Former US Atty General Mukasey on Clinton emails

[pdsimdars]

Former US Atty General Mukasey: Hillary Clinton would be a "low-grade moron" to not know the information on her emails was classified.

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[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. Mukasey is a pretty hardcore partisan --

so he's not exactly an unbiased source. I'm a Sanders supporter and I wouldn't trust shit that comes out of his mouth.

[bobbobbins01]

4. He's definitely biased, but I agree with that statement.

You would have to be a moron to think those emails weren't classified, or going to be classified at some point. She was the freaking secretary of state!

[pdsimdars]

8. EXACTLY the point. It's the CONTENT stupid! (to paraphrase Bill Clinton)

I wish people would stop attacking the messenger and debate the content of what he said. When hear a representation of what was in those emails you would have to be a low grade moron not to know, OR you wanted to hide something.

[Uncle Joe]

22. I agree bobbobbins01.

[pdsimdars]

19. Let's be real though, what did you disagree with in his statement?

Or did you just disagree without bothering to find out what you were criticizing?

[MisterP]

30. at the very least he represents a large wad of the Beltway and is making headlines

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Michael Mukasey?

The attorney general appointed by George W. Bush?

You Sanders supporters are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[CorporatistNation]

33. CLEARLY... CLEARLY... Mukasey Does Know WHAT He Is Talking About! Hell If I Was SOS...

I would know very well what was classified nd what was not with only the most minor tutoring in less than ONE HOUR! He is correct... THIS WAS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE... Hillary is LAZY1 That is one of the reasons she had the server in the first place. The other is... she wanted to keep her communications... PRIVATE! Not the proper perspective... err JUDGEMENT WHEN YOU TOOK ON THE JOB AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AS SECRETARY OF STATE!

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Are you serious with this crap? What's Edwin Meese have to say?

[emulatorloo]

10. Maybe we can do a seance w Martha Mitchell.

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. He's right.

I don't think she wants to use the moron defense.

That leaves, she's toast.

[Ferd Berfel]

6. Yea but CLinton claims Kissenger as her mentor

SHes buddies with a war criminal That's pretty fucked up too.

[NWCorona]

9. And now trump has sought his counsel as well. Telling nt

[Jitter65]

7. Not so. I worked for a government agency and we passed info around all the time. When a contract

was ended and a FOIA request would come in for the information, the documents were quickly labeled "classified."

[NWCorona]

11. Give an example of what you mean by "we passed info around all the time."?

Thanks in advance!

[grasswire]

29. well, this is interesting

What agency was that?

[grasswire]

36. what agency was that?

You made a pretty strong admission of avoiding FOIA law there.

What agency?

[cherokeeprogressive]

39. Hillary Clinton supporter exemplified.

[bahrbearian]

12. Come on! Hillary is just leading the way ahead on Transparency, chew on that Obama

[hack89]

13. Any other republicans you respect and admire? nt

[Ash_F]

15. Looks like Clinton did

See post #14

[hack89]

16. So that makes him trustworthy in your eyes?

Would Bernie trust him and his opinions?

[Ash_F]

18. Nah, just an interesting note after looking him up.

[onenote]

35. Clinton didn't vote for him. So looks like you're just wrong.

"I am deeply troubled by Judge Mukasey's continued unwillingness to clearly state his views on torture and unchecked executive power," Clinton said in a written statement.

"After Alberto Gonzales' troubled tenure, we cannot send a signal that the next attorney general in any way condones torture or believes that the president is unconstrained by law."

Maybe its because she said things like that about him that he's so quick to slam her now?

Care to correct your post or are you comfortable with your misstatement?

[Ash_F]

14. Sanders voted against this guy's confirmation according to wiki.

Over his stance on torture. Clinton did not.

If only Clinton had voted against him back then, maybe he would not be on CNN today trash talking her. Gave him power.


Sanders. Always on point.

[hack89]

17. So we should discount what he says, correct?

because we know that Bernie is a good judge of character and motives. Ok. I am with you.

[pdsimdars]

21. Year after year, issue after issue, Sanders has good JUDGEMENT

[LisaM]

27. Actually, it appears that Clinton, Obama, McCain, and Biden all did not vote on this.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00407


I'm assuming that they all were on the campaign trail (November 2007); otherwise, why would that particular group have not voted? It passed by 13 votes, so the 7 abstentions would not have mattered.

