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    JerchJ.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 1:56pm

    Why are we referring to @clintonemail.com as from a personal email address? I get that it is not the State Department domain, but it is a work email address, no?

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      J.K. TrotterJerch
      3/04/15 2:02pm

      That’s kind of unclear, actually.

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      caekislove-thethirdJerch
      3/04/15 2:05pm

      According to the AP, the email server was literally running out of Clinton's home basement. It doesn't get anymore "personal" than that:

      http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b78ba4…

      She also registered the domain under an assumed name: "Eric Hoteham".

      Curiouser and curiouser...

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    KittykatJ.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 1:35pm

    "lying liar pants on fire"

    Is he twelve?

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      SeriousAsAShartAttackKittykat
      3/04/15 1:51pm

      No, see, this is what Very Important People do to show that, even though they're Very Important People, they're still funny and hip and young at heart and EXTREMELY cool. They'd never take a matter like this too seriously. I mean, he did take it seriously enough to take the time out of his Very Important Person day to write a whole letter about it, but as long as he throws in a couple of liar-pants-on-fires or maybe a "Mr. Poopypants" or two, then obviously that means he's not super bothered by it all and he's just busting your balls in a big-bro kind of way, you know? I'm totally convinced he's ultra-cool, and probably doesn't even need a babysitter when he stays home alone.

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      ThePriceofEggsinMaltaKittykat
      3/04/15 2:16pm

      I don't know how old he is, but at least he's doing his part to make the election bullshit interesting. I didn't expect the Clinton collapse to happen this early, though. Ah well.

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    La.M.J.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 1:38pm

    And hello JK and Erik and Brian and Nick. It's wonderful that we can all be here, together.

    It's the little things that amuse me so.

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      IngridableLa.M.
      3/04/15 1:57pm

      All I could think was, "Ugh, Ben Smith."

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      CouldntPassAgainLa.M.
      3/04/15 2:46pm

      Trotter really should've roped in his mother.

      Reines's too.

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    FauxhemianRhapshodyJ.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 2:03pm

    Here's how I think a professional, sane person would have answered the original request:

    "I don't recall using anything other than .gov account for official business. You can imagine that we receive a tremendous amount of electronic correspondence through various accounts on various computers, devices, etc. I would need to review the all of the traffic through all of my accounts in order to determine whether or not a personal account may have been used in error."

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      Shirley, you can't beFauxhemianRhapshody
      3/04/15 2:18pm

      Except a professional person might try to avoid typos.

      I would need to review the all of the traffic...

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      FauxhemianRhapshodyShirley, you can't be
      3/04/15 2:21pm

      Perhaps, but lately from the correspondence I get, it seems like spelling and grammar are optional.

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    MattJ.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 3:21pm

    I think Gawker is undermining its credibility a little bit here.

    "My theory is that, if the State Department has been repeatedly unable to locate records of known email exchanges—for a reason other than institutional incompetence—then the reason might have to do with the the deliberate flouting of record-keeping regulations by State Department staffers. Nobody has provided an alternative explanation."

    Except for the alternative explanation of institutional incompetence you provided.

    "You were employed by the State Department when Gawker filed a FOIA request for correspondence between you and Michael Hastings.* And yet you refuse to clarify why the State Department could not locate a record of your exchange with Hastings."

    It probably wasn't Reines job to reply to FOIA requests. So why do you think he knows anything about FOIA requests. This is just stupid and petty. Once again, institutional incompetence is almost always the most likely explanation for anything.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27…

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      J.K. TrotterMatt
      3/04/15 3:51pm

      Sure. But the pattern of FOIA denials, and the fact that the State Department is able to process other requests without much difficulty, suggests it’s not just incompetence at play here.

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      sui_generisMatt
      3/04/15 7:43pm

      I think Gawker is undermining its credibility a little bit here.

      Gee, ya think?

      This whole story and the half-dozen different ways they've tried to run it in the past few days has done so, repeatedly.

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    PelllJ.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 2:01pm

    Hillary's always struggled to be relevant, but this private email scandal really hurt her chances with security-aware millennials and internet users everywhere. It conjures images of an older relative that still uses Juno.

    So now her aide is engaging with Gawker to score that engaged millennial click.

    Whew. She must be thanking God for Ben Carson right now.

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      AliHajiSheikPelll
      3/04/15 2:31pm

      The always dependable and reliable millennial voting bloc.

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      Motorized Mega-SatanPelll
      3/04/15 2:47pm

      Ben Carson is going to be this presidential race's Herman Cain.

      ...presidential race, heh.

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    SteveShartsJ.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 1:44pm

    You should have reached out to him by State Department gchat

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      John CookSteveSharts
      3/04/15 1:52pm

      :(

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    acgilsonJ.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 1:54pm

    Did you ask how strange it was that the server was ran out of Clinton's basement?

    http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b78ba4…

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      J.K. Trotteracgilson
      3/04/15 2:17pm

      Very!

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      Walroidacgilson
      3/04/15 2:34pm

      probably because of bogus "scandals" like this one, she prefers to be as in charge of her own information as is humanly possible.

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    Medieval KnievelJ.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 1:44pm

    It is so creepy when people use a well-known public news database and attempt to send email to someone's listed email address. You know who does that? Creepy creepers who creep!

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      chery's tiny orangeMedieval Knievel
      3/04/15 1:54pm

      Yeah, creepy Gawker and their creepy methods. I only got that far into the exchange and had to scroll down to the comments. I can't wait to read the rest! Apparently I have 'lying liar pants on fire' to look forward to?

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      GoBananasMedieval Knievel
      3/04/15 2:37pm

      Seriously! Doing basic research is creepy?

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    Jujymonkey3J.K. Trotter
    3/04/15 2:23pm

    I'm fascinated because JK's name turns out to be Keenan. Wouldn't have called that one.

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      J.K. TrotterJujymonkey3
      3/04/15 2:30pm

      ;-)

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      Barry PetcheskyJujymonkey3
      3/04/15 2:34pm

      The J.K. is for "Just kidding, it's actually Keenan."

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