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speaktruthtopower

(800 posts)
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:21 PM Apr 2016

Not a big Hillary fan, but...

why weren't the security people around her at the time raising questions about the e-mail server? Even if she arguably committed technical crimes, is there political motivation for the timing of the allegations?

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Not a big Hillary fan, but... (Original Post) speaktruthtopower Apr 2016 OP
There are few checks on a Secretary of State. Orsino Apr 2016 #1
I don't know noretreatnosurrender Apr 2016 #2
The only people allowed around Hillary are her inner circle BernieforPres2016 Apr 2016 #3
This, also, is my question. Maedhros Apr 2016 #4
Who says they weren't? /nt Marr Apr 2016 #5
She's a Clinton! She answers to no one! n/t PonyUp Apr 2016 #6
As Secretary of State she answered to the president. And she was fiercely loyal to him. StevieM Apr 2016 #7
anyone who's close to Clinton has proven over and over their loyalty--i.e., that they won't MisterP Apr 2016 #8

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
1. There are few checks on a Secretary of State.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:23 PM
Apr 2016

They tend to write their own rules, often because they have to.

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
3. The only people allowed around Hillary are her inner circle
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:26 PM
Apr 2016

She is surrounded by yes people, not people who set any constraints on her.

 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
4. This, also, is my question.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:32 PM
Apr 2016

Other people in the White House were getting official communications from an "@hillaryclinton.org" domain - did no one notice, or question this? They should have.

StevieM

(10,499 posts)
7. As Secretary of State she answered to the president. And she was fiercely loyal to him.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:38 PM
Apr 2016

And if she is elected as our president then she will answer to all of us, just like Sanders, Trump, Cruz and Kasich.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
8. anyone who's close to Clinton has proven over and over their loyalty--i.e., that they won't
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 11:39 PM
Apr 2016

go against what she really wants: that indicates that the fact that this happened was more because of her desire for it than because of any omission of the system she set up around herself--active v passive
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/hillary-clinton-inside-circle-huma-abedin

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