smartphones, if that were even necessary? It was a very dumb thing to do, and the lousy explanation just makes it worse.
That’s like beating a dead horse
That is beyond ridiculous. There is no there there
The people who are going to vote for HRC don’t give a damn about the emails. Those dems who are making a big deal are using it as an excuse not to vote for her. If there was something to this b/s story it would have been exposed by now
I really don’t get this one at all. Unless there’s a ton of info that’s still gonna come out (which seems unlikely at this point), even from the perspective of the conspiracy theorist the worst possible scenario is that this “scandal” all boils down to:
- she set up a super-secret method of communication that she apparently didn’t bother using for anything particularly super-secret.
- no harm was actually done, but maybe there was a possibility that sensitive info might’ve, could’ve, potentially been compromised (but wasn’t).
- she bent the rules on an IT department policy because they wouldn’t let her use her own blackberry.
A “scandal” where there’s no cheating, no stealing, no harm to anybody, no infidelity, no broken laws, no power advantage, no blackmail, no effect on the USA, etc. etc. etc. – that’s gotta be the lamest “scandal” ever.
Or maybe he’s just doing his job and letting his investigators do theirs without political pressure.
Also, note that he doesn’t say they won’t be done before the convention, just that they aren’t going to do a slipshod rush job to achieve that.
Doesn’t matter, as long as they can keep the waters muddied to befuddle low-information voters.
As Cokie Roberts said: “It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it’s out there,”