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[–] ExLibris 4 points 5 points 9 points (+9|-4) ago
While I don't disagree about Clinton and her hubris, it seems silly to be celebrating it now considering the new administration is taking moves right from her playbook, like the current cabinet hanging onto private email accounts. It was obvious that HRC was doing it to avoid the accountability of a papertrail, we talked about it all through the election, and now the new administration is embracing the same old bullshit.
[–] speakoutforamerica 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago (edited ago)
To call a spade a spade though: New cabinet members were found using their RNC emails (according to a reporter from the most evidence I have seen) which is very different then Hillary's private emails. This is also within only days of the transition occurring. If they still are using them months after ping me and I will care.
[–] ExLibris 3 points -3 points 0 points (+0|-3) ago
How is the use of a private RNC server over official whitehouse email any different that Clinton's cabinet using a private server of their own? They're both eschewing the official channels for a non-monitored information channel. What purpose does that have beyond avoiding accountability and leaving a paper trail?
It's complete hypocrisy to paint your opponent as a traitor for using private email to avoid government oversight and then turn around and make the very same moves. Yes, it's possible that the Trump administration will be more transparent and properly archive all their emails in the end, but why take the deliberate step to avoid it being done automatically? They're creating more work and much greater risk of classified information getting out by using some private server, not to mention how bad it looks in the wake of their campaign against that practice.
[–] Calgacus 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
What do you mean by this? That hey have private email accounts, or that they conduct official business through private email accounts? Both?
[–] ExLibris 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Both. The more important of the two being that they're conducting government business through a private RNC server. This is EXACTLY what Clinton did, only the server isn't at home in Trump's bathroom to my knowledge.
For the curious, this isn't illegal, PROVIDED that they forward any emails concerning governmental business to the proper congressional officer for archiving. Clinton did not forward all relevant emails to that office, and that's what created that scandal. George W. Bush did the exact same thing and 'lost' 22 million emails by the end of his terms.
Now the Trump administration, who made improper use of emails a major point of contention during the election, who had members urging Hillary to be locked up or even shot for treason are taking the exact same route as her. It's so blatantly hypocritical to attack people for this kind of obvious avoidance of scrutiny and then immediately take the same route. There's no reason to use a private RNC email for official government business aside from slowing or hiding information from being archived.
[–] Kannibal ago (edited ago)
They have to switch to secure accounts, and they will find security inconvenient.
Like the people with all of their passwords on post-it notes on the monitor