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F.B.I. Interviews Hillary Clinton Over Private Email Server
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Darryl M R
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Team Clinton back in the White House woo
Joe Shlabotnik
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It will for most intents and purposes though. Of course they're not going to say "oh our bad nevermind!", of course they'll still call her crooked, untrustworthy etc. and bring this up but it's just after-the-fact griping, there's nothing to hang on to.
Whelp, There it is
The best we can do is hope that all parties involved learned a lesson from this and we have tighter security for all documents no matter the classification across the board in the future.
Super Bernie Bros, it's now time to pick a side. 4 years is a long time, make your vote count please.
Monocle
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Why not take ten minutes to post a little evidence? You'd know better than anyone where to find the relevant posts in your post history.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Well yea. Posting meaningful discussion is kinda a cornerstone of what separates GAF from a place like reddit. Drive by shit posting lowers the standards of discussion. Following that up by telling everyone questioning you to fuck off and do their own research to gain insight on your shitty drive by post makes your shitty trolling even worse.
So basically, it's not that I can't it's just I'd win the argument anyway so what's the point?
You have been taking notes from Donald Trump I see.
I don't think the constantly criticisms, investigations, and being on blast by both the left and the right is getting a "free-pass".
Ziltoidia 9
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Its free agency time!
GreatestHits
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Damn str8 guys I'm just a troll. Let's move along now
GreatestHits
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This is important. However, that doesn't mean we are a scientific or medical cornerstone of knowledge. If we were I wouldn't feel comfortable posting my most accessible thoughts. What I said ruffled a ton of feathers. Gaf right now is 98% percent Hillary, 1% trump and 1% Bernie.
Oh shit, wait I need to back that up with sources...
Have some conviction in your thoughts breh.
GAF is r/politics for Hillary.
GreatestHits
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I researched it and it's actually 92%. Still not releasing my data
Yeah, it's super top secret
pacificrex
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Nevermind. I provided a reasonable explanation, but I am withdrawing it. After coming back to this thread after I first posted, I see that I don't think I will be a good fit for this place. I made what were, in my mind, some innocuous joke posts that I didn't think anyone would take offense to. I was obviously incorrect.
If I offended anyone, sorry. Someone can ban me if they like.
Take it easy.
A Link to the Past
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People are asking for you to provide the bare minimum expected of someone making a very serious claim of corruption in the F.B.I.
Go to Reddit or something if you want to talk out of your ass without people calling you out on it.
pacificrex
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Yeah, as a political candidate for President. That's totally what I meant.
No.
I'm talking about military operations. Jesus.
old manatee
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exmachina64
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Sentences like this frustrate me because they oversimplify the reality that thirty-one states and Congress are controlled by Republicans.
Get your shit together! This is easy to solve!
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
It goes deeper than that
Wish this was a real movie.
Yeah, seriously.
Were you joking with that Benghazi video thing too? Cause I legitimately would like an answer to the original question.
SirClinksAlot
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Yeah its hilarious. Its amazing how so many Euros on this board think they know exactly what is best for the US.
Damn, I guess I deserved that for asking for a source from an obvious shitpost.
Next time someone comes around spouting tales from their ass, it's all on the people reading it to know not to ask for any backing information instead of being on the person spouting unsubstantiated claims to have to back up their own "facts".
This is how conspiracy theories are born.
Any result other than the result that you want is evidence of a conspiracy.
The absence of evidence is further proof for the conspiracy.
Confirmation that there is no conspiracy would also likely be further proof for the conspiracy.
The only evidence that would matter is evidence that further promotes the conspiracy.
Sad.
Eric the Red
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If she does get indicted I wonder what the DNC would do. Can they just straight nominate Joe Biden to get around having to go with Bernie?
Yeah, dude. I just turned 14 but I watched the news once.
SMH
Like I care what the fucking GOP have to say about Hillary.
David H Wong
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For those of you unfamiliar, Trump fans call Hillary "Abuela" as a way to combine their misogyny and racism into one stupid nickname (see, the joke is referencing the fact that those dirty Mexicans like her).
They are fascinating people.
Translation: Want to spout nonsense on the board but not back it up with facts because there are none, so just make up bs excuses and attack those who call you out on it.
HP_Wuvcraft
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It's like season seven of The West Wing.
