I heard a news report on the radio on my drive home and, frankly, it puzzled me. Here (from Bloomberg) is an example of what puzzled me. The subject is the incipient release of another batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her private server:
At his daily briefing, State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters “this is not an attempt or effort to be less than forthcoming” but acknowledged “we all recognize that turning in our homework at 9 o’clock at night is not ideal.” He blamed the late hour on the State Department’s need to meet the court-imposed deadline while ensuring that sensitive emails have been properly redacted. “It is a lot of stuff to go through,” Kirby said.
Isn’t the statement that the emails must be redacted an acknowledgement from the State Department that Sec. Clinton broke the law, possibly thousands of times?
Maybe someone more knowledgeable than I can fill in the blanks for me. Isn’t there criminal wrong-doing here?
I’m heading to bed and will read about this in detail tomorrow, but it all depends on what was redacted. Privacy Act information is the first thing that comes to mind as something that was legitimately taken out.
I’ll leave it to the legally trained to opine on strict criminality. However, can there be anyone now who does not understand that Team Clinton is perhaps the slimiest political team to grace our landscape in 50 years? They are lizards, but very smart and cunning lizards, who understand how to manipulate the prevailing media prejudice and morals, and power.
I personally attribute support of them to mental deficiency, but since Reynolds has seamlessly gone from support of Obama to Clinton must allow for the possibility of blind partisanship.
That’s a good explanation, Andy, but not only is it not exculpatory it opens up whole new avenues of probably criminal activity. There is little doubt at this point, just based on the email that have been released, that official business was being conducted using the private server. That means that it was subject to all laws, regulations, and rules for government servers including those for data retention and security as well as privacy.
If the server has been wiped (as has been reported), that itself is an offense.
There’s no criminal wrong-doing here because they self-identify as law-abiding citizens. What could be simpler? When the greatest male athlete of his generation has been a woman the whole time because he feels like it, when northern Slavic types can claim they’re black because they dig a good tan, then imagining the Clinton’s as completely, 100% law-abiding types folks? Barely a stretch!