2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton's Felony. The federal laws violated by the private server [View all]liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)On the Democratic side of the 2016 presidential race, people have been all over the so-called scandal surrounding Hillary Clintons private email server. The right has been treating the issue like its the new Benghazi (which, of course, is their other favorite Hilary campaign slaying non-scandal). Theyve even gone so far as to not only smear Hillary and claim that she is untrustworthy, but call for criminal prosecution. Who can blame them, really? After all, nobody on their side, even their unexpectedly popular frontrunner Donald Trump, has a snowballs chance in Hell of beating Hillary Clinton in a general election.
Well, it looks like the right will have to find a new fake scandal to try to take Hillary down with. On Tuesday, a U.S. State Department spokesperson, John Kirby, told CNNs Chris Cuomo on New Day that there was no policy violation regarding the use of private emails.
We have said in the past, Chris that there was no policy prohibiting the use of a private email account here at the State Department, and that is still a fact. Now, obviously, we have policies in place now that highly discourage that, and you are supposed to use your government account so that there is a constant, permanent record of it, but at the time she was not violating policy
.I can tell you that there was no prohibition for her use of this, and weve since changed the policy to discourage that greatly, and in fact, the policy is that you have to use your government account for business.
Kirby also made sure to note that there was no change in policy during Hillary Clintons run as Secretary of State. So, in other words, as those of us who are on the sane side of the fence already knew, she didnt do anything even a little bit wrong, much less illegal. Thats from the State Department itself.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/08/25/sorry-righties-state-dept-says-theres-nothing-illegal-about-hillarys-emails-video/