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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Basically the concern is besides it holding SECRET BENGZHAI CONSPIRACY, is as Owl is point out is the more mundane issue of committing a general crime that she was discussing matters of National Security on a Private Network (i.e. her own Server, instead of the government's internal servers). Which is an offense,. Yes tons of others have done it, but the one who gets caught with the hand in the cookie jar is the one who gets punished.
The ends are yes, GOP runs the government with a Rubio Muppet in the Oval office, but still, that is the basic problem now, her having discussed national security issues.
edited 3rd Mar '16 4:29:50 PM by PotatoesRock
Benghazi is an unrelated scandal, although many people (especially Republicans) suspect Clinton discussed Libya more on her private E-mail address than her official one, so the Benghazi Committee was initially unable to find any documents implicating her or her staff. (100% speculation)
One of Hillary Clinton's longtime advisers was hacked and the hacker leaked that she was using a non-government E-mail account. This then revealed that she had a private server literally in her closet.
Judicial Review (a conservative watchdog group) issued a FOIA request to see if any E-mails on her server were work-related, forcing the State Department to check. Prior to turning over thousands of printed out pages of her E-mails (rather than the server itself), Clinton was allowed to review and delete 'personal' E-mails. She reported deleting 30,000.
The developing controversy is that so many of the E-mails she turned over have some level of classification that you have to wonder what might have 'slipped by' in the "personal" ones she deleted.
Who might be charged and for what is at this point all speculative, but it's a certainty that someone will take the fall. Even if it's just a slap-on-the-wrist like for General Petraeus.
First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC
The 2012 GOP nominee's advisers are examining what a fight at the convention might look like and what rules might need revising.
"It sounds like the plan is to lock the convention," said the source.
Romney is focused on suppressing Trump's delegate count to prevent him from accumulating the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination.
But implicit in Romney's request to his team to explore the possibility of a convention fight is his willingness to step in and carry the party's banner into the fall general election as the Republican nominee. Another name these sources mentioned was House Speaker Paul Ryan, Romney's running mate in 2012.
edited 3rd Mar '16 4:44:02 PM by SolipsistOwl
@I love dogs. I'm pretty sure the Republicans had control of all three branches under Reagan for a bit. Sure he did a lot of things that many people here would disagree with (to put it politely and mildly.) and in the end the Dems were able to retake Congress and make themselves and absolute spanner in the works for his plans. The Republicans controlling all three branches will lead to an erosion liberal gains, but it will not lead to dictatorship.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Honestly, if they want Trump to lose the Presidency, then they should go through with getting Romney the nomination somehow. Trump will probably split, but it'll create a large enough rift to ensure that neither of them win, and keep a good chunk of the population from moving to Canada.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I'd trust him not to start WW3, not to attempt the ethnic extermination of all people with brown skin in the Middle East, and not to lock Muslims in ghettos.
Which means that right now he's my favorite Republican.
Oh really when?I hated him. Romney was this weird human anomaly that looked alien and acted like a robot, and yet still came off as so white bread that the cast of Happy Days looks hipper than him.
But compared to Trump or Cruz, he's a damn saint.
edited 3rd Mar '16 6:05:14 PM by AdricDePsycho
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

I thought that was Benghazi.
"Yup. That tasted purple."