State Department probe of Clinton emails finds no deliberate mishandling of classified information

[Gothmog]

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A multiyear State Department probe of emails that were sent to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private computer server concluded there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information by department employees, according to a report submitted to Congress this month.

The report appears to represent a final and anticlimactic chapter in a controversy that overshadowed the 2016 presidential campaign and exposed Clinton to fierce criticism that she later cited as a major factor in her loss to President Trump.

[riversedge]

1. I like this WPost headline. --better than the one in the LBN.

[pbmus]

3. Exactly

[Gothmog]

11. Same here

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[Gothmog]

14. For this thread

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[DURHAM D]

2. Tulsi is not going to like this. nt

[riversedge]

5. too bad!!

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Butter Emails!

Trump about to have another meltdown.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[Caliman73]

7. WHAT!?!

You mean after years and years of investigation, including a bullshit move by Trump to "reclassify" emails to see who they could get into trouble, that they found No evidence of crimes? SHOCKING!

I know they found 38 people out of 33,000 emails who may have violated some rule or other but WE who know better always knew it was bullshit.

What next? It was the DEEP STATE (in spookiest of spooky voices) that covered up all the wrongdoing to ... I don't even know anymore.

I am sure he'll still bring it up.

[WyattKansas]

8. Like the hundreds of other investigations republicans kept screeching about found?

Keep beating that dead horse republicans as you jump into an isolation chamber about tRUMP implementing ALL of Putin's goals to destroy the U.S. and rapidly advancing Kim Jung's nuclear strike capabilities.

Anyone who could ever vote republican after this toxic republican shit show wants the United States destroyed.

[Midnightwalk]

9. So when does the new investigation start

I wish i was joking but l’ll bet trump asks Pompeo to investigate again and he’ll comply. By next Friday.

When you only have one record you keep playing it.

[dustyscamp]

10. A big FU to Trump, Magats, Alt right and Comey

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Fox headline says different

Totally misleading. FOX headline is about this investigation finding major crimes! Not until the last paragraph does it say that no wrongdoing was found.

[Gothmog]

13. From The NYT

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[spanone]

15. Waste of time, Waste of money. GOP is a pack of rabid dogs.

[Gothmog]

16. Another reason to hate the NYT

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[not_the_one]

17. Cue Gomer Pyle

SURPRISE! SURPRISE!

[Scurrilous]

18. K&R

[Gothmog]

19. From Reliable Sources

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[ck4829]

20. K&R

[Gothmog]

21. Opinion: CNN's Jeffrey Toobin -- again -- expresses regret for his Clinton email coverage

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At which point, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin added his self-critical perspective. “This is also a story about the news media, about how much time we spent on that," said Toobin. "And that’s something that I have felt a great deal of personal responsibility for because I talked about the emails here at CNN, I wrote about it in the New Yorker and I think I paid too much attention to them and I regret that, and I hope a lesson is learned. I mean, this story turns out to be ... a big nothing. And we spent months on it. Hillary Clinton very likely lost the election because of it, and I think I should have been talking about other issues, not about the emails.”

In January 2018, Toobin made similar remarks in a podcast with comedian Larry Wilmore. “I think there was a lot of false equivalence in the 2016 campaign," said Toobin back then. "That every time we said something, pointed out something about Donald Trump — whether it was his business interests, or grab ’em by the p---y, we felt like, ‘Oh, we gotta, like, talk about — we gotta say something bad about Hillary.’ And I think it led to a sense of false equivalence that was misleading, and I regret my role in doing that.”

For both of his meae culpae, Toobin has received applause from media-watchers. After all, not all pundits, editors and correspondents offer honest reflection of this sort.

[Gothmog]

22. With a whimper, State Dept. ends examination of Hillary Clinton emails.

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We know, for example, that the focus on Clinton’s emails in the recent past was absurd, as some are now acknowledging. We also know the problem isn’t limited to the past.

The New York Times’ report on Saturday noted, for example, “Mr. Trump’s own administration officials – including his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner – have admitted to using private messaging services to conduct official work. House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry has revealed that Trump administration diplomats used private phones to message each other about their efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate the president’s American political rivals, including the Bidens.”

This was brought to readers’ attention in the 15th – and final – paragraph in the article that appeared on page A16. After years in which Republicans and major news outlets insisted that State Department email protocols were of the utmost importance, we’ve seen ample evidence of Trump administration figures failing to comply with the same federal record-keeping rules, and it tends to be treated as trivia.

Which would make sense, were it not for the fact that the American electorate was told the opposite when it was Hillary Clinton’s messages making headlines.