Posted on 10/12/2015 2:43:53 PM PDT by Nachum
On the eve of the first Democratic presidential debate, President Obama is downplaying Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct government business, saying she made a “mistake” but didn’t endanger national security.
“I think she’d be the first to acknowledge that maybe she could have handled the original decision better and the disclosures more quickly,” Mr. Obama said in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday night. “I don’t think it posed a national security problem. It was a mistake that she has acknowledged.”
When interviewer Steve Kroft pointed out that the administration has prosecuted people for having classified material on their private computers, the president said he didn’t think there was an intent to “hide something or to squirrel away information” on Mrs. Clinton’s server when she was secretary of state. He said criticism of Mrs. Clinton’s actions is being “ginned up” because of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Where’s Joe Wilson’s “YOU LIE!” GIF when you need it?
And he knows this how?
Interesting.
This is why Hillary has not looked worried.
She knows the fix is in with President Evil.
Hey Obama, a citizen of Rumania hacked all of Hillary’s emails—how is that NOT a national security risk?
Just another Goebbels level lie—repeat it often enough, and the LIVs roll over and go back to sleep.
These are not the droids you are looking for....
How many emails did you send to Hillary?
How many emails did she send to you, 0buttboy?
I don't think it posed a national security problem. It was a mistake that she has acknowledged.So, the fact that she committed a federal offense, did Steve-O and his fellow shills mention that in a cutaway? Didn't think so.
Irrelevant. Keeping one classified document on an uncleared server is illegal. That server could be in a locked room, unattached to any network, with armed guards, and she would still be in violation of federal law.
So, if Hillary prints out a top secret document and accidentally leaves it at a bar after knocking off a few borbons, if the bartender tosses it into the garbage without reading it, did she harm national security? Maybe not, but that is not the criterion. The question is whether her actions could have POTENTIALLY caused harm to the United States. The answer to that is abundantly clear.
I hope the CIA asset she outed is home safe.
Well, that’s good enough for me.
Contrast this with the way the Republicans threw Scooter Libby under the bus.
Obama's duplicity is so obvious. Clinton, Bergdahl, Petraeus, Lerner, are examples of federal employees who might have been prosecuted. There are more and they all seem to fall the same way.
There goes all the conspiracy folks thinking that Obama is behind the investigations and her low polling. I knew it wasn’t the case. Dimocrats protect dimocrats no matter the person or issue.
Yeah, we’ll get a perfectly “objective” investigation out of THIS “Justice” Department, I’m sure....
It’s against the law for Obama to interfere with a criminal investigation. What he thinks means nothing at this point though
Obama thinks we’re all stupid enough not to see his fingerprints all over the drip-drip of disclosures about Hillary’s email problem.
He may be downplaying this, but he’s also stroking Joe Biden’s considerable ego.
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