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    Graby SauceJ.K. Trotter
    3/03/15 5:50pm

    So you guys are just going to ignore the fact that the regulations weren't in effect until after Clinton left?

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      JohninNewYorkGraby Sauce
      3/03/15 5:56pm

      That's not entirely correct. Certain regulations were in effect in 2009.

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      certainlymaynotbeimpossibleGraby Sauce
      3/03/15 5:56pm

      Just because something was legal, does not mean it was ethical.

      What valid reason do you believe there is for a government employee engaged in government business to not use their government email address?

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    DashleyinCaliJ.K. Trotter
    3/03/15 6:15pm

    Either Hillary's State Department was actively covering up something, or the Breitbarts of the world will convince everyone she was. We all lose, either way.

    I'm a Hillary fan. I am. We need a good plan B, just in case. She keeps screwing up. O'Malley's gonna run for Senate instead, Sanders could never win in a million years, and Warren isn't going to run. We need more choices.

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      TimSPCJ.K. Trotter
      3/03/15 5:50pm

      The Democrats only have themselves to blame for not having a solid bullpen of potential candidates lined up behind her. You need to have a contingency plan exactly for reasons like this.

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        Orlandu7TimSPC
        3/03/15 6:01pm

        You're being patently absurd if you think "transparency in emails" is going to sink this campaign. I can't guarantee the next president will be a Democrat, but if it isn't, this is going to be very low on the list of reasons why.

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        FlyLikeSymptomsTimSPC
        3/03/15 6:10pm

        Oh yeah, that herd of prized ponies in the GOP tent are wonderful in their ability to marginalize homosexuals, women, minorities, and the poor. I'm sure the protracted war against immigration reform they've been waging will turn out many latino voters on their side this election cycle because its not like they are the fastest growing demo in the country or anything.

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      KaidogJ.K. Trotter
      3/03/15 7:06pm

      I assume she was emailing the President, other Cabinet members, and various officials using the clintonemail personal account. I do wonder a) why no one called attention to this, particularly after the email fracas(es) of the Bush White House and b) how widespread this practice is. As I've noted several times, it's not normal practice among the federal staff I work with, nor in most private companies (and if you do this kind of thing, you might want to have a chat with your IT folks, just saying).

      Not interested in paranoid Obama conspiracy theories, folks, so you anti-Democrat trolls shouldn't waste your clicks responding.

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        chattygalKaidog
        3/03/15 7:12pm

        Your comments have been spot-on (and saving me the typing *smile*).

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        Kaidogchattygal
        3/03/15 7:13pm

        Funny, I was just thinking the same about your comments. Great minds and all that.

        Shit... Who are we going to vote for?

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      Ray FosseJ.K. Trotter
      3/03/15 6:29pm

      God help us. She's obviously a secretive, manipulative bitch who can't be president, and we should talk about this for the next several years, in about 143 different directions. I would seriously consider moving to a different planet if it meant I could miss this.

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        KaidogRay Fosse
        3/03/15 6:36pm

        You forgot Benghazi; we'll get to hash that out again, too, thank you, Trey Gowdy and Lindsey Graham and John McCain. I might buy stock in earplug companies.

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      The Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabyStepsJ.K. Trotter
      3/03/15 6:06pm

      "The source named two staffers in particular, Philippe Reines and Huma Abedin, who are said to have used private email addresses in the course of their agency duties."

      Countdown to conservative mass meltdown in 3. . . 2. . . 1. . .

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        logo67The Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabySteps
        3/03/15 6:17pm

        Huma's was stuckwithcarlosdanger@notyourmuslimgirlfriend.com.

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        Darius Miles in "The Perfect Score"The Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabySteps
        3/03/15 6:22pm

        I was expecting no-names. Instead we got Huma! Anthony Weiner, the gift that keeps on giving!

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      Rusty HardinJ.K. Trotter
      3/03/15 5:53pm

      The Clintons doing shady stuff, I can't believe that.

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        sui_generisJ.K. Trotter
        3/03/15 8:02pm

        As if to draw attention to the non-story nature of this information, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington just issued a statement regarding Clinton's email practices while Secretary of State — the same practices followed by literally every Secretary of State and most other White House-level gov't employees before the November 2014 law change:

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        UPDATE — 7:41pm: CREW spokesman Stephen Santulli released the following statement Tuesday night, calling the matter a "systemic problem throughout the federal government":

        "Today's New York Times report shines a light on a systemic problem throughout the federal government. Agencies simply do not know how to handle emails from a record keeping perspective. That is why President Obama issued an executive order mandating that all agencies have electronic record keeping systems in place by 2016. But that will take new technology, which means money, which is why the President gave agencies several years to comply.

        "Secretary Clinton is not the first agency head to go without an official email account. FOIA requests CREW sent during the Bush Administration revealed that then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff did not have official email accounts, and we understand the practice was even more widespread and continues to the present.

        "This issue is not unique to any official or agency. It is an ongoing issue that President Obama's order is designed to address."

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          Hamlet goes safarisui_generis
          3/03/15 8:55pm

          Hmm, that makes a bit more sense. It's kinda shocking that it took until just a few months ago for the administration to address this ongoing problem. Not shocking at all during the Bush administration though, as he was the least involved executive to head this state in my lifetime. I wonder what happens to those FOIA requests if there's no official account. The person requesting it probably just gets a smarmy message like, "Your emails are in another castle!"

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          aeon_fluxsui_generis
          3/03/15 10:22pm
          GIF
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        UnTruckedJ.K. Trotter
        3/03/15 6:20pm

        As an aside JK, having worked in this environment, you aren't allowed to ask IT to forward your email to a non .gov address nor may you put on such a rule. Our IA folks usually catch that very easily. You can occasionally forward some things, especially if you aren't upper echelon, but anything resembling a pattern would result in many unhappy bounce backs.

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          NebraxicanJ.K. Trotter
          3/03/15 6:17pm

          I've got that same skeevy feeling like when you're talking to a realtor and he hands you a business card with an @aol.com email address on it.

          It just boggles me to no end that a former Cabinet Secretary of all things, and her staff, were allegedly conducting the statecraft on behalf of our nation out of a pop-up domain with her own name plastered over it like some tech startup.

          You can take the grifter out of Arkansas, but yada yada...

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