2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDefending HRC's policies is one thing...but why defend her secretiveness?
It's not as if it ever actually helped her to withhold things. In every situation in the Nineties, for example, if she had just answered questions and provided evidence, doing so would have discredited the right-wing attacks on her and put the situations she was in behind her.
She'd have always come out ahead just by being transparent from the start.
Stonewalling is not a display of strength. When done by an innocent person, it simply creates a false appearance of guilt.
hereforthevoting
(241 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Smoke and mirrors?
hereforthevoting
(241 posts)I do get that there was an anti-feminist slant, like when she was made fun of for her headband. But how does a benign Goldwater Girl irritate literally everyone to the left or right of her?
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Where her official correspondence ended up forthwith?
pinebox
(5,761 posts)If anything ALL of our politicians should have their emails made public when they are working for the Gov't sans classified material. That is true transparency.
Can you imagine if any of us were to go ahead and use our place of employment for personal emails? We'd be fired.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Good luck telling your family to use your junk account.
pinebox
(5,761 posts)It's not 1998 anymore, it takes 5 seconds to get a Gmail account and people in this day and age tend to text.
Seriously, this has been known for a long while now. This is from 2008 http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2008/08/04/7-ways-your-e-mail-can-get-you-fired
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)pinebox
(5,761 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)pinebox
(5,761 posts)Another for my ignore list.
Not playing stupid games to win stupid prizes despite evidence showing I'm correct.
reddread
(6,896 posts)would shatter the illusion she requires.