He's probably trying to lay groundwork for a later impeachment or

some sort of further kangaroo court crap in the future. They don't want to go away emptyhanded, these CONS.

Amazing what Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-PA, pointed out!

Earlier during the hearing, he held up some documents that showed this big, glaring, red block of header at the top of the page, as how a page would look that had been labeled classified. Then he described this little &quot c)" configuration that might be buried down in the text of some email, denoting that THAT particular little bit would be classified.

Congressman Elijah Cummings repeated this later on. I would imagine that it might be easy to overlook one of those little &quot c)" notations down in the middle of some line or paragraph. Especially if there was no big red block at the top of the email cautioning of sensitivity of contents.

Actually, I did have a problem with her vote. I supported Barack Obama in 2008

much as I was as big a fan of Hillary's back then as I am now. That vote was the ONLY thing that separated them in my mind, and the ONLY thing that pushed me into the Obama column.

But since then, I have heard her explain why. And I can fully understand, accept, and sympathize with her reasoning - why she trusted dubya on this. She was misled, FOR SURE, on the Iraq War vote. But she gave him the benefit of the doubt based on previous personal experience, and it sounded completely valid to me.

Here's what she explained:
After 9/11, she, as a Senator representing New York (coincidence! That's where 9/11 hit!) went to the White House for funding for the first responders OF 9/11 - that they get the health care and all the assistance they needed, fully-funded, no questions asked.
Guess what happened? dubya was pResident at the time she made her request for that additional funding for the 9/11 responders.
He promised her personally that she'd get that funding.
Guess what happened after that? That same george w. bush, the asshole squatter in Al Gore's White House and future war criminal (whom we all despise for multiple good reasons, myself VERY much included) made good on his promise. She GOT that additional funding that she'd asked for, for this key group of her constituents and fellow New Yorkers. And right away, too, as she recalled.
She then concluded he had passed some sort of test - that if he said something, she could count on it - and in this case almost literally take it to the bank. Frankly, knowing how I personally feel about that bastard, I was surprised to hear this. I'd never heard it before. He kept his promise? He was true to his word and backed it up and delivered on it as he said? SERIOUSLY??? That doesn't sound like the dry-drunk I know. But that's what he did.
Hillary then explained that, based on this template, this experience she'd just had with him, she therefore had no reason NOT to believe him on other things. After all, he sure came through for her on this matter. Surprising, I know.
So when he presented his case for the Iraq War vote, she took him at his word, and gave him the benefit of the doubt.

She, and the rest of us, couldn't foresee that he would use that vote in bad faith, to go ahead with his already pre-decided plans to go straight to war.

All she had was first-hand experience where she asked for something and trusted him, and he came through for her.

Under THOSE circumstances, I would have to give HER the benefit of the doubt. She trusted him based on direct past personal experience of him having proven to be worthy of that trust. How could she know he'd do an about-face and pull a fast one - on her and on everyone else? WE certainly didn't trust him but then again, don't forget, WE'RE partisans. We're wired not to trust him. She had to work with him and he'd passed the test with her.

So, my friend, I have to accept that. I STILL disagree with her vote. I HAD, in the past, felt that she should have known enough not to trust him, and vote against it. But I have since learned that she DID know - enough, anyway, to give him the benefit of the doubt after that. I'm sure when it all started to shake out, she probably felt betrayed - that this wasn't the same seemingly sympathetic and even-handed dude she'd asked for - AND QUICKLY RECEIVED - funding assistance for her state's 9/11 first responders.

Knowing that context, if I were her, I might actually have done something similar.

I feel differently about her Iraq War vote now, having learned the context in which she decided to vote the way she did, and to trust that he'd do the right thing, considering those details of her direct experience with him, surrounding and leading up to it. When I learned what went into it, and WHY she voted the way she did, I changed my mind about it.

Emails? She mishandled emails????

What justice could we have reached if THIS level of inquisition had been applied to kkkarl rove,

bush/cheney, rummy, contradicta, or any of those?

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2015/03/18/flashback-rove-erases-22-million-white-house-emails-on-private-server-at-height-of-u-s-attorney-scandal-media-yawns/

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/that-time-the-bush-administration-lost-5-million-emails-and-nobody-batted-an-eye/

OR reagan/bush during the Iran/Contra affair? Hell, Oliver North committed fucking TREASON and he walks free to this very day!

https://thecavejournal.wordpress.com/monthly-publications/paradigm-shift/the-day-treason-became-legal/

Can we argue then about the evils of who got a free pass?

But OMG let's make sure we draw and quarter Hillary for some stupid emails...

And let's be sure we've investigated all the way into her underwear drawer and down all her plumbing pipes because surely we MUST have missed something last time...

There MUST be a pony! Under all that horse shit, there simply MUST be a pony...

TOTALLY.

And where was all of this diligent fact-finding and "searches for the truth" when bush/cheney was wantonly committing war crimes, proclaiming PRIDE in it and refusing to apologize for it, giving America a HUGE black eye before the entire world?

