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Related: About this forumStoddard: Clinton supporters tripping over email spin
The report destroyed much of Clintons oft-repeated rationale for housing government records all of her business emails as secretary on a secret server she neither sought approval for nor secured to protect against hacking. We already knew: that Clinton is the only Cabinet secretary to use a private server, that she deleted more emails than she turned over, that she provided emails in paper form that couldnt be electronically searched, that she did not in fact turn over all of her work emails, and that more than 2,000 of them contained classified information.
But the new findings reveal Clinton had not likely hidden everything on her own server for convenience, as she had claimed, but in order to shield her communications from the Freedom of Information Act. In a new email from the report mysteriously never before released Clinton tells an aide she didnt want to use the State Department email system because she didnt want her personal emails to be accessible.
The report also shows her own staff believed the system had been hacked several times, contradicting her claims there had never once been a security breach. Though she has insisted this was all above board and allowed, she never sought permission for her server, nor would she have received it had she done so, according to the report. Though the report showed some former secretaries of State had used personal email for work occasionally, none had used an unsecured private server. As head of the department, Clinton had also signed a policy statement requiring employees to avoid using their personal email system for all work email in order to comply with the Federal Records Act.
Surreal testimony in a sworn deposition may result from Millss legal exposure, as the Federal Records Act describes whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
http://thehill.com/opinion/ab-stoddard/282153-stoddard-clinton-supporters-tripping-over-email-spinBut the new findings reveal Clinton had not likely hidden everything on her own server for convenience, as she had claimed, but in order to shield her communications from the Freedom of Information Act. In a new email from the report mysteriously never before released Clinton tells an aide she didnt want to use the State Department email system because she didnt want her personal emails to be accessible.
The report also shows her own staff believed the system had been hacked several times, contradicting her claims there had never once been a security breach. Though she has insisted this was all above board and allowed, she never sought permission for her server, nor would she have received it had she done so, according to the report. Though the report showed some former secretaries of State had used personal email for work occasionally, none had used an unsecured private server. As head of the department, Clinton had also signed a policy statement requiring employees to avoid using their personal email system for all work email in order to comply with the Federal Records Act.
Surreal testimony in a sworn deposition may result from Millss legal exposure, as the Federal Records Act describes whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
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Stoddard: Clinton supporters tripping over email spin (Original Post)
w4rma
Jun 2016
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)1. She'll be Presidentin' from her prison cell?
Actually, I doubt it'll ever go that far, but still ...
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)3. I don't see her going to prison.
I don't see her going to the White House, either. She's handing the fucking election to Trump.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)2. This rationale is a head-scratcher:
Clinton tells an aide she didnt want to use the State Department email system because she didnt want her personal emails to be accessible.
Fine, I wouldn't want my personal emails to be accessible, either. That's a great argument for not doing personal business on your work account. It's a shitty argument for doing government business on your private server. Millions of Americans manage to keep their email streams separate--even people who travel constantly for business. We're really expected to believe that Hillary was too dumb or too lazy to do that? I call bullshit.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)4. Stoddard works for Fox News
Why are you quoting Fox News reporters on a democratic website?
w4rma
(31,700 posts)5. "Stoddard is an associate editor of The Hill." (nt)
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)6. "and a panelist at Fox News". nt
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Stoddard
Yes, her face is on Fox a lot.
She is a FOX News Political Panel member. She is a columnist on The Hill. She often appears as a guest on "Special Report with Bret Baier". She was a regular on the canceled The Tucker Carlson Show. She was a former congressional reporter for The Hill.
Yes, her face is on Fox a lot.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)7. Prepare for incoming fire for posting this. Apparently Republicans won't hear anything @ this
and would never think to use it against Hillary until you mention it
moriah
(8,311 posts)8. Personal emails shouldn't be available under FOIA, but she shouldn't have been..
.... using a personal server or "mixing business and personal" in the same email account.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)10. More interested in protecting her foundation's corrupt practices than national secrets.