The real Clinton email scandal is that a bull**** story has dominated the campaign

[homersapien 11,388]

If you agree with her on policy, vote with a clear conscience about the server.

Some time ago, Hillary Clinton and her advisers decided that the best course of action was to apologize for having used a personal email address to conduct government business while serving as secretary of state. Clinton herself was, clearly, not really all that remorseful about this, and it showed in her early efforts to address it. Eventually aides prevailed upon her to express a greater degree of regret, which they hoped would lay the issue to rest.

It did not. Instead, email-related talk has dogged Clinton throughout the election and it has influenced public perceptions of her in an overwhelmingly negative way. July polling showed 56 percent of Americans believed Clinton broke the law by relying on a personal email address with another 36 percent piling on to say the episode showed “bad judgments” albeit not criminality.

Because Clinton herself apologized for it and because it does not appear to be in any way important, Clinton allies, surrogates, and co-partisans have largely not familiarized themselves with the details of the matter, instead saying vaguely that it was an error of judgment and she apologized and America has bigger fish to fry.

This has had the effect of further inscribing and reinscribing the notion that Clinton did something wrong, meaning that every bit of micro-news that puts the scandal back on cable amounts to reminding people of something bad that Clinton did. In total, network newscasts have, remarkably, dedicated more airtime to coverage of Clinton’s emails than to all policy issues combined.

This is unfortunate because emailgate, like so many Clinton pseudo-scandals before it, is bull****. The real scandal here is the way a story that was at best of modest significance came to dominate the US presidential election — overwhelming stories of much more importance, giving the American people a completely skewed impression of one of the two nominees, and creating space for the FBI to intervene in the election in favor of its apparently preferred candidate in a dangerous way.....

 

Read the rest at:  http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13500018/clinton-email-scandal-bull****

 

 

[AURaptor 1,125]

STILL living in denial, I see. Note the laughably weak and outdated attempt to call into question Hillary's e-mail ADDRESS, which has little to do w/ the REAL story.  The private SERVER, poorly protected, and her shoddy inclusion of folks w/ out any clearance to top secret level material being included in on e-mail threads as well as those who WORK on the server itself. 

Clinton DID do something wrong. MANY MANY things wrong, and it sure as hell wasn't a " mistake ".  There was 100% clear and obvious INTENT on her part to deceive and lie, which is why she wanted the full control she THOUGHT she'd get by owning her own server. To avoid FOIA requests and hide her illegal pay-for-play deals where she sold off US foreign policy to the highest bidder. 

 

It's amazing you still pretend to have to have this explained to you, or that there are paid writers for crap sites like VOX who hammer fairy tales like the one above for readers to actually BELIEVE !!!!  

 

[cptau 169]

The person who wrote the article doesn't understand what he's writing about.  

Clinton outsourced management of her official government email service and of several of her senior staff's email to her private foundation.    You don't outsource anything from the US government without strict contractual safeguards concerning physical security, data security, personnel security, reliability, backups, and records retention.    Clinton and her home brew server failed in all categories.  Remote access intrusions to the server and its data, loss of government records,  unauthorized access to classified government information to unauthorized known and unknown persons, and failure to surrender government records are all failures for which Clinton is responsible.

The authorized email outsourcing is part of a pattern for Clinton of mixing her official government duties, her private foundations functions, and her political career. She also mixed her DoS staff between State and foundation functions and paid them from both organizations.   Why she mixed them is the core issue.    She told obama she would not do it, but lied to him.  Was it pay to play for personal monetary gains, fear of official monitoring and being caught?