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misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
Sun May 24, 2015, 10:58 AM May 2015

Fact Checkers Obliterate GOP ‘Proof’ That Hillary Clinton Had Secret Email Addresses

Here’s the story. The Republican National Committee histrionically announced to the world on May 18 that they had Hillary Clinton now because her published emails (New York Times) showed two accounts (hdr22@clintonemail.com andhrod17@clintonemail.com.) and she said she only had one while in office!

(Snip)

The Clinton explanation passed two tests — including one conducted for us by Ray Tomlinson, the man who is widely credited with inventing email.

The results of the test Tomlinson ran were consistent with the Clinton campaign’s explanation. Score a big one for reality and a large negative for the Republican claims. And FactCheck did their own test which also confirmed the Clinton campaign’s explanation:

We at FactCheck.org also tested Clinton’s explanation. Our IT staff createdoriginaluser@asc.upenn.edu and renamed itnewuser@asc.upenn.edu. An email sent byoriginaluser@asc.upenn.edu printed out as if it had come from newuser@asc.upenn.edu after we changed the name of the email account.

And so, at long last, there is no smoking gun for the Republicans’ conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton having secret email accounts (like many of their candidates and indeed politicians of both parties – kind of bizarre that they want to go here with Jeb Bush and Scott Walker on their side).

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/23/factcheck-busts-republicans-proof-hillary-clinton-secret-email-addresses.html
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Fact Checkers Obliterate GOP ‘Proof’ That Hillary Clinton Had Secret Email Addresses (Original Post) misterhighwasted May 2015 OP
Well, I wonder if good old Darrell Issa wants to take this one on. He really did not try to go afte Thinkingabout May 2015 #1
wonder how many times the fact checkers or Tomlinson misterhighwasted May 2015 #3
J E E Z U S, Iliyah May 2015 #2
K&R! hrmjustin May 2015 #4
Feel free to repost this in GD, anyone. misterhighwasted May 2015 #5
This story was bogus Gothmog May 2015 #6
(T)he Clinton campaign says there is a simple explanation for this apparent discrepancy rocktivity May 2015 #7

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Well, I wonder if good old Darrell Issa wants to take this one on. He really did not try to go afte
Sun May 24, 2015, 11:07 AM
May 2015

the emails before and probably thought if this could lie in the grass hoping it would affect Hillary's run for the president. Since the emails have been released and they are not opening doors to push the "scandal" further I think it will just die away, secretly thrown in a garbage can.

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
3. wonder how many times the fact checkers or Tomlinson
Sun May 24, 2015, 11:30 AM
May 2015

Would have to repeat himself before the Issa, Gowdy-ites would begin to grasp how the email system works in Clinton's case.
Their brain bulbs may flicker to a slight glow, but barely get much brighter in the end.
They're fools

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. J E E Z U S,
Sun May 24, 2015, 11:26 AM
May 2015

but the GOP don't believe in facts nor truths and will ignore them and continue on with the witch hunt.

Good news tho, and thanks!

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
5. Feel free to repost this in GD, anyone.
Sun May 24, 2015, 11:52 AM
May 2015

I believe this story needs exposure.
Thanks

I'm on my way outta town for the day.

rocktivity

(44,555 posts)
7. (T)he Clinton campaign says there is a simple explanation for this apparent discrepancy
Sun May 24, 2015, 01:03 PM
May 2015
FactCheck.org...The emails published by the Times were printed out in 2014 after Clinton had left the State Department and after she had changed her email address, so the printed copies of emails she sent while in office display her new address (hrod17@clintonemail.com), even though they were originally sent under her old address (hdr22@clintonemail.com)...


If the Republicans are looking for private email accounts of public officials, they could try Governor Soprano and his crew -- I mean the Chris Christie administration.


rocktivity
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