Bremmer: Senior Administration Official Told Me, 'If I Did What Hillary Did, I Think I'd Be In Jail

[Purveyor]

The scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for work-related correspondences while she served as secretary of state has turned off some of her supporters in the White House, geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer told Business Insider.

"Most of the senior administration officials I know think she'd be an extremely competent president but have a hard time squaring that with her believing she's above the law," Bremmer said, referring to the possibility that Clinton broke the law by having classified information on her private server.

"The latest facts around this email scandal hits the bullseye on that issue, and it's not going to go away," Bremmer said in an email to Business Insider.

On Thursday, a federal judge opened the door for the FBI to try to recover any emails Clinton may have deleted from her private server, expanding the agency's investigation into whether sensitive information ever passed through her private inbox while she served as secretary of state.

The judge said that Clinton did not comply with government policies surrounding the use of a private email server, which require that "federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system," The New York Times reported.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-bremmer-obama-administration-officials-2015-8#ixzz3jZhiK29x

[Wilms]

1. I thought it was this Bremer...

...who ought to be in jail.

[Octafish]

2. Making little rocks out of big rocks for the rest of his natural days.

That Bremer?

[Wilms]

7. Oh, please, 8Fish.

You should know. Rock sculpting is for whistle-blowers and pot smokers.

No, no. This Bremer, who misplaced 9 billion dollars in order to get the Medal of FreeDumb from a smirking war criminal.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit/

[Octafish]

11. ''Welcome to a free Iraq'' meant they had to pay in cash from now on.

Guy was beloved. Just ask Bernie Kerik, from before he was caught.



Know your BFEE: Homeland Czar & Petro-Turd Bernie Kerik

"Welcome to a free Iraq" is what Jerry Bremer, administrator for the Coalition Provisional Authority, said to me as he reached out to shake my hand when I arrived in Baghdad four months ago. I'm still moved by those words as I say them myself, "Welcome to a free Iraq," just as I was moved last week by President Bush--under pressure at home and abroad--standing firmly by our nation-building project in his U.N. speech.

What a nice, nice man.

[Mnemosyne]

12. The deBathification of Iraq was one of the worst ideas this idiot inflicted. Idiot indeed. nt

[DURHAM D]

3. This is total bullshit.

The Judge was presiding over a hearing where Judicial Watch was asking for Huma Abedin's employment records. The "employee" he was referring to was Huma not Hillary. Had nothing to do with Hillary.

Politico seems to have started this big fat lie and others have picked it up.

Apparently some DUers love Larry Klayman now. Hell... maybe you are Larry.

[Fred Sanders]

9. Lots of transparent loving of RW attacks on Clinton...no doubt about that. By "supporters".

Must be frustrating to see years of propaganda attacks resulting in fuck all of relevance.

[Octafish]

4. I appreciate their concern, but isn't the outrage misdirected?

Bush and Cheney lied America into illegal, immoral and unnecessary wars for profit. Nothing on tee vee about that.



Libya was stable and happy and sharing its wealth to bring peace and prosperity to the Sahara and Saheel. Zip on that, too.

[cascadiance]

5. Well, then ask this bastard why he doesn't think Jeb Bush should also be in jail instead of running!

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jeb-bushs-email-troubles-grow-more-serious

Jeb Bush’s email troubles grow more serious
03/16/15 08:00 AM—UPDATED 03/16/15 08:32 AM

By Steve Benen

...

It’s equally baffling that Bush had no idea how vulnerable he was on the issue he’s chosen to complain about.

Jeb Bush used his private e-mail account as Florida governor to discuss security and military issues such as troop deployments to the Middle East and the protection of nuclear plants, according to a review of publicly released records.

The e-mails include two series of exchanges involving details of Florida National Guard troop deployments after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the review by The Washington Post found.

The Washington Post’s report on the security risks surrounding Jeb Bush conducting official business on his private account coincided with a New York Times article, which noted that it took the former governor more than seven years “to comply fully with a Florida public records statute” on email disclosure.

The report quoted a non-partisan expert with the Florida-based First Amendment Foundation who said Bush’s disclosure policy was “a technical violation of the law.” The governor was required to turn over records pertaining to official business “at the expiration of his or her term of office,” and the Republican waited more than seven years to meet these obligations.

And funny that Jeb criticizes her for what he's guilty of himself.

In my book, she likely hasn't done anything wrong with the security issues of her email. In my book, the bigger question for me as a progressive, is her in effect secretly providing endorsement for the "privatizing" of government email which provides transparency in the right capacity for the rest of us if the IT infrastructure is being properly run and managed and moving to a Republican style "privatized" email solution. If she had at the time come out to us and stated that there are problems with our current IT set up that doesn't let her do her job with her emails appropriately and asked for it to be fixed while she moved her email to a private server to avoid these problems, she'd in my book have a GREAT qualification as a leader wanting to FIX problems like that and wanting to move our government towards Democratic principles and not Republican ones of privatizing government if not destroying it when politicians look to walk away from government infrastructure instead of getting it working properly.

For me this email "scandal" is more a question of Hillary's judgement, and not whether she did anything "illegal".

[DURHAM D]

6. What is his position on the 22 million White House

emails deleted by Bush and company from the RNC server?

[Fred Sanders]

8. Says the war criminal aider and abettor.

[Purveyor]

14. Not the same person. You are thinking of Paul Bremer who

should indeed have been tried as a war criminal.

[Fred Sanders]

15. My mistake...just you usual run of the mill Hillary-hater speculating, then!

[Purveyor]

16. All these haters...what's one to do???

[ericson00]

10. some ivy tower think-tank guy, yes, cuz he knows jack shit about law or intel

n/t

[spanone]

13. you SHOULD be in jail for what YOU did....asshole

[Lurks Often]

17. Why should Ian Bremmer be in jail?

[spanone]

18. wrong bremmer...mea culpa