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ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
25. Wrong.
Thu May 5, 2016, 07:23 PM
May 2016

She used her own personal server for ALL of her State Department business, not to mention her Clinton Foundation business. She turned over 30,000 emails -- on paper, no less -- but deleted another 30,000 that she claims were personal in nature. Unfortunately for her, some of those deleted emails turned up later, such as some of those to and from Sidney Blumenthal, and guess what? They were not personal in nature. Oops.

Powell and Rice used personal email accounts a few times, maybe several times each -- but not, by a long shot, for all of their State Department business. Furthermore, since they used commercial accounts for those, their email benefitted from real security; while Clinton's private email server did not. In my opinion, what they did was still wrong, but pales in comparison to having a private server set up in your own basement to conduct the foreign policy business of the United States.

Please stop trying to muddy the waters. You can still believe she did nothing wrong, but if you must resort to misrepresenting what happened, that does not strengthen your case.

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So, Clinton got her way. The basement server avoided FOIA requests and disclosures. Boooooo. CentralCoaster May 2016 #1
this is so bogus mooseprime May 2016 #2
FOIA requests are never fast scscholar May 2016 #3
doesn't "one month after the election" mooseprime May 2016 #4
In all honesty, it REEKS to high heaven just like everything else associated w/Clinton, Inc. reeks. nc4bo May 2016 #5
Yup farleftlib May 2016 #7
Clinton ran the business of this country on personally owned equipment in the basement of her home. CentralCoaster May 2016 #14
But those Republicans... scscholar May 2016 #15
Not w servers in basement, they didn't CentralCoaster May 2016 #19
There is no functional difference scscholar May 2016 #20
Wrong. ljm2002 May 2016 #25
Basement? scscholar May 2016 #26
Sorry, you are still wrong. ljm2002 May 2016 #31
WaPo is biased, so... scscholar May 2016 #32
Ha fucking ha... ljm2002 May 2016 #33
This is bullshit. Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #18
agree grasswire May 2016 #27
She will get a full pardon from Obama on his way out the door. nt NorthCarolina May 2016 #6
I feel nauseous..... alittlelark May 2016 #8
Is this the stuff that shows quid pro quo for Clinton Foundation? NightWatcher May 2016 #9
Well I guess Joe Biden is free to plan his summer vacation. oasis May 2016 #10
Curious. If the documents were favorable, you'd think they would want them out there ASAP. Vinca May 2016 #11
But if she had smoked pot... mindwalker_i May 2016 #12
It's definitely bad news for Hills then farleftlib May 2016 #13
There are no "findings." This is not the FBI investigation. (n/t) thesquanderer May 2016 #17
How the FUCK is that even legal? Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #16
The Fix Is In.... global1 May 2016 #21
yes, it's the FOIA request, not the FBI investigation. antigop May 2016 #23
from that link grasswire May 2016 #28
Looks like it. GreenPartyVoter May 2016 #30
That will play well. Maybe she can bundle them with her Wall Street love songs. Attorney in Texas May 2016 #22
Good. DCBob May 2016 #24
So shady... AzDar May 2016 #29
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