NY Times Backpedals

News Buzzard wrote:It turns out that Hillary really didn't do anything wrong!

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/03/13/the-new-york-times-reverses-course-on-clintons/202894

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News Buzzard wrote:When you have no argument to make, attack the messenger!!

Of course I set up a private server in my house. Doesn't every US Secretary of State do that?

"My dog ate my homework".

News Buzzard wrote:When you have no argument to make, attack the messenger!!

That is standard operating procedure on the Forum of Gloom!!

President Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email address during her time as secretary of state, sources tell me.

But she did so through people outside the administration, so the story couldn’t be traced to her or the White House.  In addition, at Jarrett’s behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary’s conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation.

News Buzzard wrote:When you have no argument to make, attack the messenger!!

That is standard operating procedure on the Forum of Gloom!!

Outerlimits wrote:Try to see if you can get around “attacking the messenger” on this one:

News Buzzard wrote:

Outerlimits wrote:Try to see if you can get around “attacking the messenger” on this one:

....And now I read that John Boehner is going to cause a further investigation of Hillary's E-mails. He'll probably make an attempt to subpoena Hillary's server, and she is going to tell him to pound salt, so then Boehner can file the umpteenth lawsuit against another Democrat. That's the only thing the Republicans know how to do, file useless lawsuits at a considerable waste of taxpayer funds!

News Buzzard wrote:It does appear that she broke federal law???? Is that all you got after all of that windbag BS?? Not too sure of yourself, now are you??

Would you kindly elaborate on which law Hillary broke????

The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency’s activities. (44 U.S. Code § 3101)
So the question would seem to be: Are emails records? The answer is obvious — and was so long before Hillary Clinton took over at Foggy Bottom. Here is the State Department’s own treatment of the question from 1995:

Another important modern improvement is the ease of communication now afforded to the Department world-wide through the use of E-mail. . . . All employees must be aware that some of the variety of the messages being exchanged on E-mail are important to the Department and must be preserved; such messages are considered Federal records under the law. (5 FAM [Foreign Affairs Manual] 443.1)
In fact, step-by-step guidance was being offered to employees two decades ago about how to preserve email records. So if Clinton failed to follow procedures, it was not for lack of available instruction on the subject.

There have been modifications, particularly in recent years, about what constitutes “private email” that does not fall under the purview of these regulations, but such details are irrelevant here, because Clinton apparently did not transfer any of the communications from her private account for preservation. To maintain that that is above-board, one also must maintain that Clinton did not send a single work-related email in four years as America’s top diplomat. Which we know is false.