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The Phony Hillary Email Scandal... (Original Post) MrScorpio Mar 2015 OP
Now that was a scandal. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #1
+ the man who set up the secrete email accounts for Rove, Cheney, and others ..... Botany Mar 2015 #11
Never heard of him. I do remember feeling robbed in 2004. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #14
No BS "they" shipped the Ohio voting returns in 2004 to a bank of computers in Chattanooga, TN .... Botany Mar 2015 #18
I know it's true Hekate Mar 2015 #21
Sadly I think in Ohio some of "the fix" was on the inside on both the party level and inside of .... Botany Mar 2015 #24
To be honest I'm sick of hearing about it.The media has gone over board bigdarryl Mar 2015 #2
You're right. bigwillq Mar 2015 #4
Or the Malaysian airliner Hekate Mar 2015 #22
Thanks for posting Gothmog Mar 2015 #3
please MrScorpio guillaumeb Mar 2015 #5
Benghazi!! immoderate Mar 2015 #6
hate to betray my ignorance but guillaumeb Mar 2015 #7
I think he was the actor married to Gena Rowlands.... Pathwalker Mar 2015 #9
Ben was married to Gena Rowlands? fadedrose Mar 2015 #19
Yes, the media tries to make it a "socialist Obama" type of stor... BUT!... cascadiance Mar 2015 #8
Privatize everything? fadedrose Mar 2015 #20
More fake outrage from the Rethugs!!! Wellstone ruled Mar 2015 #10
That depends pscot Mar 2015 #12
There is no there there. Wellstone ruled Mar 2015 #17
At least the phony Hillary scandal betsuni Mar 2015 #13
And how many of them are running for President? Savannahmann Mar 2015 #15
Yes it is a phony scandal and it will pass. However totodeinhere Mar 2015 #16
It's all to connect it to their phony Benghazi scandal. B Calm Mar 2015 #23

Botany

(70,584 posts)
11. + the man who set up the secrete email accounts for Rove, Cheney, and others .....
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 08:11 PM
Mar 2015

.... helped to rig the Ohio 2004. His name was Michael Connell and he is very much
dead now.


Botany

(70,584 posts)
18. No BS "they" shipped the Ohio voting returns in 2004 to a bank of computers in Chattanooga, TN ....
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 12:48 AM
Mar 2015

Last edited Sun Mar 8, 2015, 05:16 AM - Edit history (1)

.... and those computers handled the RNC, Bush/Cheney 04, and Karl Rove and
company's private email accounts that were not archived as required by law.

On election day 2004 Connell sent the rest of the I.T. staff at the Sec. of State's
office in Ohio home at 7:00 PM because he said he could "take care of things."

By 2008 Mr. Connell had started to speak about what he knew and did but he
ended up dead when his small plane crashed in Dec. 2008.

http://freepress.org/article/ghost-rigged-elections-past-new-revelations-death-michael-connell-0

BTW Trust me, we were robbed in 2004 ..... and I was in the belly of the beast in OH ..... I saw
the shit w/my own eyes and I heard it w/my own ears.

On election day 2004 around 6:00 PM Karen Hughes came and told W Bush he had lost because
of the returns and exit polls but W just sat back and laughed .... he knew the fix was in too.

I know this stuff might seem like nut ball tin foil hat stuff but it is all true.



Hekate

(90,807 posts)
21. I know it's true
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 04:56 AM
Mar 2015

We tried to tell Kerry in advance. We tried to alert the DNC. Dear gods we tried. I can't even talk about it now, because I am afraid I will look crazy, and what is more I will feel as crazy as I did then.

In my opinion the only hope our democracy has at all is for us to have a string of Democratic presidents and their subsequent federal judicial / SCOTUS appointments. No way in hell could Obama clean up that mess in just 8 years.

Botany

(70,584 posts)
24. Sadly I think in Ohio some of "the fix" was on the inside on both the party level and inside of ....
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 11:54 AM
Mar 2015

.... Kerry's campaign too.

BTW I also think that the 2014 vote was much dirtier then people really know.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
5. please MrScorpio
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 07:04 PM
Mar 2015

we must look forward. Sure the Bush administration was guilty of war crimes, crimes against International Law and unconstitutional behavior, but what about Benghazi?

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
19. Ben was married to Gena Rowlands?
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 12:54 AM
Mar 2015

There used to be somebody with that name somewhere sometime, but I forget. Thanks for the reminder.

So Ben was an actor???

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
8. Yes, the media tries to make it a "socialist Obama" type of stor... BUT!...
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 07:24 PM
Mar 2015

But the way so many dismiss this here, they make it sound like we should just LOVE that Hillary Clinton was doing the PROPER thing by her in effect dismissing a government solution for mail as being ineffective and that we should love that she was intelligent enough to use a privatized email solution again? Is that really a Democratic Party solution that she should be proud of? Privatization of government officials' email and our government IT infrastructure? HUH?

I don't believe that there's any proof her wrongdoing, but without any other entities overseeing her private email server, HOW DO WE KNOW? Her doing what she did, even if she didn't do anything wrong on these servers, opens her up to this criticism that wouldn't happen if she'd stuck with government email solutions. If government email solutions are insecure, either to enemies of our country, or to other party operatives trying to do a "hit job" based on email content, then FIX these problems. Don't just work around it and make other problems happen too.

If Oregon's Governor Kitzhaber and his fiancee had used a privatized email solution for all of their mail, then he'd still be governor, since he wouldn't have taken the approach of trying to get emails deleted, that had people asking him to step down.

Yes, the Bush administration was in my book more guilty of email monkey business too. And it was the same outfit that provided a private email server for them that also provided a separate server to count Ohio's votes that likely gave Bush the 2000 election too over Kerry.

That doesn't mean what Clinton was doing was the proper solution, and something that shows "good judgement" when trying to judge what kind of president she would be. For someone wanting that position, it's not enough to show that she's not doing anything wrong with private email, but she should made an issue of why government run email was flawed so she felt that she couldn't use it, so government email processes could be fixed to work for everyone and maintain accountability of our government officials too. Then I'd see the kind of leadership I wanted who would make sure that government works properly to serve us, which the Republicans don't want happening.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
20. Privatize everything?
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 12:57 AM
Mar 2015

I love your first paragraph:


"use a privatized email solution again? Is that really a Democratic Party solution that she should be proud of? Privatization of government officials' email and our government IT infrastructure? HUH? "

Good thinking..

pscot

(21,024 posts)
12. That depends
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 08:47 PM
Mar 2015

If Romanian hackers were reading her emails, who else was. I was dismissive at first, but the closer you look the more troubling it gets.

 

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
15. And how many of them are running for President?
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 09:06 PM
Mar 2015

I'm just asking, because it seems to me that it would be a disqualifying event in a political figure.

totodeinhere

(13,059 posts)
16. Yes it is a phony scandal and it will pass. However
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 09:32 PM
Mar 2015

I do not support Hillary for the nomination but then that's another issue.

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