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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Forbes: OIG email report vindicates Clinton [View all]pnwmom
(109,388 posts)92. Yes. AOL is a private company, not an arm of the government. All its servers are private.
And he was free to delete all his emails when he left office, with no consequence.
The legal distinction isn't between private individual servers and private company servers. The legal distinction is in the use of any private server versus a .gov account.
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I love this line: "To put it differently, she is having a double standard applied to her."
Arkansas Granny
May 2016
#2
You left out the fact that Colin Powell DELETED ALL his AOL emails when he left office.
pnwmom
May 2016
#40
Yes. AOL is a private company, not an arm of the government. All its servers are private.
pnwmom
May 2016
#92
using a commercial email service provider compromises any classified info in any emails sent thru
Bill USA
May 2016
#86
Millions ofGovernment employees decide on a daily basis which of their work emails to save or delete
politicaljunkie41910
May 2016
#93
"To put it differently, she is having a double standard applied to her."
workinclasszero
May 2016
#3
Tiefer is the author of "Veering Right: How the Bush Administration Subverts
sufrommich
May 2016
#14
Legally, there isn't a smidgeon of difference in which non-governmental private server was used,
pnwmom
May 2016
#23
I can't cite a law that doesn't exist. And there is no public records law that distinguishes
pnwmom
May 2016
#37
Fine. I meant "the law" in the general sense. There is NO Federal public records law that makes
pnwmom
May 2016
#42
Wonder why the State Department, under HRC, was firing diplomats for conducting
Press Virginia
May 2016
#54
Hillary used her secure, state-department-installed SCIF system for classified documents.
pnwmom
May 2016
#56
There is no evidence that she had any classified information on her email server
pnwmom
May 2016
#64
Please provide a link showing that there was classified information on her server
pnwmom
May 2016
#71
Once again. Notice the words IC ELEMENT SOURCES...that means it's classified when created
Press Virginia
May 2016
#74
Let's seeeee....either the IG is lying and submitting false information to Congress
Press Virginia
May 2016
#81
I think if you look at pg 43 or 44 of the report you'll find the case of the Nairobi ambassador
floppyboo
May 2016
#65
wonder why the Inspector General disagrees with Politifact? Maybe the whole report is junk?
floppyboo
May 2016
#67
Do yor really believe the IG would include a 'mostly false' bit of information? to what end?
floppyboo
May 2016
#70
This is a discussion of what he did wrong with emails, but nowhere does it say that this was
pnwmom
May 2016
#75
um, maybe not primary, but definitely important, and important enough for this study.
floppyboo
May 2016
#85
Your response to the professor's article was to dismiss him as a right winger. I dismiss
pnwmom
May 2016
#19
He's employed by "flat-taxer" Steve Forbes; I figured there must be some rapport.
lagomorph777
May 2016
#21
Tiefer is the author of "Veering Right: How the Bush Administration Subverts the Law
pnwmom
May 2016
#25
Basically she didn't follow any of the security/FAM rules of HER dept. and lied about it.
jmg257
May 2016
#34
Hardly a vindication. The State Dept report didn't even address classified information violations
leveymg
May 2016
#44
LOL Forbes must have missed the lesson on private email accounts vs. private email SERVERS.
Avalux
May 2016
#49
No, the law professor who wrote this understands that there is NO legal distinction
pnwmom
May 2016
#52
Well that is one endorsement that a liberal would want to avoid, libertarian flat taxer anti-minimum
Todays_Illusion
May 2016
#78
Forbes didn't write it. And the law professor who wrote it also wrote a book called
pnwmom
May 2016
#79
So it just accidentally appeared on the Forbes site? I am not going to visit that malware
Todays_Illusion
May 2016
#80