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Yup. I saw that story. While it truly is a facepalm... The language of the articles in Ars and WaPo seems to reek of sensationalism, without saying much else.
Ok. There clearly should be zero of those. However, I feel compelled to point out that zero is a number fewer than 100. Does fewer than 100 mean around 85 and semi-routine use when convenient, or 2 that she accidentally grabbed the wrong auto-complete address?
IS that subject to federal records laws? Now that is an interesting question. They COULD be. It greatly depends on the content.
"Please take care of the XYZ, because I am busy all next week." would likely not be subject to federal records laws, as I understand them.
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"Please take care of the XYZ, because I will be in Russia all next week." may well be subject to federal records laws.
"Please make sure the limo driver picks me up from JFK at 10am." Subject to record laws.
"Please make sure the limo driver picks me up as written on the calendar." not subject to record laws.
But, then, more bizarre, that calendar would likely be an even bigger record laws problem, as information classification grows in aggregate. "The location of any single ship is sensitive but unclassified. The locations of the entire fleet is top secret."
And what bugged me more about Hillary's email debacle wasn't that she did it. But that she would never admit she did anything wrong, when clearly if anyone in a lesser position had done it, they would have been removed from office and clearance revoked, at a minimum. It'll be more telling to see the Trump family reaction.
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Indeed, and that's partly why I posted it in this thread; I don't expect Ivanka to be locked up anymore than I expected Hillary to but I do find the whole "big picture" absurdly amusing and the imminent reactions of all sides are bound to be just as funny.
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Hillary was using her own private server to arrange pay to play with foreign governments, then using the Clinton Foundation to launder the money, then deleted 30k emails to hide the corruption
Ivanka sent "hundreds of messages related to her official work schedule and travel details that she sent [to] herself and personal assistants who cared for her children and house"
One of these things is not like the other
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Which, of course, is why one caused you outrage whilst the other is perfectly acceptable and you would be saying exactly the same thing if the roles were reversed, yessiree!
When I said:
I should have added "and predictable".
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I think the reaction is already baked in. The article says that this was a problem when she first joined the Whitehouse and the activity was noticed in September 2017, so 9 to 10 months after she came on-board. Since this comes up more than a year later the "reaction" has already happened - silence. Presumably she corrected her behaviour and that's all there is to be said. The midterms are passed so there isn't much political hay to be made for now and I doubt Hillary wants the Democrats to open up the issue (and I bet there are a lot of people who would look a bit stupid if a full audit was done). This story may already have peaked.
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Looking at those gas prices, obviously a blue state, probably CA. Such irony in that pic.
