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by Rachel Stockman | 3:57 pm, December 23rd, 2017
Ah, just when we all thought we could get a little R&R over the long holiday weekend, President Donald Trump comes out swinging against Deputy Attorney General Andrew McCabe, who happens to oversee the Mueller probe into possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government after Jeff Sessions recused himself. The latest attack on McCabe comes after todays news that the DAG will likely retire early next year when his full pension benefits kick in.
Link to tweet
In Trumps tweet, he once again references the 33,000 illegally deleted emails. But, heres the thing, the emails arent actually missing or illegally deleted. We know what happened to them. During congressional testimony, Comey said that there was no intentional misconduct as it related to the destruction of the emails by Hillary Clinton. Sure, it sounds sketchy. However, Comey provided this explanation:
As far as the backstory, its really not as suspicious as it seems. In 2014, the State Department realized that they had a gap in records, and asked Clinton, as well as other secretaries of state, to turn over any work-related emails that they may have. The lawyers doing the sorting for Clinton in 2014 did not read all of the individual emails. Instead, they did keyword searches to find ones that they were work-related.
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monmouth4
(9,711 posts)DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)His secretary manages his email account and prints a hard copy of anything he needs to see. If there is a response she types it. As for deleting an email...he does not know how that is done.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Which is damn satanic, if you ask me.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Company IT's universally request employees to delete their Deleted Box regularly. Tons of data storage otherwise used up for nothing.
Trumpsky know that but does not care. He is evil and so capable of any crime or lie.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Attributed to Lenin, Goebbels, maybe even Ben Franklin or Lincoln, or some ancient Greek.
Whoever said it first, it is still the truth.
Botany
(70,614 posts)If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)Trump Isnt Hitler. But the Lying
Charles M. Blow OCT. 19, 2017
In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
As many have noted, no person of sound reason or even cursory political awareness can read this and not be immediately struck by how similar this strategy of lying is to Donald Trumps seeming strategy of lying: Tell a lie bigger than people think a lie can be, thereby forcing their brains to seek truth in it, or vest some faith in it, even after no proof can be found.
Trump is no Hitler, but the way he has manipulated the American people with outrageous lies, stacked one on top of the other, has an eerie historical resonance. Demagogy has a fixed design.
dlk
(11,582 posts)Ilsa
(61,707 posts)to his gullible cult members who are fine with him shooting someone in Times Square.
world wide wally
(21,757 posts)OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)From the Federal Government down to the local water board or township zoning board. Every record is not expected to be kept or archived and electronic communications fall under the same policies. Things like contracts, agreements, meeting minutes are permanent records. Things like meeting notices or agendas are generally a year. Things like communication that Friday is casual day or there is a pot luck on Thursday can be discarded after the event has happened. A working budget can be discarded after the next draft, etc. etc. etc. The National Archives sets the policy for Federal Government and all agencies are expected to adhere to it. Not every scrap of paper or email is expected to be archived and each entity is expected to have an ethical and competent person or persons to determine what should be archived and what should be discarded.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)where someone had requested information through the FOIA specifically requesting EPA's Agendas Items for Meetings to be held, Notes of Items discussed at Meetings, and I believe followup action to be done. The EPA came back with a response that they didn't have any Meeting Agendas, No Notes from Meetings, and No Followup items for the Entire Year. End of Story. These people are so corrupt it's pathetic. And the fact that they get away with this crap is frightening.