Let's put our heads together on the Clinton e-mail scandal

[paulthompson]

88. more about timelines

Oilwellian, you've already expressed an interest in this thread to make an updated e-mail scandal timeline. If you want to take the lead on that I would be grateful. Even though I've been the "timeline guy" in the past, in this case I'd prefer working on some kind of FAQ document.

So, if you want, you could take the lead on that team and work with whomever else is interested with timelines.

Leveymg has found a very interesting timeline, here:

http://www.unbiasedamerica.com/hillary-clinton-email-controversy-timeline/

However, it only goes up until August 2015. Plus, it only lists sources in one big blob at the bottom. We should have each timeline entry sourced, with the name of the media outlet, the date, and the HTML link.

Check out this essay I did on "Sanders, automation, and the fate of the US." You could mimic the style of sourcing I did there:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280156726#post33

Furthermore, there are other timelines. Here's an interesting one that goes to January 2016:

http://histowiki.com/history/politics/2565/the-clinton-email-scandal-of-2015-timeline-and-how-the-media-covered-it/

And here's another one:

https://sharylattkisson.com/hillary-clintons-email-the-definitive-timeline/

If you Google "Clinton e-mail scandal timeline" and the like, you'll find yet more. A lot of mainstream media outlets have made their own timelines. Oilwellian, I hope you do conduct a search. However, all the ones I've seen so far are lacking. They're incomplete, not up to date, poorly sourced, and so on. But working together, we could make something that's truly definitive.

Oh, one more thing. Probably Clinton's main defense about this scandal is that it's all a right wing smear. We should already be careful not to cite any blatantly biased sources in the first place, but it's especially imperative in this case to avoid biased right wing sources.