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2016 Postmortem

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yallerdawg

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Fri May 27, 2016, 02:28 PM May 2016

Hillary Clinton’s Emails Are a Threat to Life as We Know it [View all]

A humorous and cynical commentary on the OIG email "reporting."

Source: Mediaite, Tommy Christopher

Any glance at most political websites today, you might think:

If the past two days have taught us anything, it is that Hillary Clinton‘s use of a personal email server during her tenure at the State Department is a threat to the American way, and even to all human life on Earth. The media’s sirens-a-blaring reaction to the State Department Office of the Inspector General’s report on email practices would lead any rational observer to conclude that the only crime greater than using personal email to conduct State business is the crime of ever believing a word that Hillary Clinton says.

Personal email not "allowed?" The "big lie?"

Page 37 of the report does say that “OIG found no evidence that the Secretary requested or obtained guidance or approval to conduct official business via a personal email account on her private server,” but then again, Secretary Clinton isn’t saying that she requested or obtained guidance or approval. She’s saying it was “allowed,” an assertion that is backed up by many instances in the report which recognize that personal email use, while generally discouraged, is permitted, as per a 2009 regulation which states “Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system,” and which is repeatedly cited in the report.

As the OIG report also states on page 5, it wasn’t until after Hillary Clinton left the State Department that personal email use was prohibited, and even then, not completely.

Hillary didn't want to or attempt to retain her records?

This didn’t quite work out because, as the unreported main focus of the report makes clear, the State Department system is a hot-assed mess. If it weren’t, then none of this would be happening, because they’d be able to sort and retrieve emails the way any Gmail user can. But since I’m a reasonable person who doesn’t hate Hillary Clinton and isn’t trying to justify swallowing a year-and-a-half worth of Republican leaks like some kind of journalistic Linda Lovelace, it makes sense to me that a person would think “Hey, if I send an email to someone with a dot-gov email address, they’ll be able to find it if they need it.”

Read much, much more in the full article at: http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-clintons-emails-are-a-threat-to-life-as-we-know-it/


