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he Hillary Clinton email story is out of control - WaPo editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hillary-clinton-email-story-is-out-of-control/2016/09/08/692947d0-75fc-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?utm_term=.eb86c6f8e233JUDGING BY the amount of time NBCs Matt Lauer spent pressing Hillary Clinton on her emails during Wednesdays national security presidential forum, one would think that her homebrew server was one of the most important issues facing the country this election. It is not. There are a thousand other substantive issues from Chinas aggressive moves in the South China Sea to National Security Agency intelligence-gathering to military spending that would have revealed more about what the candidates know and how they would govern. Instead, these did not even get mentioned in the first of 5½ precious prime-time hours the two candidates will share before Election Day, while emails took up a third of Ms. Clintons time.
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In fact, Ms. Clintons emails have endured much more scrutiny than an ordinary persons would have, and the criminal case against her was so thin that charging her would have been to treat her very differently. Ironically, even as the email issue consumed so much precious airtime, several pieces of news reported Wednesday should have taken some steam out of the story. First is a memo FBI Director James B. Comey sent to his staff explaining that the decision not to recommend charging Ms. Clinton was not a cliff-hanger and that people chest-beating and second-guessing the FBI do not know what they are talking about. Anyone who claims that Ms. Clinton should be in prison accuses, without evidence, the FBI of corruption or flagrant incompetence.
Second is the emergence of an email exchange between Ms. Clinton and former secretary of state Colin Powell in which he explained that [font size="+1"]he used a private computer and bypassed State Department servers[/font] while he ran the agency, even when communicating with foreign leaders and top officials. Mr. Powell attempted last month to distance himself from Ms. Clintons practices, which is one of the many factors that made the email story look worse. Now, it seems, Mr. Powell engaged in similar behavior.
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Imagine how history would judge todays Americans if, looking back at this election, the record showed that voters empowered a dangerous man because of .?.?. a minor email scandal. There is no equivalence between Ms. Clintons wrongs and Mr. Trumps manifest unfitness for office.
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In fact, Ms. Clintons emails have endured much more scrutiny than an ordinary persons would have, and the criminal case against her was so thin that charging her would have been to treat her very differently. Ironically, even as the email issue consumed so much precious airtime, several pieces of news reported Wednesday should have taken some steam out of the story. First is a memo FBI Director James B. Comey sent to his staff explaining that the decision not to recommend charging Ms. Clinton was not a cliff-hanger and that people chest-beating and second-guessing the FBI do not know what they are talking about. Anyone who claims that Ms. Clinton should be in prison accuses, without evidence, the FBI of corruption or flagrant incompetence.
Second is the emergence of an email exchange between Ms. Clinton and former secretary of state Colin Powell in which he explained that [font size="+1"]he used a private computer and bypassed State Department servers[/font] while he ran the agency, even when communicating with foreign leaders and top officials. Mr. Powell attempted last month to distance himself from Ms. Clintons practices, which is one of the many factors that made the email story look worse. Now, it seems, Mr. Powell engaged in similar behavior.
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Imagine how history would judge todays Americans if, looking back at this election, the record showed that voters empowered a dangerous man because of .?.?. a minor email scandal. There is no equivalence between Ms. Clintons wrongs and Mr. Trumps manifest unfitness for office.
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he Hillary Clinton email story is out of control - WaPo editorial (Original Post)
Bill USA
Sep 2016
OP
Warpy
(111,237 posts)1. It's the only lie they have left
At least it's the only one that is being repeated by morons out in TV land, so they're running with it.
PSPS
(13,588 posts)2. Take it up with Jeff Bezos. He decides what's printed in his paper.