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#61631
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign sent a lengthy, 13-paragraph email to supporters on Wednesday with talking points concerning the email crisis.

"You might hear some news over the next few days about Hillary Clinton's emails," wrote her campaign's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri. "Because you are an important part of this team, we wanted to take a few minutes to talk through the facts — we need your help to make sure they get out there

The email controversy is "complicated" but that the former secretary of state did nothing wrong. She stressed that Clinton did not send any or receive any material marked classified at the time, but said some messages may have been retroactively classified. We must repeat that Clinton did nothing wrong and repeat it often.

"To be clear, there is absolutely no criminal inquiry into Hillary's email or email server," she wrote Wednesday to the campaign's supporters. "Any and all reports to that effect have been widely debunked. It should be stressed, that Clinton directed her team to provide her email server and a thumb drive in order to cooperate with the review process and to ensure these materials were stored in a safe and secure manner."

"It should be pointed out that many of the Republican candidates for president have done the same things for which they're now criticizing Hillary. As governor, Jeb Bush owned his own private server and his staff decided which emails he turned over as work-related from his private account. Bobby Jindal went a step further, using private email to communicate with his immediate staff but refusing to release his work-related emails. Scott Walker and Rick Perry had email issues themselves."

Here are the basics: Like other Secretaries of State who served before her, Hillary used a personal email address, and the rules of the State Department permitted it. She's already acknowledged that, in hindsight, it would have been better just to use separate work and personal email accounts. Clinton was following procedures of those before her, in hindsight she realizes she should have used her own judgment, she learned a tough lesson not to trust it being OK, just because everyone else has done it.

The bottom line: Look, this kind of nonsense comes with the territory of running for president, especially for a strong female. We know it, Clinton knows it, and we expect it to continue from now until Election Day. Republicans and some in the media will continue to spread lies, confront the lies head on with everyone you know. Get the points out through social media and how ever else you can.

It's okay. We'll be ready. We have the facts, our principles, and you on our side. And it's vital that you read and absorb these points so that you know what to say the next time you hear about this around the dinner table or the water cooler. Don't back down from the talking points, get them out to everyone and make sure they educate their friends and family.
#61650
You domwits are just too easy to show up as the dishonest fools you are.
:roll: Told ya, clown is using Hillary's talking points, if we don't accept his lies, he deflects by attacking the person who questions the lies, that's all he knows. He's done it 3 times on this thread alone.
#61652
But you DIDN'T "question the lies" you moron.
Neither did johnny, or anyone else.

You didn't say a thing about the email because you couldn't argue a single one of the points in it.
You just broke copyright laws with it.
#61655
From the Daily Beast:
These weren’t just ordinary secrets found in Clinton’s private server, but some of the most classified material the U.S. government has.

After months of denials and delaying actions, Hillary Clinton has decided to turn over her private email server to the Department of Justice. As this controversy has grown since the spring, Clinton and her campaign operatives have repeatedly denied that she had placed classified information in her personal email while serving as Secretary of State during President Obama’s first term. (“I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received,” she said last month.) Her team also denied that she would ever hand over her server to investigators. Now both those assertions have been overturned
Were I one of those silly ass liberals who used to infest this place, and this was a Republican in the cross hairs, I would be confidently predicting that in the next few days Hillary would be arrested, handcuffed and "frog marched" from wherever she was to the nearest jail, just as they did nearly every day about Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush et al.

Hillary lied about having top secret (in fact, WAY above top secret) materials in an unsecured location. That is a felony and is not in dispute.
What remains to be seen is what is going to be done about it. I suspect some lackey will take the fall and do some Federal time.

What we know is that Obozo and the Clintons hate each other with a passion. What we would LOVE to know is what sort of cloak and dagger intrigue is going on behind the scenes. And who is going to emerge with that dagger planted between their shoulder blades.
#61979
At this point, we know Cheryl Mills and Abedin also destroyed their Blackberry devices.

Hillary destroyed 32,000 emails and then wiped the server.

This is a massive destruction of evidence germane to Benghazi and the corrupt Clinton Foundation.

Yet the Dept of "Justice" had to be begged by people in the media to investigate.
#61981
johnny, there have already been nine investigations into Benghazi, including a Republican-lead investigation and every one of them cleared the Administration of wrongdoing.

There comes a point in every futile partisan vendetta when you just have to admit you lost and move on.
#61982
There's nothing partisan about this.

I was delighted that Nixon was forced to resign for his lies.

The quantity of investigations, of course, has nothing to do with Benghazi.

Stonewalling does.

What is the precise timeline of Obama's actions and Hillary's for 9/11/12 as their lies about Benghazi were developed?

Why were 4 brave men left to die when help from the air could have been sent and arrived in time?

Why was Lois Lerner's hard drive "faulty"?

Why, a month after Congress requested the backups, were the tapes erased?
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