2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA Hillary Supporter says Hillary’s Email Defense Is Laughable
We now have former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being revealed as someone who took the unprecedented step of arranging to use her personal email account for all of her official email communications. Whats more, she decided to use her own email server equipment, rather than a commercial Internet service provider, so that the records of her email account would reside solely within her personal control at home. And if that were not enough, she then proceeded blithelythough not uncharacteristicallyto present herself to the public, at a press conference held on March 10, as if there were really nothing wrong about any of this at all.
Well, as the saying goes, reality is not her friend.
For anyone considering this sad tale carefullyincluding the media, members of Congress and the public at large, whether from inside the Beltway or notsome basic points of both law and reality should be borne in mind.
First, while it is accurate for Secretary Clinton to say that when she was in office there was not a flat, categorical prohibition on federal government officials ever using their personal email accounts for the conduct of official business, thats a far different thing from saying (as she apparently would like to) that a government official could use his or her personal email account exclusively, for all official email communications, as she actually did. In fact, the Federal Records Act dictates otherwise.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-defense-laughable-foia-116116

Tarc
(10,589 posts)
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)teaches secrecy law at American Universitys Washington College of Law.
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Tarc
(10,589 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)But an actual knowledgeable source worthy of being heard.
https://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/metcalfe/
Depaysement
(1,835 posts)That's why I posted it. I was careful not to post someone with an ax to grind.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Washington College of Law
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)and joining the rightwing circle jerk theories that Clinton is going to be indicted for receiving emails about news coverage of drone strikes.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)with financial interests in Libya was giving Clinton biased advice upon which her decisions were biased.
That you fail to see how serious this is baffling.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)last and always.
speaktruthtopower
(800 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Sorry!
kath
(10,565 posts)All these ex-cons are really stinking up DU since yesterday. GAH.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)I don't see much daylight between the two, other than their choice of words.
thesquanderer
(12,530 posts)If it didn't set off alarm bells a year ago, it's probably not going to now either.
Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)the two scandals that amazingly have still never become public.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)I don't care. I don't care about her emails, I don't care about the server, I don't in any way care about this non-issue at all. If I could count the ways I don't care, I would,but I don't care.