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So let's see -

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:45:32 +0000

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So let's see -

1) compared to blacks being gunned down pointblank, abortion clinics being closed due to malicious laws nationwide, more terrorist shootings & bombings, minorities being kept from voting, multinationals avoiding taxes and hiding profits in offshore havens, the rise of ISIS including using girls as sex slaves and hacking heads off, mass government surveillance of emails & social media - where does sending 110 variously classified documents of unknown seriousness that aren't known to have been intercepted lie?

2) How many people have gone to jail for emailing classified information to intended recipients?

3) Is there any evidence whatsover that the emails re: drone strikes helped alert the intended targets, and weren't the drone strike emails specifically routed to her to provide state level response since once the drone strikes hit, everyone obviously knows about them....?

4) how far did we get with those government investigations of 9/11 and false information leading us to war in Iraq and the financial meltdown and subsequent trillion dollar bank giveaways, mortgage robosigning and other egregious offenses? How many people went to jail for these (excluding home living entrepreneur Martha Stewart and Bernie Madoff).

This is a pathetic attempt at

Peter — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:19:08 +0000

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This is a pathetic attempt at sandbagging to excuse the high crimes and misdemeanors the Red Queen is so prone to commit. You should be celebrating the fact that her growing power and influence won out over the rule of law even if Obama's FBI had to admit that she knowingly, they were labeled, mishandled top secret documents on an unsecured private email system. There were reports that the most serious breaches of security were related to ongoing drone strikes and the high level decision making involving them.

The investigation, at least the public part of it, was a farce excusing criminal behavior with BS about intent when the law addresses actions and leaves intent for the penalty discussions after the guilty verdict. The private unsecured email system may not have been a great crime, it just shows her as incompetent, untrustworthy and self serving, but her serial lying about it with her minions deleting or failing to surrender evidence certainly was and that's why those crimes were conveniently not addressed by the investigation, see no evil.

Wait, are you sure youre

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 02:02:07 +0000

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Wait, are you sure youre allowed to disclose that? Only 35 years, could be stull valid. Loose punchcalards sink ships and all.

I was a computer programmer

ocean-kat — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:15:42 +0000

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I was a computer programmer in the army for several months in about 1980 and I had a security clearance. I believe it was "secret" but that was too long ago for me to remember. The most damming information I could get was the number of Article 15's a person had. That's Classified you know. An Article 15 is simply a disciplinary action. It could mean assault on an officer or it could mean frequently late to work.

People think classified means important and dangerous to release. It could mean Hillary noted in an email that Sergeant York got reprimanded for being late to work.

I do not understand Maureen.

Richard Day — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:31:07 +0000

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I do not understand Maureen. hahahah

She is the queen of snark?

WHAT THE HELL DOES SHE WANT?

Well, i guess, she wishes to be read.

No purpose, no goal, no aim....kind of like a lot of the media. hahahah

Emails?

GOPers will love to advertise stuff about emails all the while T-Rump twitters?

But real people worrying about emails?

We shall see.

Yeah, but they'll even float

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:47:44 +0000

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Yeah, but they'll even float those 113 as somehow convincing whatever the %. If you look at their track record combined with this, and that they didn't actually come out with a smoking gun aside from Comey's distortions, yes, nothing there. And for Maiello, before there was Dowd there was Safire. He pretended to be serious, she pretends to be funny. Neither is true.

113. Out of more than 30,000

Flavius — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:36:02 +0000

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113. Out of more than 30,000 emails over 4 years.

That's the extent of Hillary's "extremely careless" handling of "top secret" information! Give me a break.

And that's before we learn whether all of these contained top secret information about US military assets. Which of course they didn't. Which of course is why Comey hasn't been asked that question already.

Since it's not in the Republicans' interests to disabuse the public of the automatic assumption that "classified" =s "military ". Which it doesn't.

This "scandal" is destined to sink slowly below the horizon. Not before time., To be replaced by the next fabricated anti- Hillary issue. Like the 25 year old Roz Chast cartoon in which her usual character claims she was standing behind Hillary in the supermarket line and saw her hiding a package of Tootsie Rolls.

Oh well.

For decade, Maureen Dowd has

Michael Maiello — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:23:00 +0000

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For decades, Maureen Dowd has lobbed accusations of corruption against the Clintons in The New York Times and when pressed for evidence says "read the paper!"

I'd say that speculation is

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:13:02 +0000

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I'd say that speculation is too weak tea and feed into the FBI possibly being right and worse, even-handed.

In reality there are a whole bunch of cases where they go after press and whistle-blowers, create trumped up info and entrapment (e.g. a "classified" rotary dial manual used to convict), tamper with witnesses and evidence, have embarrassing losses like with Ted Stevens and John Edwards, and then give Petraeus probation with no charge of lying to the FBI when he handed over 8 big code books to his mistress who was quite possibly connected to the Russians in the chummy local social circle.

https://www.emptywheel.net/tag/john-kiriakou/

I was perfectly content to hear of some mistakes Hillary had made, but to hear Comey so quickly exaggerating and distorting basic case facts did nothing to make me take it serious.