Politician is politician.
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https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21779
^ Hillary Clinton speaking comfortably and knowledgeably about how the President of the United States appears now to have lied about having knowledge of her email server
this says the exact opposite of what you claim it does, and it's the e-mail chain itself. none of the three e-mails in the chain are either from or to hillary clinton herself nor is there anything even referencing her other than to say she e-mailed the president.
"I recollect that Josh was also asked if POTUS ever noticed her personal email account and he said something like POTUS likely had better things to do than focus on his Cabinet's email addresses."
did you actually read these?
It does seem as though hard evidence of breaking the law should mean something, regardless of whether we're aware that it often occurs behind closed doors. If this is not the case, what pray tell is the point of having these laws on the books?
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"One of us should connect with the WH just so they know that the email will show his statement to not make sense"
The title of the email references an Obama statement claiming to not have known about the email server.
Clearly, they are discussing how his emails back and forth with her will make his statement - the one referenced in the title - appear to be nonsense.
This seems rather apparent upon even a cursory read.
that's not even close to what's going on here. try to read deeper than at a "cursory" level. you can't just ignore context or invent it to fit whatever meaning you decide to assign beforehand, that's not how this works.
You do understand the irony of your statement, right?
These emails that you are referencing were obtained illegally. Even if there was evidence of a crime, it would be inadmissible in a court of law due to how the evidence was gathered. An added bonus for the emails being obtained illegally on behalf of a foreign government aiming to destabilize our country's democratic process.
Breaking the law should mean something. Otherwise, what pray tell is the point of having these laws on the books?
I admit that I phrased this less directly than I should've. Naturally she couldn't possibly be prosecuted in any way, shape or form over these emails. When I appeal to our laws, I don't do so in order to suggest she should be prosecuted. I do this to say that, regardless of our means of arriving at this knowledge, the knowledge that her campaign is directly breaking the law should be of some significance to us.
I'll pose the same underlying idea in a way you might be more predisposed to agree with:
Consider the potential existence of Apprentice recordings of Trump saying the N word. Now, to my knowledge, the reason the potential leaker is asking to be compensated is because leaking the tape would be illegal, and he would be sued by Trump (it's possible I'm mixing details up in this story, but details aren't particularly important to the point I'm making here). If he did leak this tape, is there no way we could both condemn the illegality of leaking the tapes while simultaneously using the knowledge gained from the tapes to make judgments about Trump?
By now, the election is a sure bet for Clinton. The so-called Left really needn't sell its soul and principles for this one, at this point. There will be more elections after 2016, and I suspect it won't benefit them to have left so many core principles on the chopping block in the name of "what do you want, TRUMP in office?!"
By all means, vote for Clinton. But don't descend into defending her on things that clearly fly against a lot of the principles people are drawn to liberalism for - it won't behoove you in the long run, I suspect.
This we agree on, and if she had any opponent other than the guy whose foundation is a slush fund it would be a much bigger deal.The only concerning things that have come out are about foundation donations.
fixedDoes anyone else see the incredible irony in the left coming to hate Assange? Three years ago they all wanted to give him sainthood. Now, he's single-handedly ruining America?!
Props to youI've never liked Assange personally but I've always been appreciative of what Wikileaks brings in general. My views haven't really changed.
julian assange is a traitor and a glorified high-tech hood snitch who has put a great many of my personal friends in very real danger. he should rot in a jail cell for the rest of his life right next to snowden and chelsea manning. fuck em all for very nearly getting a lot of good people killed and celebrating it like they're heroes for disclosing usable secrets to an enemy.
Can you elaborate on this? Because I'm baffled to hear this from you, unless I had misrepresented your political positions in the past.
i was in the military when the afghanistan leaks happened and had a lot of buddies who had their security directly compromised by it. our unit couldn't do anything for weeks because jackass gave up all our crypto codes to the enemy during an active war which opened up all of our operational and logistics details.
for example the information included the highly-secret flight paths over the mountain ranges used in and out of kandahar airport, and the taliban certainly owned a lot of stinger missiles that could have very easily downed a hercules with 200 or so of my friends on it. some things are classified for a damn good reason.
so yea, fuck julian assange and the horse he rode in on. i hope karma bites his ass real hard some day.
snowden...yea it's less directly affecting to me and maybe i shouldn't have included him in that list but i categorically reject the notion that the public "deserves" to know any and all classified info. some things need to be kept secret for the sake of good peoples' lives.
julian assange is a traitor and a glorified high-tech hood snitch who has put a great many of my personal friends in very real danger. he should rot in a jail cell for the rest of his life right next to snowden and chelsea manning. fuck em all for very nearly getting a lot of good people killed and celebrating it like they're heroes for disclosing usable secrets to an enemy.