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posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 01 2018, @04:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the weiner-jokes-never-get-old dept.

State Dept. posts Clinton aide's documents found on Weiner's laptop

The State Department on Friday released portions of 2,800 emails and other documents belonging to former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were recovered by the FBI last year on Abedin's estranged husband Anthony Weiner's computer last year.

While the newly released emails have been seized on by conservative activists who have long been critical of Clinton's treatment of classified emails as secretary of State, the FBI already said in 2016 that a review of the emails didn't change the bureau's opinion that Clinton shouldn't face charges over email handling.

The Friday release came after a 2015 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch against the State Department seeking the release of emails containing "official State Department business" sent or received from Abedin from January 2009 to February 2013 using a non-State Department email address.

Also at Judicial Watch and CNN.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:55PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:55PM (#616889) Journal

    Trump will be remembered as the worst president after Nixon, and if he were smarter he'd easily be able to win that award with the ridiculous level of police state controls that was handed to him on a silver platter. Oh, it was silver and not gold with a monogrammed DJT on it, thus why he didn't read those memos.

    It's only been a year, so I think it's a bit early to predict how Trump will be remembered.

    So far, I'm seeing all kinds of disruption of the status quo. He instantly shut down the worst trade pact in history upon assuming office; that's a huge deal because so many massively powerful forces all over the world were pushing that one for a long time. He has shown the press up for the hackneyed spinfest it has become; that's huge because they lost the credibility they trade on and will never get it back. His presence in office prompted others to finally address the rampant sexual harassment in Hollywood and the media that's been going on for decades; that's huge, because it represents more real progress for women in the workplace than they've seen in I can't remember how long. Trump has actually shrunk the size of the federal government, which no previous president, Democrat or Republican, has ever managed to do; that's huge because the richest counties in America are DC suburbs because they have siphoned so much of our national wealth off into their pockets.

    Now, I wish he would take the NSA out to the woodshed. I demand he breaks the Wall Street banks. Those are the really big ones; if he does not do those his term will be a failure no matter what else.

    In short, it's possible historians will come to view Trump as the little boy who declared the Emperor has no clothes. It's possible they will view him as a product of the national dysfunction at the end stage of the First American Republic, and not as a change agent at all. It's possible he'll be villified as the guy who did nothing on climate change in time to prevent the catastrophic collapse of the Antarctican ice sheet. It's possible he'll go down in history as the only American president who was ever impeached by the House, convicted in the Senate, and removed from office. All those things are possible.

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