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Why Clinton's Emails Matter
The New York Times ^ | October 31, 2016 | Timothy Naftali

Posted on 11/01/2016 2:40:53 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Good ad, a bit rushed. Love the parallel comparison. Seems that Clinton learned too well from Nixon.


21 posted on 11/01/2016 4:19:23 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump/Pence or Crooked Hillary & Kreepy, The Pedo Klown)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The Clintons redid the equivalent of the purported Nixon misdeeds every 3-4 months...again, and again.

Many offenses no one else has done.


22 posted on 11/01/2016 4:25:31 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Gaffer

I agree with the general point of your post, but I would encourage you to read a little more of the history of Watergate.

Short version: Nixon ticked off the CIA and they burned him for it.

References:

Roger Stone—Nixon’s Secrets
Colodny and Gettlin—Silent Coup
Jim Hougan—Secret Agenda


23 posted on 11/01/2016 4:33:34 AM PDT by cgbg (Another World War I veteran for Hillary!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I stopped reading at “among the brightest”.


24 posted on 11/01/2016 4:38:51 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
she was, by many accounts, among the brightest members of the staff of the House Judiciary Committee that investigated Nixon

By whose account? Hers? I was paying pretty close attention back then. I definitely thought Nixon had to go. But I don't believe I EVER heard of Hillary Rodham or Hillary Clinton back then.

I didn't even know then she was fired from the committee for serial lying. But I do now.

ML/NJ

25 posted on 11/01/2016 5:27:19 AM PDT by ml/nj (quotequote)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I have to say. The emails may equal Watergate. They are as bad or worse because they expose national secrets. But the true parallel is Donna Brazile and the debate questions. Watergate is about the illegal break in to get political information during a campaign. Then there was the cover up and the tapes that got erased.

Its the same. We have election theft of campaign information, the debate questions. We have cover up. We have destruction of evidence. The nominee knew about the crime and did not disclose it. In fact her senior staff knew about the crime as well, same as Watergate.

As far as I am concerned this is Watergate if we only include the debate questions and Donna Brazile. When you add the Clinton Foundation, Teneo (you have to talk about Teneo its really how the Clintons got rich) and Top Secret emails you are going way passed Watergate. Nixon was not as big a crook as Hillary.


26 posted on 11/01/2016 5:27:35 AM PDT by poinq
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To: cgbg

I was in the military stationed overseas then. I don’t need to read any more about it other than Hillary was part of it, she avidly advocated against Nixon’s right to legal representation by government lawyers and was not chosen by the head of the investigation team that was assigned to investigate him.

As for Nixon ticking off the CIA.....very ironic if you ask me. Obama has ticked off the FBI, ATF, border patrol and just about every other intel agency and they haven’t done squat to him.


27 posted on 11/01/2016 5:27:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I’m tired of hearing about how “smart” Hillary is or how
she’s the “smartest woman in the world”. SMART-ASS is
more like it. - Just sign me, SICK OF THE DAMNED CLINTONS!


28 posted on 11/01/2016 5:28:29 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Gaffer

....her contract was not renewed I meant....there were after reveals that said why much later IIRC....


29 posted on 11/01/2016 5:29:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: sauropod

Right she was a liar even then that is too funny!


30 posted on 11/01/2016 5:38:43 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
And there is another useful comparison to Watergate. As is clear from the F.B.I.’s investigation thus far, Mrs. Clinton and her team’s explanations of the handling of the server still seem, at best, incomplete. She ran the State Department too well for incompetence by her inner circle in handling government emails to explain everything.

Really?? Getting our ambassador killed was running the State Department well?? And then the author attempts to shift blame for her choices towards her inner circle?

31 posted on 11/01/2016 5:58:46 AM PDT by NonLinear (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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"...among the brightest members of the staff of the House Judiciary Committee that investigated Nixon..."

Really? She was booted off the staff by the democrats because of ethical violations. I couldn't get past this sentence.

Emphasis mine. I wish Trump would put that in a commercial featuring her Dem boss' comments about her.

32 posted on 11/01/2016 6:47:10 AM PDT by Paul R.
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To: NonLinear

This watergate to emailgate theme has been running on FOX News as well.

It’s a faulty analogy that diminishes the insanity of what Hillary has done.

First they tried wienergate, as if the primary issue is another sex scandal or bimbo eruption. They had better not let them get by with this.

I’m not sure I have faith that anyone will be held accountable since she has thus far skated past any pretense of accountability.


33 posted on 11/01/2016 6:52:11 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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