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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:54 AM Mar 2016

Defending 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.

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hereforthevoting

(241 posts)
3. I will admit I was not politically active when they were in the WH
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:31 AM
Mar 2016

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?

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
5. Maybe she has a right to keep her private life out of wikileaks?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:00 AM
Mar 2016

Where her official correspondence ended up forthwith?

 

pinebox

(5,761 posts)
6. Maybe she should learn her private personal emails don't belong with a .gov email addy
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:05 AM
Mar 2016

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)
7. LOL, people receive personal email on their work addies all the time.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:09 AM
Mar 2016

Good luck telling your family to use your junk account.

 

pinebox

(5,761 posts)
9. People get fired for this
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:11 AM
Mar 2016
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=personal+email+at+work
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
 

pinebox

(5,761 posts)
13. Jeez you are in denial.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:20 AM
Mar 2016

Another for my ignore list.
Not playing stupid games to win stupid prizes despite evidence showing I'm correct.

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