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Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton is going to be exonerated on the email controversy. It won’t matter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/06/hillary-clinton-is-going-to-be-exonerated-on-the-email-controversy-it-wont-matter/That point about her intending to break classification rules is important, because in order to have broken the law, it isnt enough for Clinton to have had classified information in a place where it was possible for it to be hacked. She would have had to intentionally given classified information to someone without authorization to have it, like David Petraeus did when he showed classified documents to his mistress (and then lied to the FBI about it, by the way). Despite the enormous manpower and time the Justice Department has devoted to this case, there has never been even a suggestion, let alone any evidence, that Clinton did any such thing.
But when it comes to the presidential campaign, that isnt going to matter. Republicans already know what they think: Hillary Clinton is a criminal whose every thought and action is vile and despicable, so of course she broke the law. If the investigation doesnt show that, it could only be because the investigation was a sham. So theyll just keep saying that this is a scandal, over and over and over.
As Bill and Hillary Clintons entire careers have proven, when youre trying to take someone down, the next best thing to a real scandal is a phony one. Lets not forget that when Bill was president, no alleged wrongdoing was too trivial to investigate, complete with dark insinuations about nefarious conspiracies and potential criminal behavior. You think the endless investigation of Benghazi is ridiculous? In the 1990s, congressional Republicans took 140 hours of sworn testimony on the urgent question of whether the Clintons had misused the White House Christmas card list. Seriously. Thats something that actually happened.
And the media, always operating on the rule that when it comes to the Clintons any smoke should be treated as fire even if theres a bunch of Republicans operating a smoke machine in full view will offer endless breathless stories about the scandal and how it just shows that people dont trust Clinton.
But when it comes to the presidential campaign, that isnt going to matter. Republicans already know what they think: Hillary Clinton is a criminal whose every thought and action is vile and despicable, so of course she broke the law. If the investigation doesnt show that, it could only be because the investigation was a sham. So theyll just keep saying that this is a scandal, over and over and over.
As Bill and Hillary Clintons entire careers have proven, when youre trying to take someone down, the next best thing to a real scandal is a phony one. Lets not forget that when Bill was president, no alleged wrongdoing was too trivial to investigate, complete with dark insinuations about nefarious conspiracies and potential criminal behavior. You think the endless investigation of Benghazi is ridiculous? In the 1990s, congressional Republicans took 140 hours of sworn testimony on the urgent question of whether the Clintons had misused the White House Christmas card list. Seriously. Thats something that actually happened.
And the media, always operating on the rule that when it comes to the Clintons any smoke should be treated as fire even if theres a bunch of Republicans operating a smoke machine in full view will offer endless breathless stories about the scandal and how it just shows that people dont trust Clinton.
In spite of all the latter-day legal "experts" in the SBS camp - with whom I refuse to engage further, btw - who are carrying the GOP's water here for them on a Democratic website, the Indictment Fairy is simply NOT going to swoop down in this manufactured "scandal."
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Hillary Clinton is going to be exonerated on the email controversy. It won’t matter. (Original Post)
BlueMTexpat
May 2016
OP
Walk away
(9,494 posts)1. When did Nuclear Waste Jane get her new title??? Indictment Fairy Jane doesn't suit her....
even though she wishes it did.
BlueMTexpat
(15,370 posts)2. LOL - I was just
using the expression generically ... but if the title fits
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)3. Niiiiiice!!
Good news! We knew all along! Haha! Some people not taking it well I suspect! Ah well!
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)4. and yet another witch hunt
is finally almost over!