Original Press Conf about the Damn Emails 3/10/15

A Time Capsule, if you will...

Some snippets from:

Transcript: Everything Hillary Clinton Said on the Email Controversy

CLINTON: Yes?

QUESTION: Did you or any of your aides delete any government- related e-mails from your personal account? And what lengths are you willing to go to to prove that you didn’t? Some people, including supporters of yours, have suggested having an independent arbiter look at your server, for instance.

CLINTON: We did not. In fact, my direction to conduct the thorough investigation was to err on the side of providing anything that could be possibly viewed as work related.

That doesn’t mean they will be by the State Department once the State Department goes through them, but out of an abundance of caution and care, you know, we wanted to send that message unequivocally.

That is the responsibility of the individual and I have fulfilled that responsibility, and I have no doubt that we have done exactly what we should have done. When the search was conducted, we were asking that any email be identified and preserved that could potentially be federal records, and that’s exactly what we did.

And we went, as I said, beyond that. And the process produced over 30,000 you know, work emails, and I think that we have more than met the requests from the State Department. The server contains personal communications from my husband and me, and I believe I have met all of my responsibilities and the server will remain private and I think that the State Department will be able, over time, to release all of the records that were provided.

QUESTION: How could the public be assured that when you deleted emails that were personal in nature, that you didn’t also delete emails that were professional, but possibly unflattering?

And what do you think about this Republican idea of having an independent third party come in an examine your emails?

CLINTON: Well first of all, you have to ask that question to every single federal employee, because the way the system works, the federal employee, the individual, whether they have one device, two devices, three devices, how many addresses, they make the decision.

So, even if you have a work-related device with a work-related .gov account, you choose what goes on that. That is the way our system works. And so we trust and count on the judgment of thousands, maybe millions of people to make those decisions.

And I feel that I did that and even more, that I went above and beyond what I was requested to do. And again, those will be out in the public domain, and people will be able to judge for themselves.

What to Know About the Hillary Clinton Email Controversy

March 4, 2015

This article supports Comey's assertions:

What about the classified emails? Did that break the law?

Possibly. As TIME’s Massimo Calabresi writes, “If Clinton knowingly used her private server to handle classified information she could have a problem. But if she didn’t know the material was classified when she sent or received it she’s safe.”

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riverlover's picture

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

He would have clearly found intent

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MsGrin's picture

Hey, Director, cute grandkids you got there. Be a real shame...

Who knows - certainly, we won't for another decade until the tell all books come out.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

How about investigating the IT staffer Seth Rich specializing in voter rolls for the DNC (Clinton) who was just murdered.

http://www.abc2news.com/news/national/27-year-old-dnc-staffer-killed-sun...

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MsGrin's picture

attempt... And yet there are so very few true coincidences in this world. This election season gets more nauseating by the minute.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

sojourns's picture

Perjury investigation referral.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/congressmen-ask-f...

Letter requesting investigation.

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/letter-from-congress...

This could be it Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls!

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
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MsGrin's picture

Thanks for sharing!

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

sojourns's picture

But GO FOR IT!

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

Clinton's comments during the investigation are uncannily similar to Loretta Lynch's masterpieces of non-committal in today's Justice Department hearing.

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I don't want to back a candidate for Vietnam or Watergate.

--slight Queen misquote