I'm a liberal progressive, & a newbie, so I didn't know 'til I got to DU that I am supposed to hate

[karynnj]

100. This sounds more like something written by a Hillary Clinton supporter who has been around for years

By that, I am not saying that I can identify any patterns that point to this being a sock puppet.

However, it accepts hook, line and sinker the view that Hillary Clinton is hated --- even as this op says at the level of Rush Limbaugh. That is completely ridiculous. Please show me even ONE long time DU poster who puts Clinton on the same level as Limbaugh.

Look at the main HRC this week. I am one of the people who thinks that HRC's arrogance in how she handled her email as SoS was a huge political miscalculation. Transparency in government has been a huge issue for years -- something advocated for running for office - then in office considered unnecessary or something that could make life harder.

Ignoring comments of whether this was 100% legal or not, the question is what impression does this convey politically:

- It gives credibility to Republicans arguing that the SD stonewalled on giving them HRC's emails - as they only had ones that were sent to state.gov accounts. It might be on some requests that these might be all the relevant documents, but there could be others where emails to people not on state.gov should have been sent. This is aggravated learning that at least one top aide (Rep Weiner's wife Huma) also had her account on HRC's server.

- Consider that as HRC selected what the SD got, the Republicans will claim that the smoking gun that they were looking for was removed.

- The HRC political move to give access to all 55,000 pages is political - will cost the SD a huge amount of people/time - and it is really all done for politics.

- One of the most negative memes that have followed HRC, from the time as First Lady on is that she is secretive - even when there is no reason to be. This extends from dragging her feet on actually getting info out on Whitewater (where they did nothing illegal) to her secretive committee that wrote the Clinton healthcare bill.

In addition, the thing to think of is that even if there was absolutely no problem with HRC controlling her emails - not just when they were written - but for up to 6 years later. The SD related emails belong to the SD - and as noted are open to Congressional inquiries and to FOIA requests to the SD.

Consider that she could have had a process that - each month, gave the SD the month's emails. At worst, she could have given the SD all the SD emails shortly after she left office.

This problem is compounded because there were many VERY PUBLIC requests to the SD that obviously should have had some of these emails. (Because they DID have all emails where the other end was state.gov - it likely was not immediately obvious that her email had not been searched. This will mean that a huge number of inquiries/FOIA may have to be redone.