HRC's "email problem" is a big fat nothing that is being pushed as being something.

[Botany]

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This "email scandal" is a classic Rove attack in which you take an opponent's strength and use it against them
examples:

* John Kerry was awarded the bronze star, the silver star, three purple hearts, and
did not lose one man in some of the most dangerous duty in Vietnam so he was attacked
(swiftboated) about his service in Vietnam.


* Hillary was a good Sec. of State and in doing her job she sent and received lots of
emails and tweets so "they" are now attacking her for doing her work as Sec. of state.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/06/the-texts-from-hillary-meme-isnt-so-funny-anymore/

BTW before I could change the channel Chuck Todd was pushing the Hillary email scandal meme big time and
the question at the bottom of the screen asking, "Will the email scandal ruin Hiilary?" rough quote

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Good, a soon-to-be debunked time-waster, just like Benghazi! Let the Repubs chase shiny tin foil. nt

[Sancho]

2. Just for those who want to learn more....

https://www.facebook.com/TheBriefing2016/videos/vb.415405165314505/452560401598981/?type=2&theater

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/p/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/13/email-facts/

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/08/12/myths-and-facts-on-hillary-clintons-email-and-r/204913

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/14/ap-exclusive-top-secret-clinton-emails-include-drone-talk

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/08/14/state-dept-shuts-down-foxs-anonymous-speculatio/204941

[Fred Sanders]

3. A big fat nothing...again! From big fat nothing mass media well paid whores posing as neutral nuns.

Apparently wanting a police state will not ruin Trump but a big fat nothing email server might ruin Clinton? How does that work?

This fucked up logic masking the obvious witch hunt, round 2, has to have been noticed by even the most trusting of media watching folks.

You're part of the problem, not the solution.

[AtomicKitten]

4. She may have violated the Federal Records Act and FOIA.

She is not being swiftboated: It is her reckless behavior at State that caused her troubles.

Example of actual swiftboating: Posting "So, you marched with Martin Luther King. What do you want, a cookie?" The mocking of Sanders' lifelong work of fighting for civil rights and liberties, thereby attacking a strength, is swiftboating.

[seabeyond]

7. or... be the sander supporter promoting it at the expense of democratic party for your gain.

[uponit7771]

10. She may also have jay walked once also... and no one is minimizing Sanders work he's not

.. as much of victim as some people would like him to be... he's a tough guy

[questionseverything]

12. it was criminal when bush scrubbed his e mail server during the us attorneys scandal

so it is a problem for hillary's actions to look similar

seems like an unforced error on her part

[Botany]

13. and don't forget that the man who set up Rove's private "off the books" email account ...

... and helped w "win" Ohio in 2004, Michael Connell, just happened to wind up very dead.

http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/the-mysterious-death-of-bushs


But who is counting the 22 million emails that went missing or the 12 billion in cash that
went to Iraq and went missing too?

[hrmjustin]

14. Maybe you can get a job on Trey Gowdy's committee.

I am so sick of reading republican talking points on this site!

[RobertEarl]

5. Why doesn't she buy her way out?

We are constantly lectured about how Big Money will win this campaign, yet Big Money can't end this nagging problem that is hounding her and will forever?

I guess having all that money is really not the solution?

[seabeyond]

6. big fat nothing. and we gotta get rid of her cause of a big fat nothing. stupid. nt

[PDittie]

8. Tell it to the FBI.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/19/fbi-treating-clinton-emails-as-a-potential-criminal-investigation.html

Reported by David Shuster. Is the media still to blame?

[Buns_of_Fire]

17. An interesting paragraph from the article:

Clinton's primary defense, reiterated on Tuesday, has been that none of the government emails she possessed had been marked or identified as “classified.” But as Al Jazeera’s story points out, a violation of the relevant criminal code statute (18 USC Section 1924) does not require that material be marked or stamped as “classified.” In other words, Clinton's public defense may help her politically, but it wouldn’t necessarily suffice in the event of a criminal case. (bold mine)

Is it just me, or has the government, in its current "classify everything that moves and sort it out later" frenzy, gone absolutely barking mad?

[PDittie]

18. It's not just you

There is certainly far too much information that is considered classified, whether marked as such or not, out of an abundance of caution. I believe the point of contention centers around whether the Secretary of State should know better and know the difference. Particularly if she is communicating off the State Department server.

It's not a big fat nothing, as the OP contends. The FBI doesn't really have time for those.

[progressoid]

9. The GOP and the media love it.

Of course it's nothing. That won't stop them from milking it for all it's worth.

[66 dmhlt]

11. Chuck Todd takes his marching orders from COMCAST ... & is glad to do them in Double-Time

[NorthCarolina]

15. It appears her benefactors might not think it's a big fat nothing.

They've been busy floating trial balloons for other establishment candidates as 'insurance' for the past couple weeks. Al Gore anyone? How about a Joe Biden?

[jfern]

16. "We wouldn’t be here today if this employee had followed government policy"

That's what Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Bill Clinton appointee, had to say about her.