Hillary Clinton email megathread

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If it is found that she handled classified e-mail on her dot-com server (as appears to be unavoidable to me), she will surely face charges for violating Federal law.  I think she should end her campaign now and focus her energy on defending herself.  Also, she could provide a credible Democrat with time to organize an effective campaign.

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So far, it appears most responders don't view Clinton's mishandling of classified information to be a serious matter.  Whether the average voter cares or not, mishandling classified information is a crime that Federal employees must acknowledge when they accept a security clearance.  I believe the penalty is a $10,000 fine, 5 years in prison, or both.

If the 10% rate of classified material that the IG reportedly found in the first forty e-mails checked continues, the AG would be hard pressed not to prosecute.  Even if they just strike a plea bargain (likely for her to have no further access to classified material ever), how is she supposed to continue forward as a credible candidate?  (And, if you think about it, how would the government be able to prosecute or penalize others who breech classified information if they don't go after her?) 

Sure, the 40% of hard-core Democratic voters won't care, but a solid majority will take note and she will be mercilessly hammered for this during what is turning out to be a 15 month campaign   I'm not a Democrat and won't likely vote for whoever might run in her place, be it Warren, Biden, Cuomo, or even Webb.  But I can't believe it is too late for a strong candidate to emerge to take her place.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/12/clinton_campaign_seeks_to_calm_supporters_about_emails_127750.html

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Check this out: 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/12/this-e-mail-story-keeps-getting-worse-for-hillary-clinton/

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There is a newer topic on this matter that future comments should perhaps be placed in:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=217446.0

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/12/the-spy-satellite-secrets-in-hillary-s-emails.html

Sounds pretty bleak for HRC.

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Another of the many opinion columns appearing every day:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-kass-clinton-email-met-0816-20150814-column.html

There will be good hints that her campaign is coming to an inevitable end when we start hearing mainstream news reports with words like these:
"Hillary Clinton is on yet another outing to Iowa insisting that her campaign will continue in spite of vicious Republican lies about her e-mails."

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Hillary won't be indicted, or forced from the race, or lose the race because of this email nothing. The end.

Oh, there is a lot here.  She won't have her husband there to pardon her as he did for Deutch, but maybe Obama will save her bacon.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-ominous-precedent-for-hillary-clinton/2015/08/24/f0bbe762-4a5a-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html

My guess is that she went through her four years at State never using the State Dept's SIPRNET equivalent for Secret, or JWICS for TS-SCI.  I envision she left those "details" to subordinates who were probably equally clueless as to the precautions they needed to take. 

For those who still believe she is not in jeopardy, I mean legally, trust me, she probably is.  As for her candidacy, I feel it will come to an end.   Kind of like Senator Torricelli in New Jersey when he fell so far behind in the polls.  But, alas, I repeat myself from a post a month or so ago.  Apologies.

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Good news for John McCain!

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/24/clinton-email-scandal-falls-state-dept-policy-private-email.html

The Republican Hillary Clinton email scandal is falling apart as the State Department confirmed that there was no policy against Clinton using private email.

On CNN’s New Day, State Department spokesman John Kirby said, “We have said in the past, Chris that there was no policy prohibiting the use of a private email account here at the State Department, and that is still a fact. Now, obviously, we have policies in place now that highly discourage that, and you are supposed to use your government account so that there is a constant, permanent record of it, but at the time she was not violating policy….I can tell you that there was no prohibition for her use of this, and we’ve since changed the policy to discourage that greatly, and in fact, the policy is that you have to use your government account for business.”

Kirby added that he didn’t believe that the policy changed while she was Secretary of State, which means that Hillary Clinton was doing nothing wrong when she used private email.

Wow, isn't this just the very best news from our Department of State.  It is so good to know that Hillary is free of any wrong-doing and can remain in the race to be our next President.  PTL!

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Check out her guffaws.  http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/257214-clinton-cracks-up-over-question-about-fbi-investigation-into-email

What is she conveying?

Is she telling us this is so silly; a right-wing extremist crusade?

Is she asking him to come up with an original question?

Is she laughing because she doesn't want to cry in public as she is very afraid that she is heading to jail?

Other possibilities are too numerous to mention.