2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDemocrats Should Run From Clinton While They Still Can
By Michael Sainato 03/24/16 9:00am
Hillary Clintons controversial use of a private email server while she served as Secretary of State has loomed over her presidential campaign, and will certainly be an often-cited argument against her candidacy as the general election in November draws nearer. Regardless of speculation that Emailgate is a smear campaign by Republicans, as the case filters through the FBI and Department of Justice, attention is focused on whether or not Ms. Clinton will be reprimanded for her actionsand, if so, what that will mean if she is the Democratic Presidential nominee.
In pushing a presidential nominee who is under investigation, Democrats are sabotaging their party. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the co-chair of Ms. Clintons 2008 campaignwho is now the current Chair of the Democratic National Committeebroke the impartiality she is supposed to exercise in defending Ms. Clintons use of a email server. [Clinton] handled the email process correctly and according to the letter of the law. In terms of what she was doing with compliance, she was compliant. She has released 55,000 pages of emails. Shes actually said she would not have used private email, Ms. Wasserman Schultz told Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Networks Mornings With Maria on Monday, March 21.
If Ms. Wasserman Schultz was truly devoted to her role with the DNC, she would have remained impartial and avoided commenting, instead allowing the DoJ and the FBI determine whether Ms. Clinton was in compliance with the law. It is not Ms. Wasserman Schultzs place to make that determination, and the move is indicative of Ms. Wasserman Schultzs intentions to secure Ms. Clintons position as Democratic Presidential nominee. The White House, on the other hand, has not made any comment in regards to the investigation of Ms. Clintons email serverin part because it would compromise the investigation, but also because it could read as favoritism for Ms. Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primary.
During the first Democratic debate, Mr. Sanders dismissed a question about Ms. Clintons emails, essentially diminishing coverage of the issue until January, when the State Department announced 22 of the emails are top secret. Ms. Clinton defended herself, citing the emails were retroactively classified and did not constitute any wrongdoing on her part, and although she admits using the private server was a mistake, she has also said her Republican predecessors did the same thing and were never investigated. But, unlike Ms. Clinton, Colin Powells private email server remained on government computer servers, and an aide of Condoleeza Rice told CNN she didnt use email at all during her service. A few weeks ago, the FBI and Department of Justice granted immunity to Bryan Pagliano, a former State Department employee who helped Ms. Clinton set up the private server.
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