2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton's Felony. The federal laws violated by the private server [View all]staggerleem
(469 posts)... was the number of times the phrase "presumed classified" was used.
Presumption is quite similar to assumption - it ain't necessarily so, but somebody thinks it is. It's like a guy who really did rob a bank being "presumed innocent" until proven guilty.
So, exactly WHO presumes that these documents were classified, even if they were not marked as such at the time? Reuters? The State Dept? The media? The Republican party? leveymg?
And can we talk for a few minutes about the Government's allegedly "secure" mail servers? Who funds maintenance and upgrades to those things? Our skinflint, do-nothing, never-spend-a-dime-on-gov't Congress, that's who. According to Ms Clinton, the server did not work & play well with her smartphone. I can believe that, because Colin Powell (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/colin-powell-personal-email-secretary-of-state-115707) had the same complaint - AND ALSO USED PRIVATE MAIL SERVERS as Sec'y of State!
As did George W. Bush and Dick Cheney while in office. The server they used was owned by Karl Rove & located in Kentucky. It was also used to tally the votes in Ohio during the 2004 election, for some "unknown" reason. Oh, and about 5 million e-mails from the period of the 2004 election were "lost" from that server, too (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/10/flashback-when-millions-of-lost-bush-white-hous/202820).
So, when do we bring a case against Bush, Cheney, Rove, & Powell for the same "crime" that Hillary is being hounded about? We DON'T, because they're REPUBLICANS!
One final word - this reply was written by a REAL Bernie Sanders supporter, who (like Bernie) realizes that IF Hillary does win the nomination, she will be the best choice for the Presidency, and I'm going to have to vote for her. I don't have to like it, and neither do you, but that's what the choice is going to be.