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Did you vote for Trump ?
What did you want ?
What did you want ?
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Did you vote for Trump ?
What did you want ?
I did not vote for Trump but, if I had, it would have been because I wanted reasonable competence, rather than blunders.
Did you vote for Trump ?
What did you want ?
The only poster I see spazzing the fuck out is you, on occasion.I'm not a lefty so no, but it is preferable to Clinton.
To watch people like you and SR71 spaz the fuck out, get bitter and double down on the hatred and intolerance that cost them the election.![]()
The only poster I see spazzing the fuck out is you, on occasion.
I'm guessing that it's the occasions you're sober.
The only poster I see spazzing the fuck out is you, on occasion.
Neither am I. If my word choice gives you trouble, I suggest using a good dictionary.That's your wishful thinking lil guy.
I'm not the one writing incoherent, hysterical, baseless rants about Trump and the dark ages to come on a daily basis.
Neither am I. If my word choice gives you trouble, I suggest using a good dictionary.
Neither am I.
Neither am I
If my word choice gives you trouble, I suggest using a good dictionary.
which goes back to BB's original pathetic lie and attempt at deflection. Such a pathetic little creature is BB.
But you got one.I wanted to not have a criminal as my president.
Also the FBI hasn't come out and told us he committed a bunch of felonies we were currently fucking numerous people up the ass for lengthy prison sentences for but also not going to press charges because.......because Clinton.
Did that sentence make sense in your head, before you typed it?
https://media.giphy.com/media/3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu/giphy.gifIt makes sense if you're not drunk on Clinton Kool-Aid.
She got caught with classified shit on her private e-thinggies.....that's hard time for mere mortals who aren't above the law because Clinton.
We were prosecuting no less than 3 people for those exact crimes when the FBI said they recommended no charges.....because Clinton.
She got caught with classified shit on her private e-thinggies.....that's hard time for mere mortals who aren't above the law because Clinton.
We were prosecuting no less than 3 people for those exact crimes . . .
Who?
Why use a wiki opinion when you can get it straight from the source?
Emails
Long story short, most politicians are technophobes. Some of the State Department's emails contained highly-classified information that was sent from an insecure server. Later on, somebody dug up a policy, blew some dust off it and discovered that what everyone was doing was against official regs, effectively saying Hey, stop using your smartphones and go back to using state e-mail.[159][160][161] This memo was about as popular as the plague and went conveniently ignored.[162]
BlackBerrys caught on with politicians back when they were the top mobile company. That peculiarity never really went away.[163] Obama was granted a secure BlackBerry like he requested, as was Condoleezza Rice, the previous SoS. Clinton was repeatedly denied one as it was too much of a security risk and they wanted to phase it out.[164] (In exchange, the NSA offered her this monstrosity.[165]) She could have had two devices, one for state.gov (which, based on the Mills deposition, can be accessed from State-issued mobile devices[166]) and one for her private email. That would have given her more protection, since she could say everything on her private server is personal, everything on the state.gov server is 'work.' Clinton stupidly used only one of each (at home![167]), because didn't want to have to partition conversations between different devices and addresses.
Even the State Department IG report mentioned how inadequate their digital infrastructure is: For example, Colin Powell justified his use of a private email address, saying, "State's system at the time was inadequate."[168] State's e-mail has been hacked extensively by Russia, and they didn't get around to scrubbing it for months (perhaps Russia is still balls-deep in the network as we speak?). There is also no money to fix it. One of Clinton's e-mail exchanges in 2011 concerning how inadequate State Dept. technology was. The Department's Director of Policy Planning wrote to Clinton and her aides:
I’m sure you’ve thought of this, but it would be a great time for someone inside or outside to make a statement/ write an op-ed that points out that State’s technology is so antiquated that NO ONE uses a State-issued laptop and even high officials routinely end up using their home email accounts to be able to get their work done quickly and effectively. Further cuts to State’s budget just makes matters much much worse. We actually need more funds to significantly upgrade our technology.[169]
And Clinton agreed. They discussed strategy to get more funding to improve things, but didn't want to go public with it for fear of alerting enemies to another snafu. It doesn't seem to be an isolated issue: The current SoS, John Kerry, was caught in December still using a private email account.[170] There's a long Daily Show segment (actually, several segments) covering in detail the complete inadequacy of the computer systems at the Department of Veterans Affairs and how it's made their job effectively impossible and defied any attempts to fix it.[171]
Slashing government funding has consequences, even if they're not immediate. In retrospect, it was brilliant on Republicans' part, because she gets blamed for a lot of the fallout, e.g. cutting funding for embassy security after Clinton warned them that it would affect national security (but that's another topic.)
So why not just use a state.gov address? Well, here's where FOIA may come into play. Clinton is a paranoid person,[172] mostly because she has been under constant scrutiny for the last quarter-century. Most of those investigations have included FOIA requests. The Freedom of Information Act can perform its transparency function only when government employees follow the e-mail guidelines.[173] Clinton supporter and former Governor and senator of Nebraska, Bob Kerrey, is disturbed by the email scandal: “It is about wanting to avoid the reach of citizens using FOIA to find out what their government is doing, and then not telling the truth about why she did.”[174] Though, she likely hasn't done anything criminal,[175] her subsequent improper deletion of 30,000 emails violated the Federal Records Act[wp].[176] The FBI conducted a criminal investigation into this matter and it appears that the use of the private server violates several federal criminal statutes.
On July 5, 2016, FBI director James Comey issued a statement that said that Clinton's use of the server was 'careless', but that no criminal charges had been recommended:[177]
Comey said that the FBI could not find a case in the past that would support bringing criminal charges based upon the facts. The bureau did not find clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information or vast quantities of materials, or indications of disloyalty to the U.S. or efforts to obstruct justice.
More or less torpedoing the idea that blanket punishments should be applied severely and across all avenues of life.
Just days before election day, Comey thought that it would be a swell idea forego the Justice Department's standards of election non-intervention to inform Congress of the discovery of new emails that could be "pertinent" to their previous investigation. This spurred a week-long media speculation-fest on what the emails could be, though they mostly turned out to be duplicates.[178]
Because the RationalWiki page puts things in their proper perspective: