well we’re just 2 people looking for love in all the wrong message boards. But just for the heck of it let’s look at herhusband’s term of office.
You can see the results of what happened when the smartest woman in the world took on a project that lacked transparency. Both houses flipped. It’s the kind of thing that happens when politicians decide their agenda is more important than the public they serve.
She waited how many days to explain her use of a private server and her grand announcement was “I don’t like to use 2 phones”.
Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick. You’re worried about a little snark?
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Here’s my prediction based on past events. Her emails will be “lost” until such time as it doesn’t matter and then her secretary will find them in a cabinet somewhere.
Or the Pubbies could team up with Fox News and Ancestry.com to tear the mask off the scandal of Hilary’s Mom and Warren G. Harding.
And I am assuming that the POTUS has a lot more aides to ensure that his email is secure.
We use Outlook. I get emails from bosses, coworkers, and customers. On the rare occasion I get an email from an unknown sender, we are instructed to delete it without opening it.
I stand by my position that the President knew that HRC wasn’t using a dot gov address. And that he didn’t learn that fact on television two weeks ago.
I asked you the question if you thought it would matter. I have no idea why your reaction to that is to do… whatever it is you are doing.
He’s even wrong about what he’s wrong about. Remarkable.
What guidance were you given in 2008?
I’ve never worked in the White House, so I don’t have experience there of course.
But from my experience working at fairly high levels within the Department of Defense, I can tell you that unless the email is marked “personal for” or “eyes only,” there are at least 4-6 people easily that have access to leaderships email. (And even then there are no assurances that they wouldn’t be read.) His CoS, executive assistant, deputy executive assistant and scheduling assistant all have access to his email. And as a matter of course, most leaders will include the President’s CoS and EA in most emails. We would as a courtesy not read emails from his/her spouse most of the time, but it was understood that no emails were private. And we would put the email that the boss really needed to read in it’s own folder. Some percentage of the email to him never got to him.
It’s just the way it works at that level. Leadership just doesn’t have the time or inclination to read and manage all their correspondence. Hell, they don’t even read it all as I noted above. Do you really think he’d just read it all privately, and no one else would see or manage it? Did you think back in the old days before email that the President would get boxes of letters and sit in the oval office with a letter opener all by himself and and type out responses to all of his mail!
Hillary deliberately set up a server to hide her emails. Deliberately. Doesn’t seem to bother you. Her reason, after keeping silent over for an extended period, was because she only wanted to use one phone. That wasn’t even a weak attempt at justifying it. She could have added an unlimited number of email accounts to her business phone. This makes her excuse just that. A day late and a dollar short of the truth. In the very best light of sycophantic loyalty her excuse makes her incredibly lazy. The horror of carrying 2 phones in her purse. Wow. One phone with a ring tone of “Hail to the Chief” for work and another one of giggling girls for her Husband.
Maybe if people stopped cheering for their favorite [del]sports[/del] political team and started to ask for accountability we would have politicians who work for us instead of using us. Hillary and Pelosi and Reid and Boehner and Hatch are all a waste of space.
I find it funny to be accused of this partisanship when apparently you haven’t read any of my posts on this topic.
Forget partisanship. I’m attempting to measure my snark on a scale of verbal hubris against a politician lying about transparency. “Cell phones are hard” is not an acceptable excuse from a Secretary of State. This was the excuse given by a lawyer who served on the Nixon impeachment committee. You don’t see how surreal that is?
The phrase “she knew better” takes on new meaning. After being on that committee she knew EXACTLY how to avoid transparency. She simply took possession of the server.
None of which has anything to do with my question. Foolish me for trying to discuss things in Great Debates.
It sounds like pure speculation to me–speculating that the way high level DoD people work is the way that the president works.
But even granting that, the idea that they brought it to the president’s attention seems unlikely to me.
Someone tech nerd in the office notices the domain name. If the tech nerd is not an idiot, before she busts down the door to the Oval Office screaming to the president about the Secretary of State’s perfidy, she’s gonna check with her co-workers. “What’s going on?” the nerd will ask.
And she’ll be told that the last SoS did the same thing, that this is business as usual.
Is she gonna bother the president with this? Would you?
knowledge is power. I protect my boss. My boss does the same. I would expect the information to move up the food chain.
It doesn’t affect the President either way. She can be thrown under a bus at any time.
foolish? I answered your question.
This answer is almost entirely nonresponsive. The point is that the only sort of person likely to notice the domain name of an email address would find out through other channels that this sort of email address was SOP for the SoS; why would they send that up the food chain? What other bits of SOP would they decide needed to be passed up the food chain?
What you expect is immaterial, since you have no evidence to support your expectation. This is another tempest in a teapot of the sort that Republicans have specialized in of late. I encourage you to point your “nonpartisan” attentions elsewhere.
That appears to be the MO.
are you serious? someone doing something that would affect your boss and you would keep it quite? The fastest way to get fired is NOT telling your boss that something is going on.
The first and last thing you’ll hear on the way out the door is “why wasn’t I made aware”.
What don’t you understand? Seriously? Was my first snarky reply that difficult to figure out. She’s NOT the smartest person in the world and she DID know what she was doing and it serves only one purpose and that’s to control her emails. She’s on the cover of time and AP is suing to get all the emails. She created a problem where one shouldn’t exist and it’s come back to haunt her in damage control. The longer she holds out the worse it gets.
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are you serious? someone doing something that would affect your boss and you would keep it quite? The fastest way to get fired is NOT telling your boss that something is going on. And the way this passes up the chain is by word of mouth. There won’t be any emails about it.
The first and last thing you’ll hear on the way out the door is “why wasn’t I made aware”.
