We are being played. [View all]

[pnwmom]

We're letting the media swallow the Rethug lies, hook, line, and sinker.

For example:

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2015/03/06/Clinton-s-email-built-for-privacy-though-not-security/stories/201503060245

Mr. Bush differed from Ms. Clinton, Ms. Campbell said, in that it was known that he was using a personal email, his aides had regular access to the server, and “his office consistently throughout his term complied with Florida’s public records laws.”


1. Anyone who got an email from Ms. Clinton knew that it was from her personal account. This was no secret and Gawker wrote a story about it two years ago.

2. Her aides had access to the server.

3. She complied with the relevant laws that were in effect AT THE TIME. The national Archivist confirmed this.

Hillary didn't do anything different than politicians had been doing since email came into existence, but you wouldn't know it from the way the media is reporting this.



http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-03/hillary-clinton-camp-pushes-back-on-email-story

While NARA’s preference is that officials not use an email alias, Archivist of the United States David Ferriero said in sworn testimony in 2013 that “nothing in the law that prohibits them.”

“We don’t care how many accounts you have as long as those on which you’re doing federal business are captured for the record,” he also said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/us/politics/when-hillary-clinton-joined-obama-administration-friction-was-over-staff-not-email.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

By the time she was sworn in as secretary, her closest aides, who came with her to Foggy Bottom, knew that she communicated only through a private email address. The practice was not a secret, according to a person with direct knowledge of the inner workings of State Department under Mrs. Clinton, and no one thought it necessary that she switch to an official government address, which would have caused her email to be preserved under the 2009 rules and regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration. Neither career foreign service officers nor State Department lawyers suggested that Mrs. Clinton use a department email address, the person said.

But Mrs. Clinton’s use of a clintonemail.com address, which shielded those emails from public records requests, is now giving ammunition to critics eager to diminish her experience as a globe-trotting diplomat, which allies portray as her strongest credential in seeking the Democratic nomination for president.

Moreover, Mrs. Clinton’s relationship with the Obama White House, which she and her aides worked hard to improve and nurture, once again seems strained. Some of her allies have grumbled that the president’s aides could have done more to support her — perhaps, one said, by pointing out that the president himself and Mrs. Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry, both use private accounts in addition to their government email addresses.