Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton told an audience Wednesday in Iowa that her exclusive use of a private email account during her tenure at the State Department “clearly wasn’t the best choice” and that she understood why there were so many questions swirling around that decision.
“I get it,” Clinton said at a campaign stop, as quoted by The New York Times. “So here’s what I want the American people to know: My use of personal email was allowed by the State Department. It clearly wasn’t the best choice. I should’ve used two emails: one personal, one for work.”
“I take responsibility for that decision,” she added.
The tenor of those remarks differed from the manner in which Clinton previously responded to questions about the private email server. When a Fox News reporter last week asked whether she wiped the server clean before turning it over to the FBI, Clinton joked “What, like with a cloth or something?”
The former secretary of state further maintained, as she has since reports emerged that the FBI was looking into the security of her so-called “homebrew” server, that she never sent or received sensitive information via her private email account.
“I’m confident that this process will prove that I never sent, nor received, any email that was marked classified,” she said, as quoted by the Times.
Concede that it might not have been the best choice, but it was not an uncommon choice, as we have seen repeatedly demonstrated by the others, including State Department Secretaries like Colin Powell, who did much the same.
This is the part she needs to emphasize. I know, the excuse of ‘everyone else was doing it’ is a terrible one, but at the moment, the media are making it look as though it’s never been done before in the history of the world, along with the so-called illegality of it.
Both those points - never done before and illegal - need to be tamped down as patently false. Period.
It’s my understanding that various department heads were using non-governmental email for government business. This only became an issue after a memo was sent around to the department heads asking them to comply with the law regarding archiving their emails.
The tenor?? She still didn’t do anything illegal. Isn’t that the bottom line? Who gives a shit about what you think of her “tenor”. This is all political bullshit anyway. Its still an effort to lower her poll numbers by her adversaries, and claim she’s “untrustworthy”…their favorite tagline to any story involving Hillary. This is where they hope to get their main traction, and it isn’t working.
Its nothing more than the continuing saga Republicans have drummed up in their Stage 2 witch-hunt over Benghazi. Fucking Benghazi, Libya! What year was that anyway…I forget now. Un-fucking-believable. They’re still stuck on that, needing to prove themselves right, even though they’ve had all this time and its gone absolutely nowhere. So many years wasted with tax-payer dollars into the millions, holding countless subcommittees and investigations, all in hopes of funding efforts to smear Hillary and Obama over Zombie Benghazi. And the MSM still continues to play along. Only now you hear nothing about Obama in the mix. Guess that’s how we know Republicans already consider him a lame duck. Including him doesn’t give them any particular political advantage if he’s included in their accusations now. Its all about Hillary…the calculating, conniving, catty conspirator…colluding with who??? Classified, my ass. That’s occurring only after the fact now, by some retroactive opinion by others apparently. So this continues to be a non-story. A real snoozer. But by all means, don’t expect the media to quit trying to muddy the information and report the facts.
If only the media had been as worked up over Iraq when we went to war. If only they had seen through the political bullshit the Bushies and Rove & Co. planned when they deleted 5 million official WH emails, deemed part of the official record of the Bush Administration, which should have been kept legally on WH servers as part of the records act. Those fucking emails were all subverted. Rove ran those through RNC servers and then wiped those clean for their own re-election efforts. How much more political can you get? And you think Hillary is the problem? Bullshit.
But, but, but…the narrative! Won’t someone please think of the narrative!!!
Without being able to write opinion pieces slamming Hillary, what else are they supposed to report on? News?!
One can only hope that sooner or later the “journalists” will pivot to talking about the candidates’ positions on issues that actually matter to the lives of the American people. I really don’t want to hear another word about this email nonsense, unless they discover that Hillary turns out to be the modern day Julius and Ethel Rosenberg or some such thing.