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Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules
HughPickens.com writes: The NY Times reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, according to State Department officials. She may have violated federal requirements that officials' correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. "It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business," said attorney Jason R. Baron. A spokesman for Clinton defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the "letter and spirit of the rules."
Yup, probably -- which is exactly what happened when Sarah Palin did the same thing. If you ask me, Palin should have been strung up for it then, and Clinton should be now. Of course now you get into the realm of it having been OK for Palin, so why is it a problem for Clinton? Gotta love politics.
This is not insightful, nor is it even remotely connected to reality.
Most news networks are not controlled by the left wing.
For starters, there isn't really any left wing in this nation.
And such as does exist, doesn't control the networks.
The myth of the Left Wing Media exists only in the minds of RWNJs.
The networks are by and large corporatists and run by corporatists.
Most of them still pay at least modest lip service to the old Fairness Doctrine,
presenting two sides to things and striving for moderation,
even when one side is completely illegitimate (such as the anti science nutters).
The two glaring exceptions are Fox and MSNBC.
Fox needs no further explanation, its the propaganda arm of the GOP.
MSNBC is also marketed admittedly to a specific side of the audience...
But that's because the person who owns and controls it is a conservative
who knows how to tap into a market. And even so, they still run several moderate
and even conservative personalities (Joe Scarsbourugh), who are only "liberal"
only in relation to the distorted definitions of the right. In fact, Morning Joe is the
network's single biggest and most influential show (last I checked).
There. Now you are slightly less dumb.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.