2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So let me get this straight... [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)and Manny's post was entirely relevant to this. He is commenting on the possibility that Republicans will hammer her with this in the general election. They don't need and won't use our help, they have paid staff going over all of this, we are amateur internet posters speculating, there's no comparison, they will be very thorough, looking for anything to nail her with. We ignore these things at our peril.
We have to consider all such things now, before nominating a candidate that has baggage that will harm them in the general election. If we ignore such things, it only makes it more likely that we'll nominate someone who will get trashed by scandal that we didn't bother to vet in the primary.
Personally I don't see a lot to the classified issue, seems like desperate Republicans. I could be wrong, haven't bothered to look into it much.
I do think people are missing the main thing that was wrong about the private email server, and it's significant. It was about her having the ultimate control of prior review to any discovery requests, and to anything that gets reviewed later for historical understanding of what kind of things were being said and done by the head of our State Department. The way she set it up, anything that gets to anyone in a deposition, FOI request, or later in the National Security Acrchives (I am guessing they normally have access to such material, don't know though) is only what she and her staff decide they can see.
She uses the "mixed with personal email" excuse to not turn over the entire server, and even if she did I wouldn't trust that she hadn't had some of the material removed.
That, to me, is entirely unacceptable. It would be entirely unacceptable if a Republican did it, and it is the same if a Democrat does it.