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The GOP's opening over Hillary Clinton's email

Clinton skirted State Department rules about records management, security and transparency.

The State Department’s policy as of 2005 is that all day-to-day operations are to be conducted on the official State Department information channel, which Clinton never used. She was also obligated to discuss her setup with several internal offices and demonstrate that it was properly secure, yet she did not. Some of those officers told the State Department Inspector General that they never would have allowed the private email setup had she asked.

Clinton did not ensure that her work-related emails were preserved on the State Department system in real time, nor did she surrender them immediately when she left office. This made her virtually impervious to Freedom of Information Act requests for her emails while in office and beyond.

Clinton’s email record remains incomplete. FBI investigators found thousands of work-related emails that were not among the 30,000 Clinton turned over to the State Department, and many more might still be out in the ether. Comey said there is no evidence these emails were deleted in an attempt to conceal information.

Clinton says that at the time, she thought her setup was allowed. But it’s hard not to be skeptical of that narrative because she was involved in multiple memos urging employees to minimize personal email use. And Bureau of Diplomatic Security employees tried unsuccessfully to get Clinton to use a department-issued BlackBerry smartphone as soon as she took office.

 

I guess it depends on how much you're leveraged with Russian oligarchs and other lenders, right?

 

"Had she asked."

If the policies were clear, she, and everyone else, should have been told by those officers what the policies were on their first day on the job. The onus is on the officials to make clear, without a shadow of doubt, what the policies are to everyone.

They shouldn't have waited for her to ask. They should have made it clear from the start to everyone, what is allowed and what isn't allowed.

 

She was the head of the department. She is the one who gets to write those rules.

 

Then her only mistake was not changing them, right?

 

If your company has a policy, and doesn't tell you about it, it's your fault if you don't follow the policy?

 

General
Reuters-Ipsos -- Clinton +6

Ohio
Monmouth -- Clinton +2

N. Carolina
WRAL -- Clinton +2

 

She ran "the company."

 

If a wall liked pro wrestling, these last few pages are what I imagine it would be like to talk to.

 

Trump is in Nevada now, trying to salvage a place where he was ahead a week ago but has now fallen behind.

 

There was no mistake. Her only mistake was being an uppity woman who crossed the GOP 30 years ago and they'll never let it go.