2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders is "blasting" the media for calling out Carson for his lies about his life. [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... which I believe was an INTENTIONAL tactic on the corporate media's part to distract us from the more valid criticism of a question as to WHY Hillary Clinton (and for that matter so many Republicans as well) feel they need to PRIVATIZE the emails they do in service of our country. It takes away accountability for us all to know what is going on, and puts at risk any security issues that might have been "privatized" in the process, which may or may not have happened (and Republicans are trying to make that Bengazi BS fit in to that picture).
If a high level manager in the corporate world directed their staff to have their business email rerouted to a home-based server they had to escape management scrutiny of what they were talking about in their jobs of a corporation, you know they would be FIRED for doing such a thing.
The question is why do we have people in government not feeling accountable for that decision. I think we are at least owed an explanation for why that was done. I could think of many reasons that a well thinking politician might feel that this was needed if they knew of security breaches, etc. in government run infrastructure to do their job effectively and allow those that might want to work against them doing their jobs to have access to mail content they shouldn't. If that was the motivation for what she did, she I think even now would be better served by offering that explanation to the public, and what she did to try and get our email infrastructure fixed to deal with such problems. But we aren't hearing that, so some other explanation perhaps she doesn't want us to hear is what so many speculate were her motivations for doing so.
By the corporate media focusing on the Bengazi side of the emails, if nothing wrong is found happening there (which is likely given the Republicans itch to stir up a pot that has a lot of BS in it), they basically had two outcomes as potentially happen. That Clinton gets sunk and Republicans get empowered if they were right, or Hilary Clinton gets empowered if they were wrong (and not any populist serving outcomes happening with that focus).