2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Didn't Know How to Use a Computer For Email
She only knew how to read her messages via BlackBerry, according to an official at the time.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/267727-clinton-didnt-know-how-to-access-email-by-computer-state-dept
blm
(113,065 posts)according to the GOP.
frylock
(34,825 posts)And nice job using shit republicans to rationalize Hillary's actions. That's a winning strategy.
blm
(113,065 posts)which includes the NYT acting as stenographers for the GOP for over 2 decades, with much of that aimed at Clintons.
Apparently some here have forgotten Media Whores Online and why that site mattered to Democrats.
And, yes - it is not much different than Powell and Rice. Shit republicans claim it criminal only when Democrats follow suit.
This 'email' scandal is a made-up scandal.
There is plenty I could target Clintons with, and I have repeatedly over the last 12 years - I don't target them with utter bullshit from Republicans and corpmedia.
frylock
(34,825 posts)blm
(113,065 posts)with Powell or Rice, period. Powell has openly stated he used his personal email. And Bush WH routed their emails through the RNC to avoid detection and collection.
The Hill:
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) on Thursday said Republicans are treating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unfairly by calling for her personal email server.
Her GOP predecessors at State never turned over their private electronic correspondences despite calls for greater transparency, Lynch added.
I havent heard a word about Colin Powell, he said on Boston Herald Radio. I havent heard a word about Condoleezza Rice.
Colin Powell did not have a goddamn email available for us, Lynch said. Zero, zero.
It was the same thing with Condoleezza Rice, he added. There was not a goddamn email that was useful to the committee.
Lynch argued the GOP-led Congress is hounding Clinton because she is a prominent Democrat and presidential candidate.
So why is it OK that Colin Powell, you know, in launching a war in Iraq, to not have a single available email, its OK for that, but Hillary Clinton, you know, she turns over 30,000 of them and you know thats not enough, we want more information? he asked.
Its just a double standard, he added. Its very glaring.
Lynch also dismissed criticisms that Clintons use of a personal storage device jeopardized sensitive national intelligence while she was at State.
Shes about the only person who hasnt been hacked yet, he said. Shes the smartest one of them all.
We have clandestine information that is now in the hands of the Chinese, he said, citing a recent data breach at the Office of Personnel Management. Her information now is the only information that hasnt been hacked.
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frylock
(34,825 posts)the poor judgment of your candidate. And again, neither Rice nor Powell maintained an unsecure, private mail server in their home offices, nor did they send classified mail through an unsecure, private mail server.
blm
(113,065 posts)it, but, let's not pretend that their claims have any actual merit. Unless it makes you feel better joining that chorus of horsesh!t.
This NEVER would have happened, but, for the fact that Clinton is a Democrat.
You'd have to cast your line far and wide to find someone at DU with a longer, tougher record of scrutinizing the Clintons than me. I just refuse to validate the lies and fake scandals drummed up by the GOP lie machine - apparently, not everyone here at DU draws that line.
I believe in sticking to REAL wrongful acts, not made-up or exaggerated shit that wouldn't get more than a day of coverage if it were a GOP WH.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)people had. He spoke of having two emails - one State.gov that he used for most his work activity. He also had a private email account (not on a private server) that he used for personal email and he says that there were some organization work emails - say setting up meetings - that were done on the private email.
I have never heard anything that suggested he could not use a computer. I think that HRC is actually unusual if that is true - which I doubt. It is surprising as there were decades where email was routinely used in companies and the government from computers (or terminals attached to computers). The Blackberry 850 which enabled people to do email (with no voice capability) was put out in 1999. Email was commonplace LONG before 1999. I would bet HRC had email.