Clinton's inherent contradiction: "I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.”

[thesquanderer]

That now well-known email quote is perfectly understandable. Nobody wants all their personal emails out there for the world to see.

Yet she also knows that the government requires access to--and the public is ultimately mostly entitled to see--her work correspondence. She can't claim ignorance of that.

So, if you (a) KNOW your work emails are supposed to be accessible to the public, and (b) also consider it a high priority that your personal emails are NOT accessible to the public, then the very stupidest thing to do would be to mix your personal emails with your work emails. Assuming Hillary is not that stupid, that leaves you with the alternate explanation that she did not intend for people to have access to her work emails.

ETA: Since people have posted things to the effect that the seriousness of her problems will largely hinge on proving intent, my point is that this lends credence to the perspective that she was acting with the intent of avoiding public disclosure (FOIA).

[Alex4Martinez]

1. Should have been, "I don't want any risk of the nation's business being accessible".

And THAT, my friends, is why her campaign is set to self destruct.

She might win the nomination, but at what cost to the party and to the nation, we do not yet know.

[tularetom]

2. The line between "personal" and "work" emails was so blurred she didn't know the difference

Arms deals with countries who made ginormous donations to the Clinton foundation - personal or work?

Imagine the stress she was under having to decide how to classify things like that.

[JudyM]

3. Exactly. I think she assumed she would have time to go through it all but ended up not prioritizing

it. Chelsea's wedding, fundraising, etc...

Just Dumb. But that combo of Dumb and Pride/Entitlement has ended up being the reason we are now actually seeing what was going on behind the scenes. Had she had the foresight and effectiveness to manage her email, we'd all still be in the dark.

[GummyBearz]

4. I thought you were going to mention her support of the NSA spying on us all

But good points none the less

[thesquanderer]

5. "Hey, FBI, wanna see all Hillary's deleted emails? Ask the NSA, they probably have 'em."

Funny thought!

[AzDar]

6. She's either a criminal, or incompetent... or BOTH. Any of this should disqualify her as POTUS.

[thesquanderer]

7. Unfortunately, a lot of the defense seems to come down to "I was incompetent, but not criminal"

which does not seem to be a great trait in a president, but does not seem to bother her supporters.

[Yurovsky]

9. Oops! My bad!

I guess that's what she says when the wrong village gets carpet bombed in one of her for-profit military actions...

[closeupready]

8. Fine. Resign then. Problem solved.

But that, of course, would have entailed relinquishing your profitable little "will she/won't she" scheme, wouldn't it.