{"id":49762,"date":"2015-03-06T08:37:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/emailgate.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T23:07:59","slug":"emailgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/emailgate.html","title":{"rendered":"EMAILGATE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a scandal, the Clinton email thing is weak tea. For folk already inclined to mistrust Clinton on the Right (and the Left), it just adds to the impression. For those who see her as the great hope for the Dems retaining the White House in 2016, it&#39;s hand-waved with an array of excuses. (The current Panickmeisters amongst the Dems are just looking for something to panic about, or else to draw attention to themselves.)<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#39;t mean it isn&#39;t important &#8212; the email record for senior public officials is a critical historical (and, sometimes, legal) resource, and Clinton&#39;s use of a private email account, regardless of the legality at the time, should meet with vigorous disapproval at least (and at most). It&#39;s a game that&#39;s been played by folk on both side of the aisle, and what I most hope from this contretemps is that it serves as notice to others playing similar shenanigans in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/03\/a-hillary-clinton-email-the-state-department-couldnt-find\/387022\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/zC6gTk3B7G_Prh1FQEY7EnJq9U0UqVNIJACuiC3U-C2G5f9HOv_JMR6qiZ9JC7gxWoc3oR5hc5l7fbDnq9F44Nj-HVOVOLJ16TDyYkbQbEuaj9hTLHJAb-asMbXhs7c=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/03\/a-hillary-clinton-email-the-state-department-couldnt-find\/387022\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'>A Hillary Clinton Email the State Department Couldn&#8217;t Find<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSpecific correspondence that escaped public scrutiny after the former Secretary of State decided to communicate through a private account\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/JbVh5MhgFbN'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a scandal, the Clinton email thing is weak tea. For folk already inclined to mistrust Clinton on the Right (and the Left), it just adds to the impression. For those who see her as the great hope for the Dems retaining the White House in 2016, it&#39;s hand-waved with an array of excuses. (The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/emailgate.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EMAILGATE!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131590,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/the-progressive-case-for-hillary-clinton.html","url_meta":{"origin":49762,"position":0},"title":"The Progressive Case for Hillary Clinton","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Sep-16 4:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been as guilty as any of spending a lot more time attacking Donald Trump than supporting Hillary Clinton. In part that's because there are aspects to Clinton I've not been happy with, and in part because, frankly, there are very few folk the Dems could have put up who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130839,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/never-count-on-the-democrats-not-blowing-an-election.html","url_meta":{"origin":49762,"position":1},"title":"Never count on the Democrats NOT blowing an election","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Jun-16 10:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While I have been generally in support of Clinton as the Democratic nominee, for a variety of mostly pragmatic reasons, if the Democratic establishment thinks her nomination means they can blow off the sizable chunk of pro-Sanders \/ anti-establishment voters who kept Clinton's efforts from being a casual saunter to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131246,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/the-problem-with-the-gop-shifting-money-away-from-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":49762,"position":2},"title":"The problem with the GOP shifting money away from Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Aug-16 3:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has done a remarkable job of not spending any money in this year's campaign. 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