Day: March 5, 2015

Hillary Clinton last night said she wants all her email released. Said Clinton: “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.” Have you noticed how silent the Republicans have been on this issue, all except for new subpoenas for her email from the BENGHAZI!!! committee interminably investigating it, even though of course this committee and its GOP members knew about the private email address from the beginning and even though they already have her emails. Why are Republican candidates for President silent? Well, they are being smart, since they know that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

“If it seems like the GOP presidential field has been unusually silent this week as scrutiny mounts over Hillary Clinton’s email practices, there’s a logical explanation: Many of them are tormented by their own email demons. At least a half-dozen 2016 Republican prospects have felt the sting of sustained negative press coverage over their email practices, with the common denominator being an attempt to sidestep public scrutiny attached to official government accounts. While the scope and scale of the controversies range widely — and they’re not comparable to the Clinton circumstances — their histories with electronic communications have left them with their own unique vulnerabilities on the issue.”

Any public response to this?

The actual public response to the controversy is likely to be a combination of apathy and partisanship. Few Americans are paying attention to any aspect of the campaign at this point. Those who do notice will most likely divide largely along partisan lines, with Democrats interpreting her actions more charitably, especially once they see Republicans attacking Mrs. Clinton on the issue.

Politicos missed the Clintons it seems. For me, so long as the emails are preserved, disclosed and not destroyed, I really don't care if Hillary or any politician uses a private email address or a public one. I have read several articles this week that say that using a private server is actually better if you actually physically own the server (as in the Clinton and Bush case), as it protects from hacking. So the issue here is transparency, and if the emails are disclosed (as it seems they are going to be through the State Department), then there is no issue.