2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: MAY I ask this: Do people here who remember Watergate [View all]Rilgin
(787 posts)Its was a way of minimizing the fact that any burglary in support of a political campaign is wrong and should disqualify the candidate. Ultimately, even republicans came to that conclusion.
Hillary set up a back channel information system to avoid FOIA and had a tenure where she mixed private foundation work with the purely public business of the country as SOS. Her claimed contention of "convenience" is somewhat of a joke. Setting up your own system as a pure amateur is not as convenient as allowing your IT department to give you what you want to the fullest extent while complying with record keeping and security requirements. Her desires were clearly related to shielding her communications from disclosure even though the FOIA makes such disclosure a requirement and is a policy and law that is favored and has been favored by democrats.
Her actions should disqualify her from being our standard bearer except for those who want to minimize Nixon's action to a third rate burglary or Hillary's to a rw attack on a minor mistake for convenience.