He can go as the Great Pumpkin for Halloween!

He's out-oranged John Boehner!

Orange is the new Bunk.

Barrump-Bump! Tssssss!

Y'know, ZX86, you're right. I've been a little too charitable.

It IS soft core porn for bigoted old white men who need to be able to keep on pretending we're still in the 50s and 60s and everything is like Mad Men, who see women basically as decorations and playthings - acquisitions, if you will. I'm surprised roger ailes doesn't mandate that the women on Pox Noise wear bikini tops and miniskirts on camera. Hell, he might as well. Shit - reading this:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/13/i-cant-see-her-legs-roger-ailes-rampant-sexism/197552

OY! It just verified everything I said and everything I've felt! Nice to know it wasn't just my imagination or my own hypersensitivity.

And I've gotta admit - it just hurts to watch how the news business has devolved. I was mighty proud of that profession. I was proud to work in it, and to work in some of the biggest newsrooms in America. That somebody thought my work was worthy of bringing me aboard there - frankly, I STILL can't believe it! I was so proud. Now, I'm EMBARRASSED AS ALL-GET-OUT.

I left that particular arm of broadcasting in 1996. I was an entertainment reporter for the Associated Press, covering Hollywood - mainly TV and feature films. I had an out - we figured out how I could give it up and move my center of gravity back home to be with my then very young kids. So I got off the merry-go-round. I swear, if I'd stayed, they'd have had me chasing the Kardashians and that whole strange sleazy scene by now. I started noticing that all the people I was going to interview, in all these new flash-in-the-pan shows arriving on all these new networks that I'd have to keep track of, who were paid way more than my humble non-glamorous AP salary, were so much younger than I was, lucking into big splashy acting gigs with all kinds of pizzazz and perks attached, and nobody had paid ANY dues. I'd be mired in the muck of reality TV by now. EEEEUUUUUWWW! I'd have to know every last detail about every last Real Housewives of Wherever-the-Hell. I'd be responsible for chasing down who John Mayer was breaking up with today and who Chris Brown was beating up on last night and which marriage Mariah Carey was about to embark upon tomorrow, and all the various famous Jennifers doing whatever famous Jennifers are up to at any given moment these days. I'd have to be fluent in all things "Game of Thrones," which I've never understood or gotten into. I started getting older, and wanting more time with the little ones whose first steps I was missing because I was always at work - in a job that required me to stuff 20 pounds of flour into a five-pound bag, every day. Every day I saw my job demanding overtime to complete, and they always balked at paying overtime. I started realizing - "DAYUM. I'm getting too old for this shit!" So when the opportunity to leave presented itself, I grabbed it.

Now I watch network anchors get their nouns and verbs and proper names mixed up, their grammar and pronunciation out the window, and the sheer ignorance on glaring display, but they thrive because they photograph well! It's depressing. I used to be proud of what I did for a living, how I had a front row seat on some amazing times and events - and even had the opportunity to witness and chronicle some history here and there. I have stories I can dine out on til I'm 80. But it's just not what it was.

It's just a massive dereliction of duty of which our supposedly credible, respectable, and responsible news departments are now thoroughly and wretchedly guilty. I used to be known as the reporter who always broached "that" subject or found a way to get "that" question in - that nobody else had the nerve to ask. And I had a loud voice that carried, so I could yell questions at celebrities OVER the crowds and the gangbangs (which was what we in the press referred to as those big gaggles of reporters and camera crews crowding around some newsmaker, jostling for SOMETHING/ANYTHING that constituted a good soundbite).

To this day I get frustrated thinking about what SHOULD be asked of some of these people, especially the politicians (which wasn't really my beat, unless they showed up at a movie premiere or consulted or did a cameo on some TV drama). I still wonder why nobody ever bothered to ask Donald Trump a follow-up question when he carried on about President Obama's birth certificate and insinuated that he had crews over in Hawaii and "they can't believe what they're finding." The next question, OBVIOUSLY, was "like WHAT?" And nobody ever asked that. NOBODY bothered to follow up. I keep wishing I could interview April Ryan who's a talking head on with Ari Melber on MSNBC right now as I write this, about that White House press conference the day dubya launched the Iraqi invasion, and her question - when she actually had her moment to get her question in and maybe make some real news - was "Mr. President, how does your faith serve you?" WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?????? WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT FOR A GUY WHO JUST STARTED AN ILLEGAL WAR???????? "HOW DOES YOUR FAITH SERVE YOU???????" Are you fucking KIDDING ME???? Nobody wanted to rattle his cage during that miserable and disgraceful era for fear that they'd LOSE ACCESS! Oh, that precious ACCESS!!!! Hell, if I'd been running a network news department and we were threatened with, or actually lost, access to all the big players as a punishment, THAT would have been the new lead story!

Meh, I'm just ranting now. Sorry about that. But you sure got me on one of my pet peeves. I miss the broadcast journalism I used to know. It's gone. They don't make 'em like that anymore.