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Andrea Mitchell: Hillary Email IG Report ‘Devastating’
breitbart ^ | 26 May 2016 | by Jeff Poor

Posted on 05/26/2016 3:01:36 PM PDT by dennisw

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” NBC chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell reacted to a State Department Inspector General report criticizing Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while she was serving as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.

Mitchell first dismissed the Clinton campaign’s defense, comparing Clinton’s behavior to that of her predecessor former Secretary of State Colin Powell and then declared the report to be hard to be seen as “anything but devastating.”

“It was not allowed to not return those records before she left the State Department,” Mitchell said. “She violated the official records act according to her own State Department IG appointed by President Obama. What you have shown just now, Mika, it completely undercuts the argument she’s been making for more than a year just as she’s trying to persuade voters she’s untrustworthy. I think the most surprising and shocking thing is their reaction. Claiming this is the same as what former secretaries did, comparison to Colin Powell. The facts are Colin Powell was the first secretary of state to ever use email. He used it specifically to try to launch the State Department into the new century and try to get people to communicate by email.”

“He was using it by example,” she continued. “He did use personal emails. He didn’t always separate them, but it was completely aboveboard — everybody in the State Department knew what he was doing. It was not, in fact, violating a rule that was put in place under Clinton, not after she left — It was put in place under Clinton and she was warned before hand of decades of this records act that prohibits you to leave the State Department, to leave any agency and not turn over your records.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andreamitchell; demagogicparty; hillary; memebuilding; mikabrzezinski; morningjoe; msnbc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: dennisw

Oh Oh Hitlary, when you’ve lost Mrs Greenspan things are not looking too good


21 posted on 05/26/2016 3:15:43 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: BenLurkin

No, Hill, I want you to die on the toilet whilst trying to pinch a loaf with your eyes bugged out just like Elvis.


22 posted on 05/26/2016 3:16:39 PM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow

Won’t happen.

That said, its entirely appropriate for voters to judge her ethical lapses.

A woman who doesn’t put our country first shouldn’t be trusted with the WH.


23 posted on 05/26/2016 3:17:26 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow

decision to value her all important privacy above the security of the nation should lead to the most severe punishment allowed.””

Yeah, like a platform and a scratchy rope for her and the Huma Muslim too.


24 posted on 05/26/2016 3:17:53 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarme)
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To: dennisw

Who’s gonna drive the bus, Joe Biden?


25 posted on 05/26/2016 3:18:30 PM PDT by McGruff (What about #NeverHillary?)
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To: tet68

Could somebody summarize this e-mail fiasco: why was she doing it? what was it that Clinton was trying to get away with here?


26 posted on 05/26/2016 3:18:35 PM PDT by quesney
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow; GingisK; Southack; Travis McGee
The full extent of the breach won’t be known. The vulnerabilities could have been exploited to distribute remote access key loggers, reverse connection, trojan viruses throughout our most sensitive networks.

As one who is affected, I wonder if this is how the OPM Security Background Check breach happened.

27 posted on 05/26/2016 3:18:38 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: Lizavetta

I think you put your finger on it. A lot of money was deposited into the Clinton foundation by entities whose business involved the State Department, especially State Department approval (Uranium One, for example). Put bluntly, evidence of open bribery. You’d have to be stupid and lazy to try that on a public email server, only slightly less so to do it on your own, and you’d need to be a lot better at it than she is to cover it up successfully if you do. Which she has not. What she’s good at is avoiding the consequences of behavior everybody knows is criminal and would put anyone but her in jail. It’s actually a pretty remarkable performance if your artistic tastes run to criminality.


28 posted on 05/26/2016 3:20:01 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dennisw
I get the feeling that Andrea Mitchell regards herself as an objective reporter. She has looked just devastated the past few weeks, perhaps realizing how badly she's misjudged the current political scene.

JMHO

29 posted on 05/26/2016 3:23:00 PM PDT by grania
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To: dennisw

Mitchell is right and yet . . . . once September comes and its Trump v. Clinton, Andrea will fall right back into line and support Hillary and slam Trump.


30 posted on 05/26/2016 3:23:05 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Lizavetta

Hillary used her private server like eBay - all the stuff for sale went onto the private server with the proceeds ( winning bids ) laundered through the “ “Clinton Charitable Trust” - watch out Chels. . . . Get the paper shredder warmed up


31 posted on 05/26/2016 3:23:26 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: dennisw

Hillary wicked witch of the east still can’t get her broom lit. bawaaaaaa. disbarrment and disgrace are all that lie ahead. that and a big house to fall on her. Trump’s house. teeeeeeheeeeee


32 posted on 05/26/2016 3:23:54 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas
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To: quesney

Selling sensitive intel for personal enrichment. Laundering bribes through the Clinton Foundation


33 posted on 05/26/2016 3:25:54 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: theoilpainter

She will.

Far too late to strip it from her. The Clintons will full scorched earth if they do.

This was her consolation prize for dropping out in 2008. If the DNC pulls any stunts, she will sink whomever they put up as a replacement.


34 posted on 05/26/2016 3:26:51 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik
The Clintons will full scorched earth if they do.

Wouldn't that be awesome!

35 posted on 05/26/2016 3:30:35 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: dennisw
What you have shown just now, Mika, it completely undercuts the argument she’s been making for more than a year just as she’s trying to persuade voters she’s untrustworthy.

wait... what??? a l'il Freudian slip?

36 posted on 05/26/2016 3:35:37 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: tet68

“Hillary! Dear, If you’ve lost Andrea, you’ve lost everything. Bless yo lil heart.”

Pretty much what I was just thinking; well, except the “Bless yo lil heart” part. I was thinking in MUCH harsher terms, like several variations of a well-know pejorative that starts with “F”.


37 posted on 05/26/2016 3:36:22 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: dennisw

With the report out, I’m looking for Brett Baer to do another one of his connect the dots deals.

Would be great to the timeline summary and implications at each step.


38 posted on 05/26/2016 3:36:55 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: theoilpainter

“I’m beginning to fear that Clinton might not get the nomination - we need her as the opponent to win.”

I agree.


39 posted on 05/26/2016 3:37:09 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: VanDeKoik

Nothing’s ever devastating to the Clintons. Nothing. Bill Clinton was impeached and it didn’t affect his popularity, public stature, or self-esteem one iota. Richard Nixon resigned under threat of impeachment and spent the rest of his life in agony, treated by the public like a leper, a public pariah. Bill Clinton remains a respected, if not beloved, elder statesman.


40 posted on 05/26/2016 3:37:19 PM PDT by huckfillary
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