Clinton’s e-mail ‘scandals’ are pure fiction - Boston Globe

[Native]

When it comes to the Clintons, the most mundane actions can be raised to the specter of national outrage, because of the appearance, but not actual incident, of impropriety.

Take, for example, the imbroglio over newly released e-mails regarding interactions between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Clinton was secretary of state. These exchanges, primarily between Clinton’s assistant Huma Abedin and Clinton Foundation top honcho Doug Band, have become Exhibit A in efforts to brand Clinton as a corrupt figure and the Foundation as a pay-for-play operation. The evidence, however, speaks to a different reality.

In 2009, Band reached out to Abedin and asked if she could help put a Nigerian businessman of Lebanese descent named Gilbert Chagoury – who had donated to the Clinton Foundation — in touch with “the substance person re: Lebanon.” Chagoury apparently wanted to pass along information about upcoming elections in Lebanon. Considering that State Department diplomats glean information and intelligence from civil society leaders, activists, and business people on a regular basis there’s nothing particularly untoward about the ask. But because Chagoury is a Clinton donor, there’s a scent of scandal.

So what happened? Abedin told Band she’d reach out to Jeffrey Feltman, the acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs at the time. Yet, according to a Washington Post article, Feltman says he never met or spoke to Chagoury, and “No one ever told me he was seeking me out.”

The author goes on to refute each example of potential conflict/impropriety/whatever that has been in the media of late. This is going to be my go-to piece whenever someone asks me about Foundation conflicts.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/08/23/clinton-mail-scandals-are-pure-fiction/ryXZoEeqANOPSiL7O33QuJ/story.html

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. I will be willing to bet more and more reporters -

(Not so much lazy journalists) will sniff out ALL the current reporting re:the CF...

Tks for the bostonglobe article...her is another for you - talk about a go to piece.....indeed..


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/22/1562841/-What-the-media-doesn-t-know-about-the-Clinton-Foundation-could-sink-the-Titanic

[underpants]

2. Thanks. KR&B

[sheshe2]

3. Thank you Boston Globe!

[Hekate]

4. Bookmarked. Did you also see John Dean's piece in Newsweek? HRC is being framed.

Someone else posted this, and I still have the tab to Newsweek open. Here's the link

http://www.newsweek.com/squalid-case-against-hillary-and-her-emails-492017

[Native]

9. Yes, I bookmarked it when I saw it and just finished reading it over lunch. I have a question....

I watched the hearing in full, and I recall something that I haven't been able to confirm after the fact. Don't know if you watched it, but weren't the 3 emails with the little (c)'s determined by the State Department after the fact to not contain classified material after all? I remember a discussion to that effect, but I'm just not sure if it pertained to the 3 with the incorrect Classified markings (lack there of) or some other emails. I also recall one of the Dems on the committee asking Comey if he was aware that the State Department had determined that those "classified" emails had not contain classified material after all, and Comey replied that he was not aware of that.

I don't know if I'm mixing stuff up or just remembering things inaccurately since it has been so long. I thought something about that would have been brought up in the Newsweek article, but it wasn't.

Do you remember any of that?

[Hekate]

12. I remember reading about it, but no way could I tolerate watching that crap...

Yeah, 3 out of 30,000 had (c). You are probably right about even those ones not being actually classified material.

I tell ya, that woman will go to any length to destroy this country.

[wishstar]

18. State Dept explained that 2 of the 3 emails sent to her had been erroneously marked classified

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141510540

State dept attributed to human error that 2 emails mentioned by FBI with classified markings did not actually contain any classified info.

[Native]

20. Thank you! This has been driving me nuts for a while now.

[mcar]

5. I'm liking that all MSM isn't falling into their usual

lazy "Clinton rules" patterns. Excepting, of course, for the NYT and WaPo front pages.

[oasis]

6. Somebody get a memo to Andrea Mitchell. She's made Clinton

E-mails her personal crusade.

[Hekate]

13. Andrea Mitchell needs to retire now so she and Alan can take up fly-fishing or something.

Now.

[world wide wally]

7. Here's the deal Republicans...

When you tell me WHAT it is you think was hacked through her email service, I might start paying some attention. And while you're at it please EXPLAIN how it would have been "unhackable" on a government server.

When you get all that, I will listen to your droning on and on.
Until then STFU already and let's hear what you have to offer.

[Native]

11. I can't believe that they can conduct witch hunts like this and not be prosecuted for it.

That totally blew me away (John Dean's piece). I know politicians are exempt from a lot of shit, but to go after someone by blatantly lying to law enforcement and not be held accountable?

[world wide wally]

14. Total abuse of power

[Blue Idaho]

8. Don't tell that to Andrea Mitchell...

She is whipping this story with every fiber of her being today. She's not about to let the facts get in her way either. Even though her guests disagreed with her - she wasn't going to let stop her from delivering her Clinton hater talking points.

[OnDoutside]

10. She's a nasty piece of work, and doorstepped Hillary last week, but Hillary ignored her :)

[Blue Idaho]

22. We should all ignore her.

She really is past her due date.

[Laser102]

15. This foundation has helped eleven million people around the world. There will be a special place in

Hell for those that want to destroy it. The Ragin Cajun is all over this. Love Carville.

[Native]

21. Carville was great. "My 6th grade teacher"!

[kentuck]

16. Here they go again!

The establishment media, all of them, tend to take the Republican political games as real, and spread their manure all over the place. They always believe the Republicans, no matter what they say or how ridiculous.

[Fast Walker 52]

17. of course they are

Bernie told us long time back.

[Bill USA]

19. "Still, evidence has never been the key ingredient of a Clinton scandal."....Right!

[LAS14]

23. K & R