2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SET OF FACTS REGARDING THE HILLARY INVESTIGATION [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)I know that some of them were retroactively classified. I don't know how many emails there were.
She did not have a .gov email address at all.
That brings up many questions. Did anyone notice this? Did the President notice this?
I think it's clear that she walled herself off for personal reasons--to keep her activities secret. Why else would she use a private server? There's no other explanation. If she was not using a .gov address, (and instead using clintonemail.com on a private server), I imagine that those emails wouldn't be subject to FOIA requests. How convenient.
This is interesting from HuffPo, "An obvious reason for HRC to want to control all of her email by private server became readily apparent when after her time as Secretary of State individuals and organizations put in FOIA requests regarding her emails. The State Department ultimately came back with the response to these requests that there were no documents to be found.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-pappalardo/hillary-email-probe-could_b_9579826.html
There is plenty of evidence demonstrating that Hillary and Obama were not on the same page when it came to foreign policy. She is more hawkish, he is not. This goes back to her Iraq War vote and his rallying against the war. She was for more serious intervention in Syria; Obama was not. Many articles have been written about Hillary being the cheerleader for action in Libya.
"Several reports have noted the pivotal role played by Clinton in convincing the president to support the intervention [in Libya], which was also strongly backed by then-U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice..."
https://newrepublic.com/article/121879/hillary-clinton-should-take-blame-disastrous-libyan-intervention
Obama had to be talked into action on Libya. Robert Gates was against it. Obama was talked into it and one of the main mouthpieces for intervention in Libya was Hillary Clinton.
Good background on Obama being cajoled into US intervention in Libya: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19policy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
I'm wondering if Clinton's emails (to Blumenthal and others) revealed motives for Libya intervention--that were different from the full-court press that she used to sell Obama on it (I don't know the answer. Would be interesting to know). Because that would be quite a combination: Obama finds out Hillary has a secret, unsecured server behind his back, she's communicating with Sid B on it, and that maybe Obama was bamboozled into action on Libya under false pretenses.