Is This a Scandal—Or a ‘Scandal?’

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/03/05/is-this-a-scandal-or-a-scandal/

To date, only one of them has complied: Hillary Clinton. Her aides provided more than 50,000 emails to the government — and sent about 300 to the House Select Committee that is forever investigating Benghazi.

Angry Republicans on that committee, plainly frustrated by years of failure to find any evidence that incriminates Clinton or President Obama in the loony conspiracy theories cherished by tea party Republicans, are behind the email stories first published by The New York Times. In fact, Clinton’s use of a private account has been publicly known for more than two years — but that fact didn’t seem to trouble the Republicans until now, as she prepares to run for president. And today the House Government Operations Committee, chaired by Rep. Jason Chaffetz — a right-wing extremist whose own business card lists his Gmail address – is poised to take up the “investigation.”

This unappetizing scenario is most reminiscent of the bad old days, when a House committee chair “investigated” the tragic suicide of White House aide Vince Foster by pumping several pistol rounds into a watermelon in his backyard. Back then, various Senate and House committees chaired by Republicans endlessly “investigated” Whitewater, the FBI files, and other putatively scandalous matters, at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, with no purpose beyond selective, salacious leaks to reporters at the top newspapers and networks. Then everybody would feign outrage for a day or two, and the latest whatever would pass into oblivion.

[politicman]

1. Ok, well answer these questions if you can.

Why did Hillary use an email account that she opened on the day of her confirmation, and not some old email address that she had?

Why did Hillary host the email on a server at her home and give herself complete control of all emails that she sent as received as SOS?

Why did Hillary not turn over every single email to state as soon as she stopped being SOS, instead of releasing the emails that her and her staff decided on, after this story came out?

Why did Hillary feel that hosting the email account at her home and giving herself full control over all emails was a good idea when she knew that those emails she sent and received as SOS were property of the American people.

Lastly, what was she trying to hide by giving herself complete control over which emails would be released to state and the public?

[leftofcool]

2. Thank you for those Fox News talking points.

[awake]

3. Not just Fox News

Many people want to know the answers to these valid questions. It was not Fox News or the right wing nuts who decided not to use the .gov email server and instead build their own email server in their own home. These are very ligitamint questions that HRC needs to address.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Sounds like you don't have answers. nt

[politicman]

7. And you just prived my point.

Whether you think they are Fox News talking points, they are the questions that will be asked time and time again, and the public upon here them time and time again will want answers to them.

You have perfectly illustrated the democrat third-way bubble that I equated to being the same as the repuke bubble, the fact that you just dismiss these questions as Fox News talking points with no credible way to answer them, just shows that you are living in the democrat third-way bubble I described.

These are legitimate questions, that I as a progressive am asking.

If you cant even come up with credible explanations for these questions from a fellow progressive, then how on earth can you come up with anything even remotely credible to counter the onslaught that the repukes will throw at this?

[Geronimoe]

4. If you have nothing to hide

If you have nothing to hide as Sec of State, then why not just use the State Department's email server?

[CK_John]

6. She was just smarter than the others and if the WH didn't like it or did not know about it then

it's on them.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Republicans and the media have a lot to lose if The Game is a blowout. The WH must remain in

Democratic hands or it falls to the fascists....not a tough choice.

18 months to election, let the smearing being.....fucking yawn...wake me up before the primaries.

In the meantime the Beltway Pundits and their ambulance chasing media have endless air time to fill with childish pranks pulled from the infinite world of lies and innuendo so beloved of "journalists".