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Hillary Clintons email headache is about to get even worse.
A scathing inspector generals report this week was just the first in what is likely to be a series of official actions related to her private server stemming from the FBI, a federal courthouse and Capitol Hill.
Clintons presidential campaign has failed to quiet the furor over the issue, which has dogged her for more than a year.
In the next few weeks just as the likely Democratic presidential nominee hopes to pivot towards a general election it will face its toughest scrutiny yet.
All of that feeds into this overarching problem of public distrust of her, said Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University.
To put it in slang terms, shes got a pretty deeply held street rep at this point. This fits the street rep, he added.
The State Departments watchdog report was especially damaging, given the official nature of its source. The report claimed that Clinton never sought approval for her homebrew email setup, that her use of the system violated the departments record-keeping rules and that it would have been rejected had she brought it up to department officials.
Clintons allies attempted to paint the office as partisan in the weeks ahead of the reports release, but the effort failed to leave a lasting impact.
For months, Clinton and her team have failed to offer a convincing explanation for the use of the private server, and she has steadfastly refused to apologize.
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http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281554-clinton-email-headache-is-about-to-get-worse
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
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JudyM
(29,294 posts)The only mention is her email comment that she wants to keep her personal emails private ... which seems like a weak explanation of putting everything through her Server. Best judgment if that was her only motivation would've been to not have them all mixed together, but to just use her server for personal stuff. All 300,000 of her personal emails.
Methinks her anticipation of performing actions as SOS that were to the benefit of the Clinton Foundation flummoxed her... Can't characterize them purely into either category. Plus she had other things to outside hide, like Pagliano and Sid... She needed control, absolute control, and it just got beyond her ability to understand and manage.
antigop
(12,778 posts)Now it's privacy.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)her schemes differently than through wholesale use of a private server. Now anyone can word search her entire pile of emails online!
madokie
(51,076 posts)Hey Hill it was fun but you need to go away now. We have some serious business to take care of and you are not going to be part of the team taking care of it. sorry
You had your chance but you and you alone fuck it up. Not good
I used to think it was all a 'CON witch hunt but you put that all to bed. Now go away and leave us be. Good bye
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Hillary is not immune any more than Nixon was.
Broward
(1,976 posts)agracie
(950 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)In the past, people could believe that Bill was the dog who was untrustworthy and always lying, and Hillary was the poor, patient wife.
The email server mess just reinforces the idea that they are both made for each other and neither has very good judgment.
Skink
(10,122 posts)The guy who didn't have any security credentials that set up the home server.
He has already taken the fifth.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Membership in Clintons Email Domain Is Remembered as a Mark of Status
By AMY CHOZICK and STEVE EDERMARCH 4, 2015
Just before Hillary Rodham Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in January 2009, she and her closest aides decided that she should have her own private email address as Mrs. Clinton moved away from the Blackberry address that she had used during her 2008 presidential campaign.
Private email would allow Mrs. Clinton to communicate with people in and out of government, separate from the system maintained at the State Department.
An aide who had been with the Clintons since the 1990s, Justin Cooper, registered the domain name, clintonemail.com, which had a server linked to the Clintons home address in Chappaqua, N.Y. Obtaining an account from that domain became a symbol of status within the familys inner circle, conferring prestige and closeness to the secretary.
Chelsea Clinton was given one, but under a pseudonym, Diane Reynolds, which she frequently used when she checked into hotels. Huma Abedin, Mrs. Clintons longtime aide and surrogate daughter, was also given a coveted clintonemail.com address.
And Mrs. Clinton used this private address for everything from State Department matters to planning her daughters wedding and issues related to the familys sprawling philanthropic foundation.
Six years later, as Mrs. Clinton prepares for a 2016 presidential campaign, her exclusive use of her clintonemail.com address while secretary of state has set off intense criticism, because it shielded her correspondence from being searched in response to public records requests at the State Department. The practice has also raised questions about whether Mrs. Clintons private email was vulnerable to security risks and hacking.
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In earlier years, Mrs. Clintons account at clintonemail.com was connected to a server registered to the Clintons Chappaqua home in the name of Eric P. Hothem. Mr. Hothem, a former aide to the Clintons, now works in finance in Washington, according to regulatory disclosure documents.
Mr. Hothem, whose name was misspelled in Internet records, did not return a message left on Wednesday with an assistant at his office. Mr. Cooper, whose name is on the clintonemail.com domain registration, now works at Teneo Holdings, a corporate advisory firm with a broad array of global business clients partly run by Douglas J. Band, a former adviser to Bill Clinton.
The Clintons eventually decided they did not want all three family members on the same email domain, in part, an adviser said, out of concern that it might look as if Mrs. Clintons official business at the State Department was too closely overlapping with Mr. Clintons work as a global philanthropist. Mr. Clinton stuck with presidentclinton.com, which was established in 2002. Chelsea Clinton has now set up chelseaoffice.com. The clintonemail.com domain is set to expire in 2017, when Mrs. Clinton, if successful in her presumptive campaign for president, would take office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/us/politics/membership-in-clintons-email-domain-is-remembered-as-a-mark-of-status.html?_r=0
Seeinghope
(786 posts)with various e-mail accounts independent of family members. What is new is setting up your own "private" e-mail system for work behind your employers back while you are holding a high security office in the Government. That in itself should have more repercussions than bad press. At the very least she should never be able to hold a public office in the U.S. Government again. It is as good a circumstancial evidence of wrong doing that could imply treason......espionage........not that I think in any way shape or form that it rises to that level BUT if somebody wanted to commit treason or espionage, using a private server and dumping emails is something that they would do. Hillary Clinton is not a stupid person but her decision to do this was very stupid. It opens her up to more questions than she is going to be able to answer. She obviously was doing something that she wanted to hide. It may have been somewhat minor but considering that she was Secretary of State it looks like something major. It is of her own doing or should I say undoing?
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)the Hill also had this story on their website. Interesting.
Feds fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case
Late Thursday evening, the Justice Department filed a court motion opposing the Clinton deposition request from conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch, claiming that the organization was trying to dramatically expand the scope of the lawsuit.
Judicial Watch is seeking instead to transform these proceedings into a wide-ranging inquiry into matters beyond the scope of the courts order and unrelated to the FOIA request at issue in this case, government lawyers wrote in their filing, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.
The lawyers wrote that the request to interview Clinton is wholly inappropriate before depositions are finished in a separate case also concerning the email server.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281565-feds-fight-to-prevent-clinton-deposition-in-email-case
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)being Trump.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I think ive found it.
antigop
(12,778 posts)Bob41213
(491 posts)Note the line:
Abedin, Mills and other Clinton aides have reportedly been interviewed as part of the FBI case. And Clinton herself is due up for questioning at some point.
My question is, what about the guy who sent most of the classified documents--Jake Sullivan? Where's his name? Does he perhaps have immunity?
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barrow-wight
(744 posts)She apologized again this week.