CounterPunch: Hillary Clinton -- Shades of Watergate

[RufusTFirefly]

Secrecy, Vanity and Paranoia
Hillary Clinton: Shades of Watergate
by THOMAS L. KNAPP

It’s become far too fashionable, over the decades since disgraced president Richard Nixon’s resignation, to tack the suffix “-gate” onto political scandals. The usage no longer conveys much useful information. In most cases, it’s mere cliche.

Not so when it comes to the revelation that, as US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton essentially privatized her work email. This is definitely Watergate-level stuff.

Clinton’s actions went far beyond those of Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin, who as governors got caught conducting some official business over personal web mail accounts. Clinton ran all of her office email through her own private server, registered under a fake name and physically located in her New York home.
...

More at CounterPunch, that notorious right-wing mouthpiece

[leftofcool]

1. Ben Gawzi!

[libodem]

2. Cringe

Know thine enemy. That's all.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. I've come to the conclusion that Republicans are a pack of wild eyed, lying psychopaths.

Prove me wrong.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. CounterPunch. Is that Brit? The Brits HATE Hillary for taking Ireland's side. Seriously hate her.

They write appalling things about Hillary and Ireland. Being Irish myself, I hope the choke on their nasty sausages when she becomes our next president. It's none of their business who we elect.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. No. Counterpunch is American.

[John Poet]

6. Oh please...

"Not so when it comes to the revelation that, as US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton essentially privatized her work email. This is definitely Watergate-level stuff."

Anybody who would make a statement like that,
clearly doesn't know SHIT about Watergate!

Watergate was a felony B&E, tied to rivers of dirty money being used for illegal purposes....

What we're talking about now, is not using a government email address, at a time that it was not a regulatory requirement.

[geek tragedy]

7. What kind of fucking idiot thinks this is like Watergate?

Oh, it's Counterpunch.