Posted on 08/13/2015 7:52:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Well, there are at least a few potential answers to Chuck Todd’s question on Morning Joe today:
Frankly, I’m leaning toward 5, with a special emphasis on 1 and 4. Turning over the server at this late date, and at the threat of a subpoena or search warrant, will “now do nothing for her politically,” Todd explains, “nothing to sort of get rid of the taint that they were looking for something to hide. Instead, it looks like they are reluctantly cooperating with an investigation.” And cooperating is a relative term here, too:
“And oh by the way, it’s blank!” Todd mocks the Clinton team, to laughter from the panel. “They could have done this six months ago.” Matt Lewis laughs off the idea that Republicans are attacking Hillary, when it’s the Obama administration’s DoJ, FBI, and IGs that are demanding access to the server and answers for her decisions.
Mika Brzezinski and Huffington Post’s Sam Stein both reject the Team Hillary charge that all of this is “nonsense.” The two reasons for Hillary to make that choice, Stein notes, is either to use her office for political gain or to thwart the Freedom of Information Act. Needless to say, no one on this panel was buying the Jennifer Palmieri spin.
Neither is the American public. Even before the FBI got the server and found that it had been wiped, a Monmouth poll found a majority of Americans want a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton over the e-mail scandal:
A majority of American voters are not particularly suspicious of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account when she was Secretary of State. Still, most support a criminal investigation of those emails for the potential release of classified material. The Monmouth University Poll also measured voter opinion of several presidential candidates before last week’s GOP debate, finding Clinton and Donald Trump with the highest negative ratings among independent voters.
Just over half (51%) of registered voters feel that Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account during her time as Secretary of State was mainly a matter of convenience compared to 38% who say this behavior suggests she has something to hide. Most Democrats (80%) say it was a matter of convenience, while most Republicans (68%) say she has something to hide. Independents are split – 48% say it was out of convenience and 41% say it suggests she may be hiding something.
Even though most voters feel Clinton’s intentions may have been acceptable, a majority (52%) say that her emails should be subject to a criminal investigation for the potential release of classified material. Another 41% say the emails should not be subject to this type of investigation. Most Republicans (82%) and a majority of independents (54%) support an investigation, while two-thirds (66%) of Democrats are opposed.
Independents want a criminal probe by a 54/38 margin. Even 23% of Democrats want a criminal probe. That’s not exactly a great position for a supposed coronation candidate in a major party, which is why Democrats are starting to hit the panic button.
At the same time, Hillary’s favorables have dropped to … 38%. Her unfavorable ratings were second-worst in the poll, at 48% (Donald Trump got 54%). Two months ago in the same series, Hillary was at 41/44, which means she’s dropped seven points in the gap in just two months.
Todd’s question can just as easily be directed at Democrats, too. This danger has been obvious for six months, and yet the only options the party has produced in case of a Hillary collapse is septuagenarians like Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, the latter of which isn’t even a Democrat but a Socialist. I’d list five possible reasons for that faceplant, but let’s just assume the answer there is All Of The Above, too.
uhhh....cuz it wasn’t blank six months ago?
Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills apparently are unavailable for comment...
6. Because Bill watches a lot of online porn and they were afraid that they would find the same stain on the server that was found on Monica’s dress.
Bigger than Watergate, which was a third rate burglary on an political opponent’s campaign office. This is a breach of national security by a top administration official and subsequent cover-up.
Hey Chuckie - you’re attacking Hillary. Better be careful.
uhhh....cuz it wasn’t blank six months ago?
This has the potential from going from a singularly a Clinton scandal to an Obama Administration scandal with all the other security breaches the US has been subjected to since Hussein was installed as Leader in 2009.
The feds would spend a decade trying to find all those servers to examine forensically.
Or just dial up the NSA and ask for all their copies of her emails and texts and phone calls from Carnivore.
There’s a sixth option for Todd’s list: She just doesn’t care. Hillary will walk from this like she does everything else. Payoffs, political favors and blackmail are all she needs to put this comfortably behind her. Most of her low information voters don’t even know what a server is much less what classified information is. They could care less.
Because, you didn’t ask her to six months ago, Chuck. You assumed she had told the truth each time she denied it.
Because they needed time to blank it.
17 minutes or six months? What difference does it make at this point?
Politically Hillary is finished...the statutes of limitations of offenses against national security however will last well into the next administration which will more likely prosecute her for negligence and these criminal acts.
Maybe the “blank” server was not as blank at that time? Maybe she thought she could obfuscate and delay till no one cared? Who knows but it was a colossal mistake from the alleged smartest woman on the planet, sarcasm off.
The point is she has tacitly admitted already she had stuff on the server she did not wish to share with anyone as they were personal and therefore culled through everything deleting what did not merit anyone’s view. That action is contrary to law i.e. which requires all hardware used for government business and the data stored upon it, even if used partly for personal, is the government’s. Sorry Hitlery, cannot have it both ways i.e. I don’t want the government to have it all and I will decide what it is they can have. BTW, knowing how cheap the Clinton’s are, I wonder who paid for the equipment in the first place??
Deny, delay, distract, destroy.
clinton playbook, chapter 1, for as long as I can remember.
Hillary for the Hoosegow...
There’s a sixth option for Todd’s list: She just doesn’t care. Hillary will walk from this like she does everything else. Payoffs, political favors and blackmail are all she needs to put this comfortably behind her. Most of her low information voters don’t even know what a server is much less what classified information is. They could care less.
Well stated. She & Willard, will laugh all the way while spending the $$$$$$$ they have amassed through their various schemes.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
Sometimes it takes a while to spoliate evidence, since deleting files does not get rid of them. They must be written over, sometimes more than once, to obscure them, and it probably took a while to figure out that nothing could now be recovered from the hard drive.
What difference does it make? The DOJ will never act in a timely manner on this, if at all.
The fix has long been in, since 2008, actually.
See how easy it is to be a credible journalist in the media these days?!
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