#HillaryMen: Simplest Ever Explanation of Hillary's Emails - In a Tweetstorm

[DeepModem Mom]

Brian Fallon, Press Secretary for Hillary Clinton's campaign, took to Twitter with an epic 32-tweet explanation of the trumped-up (no pun intended) email story. It cuts right through the frenzied spin by Hillary's opponents and we figured it was worth posting in full.

As you read through Fallon's tweets, consider this data point from Gallup:

Democrats' overall opinions of the major Democratic contenders for president have changed little despite six eventful weeks of campaigning. Hillary Clinton remains the best liked among her party faithful. She enjoys a net favorable score of +60, which is essentially where she stood in July.

(First of 32 Tweets) Brian Fallon @brianefallon
In light of judge this wk suggesting Clinton's email use violated govt policy, thought I wld give timeline showing why that is not case (1)
12:59 PM - 22 Aug 2015....

(Remaining 31 Tweets at link: http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/simplest-explanation-of-hillary-emails)

[Kath1]

1. Thank you.

Yes, this is a non-issue going nowhere. All it really shows is that they can't defeat her on the issues.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. Coupled with an elitist tone for Sanders and Dems are making this race harder.

With all the misinformation and blind hatred of Socialists, it could be an uphill battle to a sound defeat comeNovember 2016.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/22/ironic-hijacking-bernie-sanders-campaign-elitist-white-progressives.html

[Tommy2Tone]

3. This

[Cha]

4. Thank you, DMM!

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R

[underpants]

6. Thanks

Will read later

[riversedge]

7. Hillary Clinton Email "Scandal" Fact Check | The Briefing Video released at same time..

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[DeepModem Mom]

8. Thanks so much for adding the video!

[riversedge]

9. I have watched it twice now. I hope they continue to put this type out and often.

[riversedge]

10. and here are the 32 tweetstorms...........from Brian fallon

Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Bottom line, as said by OMB Watch founder Gary Bass: "She was in compliance with the laws and regulations at the time." (32)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

She turns over 30k+ work emails, very nearly all of which already on http://state.gov system due to practices she adhered to (31)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Despite use of personal email by multiple past secretaries, Clinton alone makes good on the request (30)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Lastly, in 2014, to update its records, State Dept asks four former secretaries to provide any work-related emails they may still have (29)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Not to mention, even after these changes, some Cabinet officials continued to use personal email (28)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

But again, this is long after Clinton has departed State. (27)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Saying explicitly that federal officials can only use personal emails if they also copy or send it to official account (26)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Then in 2014, President Obama signs an update to the Federal Records Act (25)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

But crucially, this is seven months AFTER Clinton has already left the government (24)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Later that year, Natl Archives updates its regs again, this time discouraging use of personal email by govt officials (23)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Now its February 2013. Clinton steps down as Secretary of State (22)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

In her years at State, her use of personal email known to many, as she regularly emails w/ admin officials, members of Congress, etc (21)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

...And (c) copying Dept officials on their http://state.gov accounts in the case of e-mails she sent to non-govt recipients (20)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

(b) contemporaneously fwding emails from non-govt senders to Dept officials on their http://state.gov accounts... (19)
36 retweets 33 favorites
Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

(This actually constituted the vast majority of Secretary Clinton’s work-related emails) (18)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

... (a) communicating with other Dept officials on their http://state.gov e-mail accounts... (17)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

She adheres to updated reg language abt preserving records through a set of practices, such as: ... (16)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

...As she had as Senator. So, like Powell before her, she uses personal email account at State Dept (15)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Enter Clinton. In 09, she joins State Department, decides she wants to keep a blackberry... (14)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Regs then add that steps shd be taken so that personal email records "are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system" (13)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

"...using a system not operated by the agency” (12)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

New regs mention agencies "allow[ing] employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages ..." (11)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Now fast fwd to 2009. Natl Archives makes tweaks to regs, but keeps option for employees to use personal email (10)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

" ...and increasingly to my foreign-minister colleagues.” (9)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

...which he used to send emails to his “principal assistants, to individual ambassadors ..." (8)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

He said he “installed a personal laptop on a private line” from which he accessed his “personal email account"... (7)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

To take one example, Colin Powell wrote this in his memoirs about his time as Sec of State: ... (6)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

In years that follow, agency employees make use of personal email, including Cabinet heads (5)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

this meant there were appropriate & legal circumstances in which outside e-mail accounts cld be used (4)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Those 1995 regs specifically contemplated use of “external electronic email systems” by agency personnel (3)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Lets begin in 1995. That is when Natl Archives issues new regs implementing Federal Records Act (2)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

In light of judge this wk suggesting Clinton's email use violated govt policy, thought I wld give timeline showing why that is not case (1)
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 22

Read new letter on how @HillaryClinton's email use was allowed under govt rules, as reported by @PeteWilliamsNBC https://www.scribd.com/doc/275610583/Letter-From-David-Kendall-to-State-Department-on-Hillary-Clinton-s-email-use …
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Brian Fallon retweeted
NBC News ?@NBCNews Aug 22

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's lawyer defends her use of personal email
http://nbcnews.to/1MKdZEn
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Jenna Abrams ?@Jenn_Abrams Aug 22

@NBCNews that`s his job so nothing special
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boringfileclerk ?@boringfileclerk Aug 22

@NBCNews They're her lawyers, what did you expect?
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LAST SOUND BENDER™ ?@LASTSOUNDBENDER Aug 22

@NBCNews the #Hillary2016 campaign is in trouble. Don't expect the #TheBlackVote to bail her out either. She lost to Obama for a reason. 👮
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Larry Keane ?@lkeane Aug 22

um she shldn't need attys 2 explain “@NBCNews Clinton's lawyer defends use of personal email
http://nbcnews.to/1MKdZEn ”
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DAVID ALLAN COOPER ?@DAVID46COOPER Aug 22

@NBCNews change or hard drive hillary.
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Jassiel Perez ?@fl_dreamer Aug 20

Hey @JebBush, meet my sisters. AKA U.S. Citizens, AKA future voters, AKA Humans. Not 'Anchor Babies'
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Brian Fallon retweeted
Correct The Record ?@CorrectRecord Aug 21

Even Chairman of the Benghazi Cmte complained to State Dept that documents were over-classified: http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/gop-head-of-benghazi-probe-complained-about-over-classification-of-documents-20150821??ref=newsalert …
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 21

In NYT story, @maggieNYT confirms Gowdy's staff handled now-classified State Dept email on an unclassified system http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/20/spokesman-for-hillary-clinton-offers-new-take-on-email-issue/ …
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon Aug 21