Discussion: <span class="s1">Latest Clinton Emails Show Careful Attempts To Avoid Sending Sensitive Info

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The Guardian has a good series of reports on these emails, because some of the are unflattering to David Cameron and Nick Clegg [Sid Blumenthal describes them as snobbish and arrogant] and Tony and Mrs. Blair [lobbying for Qataris]. But they mention one “mysterious email” from Hillary to State Department officials with the Subject Line: “Gefiltefish” and Hillary’s query is “Where are we on this?”

Maybe preparing for a Seder?

https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_Web/IPS-0121/DOC_0C05774358/C05774358.pdf

and another from ally David Brock on impeaching Justice Clarence Thomas.

Well, don’t we all want to?

https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_Web/IPS-0104/DOC_0C05775408/C05775408.pdf

Otherwise, so far, there’s not a whole lot of there, there.

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Nice article, getting away from gotcha to a few facts. On the other hand, is there really anything here? We know nothing was classified when sent and now we know they avoided sending classified.

Really, would one ever send anything classified via email regardless of the server? The nature of email is insecure.

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After an aide noted the draft of innocuous remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was on the State Department’s classified messaging system, she responded, “It’s a public statement! Just email it.”

Basically, that’s the heart of the matter. “Classified” could mean just about anything since the State department and intelligence often “classify” incredibly mundane information.

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Yes, the AP actually provided facts that undermine the “scandal” narrative – but they can’t take that to it’s logical conclusion, so they have to add that it all “highlights the challenge the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination faces as she struggles to explain her decision to set up a private email server at her New York home.”

In other words, “Don’t worry! It’s still a scandal! Clinton rules still apply: ‘questions’ have been raised, so assume wrongdoing that just hasn’t been proved yet!”

Still, this does further undermine the crap, even if they don’t really want it to.

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Oh, I am sure a new resident doomsayers will be along soon enough to educate us all on how gefiltefish emails will surely cost her at least 10 to 20 points in the polls. Because…something.

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No kidding - it’s been an ongoing complaint since September 11 that the process of classifying gov’t documents of any kind has gotten ridiculous, and they always err on the side of declaring it classified.

Also interesting once again that they talk about emails that have since been declared classified without expressly stating that they weren’t classified at the time they were sent.

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I liked the email where Blumenthal referred to Boehner as “louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle.”

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Morning Joe would say otherwise though there have been instances where newspaper articles have been stamped “classified.”

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The media generally is still trying to promote this as a scandal even though these emails seem rather sympathetic to Hillary and her efforts to be correct in her handling of the email. Morning Joe Scarborough thinks the scandal is that her server was in a closet. I’ve worked for some of the biggest companies in the world and you know where their servers are? One guess.

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Secretary Clinton did nothing wrong. This is a bogus hate-driven conservative campaign.

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Latest Clinton Emails Show Careful Attempts To Avoid Sending Sensitive Info

As opposed to them posting slews of them that probably overlooked something that should not have gone out

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I contacted AdminiTroll™.
They said they’re sending the best they’ve got.

jw1

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As I stare to my right-- into my server closet…

jw1

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God forbid the press actually note how ridiculous most of the “classified” classifications are, or that they were reclassified after the fact and before being released. But Mike Schmidt at the NYT and Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post are determined to paint an ominous picture so the story line must be continued.

Also, looking at the way the press has gleefully swooped in on the gossipy items among the official emails, is it any wonder Clinton was reluctant to release her personal emails.

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If I were Hillary, I would have created more "Gefiltefish - type memos, just to troll.

From: Hillary
To: State Dept Minion 23/a
Subject: Eggplant Parmesian

What the hell is going on here?

From: Hillary
To: State Dept Minion 23/b
Subject: Beef Stroganoff

Is there any way you can get this harassment to stop?

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When I read the Guardian piece, they had me at “louche.”

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I don’t know how much you would have to pay me to waste hours and hours of my life going through all these e-mails.

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The Clintons have been put through the ringer since Bill was President. Hillary has to know that everything she does will be magnified a million times by the conservative shrill machine. To knowingly do something with email that she knows would come back and haunt her seems incredible to me. She probably imagined every single email she ever sent through that server being placed on a billboard somewhere. This seems like even more of a nothing burger than Benghazi or IRS or any of the other numerous GOP dreamed up “scandals”.

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I can see it now “Gefiltefishgate”!

P.S. I wonder if “gefiltefish” is code for Bibi Netanyahu much as “agent” or ocassionally “fatman” was WWII code for Churchill

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