RE: clintonemails.com: Who is Eric Hoteham?

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DavidJames said:
I suspect some people don't have the honesty to admit they want Trump so instead hope to achieve the same goal by pushing down HRC.

Probably 90% of the Republicans/Conservatives on this forum.
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Yeah, I don't think that Inspector General of the State Department posts on this forum.

Every one of Hillary's faults are self inflicted, she pushes herself down
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
He was convicted of giving confidential information to his girlfriend for a book.
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A biography sanctioned and indeed encouraged by the Department of Defense. There were many senior people at the DOD who felt that such a "book" would be in the nation's best interests. Also, his "girlfriend" was a major in the army reserves and had a security clearance of her own. That doesn't make what Petraeus did legal, and I have no interest in defending him, but Hillary probably put our national security interests at far greater risk than he did.
 
DavidJames said:
I suspect some people don't have the honesty to admit they want Trump so instead hope to achieve the same goal by pushing down HRC.

Probably 90% of the Republicans/Conservatives on this forum.
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Sheesh. Given what has come out in the last couple of days, you should be here to eat some crow, not to talk some more smack. How do you like my mind reading by the way? It's magical right? Just like television.
 
sunmaster14 said:
A biography sanctioned and indeed encouraged by the Department of Defense. There were many senior people at the DOD who felt that such a "book" would be in the nation's best interests. Also, his "girlfriend" was a major in the army reserves and had a security clearance of her own. That doesn't make what Petraeus did legal, and I have no interest in defending him, but Hillary probably put our national security interests at far greater risk than he did.
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As if that makes his crime the same as Clinton using her own email server.

Give it up, wait for the indictment or consider shutting up.
 
Beeyon said:
This pretty closely mirrors the sentiment in a Washington Post editorial:


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For some reason, Johnson warrants a mention but not an alternate Democratic candidate. This rhetoric assumes the nomination is done and the ballots are printed. It is completely within her rights to take the nomination and run into the general, but it is wrong to act like that is not a choice she is making. This argument just reminds us that Hillary would never give up her nomination, no matter the cost to the country.

I'm with her! Because she left me no other choice.
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What's your point? It's not as if it isn't true, Trump is wholly unqualified to be POTUS.

I personally think the email affair is a tempest in a teapot. I don't buy the decades of attempts to bring Clinton down by accusation and innuendo. It really makes you wonder why the GOP is so afraid of Hillary Clinton that they've been trying to smear her for decades before she even entered the race.
If you're a Republican or another version of a right winger, maybe you know what it is they are afraid of. There's no way it's her ties to big business given that's their stock and trade. They should welcome that.

What is it they are so afraid of?
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
As if that makes his crime the same as Clinton using her own email server.

Give it up, wait for the indictment or consider shutting up.
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So as long as somebody isn't arrested and charged, whatever they do is okey-dokey? By that standard, Trump is a fine candidate; he's never been indicted either.

Here's another left-leaning site that thinks Hillary's in trouble, not just for what she did but for lying about it:
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/27/tim..._hillary_clinton_has_a_serious_legal_problem/
 
Here's a technical question: Hillary's original justification (one of them, anyway) for her private server was that she would only have to carry one electronic device to access all her email. We know that's not true (her aides have been photographed carrying multiple gadgets for her), but what about the original question? If she had used just one Blackberry, could she have accessed BOTH a .gov account and a personal account on it? Or would a .gov Blackberry only access a .gov account?
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
What's your point? It's not as if it isn't true, Trump is wholly unqualified to be POTUS.

I personally think the email affair is a tempest in a teapot. I don't buy the decades of attempts to bring Clinton down by accusation and innuendo. It really makes you wonder why the GOP is so afraid of Hillary Clinton that they've been trying to smear her for decades before she even entered the race.
If you're a Republican or another version of a right winger, maybe you know what it is they are afraid of. There's no way it's her ties to big business given that's their stock and trade. They should welcome that.

What is it they are so afraid of?
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The random bolding and hiliting, coupled with the actual honest to goodness "vast right wing conspiracy" nonsense? Is this the conspiracy theories forum?

And the State Department Inspector General is in on it too!
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
@davefoc and TheL8Elvis: I don't blame her for wanting some control over her communications given the GOP history of fine-toothed combing everything she has said, written or done as an adult.
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Then why didn't she just have a personal email account for personal things? Why commingle the personal and government emails?
 
logger said:
Then why didn't she just have a personal email account for personal things? Why commingle the personal and government emails?
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Exactly. She could have her private server for her personal stuff and then an official .gov address for business. It's simply not defensible to say that "she didn't know how to use a computer." If that's the case, it makes her look buffoonish.
 
Trump is on the stump today saying he will find Clinton's missing emails. How is this guy not a joke? Oh wait, he is. :sdl:
 
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logger said:
Then why didn't she just have a personal email account for personal things? Why commingle the personal and government emails?
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That's what most people do, wherever they work. It's pretty clear, even if she won't say so, that Hillary set up a private server in her home to evade federal record-keeping and access requirements. She didn't want her SecState emails on government servers. I suspect that at the time she may not even have realized that her private emails to and from others who used .gov addresses would be stored anyway, though that has subsequently become one of her justifications.

There's also some evidence that she may not be all that technologically adept. A subordinate tried to get her a desktop computer to check her emails, but she allegedly didn't want it because she didn't know how to use it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...26c552-236c-11e6-9e7f-57890b612299_story.html
 
BrooklynBaby said:
Perhaps he meant "President Trump" will find those missing emails. :)
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Well considering that the Datto backups were seized by the FBI, it should not be that hard to find.

I can just imagine the reaction when they all found out the emails hilly thought she had destroyed were in fact all sitting in the cloud.

:D
 
Bob001 said:
That's what most people do, wherever they work. It's pretty clear, even if she won't say so, that Hillary set up a private server in her home to evade federal record-keeping and access requirements. She didn't want her SecState emails on government servers. I suspect that at the time she may not even have realized that her private emails to and from others who used .gov addresses would be stored anyway, though that has subsequently become one of her justifications.
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Agreed, there can't be any other reason. Plus, amazingly enough she has admitted it.
 
If my quick review of the State Department report is correct and Clinton never received permission to use her private email account for government business, how is she not completely screwed? No permission plus top secret information on an unsecure private server? What am I missing from this picture?
 
shuize said:
If my quick review of the State Department report is correct and Clinton never received permission to use her private email account for government business, how is she not completely screwed? No permission plus top secret information on an unsecure private server? What am I missing from this picture?
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That she's Obama's preferred successor, and that the Attorney General works for Obama?
 
shuize said:
If my quick review of the State Department report is correct and Clinton never received permission to use her private email account for government business, how is she not completely screwed? No permission plus top secret information on an unsecure private server? What am I missing from this picture?
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Screwed in what way ?

It's been pointed out numerous times that for consequences to come from the " top secret" information, intent is necessary, and it's not there.

As for the FOIA stuff, it's not criminal.

Beyond those things, she's got to convince people what she did was still better than voting from Trump. I don't think that will be a tough sell.
 
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