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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Oct 9, 2019, 07:47 PM Oct 2019

Clinton-email critics pull a role reversal as Trump administration draws fire for private phone use

More than four years after a squad of House Republicans led a charge against then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her handling of sensitive diplomatic information, the State Department is once again under scrutiny for how diplomats use personal phones to conduct official business.

But some of those same House lawmakers are now on the opposite side of the controversy, playing defense for U.S. diplomats.

On Tuesday, lawmakers said that President Trump’s top envoys for Ukraine and the European Union used personal phones and an encrypted messenger app as they conducted U.S. policy on Ukraine, a matter that was revealed during House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

The most vocal defenders of the Trump administration’s actions include some of the most aggressive critics of Clinton’s handling of sensitive information, including Rep. Gym Jordan (R) of Ohio, Rep. Mark Meadows (R) of North Carolina and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who as a Kansas congressman had attacked Clinton by underscoring the solemn role of soldiers in defending U.S. secrets.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-email-critics-pull-a-role-reversal-as-trump-administration-draws-fire-for-private-phone-use/ar-AAIx2F7?li=BBnbcA1

Because they put party over country.

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Clinton-email critics pull a role reversal as Trump administration draws fire for private phone use (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
They've raised hypocrisy to an art form Moral Compass Oct 2019 #1

Moral Compass

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1. They've raised hypocrisy to an art form
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 08:05 PM
Oct 2019

I often wonder how their heads don't explode from the cognitive dissonance rattling around in there.

But, then I reflect that they all share one trait--they're fundies. Fundamentalists absorb errant nonsense with their mother's milk and it only gets worse from there.

I once made the mistake of asking a fundie girl whether she thought I was going to hell and she replied without a moments hesitation, "Of course". We'd just finished having sex.

I was raised as a Catholic and we at least had the good grace to feel guilty (although that had passed by this time). She, on the other had, was "saved". That meant you could do anything and it was okay. Didn't even have to feel guilty or go to confession.

Screwing a heathen? Not a problem.

Genocide? Not a problem. A double standard? That is a very small thing indeed. Definitely not an issue.

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