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In reply to the discussion: When Karl Rove deleted 22 million White House emails and the media yawned. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Clinton.
No one batted an eye, and the media barely covered it, when WH staff used RNC servers and YAHOO mail to communicate off the official grid.
But if a former First Lady and sitting SECSTATE slaps their server in one of the most protected homes in the nation, with round-the-clock SS coverage, there's drama!
And it's all "because Hillary." They are so afraid of her all they can do is make stuff up and bash, bash, bash.
Clinton turns over everything salient, and the bulk of it was stored on State servers anyway because it was communication with people with @state.gov emails, and the media goes crazy with faux "scandal." And some people--the Trumpeteers most notably, but others as well -- believe it and pile on, which was terribly unfortunate.
The story reached its political apogee when WIKILEAKS actually FOIA'd emails, the State Department released them in response to the FOIA, and they tried to make something of it-- "Ooooooooh, these 'could be' classified!!" No, they couldn't--they'd been vetted as part of the FOIA process. smh! I have to wonder if Sheldon Adelson isn't funnelling money to WIKILEAKS these days...!
At the end of the day, though, THIS is the conclusion--no Fitzmas, no Magical Indictment Unicorn, no Toxic Trumpeteers dancing in the streets:
"No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
-- FBI Director Comey
The only people who should be disappointed by this entirely expected turn of events are Republicans and Paulbots.