"secrecy mode" does not work for HRC: she should just release the emails

[Ken Burch]

By stonewalling on turning over records about the Whitewater investigation, HRC allowed the right wing to make her look guilty when she wasn't . She was innocent of all wrongdoing there, and releasing the records in the first place would have cleared her months or possibly years earlier.

Most likely, releasing the emails now would do the same thing, and probably save her campaign.

She should just give them whatever is there, and that will get the whole thing out of her way right now.

Fighting to hold things back just creates problems for her that she doesn't need to create.

[Oktober]

1. Assuming that she has done the same risk analysis...

It seems to imply that she would rather take this heat than shows what is in those emails.

That's the interesting part...

[HereSince1628]

11. Personal risk assessment involves more than cool calculating reason

it also involves emotion. The way we perceive ourselves in the world in the presences of risk influences how we assign weight to those threats.

I am not sure there is anything in the emails at all. Last I read the emails were deleted, which may create a raft of technical problems in putting them forward.

This creates a bad circularity for a person who worries about other people's perception, and I would think especially for a person long publically stalked by opponents.

The deletion can't be made to look like nothing was hidden unless everything can be restored. I don't think HRC has the technical understanding to address whether or not such restorations can be made. Making statements on limited understanding generates more opportunity to pick at and find faults. It's a risky business for a person doing image management.

She's been stuck with asserting everything was done on the up and up to masses of people who think here credibility has been undone by being too deep in image management for decades.

[DetlefK]

2. Are you willing to give your private e-mails to your employer?

Are you willing to give your private e-mails to your employer if there's a chance they might end up in the hands of colleagues that absolutely fucking hate you and want to destroy you in every possible way?

[delrem]

3. Are you willing to give that argument to every Republican?

Or does it just apply for Dems?

[prayin4rain]

4. Exactly. n/t

[RiverLover]

5. No & that's why I don't use my company email address for personal emails.

It wouldn't be against the law if I did, but it would be really stupid.

[morningfog]

6. Absolutely not. That's why I keep work and personal separate.

Any idiot knows to do that.

[DeSwiss]

8. The employer you so blithely refer to here, is the government (e.g. - The People).

She has no reason nor justification for conducting personal business (particularly of such a high profile position) on a government computer unless she's prepared to divulge it since we have no way of knowing what it is, whether she is benefiting in some way or like so many other politicians, she is doing corrupt-ass shit that she doesn't want anyone to see. Just because she's Hillary doesn't mean she's made of gold. She has clay feet like the rest of us.

This is why a policy of not using government computers in this way is the policy of the U.S. Government as it's regulations indicate. And since U.S. taxpayer's money bought the computer, we should be able to make sure that officials are acting on our behalf, are following the rules they want everyone else to follow.

- And because it is after all, THE PEOPLE'S COMPUTER.

Capice?

[AngryAmish]

7. She can't. They are gone.

[DeSwiss]

9. Which emails would those be now???

- Cause I think her dog ate some of them......

Hillary Clinton's Emails: Unanswered Questions About Deleted Correspondence



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[Sancho]

10. She has already given the emails to the State Department....

she has nothing to release! If the State wants to release them they can.

She has no obligation to release personal email.

There is no "secrecy mode". All government emails were not only given to the State (and all those requested given to a Senate committee quite a while ago), but also every email that was sent to or from any government server was captured on their end (so it's easy for the government to check if all the business emails are there).

There is no "secrecy", except wedding cake recipes and yoga routines.

[DanTex]

12. Nobody cares about the emails.

[bigtree]

13. right, then who's next?

...no one should bend over for republican-generated fishing expeditions; not Hillary or any of our Democratic pols. The republicans won't stop there. It's naive to believe that one capitulating action won't lead to another baseless demand. We're not here to serve their cynical politics. Let them demonstrate just cause before ANY of our party members provide their sham committees ANYTHING- don't just knuckle under to their political sideshows designed to distract from their unwillingness to govern responsibly.