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2016 Postmortem

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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Sep 4, 2016, 12:46 PM Sep 2016

Reading the FBI Report on Clinton’s Email [View all]

Kevin Drum read the entire FBI report on Hillary Clinton’s email:

That said, this report is pretty much an almost complete exoneration of Hillary Clinton. She wasn’t prohibited from using a personal device or a personal email account, and others at state did it routinely. She’s told the truth all along about why she did it. Colin Powell did indeed advise her about using personal email shortly after she took office, but she chose to follow the rules rather than skirt them, as Powell did. She didn’t take her BlackBerry into her office. She communicated with only a very select group of 13 people. She took no part in deciding which emails were personal before handing them over to State. She had nothing to do with erasing information on the PRN server. That was a screw-up on PRN’s end. She and her staff all believed at the time that they were careful not to conduct sensitive conversations over unclassified email systems. And there’s no evidence that her server was ever hacked.

There’s remarkably little here. If you nonetheless believe that it’s enough to disqualify Hillary from the presidency, that’s fine. I have no quarrel with you. But if the FBI is to be believed, it’s all pretty small beer.


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https://politicalwire.com/2016/09/04/reading-the-fbi-report-on-clintons-email/
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CNN mercuryblues Sep 2016 #1
The other thing about that report is that it implies she lacked the authority pnwmom Sep 2016 #3
This will be all over the news media!!! spooky3 Sep 2016 #2
I'm glad you said that spooky3 sorefeet Sep 2016 #5
Exactly spooky3 Sep 2016 #7
No - it's not enough to diqualify her... RagAss Sep 2016 #4
And yet ... kentuck Sep 2016 #6
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