The usual Hillary bashers are ebullient today over the release of the IG report from the State Department. Here's Chris Cillizza:
"There are two very important difference between Powell, Condoleezza Rice, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton when it comes to email practices."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/25/hillary-clintons-email-problems-just-got-much-worse/?postshare=7561464194794065&tid=ss_tw
Even without looking it was obvious what the second reason would be: 'Powell''s not running for President so it doesn't matter.'
"The first is that Clinton is the first and, to date, only secretary of state to exclusively use a private email address and server to conduct her business as the nation's top diplomat. All of the other names above maintained both a private and a government-issued email address. That alone doesn't make her guilty. But it does make her unique."
"Second, Clinton is the only one of that group who is currently a) running for president and b) the very likely nominee for one of the country's two major parties."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/25/hillary-clintons-email-problems-just-got-much-worse/?postshare=7561464194794065&tid=ss_tw
In the other party we have a guy beloved by white nationalists and anti Semites and who says his tax returns are none of our business. But this doesn't matter. All that matters is that Hillary like most in the State Department before her, used private email.
One other difference between her and Powell is that he actually destroyed all his emails. Can you imagine if Hillary did that?
In a Trump Presidency, him using private emails would be the least of our worries.
It's not clear what we actually know that we didn't know previously. Yet Cillizza is acting like this is some sort of smoking gun.
However, Paul Waldman has a good way for Hillary to handle this. Basically the issue is not Hillary personally but the entire system that has been in place in the State Department. It's an issue of security but the state email hasn't been too safe either.
"But it also appears, from what we know so far, that there weren’t really any practical consequences for the country because of her decision — no covert operations compromised, no key national security information delivered to our enemies. And cybersecurity experts will tell you that her emails likely would have been no less vulnerable had they been on the State Department’s servers, which are the target of constant hacking attempts."
"So maybe the best thing for Clinton to do now would be to say that this whole episode has brought home to her the need for the federal government to dramatically improve its cybersecurity, and she wants to assemble a blue-ribbon commission of experts to devise a plan to reform the systems across the government, one that she hopes Republicans will join with her to pass through Congress within her first year in office so it can be implemented as soon as possible. At least then some good might come of this controversy."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/25/what-does-the-new-inspector-general-report-actually-tell-us-about-hillary-clintons-emails/
I don't think Trump is going to win this election. But if he did, Hillary hating hacks like Cillizza and Maureen Dowd will have played their part.
Honestly, who cares about private emails? I thought libertarians think the private sector everything better anyway? If Trump were President, my guess is his using private emails would be the least of the laws he'd break.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/25/hillary-clintons-email-problems-just-got-much-worse/?postshare=7561464194794065&tid=ss_tw
Even without looking it was obvious what the second reason would be: 'Powell''s not running for President so it doesn't matter.'
"The first is that Clinton is the first and, to date, only secretary of state to exclusively use a private email address and server to conduct her business as the nation's top diplomat. All of the other names above maintained both a private and a government-issued email address. That alone doesn't make her guilty. But it does make her unique."
"Second, Clinton is the only one of that group who is currently a) running for president and b) the very likely nominee for one of the country's two major parties."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/25/hillary-clintons-email-problems-just-got-much-worse/?postshare=7561464194794065&tid=ss_tw
In the other party we have a guy beloved by white nationalists and anti Semites and who says his tax returns are none of our business. But this doesn't matter. All that matters is that Hillary like most in the State Department before her, used private email.
One other difference between her and Powell is that he actually destroyed all his emails. Can you imagine if Hillary did that?
In a Trump Presidency, him using private emails would be the least of our worries.
It's not clear what we actually know that we didn't know previously. Yet Cillizza is acting like this is some sort of smoking gun.
However, Paul Waldman has a good way for Hillary to handle this. Basically the issue is not Hillary personally but the entire system that has been in place in the State Department. It's an issue of security but the state email hasn't been too safe either.
"But it also appears, from what we know so far, that there weren’t really any practical consequences for the country because of her decision — no covert operations compromised, no key national security information delivered to our enemies. And cybersecurity experts will tell you that her emails likely would have been no less vulnerable had they been on the State Department’s servers, which are the target of constant hacking attempts."
"So maybe the best thing for Clinton to do now would be to say that this whole episode has brought home to her the need for the federal government to dramatically improve its cybersecurity, and she wants to assemble a blue-ribbon commission of experts to devise a plan to reform the systems across the government, one that she hopes Republicans will join with her to pass through Congress within her first year in office so it can be implemented as soon as possible. At least then some good might come of this controversy."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/25/what-does-the-new-inspector-general-report-actually-tell-us-about-hillary-clintons-emails/
I don't think Trump is going to win this election. But if he did, Hillary hating hacks like Cillizza and Maureen Dowd will have played their part.
Honestly, who cares about private emails? I thought libertarians think the private sector everything better anyway? If Trump were President, my guess is his using private emails would be the least of the laws he'd break.
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