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pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
Tue May 17, 2016, 09:24 AM May 2016

Clinton emails . . .

The other day I listened to Mike Malloy talking to Paul Thompson on his show about it. I don't know how many here know but Paul posts here.

If you want to talk to someone who knows all about the Hillary emails. . . this is THE guy.

http://thompsontimeline.com/The_Clinton_Email_Scandal_Timeline

The facts are astounding and it is getting virtually NO attention.

One of my favorite quotes was about Pagliano (who set up the private server). The FBI said he was a "devastating witness".

The details are shocking.

I also sent the link to Cenk. I hope he has the guy on his show. This information needs to be gotten out.

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Cosmic Kitten

(3,498 posts)
4. Agreed. Problem is polariztion is too entrenched.
Tue May 17, 2016, 09:34 AM
May 2016

The science is in regarding
facts and opinions.

Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.

http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
7. Hillary fanatics have been conditioned for years to ignore
Tue May 17, 2016, 09:47 AM
May 2016

any criticism of Hillary. It is always a "right wing attack". They immediately are able to disregard any facts that don't fit into their head-in-the-sand, hear no evil mindset.

As your citation says, facts even make them double down on their denial. It is just like Climate Change deniers, except it involves a politician. The parallel is shocking.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
9. My fear is that Comey waits and makes this the "October Surprise".
Tue May 17, 2016, 03:05 PM
May 2016

That would be the worst possible time. Too late for a new nominee and too late to counter. Hello, President Trump.

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nenagh

(1,925 posts)
6. Decisions about emails/server made by a woman who,IIRC, had trouble knowing if she had wifi at home.
Tue May 17, 2016, 09:39 AM
May 2016

July 2010, email to Philippe Reines, I don't know if I have wifi, how do I find out?...

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
8. Her "security"
Tue May 17, 2016, 10:37 AM
May 2016

In one section of the interview he talked about the "security" . He said for the first 3 months they had no security at all. At least on google or yahoo email they have teams of people working on encryption and security. She had NONE. And Pagliano wasn't a real expert either.

When she left office many on her staff left too, so Hillary had to get someone else to maintain her private server. She had that Platte River organization. After he looked into it he wondered how that decision was ever made. They were a small, mom and pop, group. They had never handled classified material, they had never even had an out of state contract before. Paul said the way the decision was made to go with that company was that Hillary had a neighbor friend who kind of advised her friends about computer things and she said she'd find some place for her to have her server. She recommended Platte River.

Guccifer hacked Blumenthal and in that way found Hillary's email address and published it. Once that was put out there, everyone knew where it was and that it was a private server -- it wasn't .gov or yahoo or google, it was clintonemail.com. Anyone who might be interested in what was on the US SoS email server had the location.

All this is about is the US government's classified information that was higher than Top Secret, in SAP. Right out there for the whole world to have at it world.

Great judgement.



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