who are convinced that she's done something so HORRIBLE, so criminal, that she should be put in prison. It's just weird to me. Especially when they support Trump and think he's done nothing wrong himself.

It's like proposing life in prison for someone who didn't return a library book on time, then turning around and campaigning for a serial killer to become president. Just completely off-the-wall NUTS.

Part misogyny, but mostly it's because she's a Clinton. I think they think that if they hit her over and over with scandal after scandal, something will stick, tapping into that vast swath of anti Clintonism that was rampant in the 90's and is still embraced today, not only by the right. What they are too short sighted to see, though, is that Big Dawg left office with a 66% approval rating, eight Benghazi investigations haven't destroyed Hillary, and even those folks who don't particularly care for her aren't necessarily swayed by Republican bullshit. And their candidate is so bad even some who do believe the bullshit will vote for her. Republicans have always underestimated the Clintons and overestimated their own ability to bring them down. Always.

years. "Hmmm... well... where there's smoke there must be fire..."

Yeah? I heard a GREAT retort!

"Yeah? Where there's smoke, sometimes there's just a smoke machine."

Won't bother his supporters one bit.

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own standards. Which of course, WOULD make her a criminal.

I don't understand either. He is a narcissist sociopath and some have no issue with him?

narcissist sociopath

Republicans and the MSM about this either. Well, of course the Repubs are driven totally by politics...but the media and pundits (and even those pundits who are pro Hillary) seem to have bought into the hysteria too. I don't get it either! The pack mentality about this is very sad.
HILLARY/KAINE 2016

anything that they can do a " Gotcha you guilty " Seems like there have been people / forces against Bill Clinton also Hillary
from the first day they walked into the White House many years ago . Almost like there may be some who do not respect
and are intimidated by a strong intelligent female .

Papers that were released may come in handy later or for media to correct someone on their show ( hopefully )

They are so jacked up about "socialism" and "gun-grabbing" that they will engage near-strangers with their in-bubble bullshit. In market check-out lines, restaurants, etc., they will start in with the shopworn talking points. A guy at my gym did exactly this recently, went on a long anti-Clinton diatribe. I noticed he had a "Hillary For Prison" sticker on his pickup.

These people have been exposed to decades of poison from the usual media sources. Somehow, they believe the lies. Fear? Laziness? Ignorance? It's a tragic mystery.

-Every Republican out there.

Why?

Because a few will believe them.

that every department of the US government has been hacked and also the State Department cabes (run through the DOD) were all stolen and then released by Chelsea Manning.

Seems like the government needs to ask Bill Clinton if they can use his server, the one protected by the Secret Service 24/7.

ETA: Your sig line is completely inappropriate.

But most of the government departments are...not nearly what we need them to be. And how about all the hundreds of thousands of employees still often or occasionally choosing other routes for at least partially sensible reasons, or not.

a security clearance for the past several years was hacked. What system was that?

But I monitor everything pretty regularly. Thank you.

It's all the detailed personal information about health, family relationships, foreign travel and contacts, and the other stuff one is required to provide that might reveal a vulnerability that can be exploited by an adversary. It was an atrocious security breach.

We need at least 5 more letters from 5 different people within the fbi for this to hold any water.

when JC says 'ENOUGH ALREADY", would not be enough for them.

before it's "true" to most Republicans. Gee, wonder what the chances of that are??

Thanks for the link

say how she has sent classified material over her private server.

as ALL the news spokes-models, including everyone on MSNBC.

But anybody who paid attention should know that the three emails in question were forwarded to Hillary.

Most of the right gets their news from FOX, which conveniently omits those facts that do not fit their narrative; therefore, Hillary has sent classified emails vulnerable to our enemies. It's a closed loop.

...not cleaning up her room. Pontificating idiot! How did he think that'd be taken? I don't know if was deliberate in that he was trying to undermine Hillary of if it was deliberate in that he was just annoyed at her and wanting to get back with some small jab, but I hope he rues ever uttering that little opinion. I hope he has to spend the rest of his life explaining and backpedaling on it, and that this example keeps the future director (and I'm sure there will be a new one soon), to stick to the facts and just the facts from now on.

He should have passed on his recommendation to Justice without uttering a public word. It was blatant politicization of this issue; and, I believe, a bone thrown to the repub candidate and the House if they wanted to pursue their vendetta. No one else would have been subject to this type of treatment, with the possible exception of Bill.

