Good to know that email-gate only stinks to high heaven

[MannyGoldstein]

and was not illegal.

Whew.

[Warpy]

1. One thing Clinton knows is the law.

I have problems with a lot of her stances and policies, but that's not one of them.

If she's the nominee, she'll still be far better than any horror the Republicans present us with.

[TheNutcracker]

10. She had a gov email as First Lady AND as a U.S. Senator. This stinks...it sure does.

[COLGATE4]

13. According to other posters on DU who are familiar

with State Department, apparently the government e-mail system they use is unreliable, often down and extremely slow. It seems that what she did in this respect is not all that unusual. In addition, the rules governing this practice didn't come into effect until after she had left the State Department. In short, it's a Drudge type attack, full of the sound and the fury but signifying nothing.

[hrmjustin]

2. I don't think it stinks at all.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Ah, come on, 3WM! It's not like she held a high level post. And AOL is pretty secure, I think....

I repeat:

It may well have been hotmail, a Microsoft product and TOTALLY stable and secure.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I would be shocked and dumbfounded

If a POS "scandal" like this is going to bring HRC down. Seems like some people-on the right AND the left- seem way too eager to latch on to this so they can vent their spleen on her. Bush/Cheney did so many awful things that it *should* rightfully shut up the Republicans at least when it comes to scandalmongering current and future Democratic Presidents.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Leaving Bush out of it

It still seems like a nothingburger. Does anybody seriously think that THIS is going to ruin her chances to become POTUS- if there was even any actual lawbreaking that occurred?

[geek tragedy]

7. You and Ron Fournier agree.

Very Third Way.

Still bemoaning the net neutrality rulemaking by the FCC?

[OnyxCollie]

9. It's not illegal to use personal email

to avoid monitoring, particularly when you're setting up the TPP, or pressuring the Haitian government to keep slave wages for the benefit of the big money donors to your foundation, the kind of donors that use HSBC to launder their money.

Yay.

[Bonobo]

14. It's just tragically stupid and unprofessional. nt

[eridani]

11. Pretty damned trivial compared to getting all kissyface with banksters, IMO n/t

[TwilightGardener]

15. Of course it stinks. Everyone needs to take a step back and look at the big picture:

WHY DID HILLARY CLINTON SET UP HER OWN EMAIL SYSTEM? Not just a personal account that she already had and happened to use occasionally. Nope, she totally set up a whole new outside deal, right from the git-go, FOR THE PURPOSE of avoiding the .gov system, for herself and a few chosen staffers. And she only releases emails from her account when it's convenient to her--or not at all, who knows? It's at her whim. There was never a current running record of her email communications while she was in office, except where her emails showed up on others' .gov accounts. There's only a record now because she chose to release 50,000 of them. No, DU, it wasn't because the State Dept. has crappy IT, that's just fucking laughable.

[tularetom]

16. Hillary 2016 - technically she did nothing illegal