Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:33 pm
AndrewV69 wrote: ↑
She had a private email server. There is zero valid reason for that.
So did Mike Pence as governor. And his got hacked.
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/hoyer ... es-emails/
By Eugene Kiely
Posted on July 26, 2017
Rep. Steny Hoyer wrongly claimed that Vice President Mike Pence “used a private server when he was governor of Indiana.” Pence did use a personal AOL account for some government business, but he did not have a “private server.”
CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Hoyer about the president’s criticism of his own attorney general. Hoyer dismissed it as a distraction. But in doing so, he got the facts wrong.
Hoyer, July 25: Well, you know, there’s no smoke there, frankly, and this business about the use of the private server. Pence used a private server when he was governor of Indiana. I just think, frankly, all of that is distractions.
As the Indianapolis Star revealed in March, Pence “routinely” used a personal AOL account to conduct government business. The paper obtained nearly 30 such emails through a public records request, and an official with the vice president’s office told the paper that those were a small fraction of state-business messages associated with the AOL account.
But, contrary to Hoyer’s statement, Pence did not have a private server, nor did he use his personal email account exclusively for government business, as Clinton did. Pence also used a state government account.
There are other significant differences between the email practices of the two public officials.
The state of Indiana does not prohibit the use of personal email for government business as long as the emails are preserved, and the former governor took steps before he left office to preserve them, the Star story said. “Pence’s office said his campaign hired outside counsel as he was departing as governor to review his AOL emails and transfer any involving public business to the state,” the paper wrote.
In Clinton’s case, the State Department’s inspector general said the department has had policies dating to 2005 that require “normal day-to-day operations” to be conducted on government servers. While occasional use of personal email for State business is permitted, Clinton should have turned over all work-related emails before she left office and did not until 21 months later.
Also, the IG said department policies adopted in 2007 required that non-department servers used to “process or store department information” meet the same security controls as the department’s systems and be registered with the department. Clinton did not adhere to either policy, according to an IG report issued May 26, 2016. (For more, see our story “IG Report on Clinton’s Emails.”)
Hoyer is entitled to his opinion about Trump’s tweet, but in defending Clinton, he gets the facts wrong about Pence’s use of personal email for government business.
Using a private email account is wrong, and many pols have done that, and it can lead to huge problems, but it is in no way similar to using a private email server kept in a bathroom maintained by a a bunch of idiot IT consultants to communicate state department business on.
What Hillary did is in no manner justifiable and was so obviously a bad idea and dangerous if not outright illegal and corrupt it should have killed her candidacy dead just by itself. There is no way to believe that any other citizen less connected to power than Hillary would not be facing criminal charges for that private server.
If you stumble across anyone IRL who says "but her emails", mark them down as either being too ignorant on easily researchable material to trust any of their views or someone so partisan as to make their views de facto not trustworthy.
The FBI team and the FBI administration that exonerated Clinton really and truly deserves a congressional investigation and a federal prosecutor to go after them for either incompetency or corruption. But it's corruption.
This doesn't make Trump a good idea, but don't for a moment believe Comey and his gang are heroes, or innocent, or were working on behalf of America. They were a corrupt gang of thieves and some are still there.
The top 20% of the three letter agencies should be purged.