It's actually a reference to a hilariously awkward Clinton campaign piece "7 Things Clinton has in Common with Your Abuela".
Though Trump certainly is not wanting in racist, misogynist fans.
At this point it's obvious that there will be no indictment. This is not the same as clearing Hillary of wrongdoing. Based on the information we currently have, she did do wrong. She's admitted fault but of course stopped short of saying that she broke the law. At this point I'm pulling for her to get off without being charged simply because the chaos that her arrest would create has greater repercussions than Hillary transmitting classified national security data through improper channels or failing as head of the State Department to pass over records.
What a fucked up situation, and totally unnecessary. I don't think the Clintons can help themselves. Having so much power for so long, I don't think they care about ethics, not at all. It makes me extremely uncomfortable to consider someone with absolutely no guiding principles in the White House, but here we are with Trump as the alternative.
What a fucked up situation, and totally unnecessary. I don't think the Clintons can help themselves. Having so much power for so long, I don't think they care about ethics, not at all. It makes me extremely uncomfortable to consider someone with absolutely no guiding principles in the White House, but here we are with Trump as the alternative.
PsihoPerihelion
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Oh, right, because it doesn't fit your "free pass" narrative which is actually completely made up and not true.
Dude was practically begging for a ban with that post.
On this one, it's less 'the Clintons' and more 'everyone who used email'. It was a practice done by multiple senior officials at state, including former SoS.
Fox Mulder
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That may be true now, but it actually originated as a dumb thing from Clintons campaign.
teruterubozu
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Sure, but ultimately it's Clinton who's being specifically investigated.
Finally. She's been subject to the longest and most high profile smear campaign in well, US political history but the sorry truth is that this won't be the last of it. She's pretty much been dragged along the Mississippi and back. There's an entire cottage industry dedicated to digging into the Clinton's history for dirt.
If the Democrats were as devoted to character assassination, Trump should be terrified of being lynched by angry mobs wherever he goes.
If the Democrats were as devoted to character assassination, Trump should be terrified of being lynched by angry mobs wherever he goes.
I find it fascinating that many of y'all cannot even believe in the remote possibility of an indictment.
If you stop listening to Hillary's narrative and look at the time line of the investigation, the statements made by Datto Inc., and the reporters who've been consistently ahead of the game, the investigation becomes very, very concerning.
What did the FBI find when they got all of her personal emails last November?
If you stop listening to Hillary's narrative and look at the time line of the investigation, the statements made by Datto Inc., and the reporters who've been consistently ahead of the game, the investigation becomes very, very concerning.
What did the FBI find when they got all of her personal emails last November?
You don't even need to account for Clinton's narrative whatsoever. The FBI wouldn't be waiting on anything if they thought they could get a conviction, which is the only reason they would ever advise indictment to the DOJ. They continue to wait, ergo, they don't have anything.
No. The FBI has way more incentive to see how far the rabbit hole goes before recommending indictments. Hillary is a public figure and certainly not a flight risk. Going early could risk other criminals fleeing or trigger other cover ups (thus why investigations are typically secret).
If there's a smoking gun in her personal emails, they would fully investigate. Investigations gather as much evidence as they can, even if the first thing they find is enough to convict.
Again, I'm not saying it's likely to happen. But there are some real concerns here.
The FBI would never in a million years recommend indictment to the DOJ if they cannot guarantee a conviction. The fact that they even got to the point where they interviewed Clinton herself and have not yet advised indictment says everything. There's nothing coming. If there was a smoking gun in her personal e-mails, we wouldn't be at this point. They wouldn't be sitting on that kind of evidence for this long.
teruterubozu
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What? They still have review and cross-check the interview, that takes time. I don't think anything will happen, but lots of blind assumptions around here.
That's just not how investigations work. They're interviewing her to see how the evidence stacks up against her side of the story and see where she refuses to answer questions. They also get a chance for her to lie and commit another felony.
TV shows portray it differently, often because investigations center on violent crime (in which you want the criminal off the streets ASAP) or because the target is a flight risk.
But the default for investigations, especially white-collar ones, is a slow and steady investigation that ends with confronting the person at the very end with evidence and seeing how they respond.
The fact that she's being interviewed now is worse. If there was no evidence of wrongdoing, they wouldn't have bothered to interview her.
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