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This message was self-deleted by its author NowSam May 2016 #1
This is a first! yallerdawg May 2016 #5
that's what got Bill Impeached...nt Jack Bone May 2016 #26
Bill was charged with 'high crimes and misdemeanors.' yallerdawg May 2016 #32
that's what level that his conviction was found to rise to. Jack Bone May 2016 #37
Clinton was impeached (indicted) but acquited (not guilty of criminal charges) nt Henhouse May 2016 #49
Bill was not convicted. People seem to forget that. LAS14 May 2016 #54
FBI report will tell us whether or not there was a crime. emulatorloo May 2016 #7
Absolutely right. nt anotherproletariat May 2016 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #57
Go big or go home! NanceGreggs May 2016 #78
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow May 2016 #79
Like Watergate. merrily May 2016 #34
In this case it is the plain unadorned whistler162 May 2016 #68
No, just a threat to Democrats winning the general, if she becomes the nominee. merrily May 2016 #2
Your argument is Republicans are going to say bad things about the Democrat? yallerdawg May 2016 #8
Fine with me, but you'll have to convince a few million other Democrats--and indies. merrily May 2016 #12
I do not think you represent millions. yallerdawg May 2016 #15
Um, I didn't say I represented millions. merrily May 2016 #16
But you did say, "Fine with me!" yallerdawg May 2016 #18
I never believe Republicans anyway, so you can't count me as changing. merrily May 2016 #31
Dead right, sister. JudyM May 2016 #64
You're in troooooouuuuublllllllllle. Darb May 2016 #3
Just a reminder that this is... yallerdawg May 2016 #6
Can barely tell here at the UU. Darb May 2016 #9
Not really a threat...just a bit enlightening. nt jmg257 May 2016 #4
Hillary's emails caused global warming!! The incredible amount of hot air generated ... JoePhilly May 2016 #10
June 8th... yallerdawg May 2016 #11
The sputtering will be epic. JoePhilly May 2016 #13
I like this one. Thinkingabout May 2016 #76
Stuff happens, especially when emotions are running high! LOL! Surya Gayatri May 2016 #77
Only life? What about the universe? Uben May 2016 #14
and everything including the dolphins. whistler162 May 2016 #69
I hope someone will let me know when my life as I know changes. Sheepshank May 2016 #17
Life was altered for millions in NA, now all of Africa and spread throughout the ME polly7 May 2016 #21
And lives changed in Nepal. and Thailand and Japan after the Tsunmai.... Sheepshank May 2016 #22
What bullshit. SHE was a direct cause in all of this horror in Libya, Honduras, Haiti, Syria, polly7 May 2016 #24
Hillary the Omnipotent All-Powerful... yallerdawg May 2016 #35
what does any of your ranting and raving have anything to do with personal vs gov't email system? Sheepshank May 2016 #36
PRIVATE SERVER IN HER HOME. NO ABILITY FOR SCRUTINY. GET IT? nt. polly7 May 2016 #42
Here, let me yell too... Sheepshank May 2016 #50
Offs. polly7 May 2016 #51
So you are telling me everything in this world, my life, would be different Sheepshank May 2016 #62
Who the fuck was talking about YOUR life? polly7 May 2016 #63
This whole subthread started because I dared ask about my life Sheepshank May 2016 #66
I don't trot out or use anyone 'to make a point'. If you can't take the truth about what your polly7 May 2016 #67
That is exactly what you did...and more than once Sheepshank May 2016 #70
You can't stand to hear mention of those suffering worse than you'll ever imagine in your life, polly7 May 2016 #71
And there you go, trotting out the suffering of others to try and hurt posters Sheepshank May 2016 #72
Is that what you called the criticism here of Barbara Bush's comment, trotting out polly7 May 2016 #73
I'm talking about you, your posting habits, your proclivity Sheepshank May 2016 #74
No, you were mostly talking about you, but that's ok. You take care now. nt. polly7 May 2016 #75
.......... polly7 May 2016 #43
Now you are not making sense. Sheepshank May 2016 #60
No, what doesn't make sense is using your private server for weapons deals through polly7 May 2016 #61
Just more people opining on a subject they appear to be completely clueless about. frylock May 2016 #20
Hell, most of them don't know the difference between an email server and a private email account. Fawke Em May 2016 #25
boy aint that the truth -- so many people tandem5 May 2016 #45
It is a threat to some of the undercover CIA agents who were named in her emails. Fawke Em May 2016 #23
That's really scary. I can't even imagine how someone with such a long history polly7 May 2016 #28
Speculation. Innuendo. Fox News. yallerdawg May 2016 #29
The Observer isn't Fox "News." Fawke Em May 2016 #33
The 'Observer' article sources Fox News. yallerdawg May 2016 #38
Yep, Pretty much all of the 'she will be indicted' stories are sourced from Fox News emulatorloo May 2016 #59
Everytime I bump into Fox News... yallerdawg May 2016 #65
They're desperate. The voters chose her over their candidate. They will convince themselves Trust Buster May 2016 #27
Keep your head in the sand, dear ostrich friend. Fawke Em May 2016 #30
The ostrich is you. The voter and pledge delegate totals decide such things. Trust Buster May 2016 #41
Right! all thanks to the anti-Christ Hillary Clinton!! (just ask Karl Rove) Bill USA May 2016 #39
... Surya Gayatri May 2016 #40
Good article. tandem5 May 2016 #44
"Bernie Sanders to Clinton: people 'are sick of hearing about your damn emails'. pampango May 2016 #46
Donald Trump thanks you for your support qdouble May 2016 #47
Start practicing now! yallerdawg May 2016 #48
Tommy should get up to date on HRC's newest claim about it being allowed Press Virginia May 2016 #52
Hillary didn't want to or attempt to retain her records? LAS14 May 2016 #53
BREITBART concurs!!111 Number23 May 2016 #55
Breitbart? yallerdawg May 2016 #56
So did that bastion of truth, Jonah Goldberg! emulatorloo May 2016 #58
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