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In reply to the discussion: Fair critiques are fine. [View all]Cha
(297,180 posts)35. Really. That's a rw talking point that evidently sucked in more than their usuals.
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"On the surface it sounds damning. The Secretary of State potentially sent top secret information through her personal account, even though theres evidently a law that says shes not allowed to use a personal account for government business sounds outrageous. But like many of the bombshell news stories weve witnessed in the last couple of years, it all falls apart under the most cursory level of scrutiny.
1) The article quotes a lawyer affiliated with the National Archives who set the tone for the outrage
It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario short of nuclear winter where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business, said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.
A nuclear winter! Interesting, because the article goes on to note that numerous other State Department and other government officials have used private email accounts, partially or exclusively, including Secretary of State Colin Powell who only used a personal email account.
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None of this has stopped the Twitter jihad, and especially conservatives on Twitter, from jumping to all kinds of wildly uninformed, unthinking conclusions in spite of the fact that it appears we have yet another dubiously-reported bombshell. It might not be as over-the-top dubious at some of the NSA reporting of 2013-14, but its definitely in the same territory. No laws were apparently broken, as far as we know, and the article completely fails to show hard evidence of irresponsible email transmissions by Clinton. Should she have used a government email account? Probably. But does this warrant whats surely going to be 20 months of indignation and investigations from both the right and the anti-Hillary left? No way.
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4. At the time Clinton was Secretary, the Federal Records Act didnt require federal employees to use government accounts, only to preserve records of their communications. This, Clinton seems to have done.
MOre.. I just snipped and snipped..
http://thedailybanter.com/2015/03/story-hillary-clintons-private-email-account-isnt-awful-seems/
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Government policy in general is unable to keep up with technological innovations...
Agschmid
Jun 2015
#17
I wasn't casting judgement. Just refuting your claim that it was some "modern manufacture."
Scootaloo
Jun 2015
#40
Sorry, but you don't get to define issues that are important to me as "stupid"
Ms. Toad
Jun 2015
#15
They are labeled a smear or right wing tactic when they are taken out of context
R B Garr
Jun 2015
#43