Discussion: Report: FBI Looking Into Security Of Hillary Clinton's Email Server

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the FBI is not targeting Clinton specifically.

But, it appears the media is


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I’m waiting for the investigation into the Bush White House use of yahoo accounts to circumvent the law.

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Did you know that Al Gore invented the Internet? It was all over the media in 2000.

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Is it possible that this email nothingburger is actually becoming more tiresome than Benghazi??? Is that even possible?

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whitewater = emailgate

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You’re forgetting the earth tones shocker and that Dr. Dean’s freaky, hippy wife liked, horrors, shag carpeting and sandals!!!

As with the CBS ‘piece’ this morning, it’s all for the coda that’s also a leit motif: “So far the FBI doesn’t suspect Secretary Clinton of any wrongdoing.” Got that? “Wrongdoing”? “Suspect”? “FB freakin’ I”?

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I hate to be an “I told you so”, but I kinda did. This is simply a process story, but every piece of the process regarding her emails is going to be reported as some nefarious Clinton plot.

Its all pretty low grade, not worth reporting stuff, but once the Times hyped up their two non-stories about Hillary, EVERYTHING about it is now super important, very questionable and must be reported right away.

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and when the FBI confirms the server is secure it’ll be on the next conspiracy theory:

The FBI has been intimidated by the Clinton cabal so they stepped down.

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Well, even though the entire email kerfluffle is BS and about to be proven so, it won’t change the minds of baggers everywhere, exactly the same as Benghazzzzzi!1

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Lord, the fake Trump focus group stuff is still inching its way through the clogged, edema swollen media extremities


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This was an excess of snark, right?

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The media and their HRC coverage is like a bad homage to the late Señor Wences

http://www.legacy.com/UserContent/ns/Photos/Wences_350x338.jpg

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How is it possible that TPM is not carrying live the President’s hugely important speech on the Iran Deal. WTF TPM - afraid you won’t have room for another Trump story?

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You mean this email controversy that still hangs out there, unresolved?

Emails lost to the ether
but hey, no biggie because IOKIYAR, right?

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I have no doubt they’ll believe exactly that.

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In other words, a pro forma check to be sure that materials an IC IG is freaking about (which they routinely do in relation to State) were and are secure. Barely news.

Can we mention, meanwhile, that the official State Dept servers were actually hacked, while HRC’s apparently weren’t?

But seriously, I don’t think all of this hype has an endless potential to build up. Eventually, it all backfires as story after story comes to nothing and people begin to tune it out: “Eh, that again?” That’s what happened with the supposedly dire “scandals” of Benghazi, “IRSgate,” etc.

In the end, bogus hype is self-defeating
 and we’re barely at the beginning of a long campaign.

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This is what Democrats get for giving Republicans and the Bush administration a pass on every law they broke. There were lots of email shenanigans under Bush, using private Blackberries and the RNC mailserver for things they did not want to put in the public record. But Obama and Holder decided to just let it go. If they had investigated the grand scale of Republican misuse of email, it would have been a warning to people like Hillary Clinton about how troubling it can be, and it would have given the public some perspective that says Hillary wasn’t the only one to skirt the rules.

Because Obama gave Bush a pass, now it appears that Hillary Clinton is the only one making errors using email, when we would know Hillary’s are probably among the smallest infractions, if we knew the details about 8 years of abuse under Bush.

Perhaps news organizations friendly to Democrats could expose some of the Bush adminstration’s abuses rather than keep parroting what the Republican controlled media say – that is if they really are friends to Democrats. TPM? MSNBC?

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and “so far”. That’s the clincher.

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