State Department Email Report Complicates Clinton's Message

[Purveyor]

By LISA LERER, ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — May 26, 2016, 4:39 PM ET

Hillary Clinton is telling voters not to trust Donald Trump. But a new government report about her usage of a private email server as secretary of state is complicating that message.

The sharp rebuke from the State Department's inspector general, which found Clinton did not seek legal approval for her personal email server, guarantees that the issue will remain alive and well for the likely Democratic presidential nominee for a second summer.

The former Secretary of State insisted Thursday that she had done nothing wrong.

"Well, it was allowed. And the rules have been clarified since I left about the practice. Having said that, I have said many times, it was a mistake. And, if I could go back, I would do it differently" Clinton said, according to an interview transcript provided by ABC News.

Asked why she did not talk with State Department investigators, Clinton said she had "answered numerous questions, we have posted information on our website and the information that we had is out there." Clinton added that she has not been interviewed as part of the ongoing FBI investigation into the email server, but said she has offered and is "looking forward to seeing this matter wrapped up."

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/state-department-email-report-complicates-clintons-message-39388435

[arcane1]

1. She sure does say "it was a mistake" a lot. Has she done anything that WASN'T a mistake?

That's certainly how all of her "hard choices" turned out.

I can't wait for next week to get here, so I can vote for someone who doesn't make so many fucking mistakes.

[AzDar]

2. "Our Lady Of Poor Judgement"...

[hedda_foil]

3. Saint Hillary of the Cross.

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[Purveyor]

4. Oh my!

[seabeyond]

5. Let it go. Clinton isnt gonna be kicked to the curb. You still lost.

[Purveyor]

6. I haven't lost a fucking thing but thanks for your concern. eom

[seabeyond]

7. Uh hu.

[cwydro]

9. Yeah, but Sanders has. nt

[LanternWaste]

11. Irony, thy name is purveyor (a very little, little let us do; and all shall be done)...

"I haven't lost a fucking thing but thanks for your concern..."
Except the ability to self-detect irony and holding others to a higher standard than yourself.

"Might spare the forum of displays of nastiness that is now required to get ones account 'nuked'... "

[ljm2002]

8. "we have posted information on our website"...

...is she seriously trying to pass that off as a reasonable substitute for talking to State Department investigators?

Wow. That goes beyond arrogance to outright hubris IMO. And we all know what goes with hubris, don't we...

[Ino]

10. Lawyer parsing...

"Well, it was allowed. And the rules have been clarified since I left about the practice."

IOW, it wasn't expressly forbidden, therefore it was allowed. But now that the State Dept knows someone might actually have the nerve, the underhandedness, to set up her own server, the rules have been "clarified."

She's so full of it.