FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Before Vote

Post by 58 » Sun, Oct 30, 2016, 1:47 AM UTC

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For the record, I don't support Trump. I think it's highly likely he has sexually assaulted women in the past, I think he's tremendously unqualified to be president, his plan to lower corporate income tax is complete bullshit, and even if he hasn't explicitly said anything racist (I'm not informed enough to say either way) I think it's awful that he's cultivating racists around him unapologetically. Despite all this,…

> Despite all this, I am fucking sick and tired at the outright lies, slander, and disingenuous arguments against Trump. There is plenty to attack him on without all the bullshit. And I'm sick of the Hillary reality distortion that is, from what I can tell, the absolute epitome of everything wrong with politics today. What is so confusing here? Trump has stated repeatedly that if he loses the election was rigged. He…

Post by jsprogrammer » Sun, Oct 30, 2016, 2:59 PM UTC

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>Most government emails are not classified. I would guess that a significant percentage of State Department emails to and from the Secretary of State are at least confidential. Again, we won't agree on this until after the election when Clinton supporters like yourself are able to undertake an honest assessment of their new President without Trump in the picture. She lied, she will very likely continue lying, and giv…

> I would guess that a significant percentage of State Department emails to and from the Secretary of State are at least confidential Probably, so? The fact that it's a mixed environment means that it's a code switching situation, which means that the indicators that a particular context is in play are critical. There's a reason that classified documents have banners (and though it's not the purpose of portion markin…

Post by vkou » Sun, Oct 30, 2016, 8:01 PM UTC

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> Go look at the reason. Okay. "Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also…

>Potential violations of statues, without criminal intent ≠ "inarguably highly illegal things". One does not need to intend to do something for it to be highly illegal. There is an absolute boat load of cases where people did 1/10th of what Hillary did, without any proven intent, and went to prison for it. Thousands of people are prosecuted every day by our criminal justice system without any intent. And in the same…

Post by downandout » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 7:04 AM UTC

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So on the timing....there's an interesting backstory here. James Comey was a lifelong Republican until this year [1]. He appears to be a Republican in the "never Trump" camp. Prior to the public disclosure of Comey's recommendation that Clinton not be prosecuted, Loretta Lynch publicly stated that she would try to appear impartial by going with whatever the FBI recommended. This effectively put Comey - a "never Trump…

You mean the legal experts... at the DOJ? Who apparently said "the move would be inconsistent with rules designed to avoid the appearance of interference in an election"? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37815558

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 3:02 PM UTC

downandout wrote: post #292

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> I would guess that a significant percentage of State Department emails to and from the Secretary of State are at least confidential Probably, so? The fact that it's a mixed environment means that it's a code switching situation, which means that the indicators that a particular context is in play are critical. There's a reason that classified documents have banners (and though it's not the purpose of portion markin…

I would prefer that neither of them win. Certainly we can do better than this.