Hillary Clinton email megathread

[The Mikado]

The degree to which some Democrats go "there's no story here!" based on pure partisanship is distressing. Clinton was a Cabinet official and this is an offense any anonymous mid-level bureaucrat would be fired for. The degree to which rules everyone else has to follow get regularly flouted by the Clintons is appalling and I hope this is finally the story that nails these vipers.

[The Mikado]

I'm honestly glad that the FBI is investigating this.

If it turns out that Clinton seriously mishandled her email account, then an indictment would force her out, clearing the way for a more electable Democrat.

If they find no evidence of wrongdoing, then this effectively becomes another Benghazi.  (i.e. something that Republicans will go on about ad-nausium, with little effect since Clinton has an effective counter to the accusation.)

Imo, a win-win situation.

It depends on the timing. If, say, the FBI's report indicating wrongdoing came out in early January and it was incriminating enough to force Clinton out of the race, then Democrats would already have filing deadlines in about a third of the states passed and would have significant difficulty getting into the race. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well/It were done quickly...

if something is really incriminating here, I hope the FBI reveals it by, say, Halloween, and we can move on. If it's much later, then Democrats will be stuck with the humiliating O'Malley/Webb/Sanders field going into the primaries.

[The Mikado]

There's some serious denial going on here about just how big a deal this is. There's a decent chance that the Democratic frontrunner could end up under federal indictment during this election season. Even Ted Cruz could win under those circumstances.

We have people here posting that this story is nothing, or nothing but partisan slander, or whatever. You'd better wake up. This is going to be huge.

[The Mikado]

Lol no. One of the current Republican candidates currently IS (no innuendos,  actually is indicted) under indictment,  and Democrats barely bring it up.

I keep forgetting Rick Perry is running for president. I was ready to post either "Many of Rand Paul's top people are under indictment, but he isn't" or "Many of Chris Christie's top people are under indictment, but he isn't," but I remembered at the last second that Perry was in the race.

[The Mikado]

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Hillary Clinton's campaign is fine, guys. Nothing to worry about. This is a totally sound strategy.

[The Mikado]

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

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Sepp Blatter thought he was untouchable a few months ago and look what happened. FBI investigations are serious affairs.

[The Mikado]

Why the hell didn't you do this back in April?

[The Mikado]

If nothing else, this will give the Director of the FBI tremendous leverage over a future President Clinton. Hoover all over again.

"Madame President, I'd...strongly suggest vetoing that bill that only gives us a 2% annual increase in budget and shoot for something a bit more substantial. We need the money for additional cybersecurity. It would be horrible if we didn't get that money and some...hacker...leaked those emails of yours we found."