2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton’s e-mail ‘scandals’ are pure fiction - Boston Globe
Take, for example, the imbroglio over newly released e-mails regarding interactions between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Clinton was secretary of state. These exchanges, primarily between Clintons assistant Huma Abedin and Clinton Foundation top honcho Doug Band, have become Exhibit A in efforts to brand Clinton as a corrupt figure and the Foundation as a pay-for-play operation. The evidence, however, speaks to a different reality.
In 2009, Band reached out to Abedin and asked if she could help put a Nigerian businessman of Lebanese descent named Gilbert Chagoury who had donated to the Clinton Foundation in touch with the substance person re: Lebanon. Chagoury apparently wanted to pass along information about upcoming elections in Lebanon. Considering that State Department diplomats glean information and intelligence from civil society leaders, activists, and business people on a regular basis theres nothing particularly untoward about the ask. But because Chagoury is a Clinton donor, theres a scent of scandal.
So what happened? Abedin told Band shed reach out to Jeffrey Feltman, the acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs at the time. Yet, according to a Washington Post article, Feltman says he never met or spoke to Chagoury, and No one ever told me he was seeking me out.
The author goes on to refute each example of potential conflict/impropriety/whatever that has been in the media of late. This is going to be my go-to piece whenever someone asks me about Foundation conflicts.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/08/23/clinton-mail-scandals-are-pure-fiction/ryXZoEeqANOPSiL7O33QuJ/story.html
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)(Not so much lazy journalists) will sniff out ALL the current reporting re:the CF...
Tks for the bostonglobe article...her is another for you - talk about a go to piece.....indeed..
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/22/1562841/-What-the-media-doesn-t-know-about-the-Clinton-Foundation-could-sink-the-Titanic
underpants
(183,170 posts)sheshe2
(84,171 posts)Hekate
(91,206 posts)Someone else posted this, and I still have the tab to Newsweek open. Here's the link
http://www.newsweek.com/squalid-case-against-hillary-and-her-emails-492017
Native
(5,946 posts)I watched the hearing in full, and I recall something that I haven't been able to confirm after the fact. Don't know if you watched it, but weren't the 3 emails with the little (c)'s determined by the State Department after the fact to not contain classified material after all? I remember a discussion to that effect, but I'm just not sure if it pertained to the 3 with the incorrect Classified markings (lack there of) or some other emails. I also recall one of the Dems on the committee asking Comey if he was aware that the State Department had determined that those "classified" emails had not contain classified material after all, and Comey replied that he was not aware of that.
I don't know if I'm mixing stuff up or just remembering things inaccurately since it has been so long. I thought something about that would have been brought up in the Newsweek article, but it wasn't.
Do you remember any of that?
Hekate
(91,206 posts)Yeah, 3 out of 30,000 had (c). You are probably right about even those ones not being actually classified material.
I tell ya, that woman will go to any length to destroy this country.
wishstar
(5,274 posts)State dept attributed to human error that 2 emails mentioned by FBI with classified markings did not actually contain any classified info.
Native
(5,946 posts)mcar
(42,490 posts)lazy "Clinton rules" patterns. Excepting, of course, for the NYT and WaPo front pages.
oasis
(49,564 posts)E-mails her personal crusade.
Hekate
(91,206 posts)Now.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)When you tell me WHAT it is you think was hacked through her email service, I might start paying some attention. And while you're at it please EXPLAIN how it would have been "unhackable" on a government server.
When you get all that, I will listen to your droning on and on.
Until then STFU already and let's hear what you have to offer.
Native
(5,946 posts)That totally blew me away (John Dean's piece). I know politicians are exempt from a lot of shit, but to go after someone by blatantly lying to law enforcement and not be held accountable?
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,080 posts)She is whipping this story with every fiber of her being today. She's not about to let the facts get in her way either. Even though her guests disagreed with her - she wasn't going to let stop her from delivering her Clinton hater talking points.
OnDoutside
(19,993 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,080 posts)She really is past her due date.
Laser102
(816 posts)Hell for those that want to destroy it. The Ragin Cajun is all over this. Love Carville.
Native
(5,946 posts)kentuck
(111,111 posts)The establishment media, all of them, tend to take the Republican political games as real, and spread their manure all over the place. They always believe the Republicans, no matter what they say or how ridiculous.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Bernie told us long time back.
Bill USA
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