Maureen Dowd's Column in Today's NYT

Buried at the bottom of every article on this phony issue are the facts - there was no violation.

USA Today: "Both the Federal Records Act amendment and NARA bulletin took effect after Clinton left the State Department in February, 2013."

NYT: "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." Put in place ten months AFTER Clinton left office.

Wall St Journal: ""It is unclear whether Mrs. Clinton's practice ran afoul of federal laws and regulations governing the retention of official records," the Journal says.

The Times earlier: “The wiggle room for Mrs. Clinton is that those policies didn’t come into play until after she was gone” from the State Department in early 2013, said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, an independent, nongovernmental organization focused on transparency.



“those policies didn’t come into play until AFTER SHE WAS GONE”



Just another feeble attempt to beat up the Dem because the GOP has no candidate that can beat her in a square fight.

No? Name one.


Just don't name any of the 47 GOP senate traitors who wrote the letter.

John McCain's excuse for signing the traitorous letter, along with 46 other GOP traitors siding with the Ayatollah?

Web Link


“It was kind of a very rapid process. Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm,” McCain said. “I think we probably should have had more discussion about it, given the blowback that there is.”


“Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm”


You can't make this stuff up.

I'm a traitor and support the Iranian hardliners because it snows in winter.

Soon to be folowed by...

"It's the Dems fault that it still snows, they said the earth is warmer."



Today's GOP - making Sarah Palin look sane.

If Hillary has nothing to hide why is she hiding her server? She could put this all to rest by letting it be independently examined. Did you see her press conference? Numerous easily deflated lies told. You honestly think she isn't hiding something Hank L?

Thank you Hank L C
This is feeling like another witch hunt. As I understand it, the server was a extraordinarily highly secure one because it was shared with her ex-President husband.
Hasn't a subpoena already been issued about Benghazi? What else is it that the public needs to know?

The uproar demonstrates a lot of ignorance about email accounts, devices, and servers. Some people crow about the fact that she uses more than one device, without seeming to understand that each of these (duh) can access multiple accounts that can safely co-reside on a single server.
Clinton could be more clear and repetitive that she followed the rules that existed at the time she was in office. End of story

What is Secretary Clinton hiding?

Same thing as Secretary Colin Powell was hiding when he used private accounts...

Same thing as nearly every Republican Senator is hiding when he uses a private email address...

They were all involved in TRAVEL-GATE AND VINCE FOSTER'S MURDER!!!!

And that haircut, too!

No wonder she doesn't want the far-right whacko-birds to see everything.

My mistake. She is releasing 50,000 pages of emails. Months ago. That ought to keep the rightwing echo chamber busy thru November 2016 (coincidentally, when the Democratic Party turns out the traitorous GOP senators who signed the letter to the Ayatollah.)

But they have an excuse.

St. Ronnie was the Republican who traded weapons to the Iranians, wasn't he? They are just following the crooked Reagan's playbook - "The presidency of Ronald Reagan was marked by multiple scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any US president" Web Link

Let's move forward to Bush:

New York Times Web Link

Jeb Bush Breaks Email Law in Florida

"Mr. Bush delivered the latest batch of 25,000 emails in May 2014, seven and a half years after leaving the Statehouse and just as he started to contemplate a potential run for the White House, according to a newly disclosed letter written by his lawyer.
A Florida statute governing the preservation of public records requires elected officials, including the governor, to turn over records pertaining to official business “at the expiration of his or her term of office.”

“If they’ve been adding to it, it’s a technical violation of the law,” said Barbara A. Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group in Florida that advocates access to government information.

She added, “The law clearly says you’re supposed to turn everything over at the end of your term in office.”

7 1/2 years late - and only because he wants to ruin America worse than his brother did with the Bush Great Recession.

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Republican Hypocrites.

(My apologies for the redundancy.)

"I just don't like it when someone p*sses on my leg and tries to tell me it's raining. I'm not stupid and I don't buy her BS."

Debatable.

Last year, the State Department requested that all of the living former secretaries of state turn over relevant emails for its archives. Web Link

To date, only one of them has complied: Hillary Clinton.

Henry Kissinger - FAILED
George P. Shultz - FAILED
James Baker - FAILED
Madeleine Albright - FAILED
Colin Powell - FAILED
Condoleezza Rice - FAILED

Hillary Clinton - COMPLIED

Mr. Menlo Voter: Your leg is SOAKED by Colin Powell, Condi, Kissinger, etc..., and you think Ms. Clinton is the one doing it?

Your hatred blinds you.

Ah yes, now it's "New York Times Reader."

Different name, same whacked-out wingnut nonsense.

Yawn.

Hank L:

I don't like ANY o those people P*ssing on my leg.

Dems and Pugs, opposite sides of the same corrupt coin.