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Explain this to me like I'm a second-grader

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Jan 29, 2016.

  1. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Exactly. Comey's sorry act in the press conference was shameful.
     
  2. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Yes, by all means, putting top secret information in unsecured e-mails is just one of those technical IT things no one needs to be concerned about. Nothing to see here!
     
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  3. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Good.
     
  4. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Only if Christie is his running mate. I was hoping Christie would be the next President so I could have a career as a celebrity impersonator. If he's Vice President, there may not be as much money in it, but it's still a career option.
     
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  5. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Well, there is the part where she's tremendously qualified and quite clearly the best candidate to be president during a difficult time in our history. Maybe they're factoring that in the equation?
     
  6. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    Because Trump. I'm not sure how this is so tough to comprehend.
     
  7. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Hey look, it is one of those people referenced earlier who don't understand the overclassification problem.

    Oh noes! People in the email chain quoted newspaper articles about drone strikes!
     
  8. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    If we're gonna have witch hunts, can't we hunt 'em all down?

    Flashback: Rove Erases 22 Million White House Emails on Private Server at Height of U.S. Attorney Scandal – Media Yawns

    Not long after George W. Bush assumed the presidency in 2001, Rove, his top political aide, set up a private email server for use in the White House. The stated purpose of the system — the primary domain name on which was gwb43.com — was that it would be used exclusively for the sort of political correspondence that Bush and Rove were not permitted to do on the taxpayer’s dime.

    Seven years later, Bush and Rove were embroiled in two competing scandals — the Valerie Plame scandal, in which operatives for Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, including Rove and Scooter Libby, were accused of unmasking Valerie Plame, a CIA specialist in the black market for weapons of mass destruction, for purely partisan reasons, and the U.S. Attorney purge, in which Rove’s political operation in the White House was accused of ordering Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to purge eight U.S. attorneys who were qualified prosecutors and replace them with political hacks with little or no prosecutorial experience.

    Rove escaped prosecution in the Libby case, but Libby was convicted (Bush quickly commuted the sentence) on March 6, 2007, at the same time Bush and Rove were under fire for purging the U.S. attorneys. During the investigation, it came to light that Rove’s server had been used to send official, non-political emails — correspondence that was required by law to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act.

    On April 12, 2007, Rove’s operation admitted that it had deleted at least 5 million emails from the server. In December 2009, technicians who had examined the server reported that the number of emails that had been deleted was far greater — 22 million.
     
  9. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member


    IOKIYAR
     
  10. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Works for me.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    She's not the nominee yet, and with the Dems system of superdelegates, there's an easy process to jettison her.

    We could be spared another lawless Clinton presidency, and it wouldn't mean we have to elect Trump to do it.
     
  12. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    You're en fuego.
     
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