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You don't order the Supreme Court around as president...I'm wondering if some of these people honestly know what the president does...
they do. most of these people know exactly what a president does. these are not dumb people on the stage. i'd argue that, on paper, Ted Cruz is the smartest -- he certainly has the academic pedigree.
but they know that the voters they are appealing to don't know what a president does. and thus, they pander. they toss out red meat. they tell them what they want to hear.
we get the leaders we deserve. the deep base of the GOP is terrifying to me for many reasons.
But mostly, I am disturbed by Republican voters and the fact that they are so easily toyed with
these are not dumb people on the stage.
I'd also argue that Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee are pretty fucking stupid.
Fellows like Jeb Bush and Ben Carson are not stupid by any means.
Sometimes I'm a little confused by some of these people. Like, watching Ben Carson's defense of his flat tax proposal at the debate makes it really easy to forget that he's obviously a brilliant medical professional. And Ted Cruz was a star student at Princeton and whatnot.
It's not stupid to be a conservative. There are intelligent defenses of (many aspects of) conservatism. But it seems like candidates whom I would expect to have those smart defenses just often... don't.
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Yeah, that's not how a private email server would work. This isn't gmail. It's her own thing. Her level of vulnerability isn't automatically high simply from having a private server.
How does it work ?
I don't think anyone has talked about the level of security provided on the system.
Awhile ago I read that a former State tech employee was privately hired by Mrs. Clinton. Recently he chose to plead the Fifth Amendment.
I wonder if the gentleman could tell us about the secure private server he helped set up and maintain for Secretary of State Clinton.
I'd also argue that Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee are pretty fucking stupid.
Fellows like Jeb Bush and Ben Carson are not stupid by any means.
How does it work ?
You get your own server, your own domain, your own certificate/encryption, your own staff knowing the Clintons... it's not like she signed into her hotmail account and sent emails. She had a highly sophisticated system set up in her house. The level of protection it has or had is indicative of the level of security the Clintons provided for it when they set it up/when they maintain it. It could be more secure than a government system. It could be less secure. I don't think anyone has talked about the level of security provided on the system.
Awhile ago I read that a former State tech employee was privately hired by Mrs. Clinton. Recently he chose to plead the Fifth Amendment.
I wonder if the gentleman could tell us about the secure private server he helped set up and maintain for Secretary of State Clinton.
What's your point? It's a matter of what we "don't know" at the moment.
It's not as simple as saying the server was assumed insecure until proven otherwise. There's no assumption to be had. It's a bizarre situation. I'm not defending her... I don't even like her. Objectively speaking, what she did was wrong. But objectively speaking, we have zero gauge for the severity of her actions.
Were you just some IT guy, would you not also plead the 5th? Regardless of what you'd actually done or had been asked to do.
Not so fast. I do like her, but the truth is at every level of Govt we are taught the importance of safeguarding classified information. It is one of the things you will hear about constantly. So "if" her system wasn't secure that's a pretty big deal. "If" she was indeed sending classified information from her private server, that's a huge deal, as in she broke laws that normal people would be locked up for a long long time
And I currently work for the U.S. Government as well
This explains it all.
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Were you just some IT guy, would you not also plead the 5th? Regardless of what you'd actually done or had been asked to do.
This explains it all.
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Not so fast. I do like her, but the truth is at every level of Govt we are taught the importance of safeguarding classified information. It is one of the things you will hear about constantly. So "if" her system wasn't secure that's a pretty big deal. "If" she was indeed sending classified information from her private server, that's a huge deal, as in she broke laws that normal people would be locked up for a long long time.
Care to go into detail? Because you sort of just sound ignorant at the moment.
The government is a greedy piglet that suckles on a taxpayer’s teet until they have sore, chapped nipples.
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The security of her whole operation and all the tech talk and the criminal liability questions are interesting.
More interesting to me is *WHY* our Secretary of State did this.