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Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by Judson »

losvedir wrote: post #42
xenadu02 wrote: post #11

> "As a PST file or exported MSG files, this could be done though, yes? > The issue is that these emails involve the private email address of someone you'd recognize, and we're trying to replace it with a placeholder address as to not expose it." From the way it reads it looks like he is asking how to bulk remove an email address from the archived messages so when they are turned over they don't contain the redacted…

> I assume it would be embarrassing and/or problematic to share the email addresses of various ambassadors and other government officials in public records. You could also read something nefarious into it if you want. That's what I'm trying to understand here. Was it the case that they were just going to hand over the whole DB regardless, and are trying to keep personal info private (but still, e.g., leave the name s…

> Was it the case that they were just going to hand over the whole DB regardless

According to Wikipedia, they turned over 30,000 pieces of paper.

I'm amazed that it isn't a requirement that documents be turned over in an electronically searchable format in most legal scenarios.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by WalterSear »

skylan_q wrote: post #58
mhomde wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just when you thought this election couldn't get any weirder... there's a major scoop about Clinton on r/conspiracy

weirder you have to admit, (fears of things going one way or another set aside) it's been pretty entertaining.

As it will remain until a bleary, hungover morning in November.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by Zpalmtree »

comex wrote: post #98
mkopinsky wrote: post #59

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Where did he accuse anyone of that? All he asked for is a citation.

Their comment is referencing Correct The Record, a pro-Clinton PAC which, according to a popular but false Reddit rumor, employs commenters to anonymously spread propaganda. See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4xcwjb/what_i... Edit: At the time of this edit, three replies have asked for a citation on "false", so I may as well put it here. Barrier Breakers 2016, the subject of the original The Dai…

>popular but false

Why have you decided it's false?

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by thatswrong0 »

minikites wrote: post #128
MichaelGG wrote: post #120

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Curious, do you have a handful of racist Trump quotes? Not stuff about illegals, but actual racist stuff (like not wanting to rent to blacks or something)? Trump aside, electing someone that's openly corrupt (DNC Wikileaks show they went against Bernie, against rules) seems to be far more dangerous to the future of the US and worldwide democracy. Up until now, corruption was sort of assumed, but if a publicly corrupt…

You don't think his rhetoric against undocumented immigrants is racist?

I don't think he's said anything about having a problem with legal immigrants.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by ben174 »

School-Cotton wrote: post #53
mcphage wrote: post #43

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> We can all agree this is a problem. Funny how nobody seemed to think so until now.

Who cares? Literally what point are you making? Dude, do you think this is a football game? That scoring a point against your opponent negates points scored against you? I suspect a big chunk of the people complaining about this would have complained even harder when Bush did it (if what you say is true), if they had been old enough to be aware what was going on, and had social media like we do now. So, what is your…

On the football game analogy: yes, there are two teams. One of these teams will win. Both teams suck but at the end of the day, most people will want to vote for the person who made the most points.

It's actually exactly what it is.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by jimmywanger »

PKop wrote: post #106
jimmywanger wrote: post #74

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It might be kind of silly, but I think that the US government has to do a lot of shady things to ensure that we have a high standard of living and more of our share of natural resources. Look up the origin of the term "banana republic" if you don't believe me. Or just look through how many things we did in South/Central America due to the doctrine of manifest destiny. So if we have to do something bad to ensure a ste…

That's shadiness for the country's benefit you're describing, not shadiness for personal benefit to avoid criminal prosecution so you can get elected president... Shadiness to cover the tracks of previous shadiness to hide your own emails from FOIA requests.

The question here is competence, and lack thereof.

I think that skill in shadiness is transferrable across motives. If you can't plan a robbery of a convenience store for your own wallet, why should I let you plan the robbery of a bank to give it all away to charity?

The ends (sorta) matter in a moralistic sort of way. But the means matter much more. You're playing for higher stakes here, not just criminal prosecution, but a low level brush war in the middle east if you mess things up.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by CamperBob2 »

int_19h wrote: post #123
CamperBob2 wrote: post #90

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The reason I'm worried is that it's becoming increasingly clear why the GOP was so enthusiastic about blocking Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to SCOTUS. That never made any sense, except in a bizarro world where they were very sure they weren't going to lose the Presidency. Nate Silver has been wrong at every single juncture, as have the rest of the polls. We're off the beaten path and down the rabbit hole, an…

It also makes sense if you don't assume that GOP is a monolithic hivemind. Every politician ultimately wants to gain a position of power, and remain in it. Aligning themselves with a party lets them tap into that party's electorate, but said electorate also expects them to hold to certain opinions, and perform certain token rituals to demonstrate that - so they do that. It doesn't even matter that the long-term end r…

It also makes sense if you don't assume that GOP is a monolithic hivemind.

Historically, though, that's exactly what they are. Party discipline usually prevails over everything else with those guys.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by AznHisoka »

minikites wrote: post #128
MichaelGG wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, do you have a handful of racist Trump quotes? Not stuff about illegals, but actual racist stuff (like not wanting to rent to blacks or something)? Trump aside, electing someone that's openly corrupt (DNC Wikileaks show they went against Bernie, against rules) seems to be far more dangerous to the future of the US and worldwide democracy. Up until now, corruption was sort of assumed, but if a publicly corrupt…

You don't think his rhetoric against undocumented immigrants is racist?

Quotes?

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by minikites »

jimmywanger wrote: post #139
minikites wrote: post #128

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You don't think his rhetoric against undocumented immigrants is racist?

It's not "undocumented immigrants", it's "illegal immigrants". If you enforce the law, they should be deported. Now they probably have very good reasons for immigrating, but the fact remains that they broke the law and our borders, and the job of the executive branch is to enforce the laws.

Deporting Syrian refugees (the most recent target of Trump's rhetoric) would be breaking a major international law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_Sta...
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