Discussion for article #240431
Ben-gha-zeeeee!
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For the press and especially AP, WAPO and the NYT, this has crossed the line separating monomania from obsessive/compulsive disorder. “OMG, we may have yet another chance to uncover some sordid bit of gossip that will provide us with countless column yammering inches. Huzzah, Huzzah, Huzzah”
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Oh, good dog! Just smash the damned thing to smitherines and be done with it!
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Inded and why are we entitled to see her personal emails.
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What utter incompetence by Hillary and her staff! If she believed she had a right to delete her personal emails (and she does), she should have done it thoroughly. From news reports, it appears that the server that she had before June 2013 (before the emails were migrated to a new server) was not wiped at all.
This almost certainly means that all 30,000 personal emails will be recovered, and perhaps published. Thus, Hillary will have her most private moments exposed, as well as give off the impression that she was hiding something.
The way the crappy media works, this will lead to months of headlines with the worst possible spin on the deleted emails – e.g. why didn’t she turn over that one? By the end, we will have more transparency about Hillary’s service in the State Dept. than of any other public official in history, and yet it will not lead to greater public trust in her, because of the impression that she unsuccessfully tried to hide the emails.
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In my observations of popular culture, social media, and the mainstream media over the past decade, many folks out there appear to have embraced this really odd and cognitively dissonant attitude about personal privacy which could be encapsulated as:
“It’s my right as an American to invade your privacy and find out everything and anything about you, but damn you sir/madame if you should ever try to invade my privacy and find out something about me.”
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Yeah, well, probably not, given there’s no there there to email about or fuss over in the first place.
It looks like beyond using her cell phone as a reader or to acknowledge receipt in platitudes, HRC didn’t use it. It’s POSSIBLE HRC received (if anything) communications containing shots at Congress for contributing to the levels of risks to which DoS staff in general and Ambassador Stevens in particular was exposed, but since the leaking all comes thru R committee chairs, we’ll never see those.
I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping we’ll be entertained with more self-debasement by Lonnie Davis.
Finally we can find out who did the catering for Chelsea’s wedding. I hear they also catered weddings in Benghazi…
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There’s another aspect to this revelation - if indeed it even is a revelation; the company that managed Hillary’s email basically said they don’t know. Hillary Clinton, to my knowledge never said herself that she wiped her e-mail. When asked by the press, she’s always avoided addressing that obviously loaded question since it has been the GOP all along that has been pushing the “wiped” meme.
Republicans have been claiming for months that Clinton wiped the email server. In March, the chairman of the House’s Benghazi investigation, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-OK) said, “We learned today, from her attorney, Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server. While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department.”
Republicans have been pushing the “wiped server” as evidence of wrongdoing, as they keep hinting that Clinton committed a crime.
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Ass Wipes would do that.
I think Hillary was real dumb to do the private server thing, and have stated as such (as she has too). But this notion she committed some crime is nuts, there has been zero evidence of one. Zero.
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Server-ghazi.
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Seems like if she were really hiding something, she (or really, her staff) would have wiped the server. But it sounds like she (they) didn’t bother. Maybe that’s all part of her clever plan to appear innocent, but I doubt it. My guess is that you could find a lot of interesting stuff in her deleted personal emails, which might include plenty of stuff she’d rather not be made public, but not necessarily any embarrassing job-related emails that should have been retained.
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She needs to put a call into James Baker. He can make it go away.
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There will be a point, I reckon not to far in the future, when this will become offensive to the general public, specially the neurotic and and cognitive challenged millennials. They will reason, and not at all without basis, that if the press and the house republicans can invade the privacy of somebody like HRC, at this level of unheard intrusion, then they can do it to anybody else. Having their lily white, or brown as it might be, asses exposed to that extend is the millennial greatest nightmare, even when they live their whole life telling us everything they do on social media. But you see, one thing is for somebody or anybody to tell out of his or hers own volition what they are doing. That is called sharing. But I be damned if somebody else decides that something I deleted must be made available for all to see. That is potentially as toxic as plutonium, and the MSM and the GOP are about to step into that potential mess.
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I read once that, during the Ken Starr-led investigations of the 1990s, they went through Hillary’s underwear drawer in the White House.
Yes, where is a good fixer when you need one!
Well, I just hope we finally get to find out what Hillary’s gifilte fish recipe is. Every South Florida bubbie is waiting to copy it!
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It’s been in FBI custody. But, yes, Tom Brady could have arranged for it to be done.
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Exactly. And in fact, I’ve kinda been hoping the server wasn’t wiped, so the FBI could confirm that indeed everything she deleted was clearly personal. (Nice, btw, for this AP story to acknowledge that the DoJ confirmed her right to do so, albeit in a half-sentence in the last paragraph.)
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