His taking it upon himself to chastise her in his need to clarify things, led to more acrimony she didn't need or deserve, plus potentially more legal costs. Had he stuck to the Justice department guidelines and just given the simple one sentence used when the FBI decides not to indict, there would have been no reason to go up on Capital Hill to testify about the comments he made during his news conference, which shouldn't have been made in the first place. While Congress can subpoena anyone, they don't have automatic access to every piece of evidence that the DoJ has. Comey opened that door, when he began testifying before Congress that day. If he had followed DoJ protocol and limited his statement to their usual simple canned statement when the FBI decides there is not enough evidence to indict, he would not have had to answer any of their questions regarding what they had reviewed and how many letters he looked at, etc.

But she should fire him after she wins. Holding that press conference, admitting his justification was the intense public interest about the matter, which should have been more of a reason not to hold one, was an egregious, prejudicial, political act on his part. It fed into the right wing narrative of her, gave the repub congress a reason to prolong their vendetta, and made sure her public chastisement was witnessed by millions of her detractors as well as those still not prejudiced against her. It was despicable of him to use his office in that way.

the oval. Maybe he can get another job working for Ken Starr.

Kenneth Starr, Who Tried to Bury Bill Clinton, Now Only Praises Him

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/us/politics/ken-starr-impeachment-bill-clinton.html

Politics is a cutthroat business.

Oh yeah, just in case.

There is nothing extraordinary about pols and staffers being sloppy with sensitive material via various means of communication. This is still going on right now as we continue to analyze this to death -- government officials are using the .gov email system to exchange sensitive information and nobody is blinking an eye. Hell they are using post-it notes too! It is not an excuse, but things are happening at lightning speed and things would come to a screeching halt if everybody was second guessing and compartmentalizing every last thing. This is a knock on a system that needs overhaul not on the people that are using it.

..... and in the end that was what the right wing wanted and that was to damage
HRC.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Joseph Goebbels

And always has. It's like they are to blame for making her bulletproof. They have maligned her so often for so long that they've lost all credibility. Even the people who might believe a little of it, do not believe it is an issue that warrants such vindictive and hysterical hunting of her, outside of the right wing.

I talked to a right winger the other day and he told me that he was going to "set me straight"
about the Clinton Foundation and all the dirt behind it and its actions. The man didn't even
know that it was a charity.

BTW Trump is toast in OH because it is mid August and he doesn't even have an office in
Cincinnati. I have come to the conclusion that his run for President is just one more con.

charlyvi

I've been saying for awhile that Trump doesn't want the job. He wants to make lots of money. Presidents don't make his kind of money. Plus, you know how the job ages everyone who has it; somehow, I don't think Trump's vanity could take that. Imagine if what's left of his hair began to fall out! Heh.

Hi Botany!

not the receiver to ensure that a document is properly classified and has all the proper markings. The markings are not the same and can change from program to program. Some people here pretended to know otherwise, and kept saying that it is somehow Hillary's responsibility to know what is the proper classification of every email she receives, even if the document is not marked. Just because she's the Secretary of State, one cannot assume that she is briefed on every program and therefore has access to that information. There is a good possibility that she is briefed and does have access, but the sender is never to assume anything or take anything for granted, and the sender should never send something classified via an unclassified channel. No matter who tells you its okay. To do so, is at your own peril.

Another erroneous piece of information that the GOP and some here have repeated is the lie that Government employees have to keep every email that they receive for FOIA. Government employees delete documents every day. Every document that comes through a federal office is not subject to FOIA. Also, you might not find out there is a recent FOIA request on something that was destroyed years ago, and that doesn't mean something nefarious is going on. It would just mean that the request came too late. I've always been on the safe side and tend to save everything for as long as possible. But, every office I've ever worked at, had limited space on our servers and in our email accounts and we were constantly reminded to purge our email archive files because management knew that we didn't need to save everything and they kept telling us that we need to clean out our email box, our files were getting too big. When we get FOIA requests or documents we know may be subject to FOIA, we usually forward those to a designated person responsible for acting upon those types of requests. Most government offices don't operate under an assumption that all emails or work product is subject to FOIA because it is not.

we now know that the e-mail sent to her were probably safer from hacking than on the State Department servers which we know have been hacked at least twice.

Were the emails classified WHEN SENT?
Were the emails miss-marked as classified by the faulty FBI markers, even though those emails were not classified when Hillary's server received them?
Does anyone remember when Republicans hacked into the Senate/House emails, government emails?

The government servers at that time were not safer.

And,

"Extremely careless" is not "common sense," it's a ignorant stupefying lie!

Good, I hope they choke on having to say "She didn't lie." I wish I could give them the third finger salute.

... to his bullshit ass'd claims about Hillary!!?

Woman tax... fuck the M$M

That's why the press conference was so egregious. He should face an ethics inquiry for that.

... then confirmed NONE of the emails on her server were had the heading of classified on them.

Well WTF !?!?!

NOT ONE SHOW have I seen this guy on !!!