This thread has dissolved to nothing. I haven't seen any really stimulating conversation in awhile. 16.5 blurts out how horrible Hillary is, a bunch of other people make it clear that it's not as bad as he points out, then we wait for 16.5 to find another article somewhere.
The New York Times might be right but, just like all the other right wing "scandals", all the noise came early. Now no one really cares anymore
All true (except for the NY Times article I didn't read it and don't have an opinion) but there is a certain kind of charm to the thread.
I have been curious for awhile about why an apparently intelligent person such as 16.5 thinks this is so important. If Hillary is a sleazoid, does this mean his overall ideology is more likely to be correct? If politicians that he aligns himself with do something similar does that mean his overall ideology is less likely to be correct?
Is this all about justifying the partisan witch hunt that the Clinton's have been enduring for years by proving that Clinton is a sleazoid and therefore apparently deserves being the subject of a witch hunt?
What has been clear for awhile, is that even putting the worst spin on this story possible about Clinton, most people see sabotaging peace agreements for partisan political purposes as far worse, so this little kerfuffle isn't all that significant to the likelihood that one would vote for one of the lust for war Republicans over Clinton.
And what is painfully obvious is that the exact nature of the culpability of Clinton with regard to this story is unknowable. She deleted a bunch of emails that legally she had every right to delete. Were there a few emails mixed in there that she didn't have the legal right to delete? Probably no one will ever know. There are reasons to believe that she probably didn't illegally delete very many of her emails related to her job as Secretary of State since it would have been a dicey exercise knowing that email to a recipient might surface that she illegally deleted, so a pretty reasonable guess is that if she did any illegal deleting it wasn't a lot.
But of course, the Republicans will continue to drag this little kerfuffle along hoping that it scores gets a little traction beyond the true believer crowd that thinks it's so important. At least it's given them a new excuse to shout Benghazi a few more times and I'm sure they're happy about that.