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With the email investigation not going away, Hillary is gambling with the fate of the nation.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/06/why-hillarys-email-issue-wont-go-away.html"So now we know the Hillary Clinton camp's approach to the email scandal: Pretend to be transparent and then hope everyone forgets about it. It's a deeply cynical approach, and there is some reason to believe it won't work."
https://news.vice.com/article/state-department-review-of-hillary-clintons-emails-on-hold-while-fbi-investigates
"At the request of the FBI, the US State Department has suspended its plans for an internal review of whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton properly handled classified material when using her private email server. Clinton, the frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, has apologized for using a private email server for official business while in office from 2009 to 2013. While Clinton insists she did nothing wrong, the FBI is probing the arrangement."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-pappalardo/hillary-email-probe-could_b_9579826.html
"The Hillary Clinton email probe is getting very close to becoming another full-blown Clinton scandal. David Shuster of Al Jazeera reported on March 30th that the FBI is arranging interviews with former State Department aides Philippe Reines, Former Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Clinton herself. Shuster also scooped that Justice Department prosecutors are joining the FBI team of investigators."
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Whether you personally (and probably with insufficient facts as a basis for making any determination on your own) think it is a "nothing" issue, the fact is that this email investigation is not going away soon and will almost certainly be on the table during the GE. The Clintons have seen scandals come and go, Whitewater, Monical Lewinsky, etc. Some of them have resulted in nothing and others have resulted in the first impeachment of a POTUS in our history. But all of them have shown the deep damage that can be caused by the extremity of hatred against them, fed in many cases by a sense that there is some sleazery hanging over them even from members of our own Democratic Party.
In my view, Hillary is the ONLY person that can stop the election of the most Progressive person ever to become POTUS, Bernie Sanders. It is also my view that Hillary, by not admitting that this scandal has great potential to lose the GE for us, wants the position so badly that she is willing to jeapordise the entire election, letting the presidency fall into the hands of the Republicans.
Hillary should do the right thing, if she actually is the Progressive she (sometimes) claims she is. She should bow out of the race and not be the first Democratic candidate targeted by an active FBI investigation while she simultaneously runs for the top position in the country. I can hardly believe that others do not see the sense in this. She is placing her ego before the good of the country and the people in it.
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