[onenote]

37. In fact, both Clinton and Obama came out publicly against Mukasey

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/30/democrats.mukasey/

"I am deeply troubled by Judge Mukasey's continued unwillingness to clearly state his views on torture and unchecked executive power," Clinton said in a written statement.

"After Alberto Gonzales' troubled tenure, we cannot send a signal that the next attorney general in any way condones torture or believes that the president is unconstrained by law."

[LisaM]

41. Thank you. n/t

[pdsimdars]

20. OK, maybe you don't like the guy, but tell me, honestly, what did he SAY that you disagree with?

He said that." it is the information that is classified not because it's marked but because of what the information contains. The marking is put on because it is classified. It's not classified because of the marking.

"So, for example, if she has signals intelligence or information from a human source, that is obviously confidential and secret and relates to intelligence activities of the United States abroad.
She would have to have been a low grade moron not to know that is was classified."


Now, that is what he said. What points to you disagree with and why do you disagree with them? Or was that just your excuse to ignore the whole issue?

From what I understand, and what Hillary signed under oath, it is exactly what he said about classified information and the "markings".

How do you disagree with that? And the kind of information he mentioned is of course classified. So I don't know what you have to disagree with.

And he is right, Hillary would have had to be a low grade moron not to know that. And we both know, she is no dummy.

My conclusion is that you have NO basis whatever to disagree with his statement other than the fact that you don't want to acknowledge the whole issue.

[Uncle Joe]

23. Good luck with getting an answer on that, pdsimdars.

[pdsimdars]

24. I like to push them on it. Just to let them know they are in denial.

[obamanut2012]

25. I refuse to comment until i know what Scalia's Ghost thinks

I REFUSE!

[stevenleser]

26. A George W. Bush appointee who defended enhanced interrogation and

all the other Bush admin's ugly policies.

He is a far right Republican partisan first and a lawyer or judge second.

[Gothmog]

28. Why go to the Free Republic when Sanders supporters will bring Freeper material to DU?

[Demsrule86]

32. Exactly

One has to wonder how they became so familiar with the right.

[Demsrule86]

31. Michael Mukasey is a right wing...shill.

Great source another right wing shill...is that all you have? l Trump uses the same sources you know.



"I remember when George W. Bush nominated Michael Mukasey to serve as Attorney General in 2007, the announcement was met with some initial relief. Alberto Gonzales had become such a national laughingstock, and was so woefully inept, many believed Mukasey would have to be an improvement, if only because he could’t possibly be worse than his predecessor.

That feeling did not last. Mukasey soon after endorsed the administration’s torture policies and said a president has the power to ignore some laws during wartime. He was confirmed as A.G. anyway., thanks in part to unanimous Republican support.

Several years later, we’re still learning more about the man.

“You may not be interested in Islamism, but Islamism is interested in you,” warned former Attorney General Michael Mukasey at a Saturday CPAC panel of activists so fringy that they were not technically invited to the conference."

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/remember-michael-mukasey

[onenote]

34. Do you not know who Mukasey is? Do you not care? Or are you a fan?

Mukasey was Bush's appointee as Atty Gen succeeding Alberto Gonzales.

Among his claims to fame: Best buddies with Rudi Giuliani. Defender of waterboarding as "not torture".

Yeah, he's the guy a Democrat would turn to for a legal opinion.

To quote a line from the 1950s: Have you no shame?

[IdaBriggs]

38. Careful about the torture stuff - Hillary has flip-flopped on it a few times.

And she doesn't want people who did it prosecuted. She's mostly against it, except when she's for it.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/where-hillary-clinton-torture

[onenote]

40. but you have no problems implicitly endorsing the legal acumen

of a guy who has always favored and excused torture.

Nice.

[IdaBriggs]

42. What part of his factual statements do you disagree with?

I am a member of the reality based community, and I agree that she would have to be a low grade moron not to know some of her emails contained classified information that should have stayed on secure government systems. Unfortunately for your argument, the only people who don't believe she has screwed up are either (a) completely uninformed about the topic or (b) under some weird belief that having government officials IGNORE clear requirements to treat government emails as the government records they are is some kind of acceptable behavior/FOIA compliance is not required if your name is Hillary, so ...

[pdsimdars]

43. This is what I am always asking them. . .WHAT part of his statement do they disagree with?