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antigop

(12,778 posts)
Thu May 26, 2016, 07:52 PM May 2016

Hillary Clinton Doubles Down on Email Scandal, Saying 'It Was Allowed'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-doubles-email-scandal-allowed/story?id=39400634

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doubled down on defending her email practices as Secretary of State, arguing that the use of a personal account was “allowed,” and rules have since been “clarified.”

“This report makes clear that personal email use was the practice for other secretaries of state,” Clinton told ABC News in an interview in Las Vegas, Nevada. “It was allowed. And the rules have been clarified since I left.”
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Hillary Clinton Doubles Down on Email Scandal, Saying 'It Was Allowed' (Original Post) antigop May 2016 OP
She's LYING... again. Good panel discussion on her false claims here: AzDar May 2016 #1
... R. Daneel Olivaw May 2016 #7
just like the donald, just never can say shes wrong larkrake May 2016 #2
...but...but.... Colin Powell did it... Raster May 2016 #4
The lies keep coming. But, what else is she going to say? She's got an election to win. BillZBubb May 2016 #3
She could start telling 840high May 2016 #15
I heard her now double down at least three or four times nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #5
EMAIL, not server! Goddamned Clinton speak! Barack_America May 2016 #6
I wonder how long until the other shoe drops? R. Daneel Olivaw May 2016 #8
Maybe on the friday of a long holiday weekend Bob41213 May 2016 #16
KnR tazkcmo May 2016 #9
3 words. PRIVATE SERVER EXCLUSIVELY. That should do it. nt nc4bo May 2016 #10
Since she never actually asked anyone, how would she know? Press Virginia May 2016 #11
She purposefully misleads. Skwmom May 2016 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author TM99 May 2016 #13
In very simple terms she lied dr60omg May 2016 #14

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
3. The lies keep coming. But, what else is she going to say? She's got an election to win.
Thu May 26, 2016, 08:01 PM
May 2016

Her problem is that bullshit statements like this one keep her ardent supporters in line, but everyone else just rolls their eyes and knows she is incapable of telling the truth.

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
6. EMAIL, not server! Goddamned Clinton speak!
Thu May 26, 2016, 08:06 PM
May 2016

Allowed to use personal email? Sure. But personal email on a personal server on a blackberry and not turn over emails after leaving?

Absolutely not, and she knows it.

Bob41213

(491 posts)
16. Maybe on the friday of a long holiday weekend
Thu May 26, 2016, 10:12 PM
May 2016

I certainly expect something to come out tomorrow the way things have been going... There's that deposition that hasn't shown up yet...

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)
9. KnR
Thu May 26, 2016, 08:16 PM
May 2016

So all the lies are visible. If it was allowed, show where. Show who. Show when. Show how. It wasn't so the where who when how can't be done or Sec Clinton would have said, "It was allowed un Dept ofState regulation 23, section 3, paragraph d which states...". Instead she shrugs her shoulders and repeats "It was allowed" ala Rubio and opens her eyes even wider.

Personal email use may have been used by other secretaries but not as a "practice" but on occasion and none of them, save Sec Clinton, had a private server. None. Just her.

Not only has Sec Clinton once again violated the public trust but this time she has caused Andrea Mitchell and I to agree! For that alone she has moved from distrusted to down right hated.

 

Press Virginia

(2,329 posts)
11. Since she never actually asked anyone, how would she know?
Thu May 26, 2016, 08:22 PM
May 2016

the IG said the request would likely have been denied.

Response to antigop (Original post)

dr60omg

(283 posts)
14. In very simple terms she lied
Thu May 26, 2016, 09:26 PM
May 2016

She violated the rules of her office and did so in an egregious manner ... that was not acting presidential ... it also tarnishes some of President Obama's legacy but then again she is a Clinton so why should she care

She should remove herself from the race seriously as more of this stuff begins to go public

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