2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton broke the rules: Our view [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)and "friendly" reporters at that, is to do a wildly strange laugh, bulge her eyes nearly out of her head, and then parse her statements with legalese and misdirection. Hasn't anyone on her team explained to her that this weird "laughing" reaction is incredibly odd and uncomfortable for the viewer watching the interview? And what politician running for President has used "fake giggle" to wiggle out of answering questions about national security and her choices she made at a high-level, govt office position?
Let's just reverse the situation... Hillary is asking questions of a State Dept worker who decided to use their e-mail account to send sensitive work related subjects through their personal e-mail account after she sent out a cable directive to the entire agency warning them NOT to use their e-mail, even @ dot gov e-mail, because the agency was under cyber attack... In this scenario of her asking one of her employees why they had ignored the cable directive, and had possibly allowed national security to become breached, would she accept a fake giggle as a response for their actions? Would she accept a legally parsed statement? OR would she force an investigation into the issue to check the level of harm to the agency, send information to the FBI to investigate the employee, and FIRE the employee from the State Dept. And their would be no legal aid/ council offered from the State Dept to represent the employee as the State is doing now for Clinton regarding the FOIA lawsuit from Judicial Watch.
BTW, why is it taking a lawsuit from Judicial Watch, nearly 3 years after Clinton left the State Dept, for the American People to be allowed to see what was done under her tenure at the State Dept? Seriously, a rabid, right-wing organization is the only agency out there pursuing this issue? I know CREW used to be the one's who did great work as a govt "watch dog" group... But Brock bought them up and the State Dept was off limits? If this is her reaction to govt transparency under President Obama (a former "reval" for the presidential primaries), what in the world will her administration look like when she's at the helm of it all?
She's so paranoid about the right wing attacking her that she ended up placing herself and perhaps national security in jeapordy.
She seriously needs to announce an overwhelming need to "spend more time with the family" and now out of the race before the convention and definitely before the GE gets into full swing. And if she continues on, we may, for the first time ever, see a refusal to debate by Donald and Hillary for the GE... Neither of them would want debate questions from the moderators about taxes or e-mails. Would we have an election and an Impeachment the very next day? Would the FBI be dragging one of the two potential Presidential contenders out the White House doors by handcuff? And what does the Secret Service do at that point? Protect a jail cell?