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Anyone who follows American politics will have heard of Hillary Clinton's email server. Rather than using an official State Department address, she chose to use a private server for her official email. Federal law requires all official email to be archived on government servers. Armchair lawyers have pointed out that it doesn't require the use of government servers to send and receive the email, but the archival requirement is clear. This requirement was clearly violated in this case: in response to a subpoena, Hillary Clinton's private staff extracted emails from her private server and turned them over to the government. The contents of the server itself were never made available to the government, and now she has had the server erased:
Hillary Clinton wiped “clean” the private server housing emails from her tenure as secretary of state, the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said Friday.
“While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement.
As Popehat tweeted:
@Popehat
I ask you, who among us hasn't wiped a server clean after its contents were requested by subpoena?
I naively wonder why she isn't in jail, but that's just me. Comments and views from those interested in American politics?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Monday March 30 2015, @01:48PM
I really enjoy how this whole issue has all come back to her justifying bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior.
Private email? So did the governor of florida
Killing Americans? Doesn't matter anymore we have to fix healthcare deaths
Helicopter shot at? Lots of people forget about events, what about bill oreilly
Deleting emails? Why don't you go look at Sarah Palin stuff first
The biggest problem with everything Clinton has done is when she was campaigning for president against Obama she made herself out to be a vigilant watchguard of the people. Taking that 3am phone call and making the right decision.
A CIA director called to ask for authorization to relieve the embassy. Either she or one of her people gave the order to stand down. Four Americans (possibly only two could have been saved with relief) were killed, ambassador drug through the streets. Despite evidence showing contrary blamed it on a radical film maker who ended up in jail.
When a legislative group looks into this she dodges the questions, diverts blame, and when it finally comes down to the wire it is learned all of her emails were at her home. Then when pressed, she has them erased.
Although much more severe because he was president, this got Nixon impeached. If this had been anyone except hillary they would have been destroyed. Kerry would not have gotten this support, Reid would not have, Boner would not have, not even Jeb Bush. This is about Hillary and her lust for power, nothing else.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday March 30 2015, @04:39PM
She's a senior politician. Like everyone that's managed to get to that level, she's got masses of corruption in her closet. Same as Obama, Bush II, Clinton I, Bush I, the actor and the ones before. They are scum, it's the only way they get where they get. They also get immunity by being in that position (it's expensive to get a politician in place, you don't want something trivial like murdering a hooker to flush that money down the tubes)
Obama's fast rise from nobody probably caught some people out, but he ended up the same way pretty quickly (and while he was being brought under control there was plenty of distraction about birth certificates).
I find it amazing how people (or rather fox news) are complaining about a single decision which may have caused 2 deaths, but ignore the elephants in the room - for example the 1,000 americans a year who die because they (or their parents) didn't vaccinate them.
(Score: 1) by Fauxlosopher on Monday March 30 2015, @05:12PM
Your example is a wildly inappropriate comparison to government officials' behavior.
Parents almost never force their children's participation in association with them at gunpoint; in regards to governments and private individuals, government officials do.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 30 2015, @09:19PM
Hillary is much more legal and PR savvy than her husband. While Bill was ham-fistedly trying to figure out the Internet thing, she was on top of it. She got beaten by it, so she learned better than did Bill.
That said, Hillary and Bill understand gotcha politics. It is their life. If America and the rest of the world want another 8 years of that, then Hillary should be elected. If, however, everyone wants to depart from the tired past, much different candidates should be elected.
Washington DC delenda est.