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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary Clinton’s Emails Are a Threat to Life as We Know it [View all]
A humorous and cynical commentary on the OIG email "reporting."Source: Mediaite, Tommy Christopher
Any glance at most political websites today, you might think:
If the past two days have taught us anything, it is that Hillary Clintons use of a personal email server during her tenure at the State Department is a threat to the American way, and even to all human life on Earth. The medias sirens-a-blaring reaction to the State Department Office of the Inspector Generals report on email practices would lead any rational observer to conclude that the only crime greater than using personal email to conduct State business is the crime of ever believing a word that Hillary Clinton says.
Personal email not "allowed?" The "big lie?"
Page 37 of the report does say that OIG found no evidence that the Secretary requested or obtained guidance or approval to conduct official business via a personal email account on her private server, but then again, Secretary Clinton isnt saying that she requested or obtained guidance or approval. Shes saying it was allowed, an assertion that is backed up by many instances in the report which recognize that personal email use, while generally discouraged, is permitted, as per a 2009 regulation which states Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system, and which is repeatedly cited in the report.
As the OIG report also states on page 5, it wasnt until after Hillary Clinton left the State Department that personal email use was prohibited, and even then, not completely.
Hillary didn't want to or attempt to retain her records?
This didnt quite work out because, as the unreported main focus of the report makes clear, the State Department system is a hot-assed mess. If it werent, then none of this would be happening, because theyd be able to sort and retrieve emails the way any Gmail user can. But since Im a reasonable person who doesnt hate Hillary Clinton and isnt trying to justify swallowing a year-and-a-half worth of Republican leaks like some kind of journalistic Linda Lovelace, it makes sense to me that a person would think Hey, if I send an email to someone with a dot-gov email address, theyll be able to find it if they need it.
Read much, much more in the full article at: http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-clintons-emails-are-a-threat-to-life-as-we-know-it/
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Clinton was impeached (indicted) but acquited (not guilty of criminal charges) nt
Henhouse
May 2016
#49
Fine with me, but you'll have to convince a few million other Democrats--and indies.
merrily
May 2016
#12
Hillary's emails caused global warming!! The incredible amount of hot air generated ...
JoePhilly
May 2016
#10
Life was altered for millions in NA, now all of Africa and spread throughout the ME
polly7
May 2016
#21
What bullshit. SHE was a direct cause in all of this horror in Libya, Honduras, Haiti, Syria,
polly7
May 2016
#24
what does any of your ranting and raving have anything to do with personal vs gov't email system?
Sheepshank
May 2016
#36
I don't trot out or use anyone 'to make a point'. If you can't take the truth about what your
polly7
May 2016
#67
You can't stand to hear mention of those suffering worse than you'll ever imagine in your life,
polly7
May 2016
#71
And there you go, trotting out the suffering of others to try and hurt posters
Sheepshank
May 2016
#72
Is that what you called the criticism here of Barbara Bush's comment, trotting out
polly7
May 2016
#73
No, what doesn't make sense is using your private server for weapons deals through
polly7
May 2016
#61
Just more people opining on a subject they appear to be completely clueless about.
frylock
May 2016
#20
Hell, most of them don't know the difference between an email server and a private email account.
Fawke Em
May 2016
#25
It is a threat to some of the undercover CIA agents who were named in her emails.
Fawke Em
May 2016
#23
Yep, Pretty much all of the 'she will be indicted' stories are sourced from Fox News
emulatorloo
May 2016
#59
They're desperate. The voters chose her over their candidate. They will convince themselves
Trust Buster
May 2016
#27
The ostrich is you. The voter and pledge delegate totals decide such things.
Trust Buster
May 2016
#41
"Bernie Sanders to Clinton: people 'are sick of hearing about your damn emails'.
pampango
May 2016
#46
Tommy should get up to date on HRC's newest claim about it being allowed
Press Virginia
May 2016
#52