Posted on 08/22/2016 12:00:32 PM PDT by John Semmens
Faced with the difficulty of persuading a skeptical public that the "extraordinarily careless" characterization of her email practices by FBI Director James Comey is significantly different from the legally culpable "gross negligence" standard, the Clinton campaign is field testing a couple of new excuses.
First out of the block was the disclosure that neither Secretary Clinton nor any of her many aides (including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan, Dennis Cheng, Anne Marie Slaughter, Phillippe Reines, Caitlin Klevorick, and Kris Bladerston) embroiled in the scandal completed the mandatory ethics training required for federal employees.
Clinton Campaign Manager Robbie Mook pointed out that "any confusion, missteps, or technical violations of the law can't be held against Secretary Clinton or her staff if they were never given the proper training. You can hardly blame the Secretary's loyal staffers for following her wishes regarding her off-site email server. Neither can we blame Hillary who previously had very limited exposure to classified communications."
The real culprit according to Mook was "former Secretary of State Colin Powell. It was this Bush appointee who advised incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to use her own private email for all her important communications. It was Powell who told her that the only way she could ensure control over access to her email was to take it off-site. Otherwise it would be out of her hands. And as we have seen from the fuss made over the emails Hillary did turn over to the State Department, we can only wonder how much worse it could've been if she hadn't had the opportunity to delete 30,000 personal emails."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,221323.0.html
“Faced with the difficulty of persuading a skeptical public that the “extraordinarily careless” characterization of her email practices by FBI Director James Comey is significantly different from the legally culpable “gross negligence” standard...”
Extraordinarily careless: leaving your baby locked in a hot car with the windows rolled up.
Gross negligence: leaving your baby locked in a hot car with the windows rolled up and Justin Bieber playing on the car stereo.
What is satire or semi-satire about this?
The only thing less funny than satire that looks too much like real news, is real news that is labeled satire.
Even if she is not guilty of negligence of any type,
What are we doing even considering somebody who could not do her job as secretary of state well for the presidential position?
She didn't know what was to be labeled classified because she would be the one classifying it as such!
If she was not handling classified material, what was she doing while in that position?
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