STEPHANOPOULOS: But you were the only one who had exclusive use of a personal account. Secretary Powell did have a personal e-mail account as well and they were very, very clear.She has said this over and over again: "it was a mistake." Claiming something was a mistake implies some kind of wrongdoing, some kind of error, on the person confessing the mistake.
CLINTON: You know --
STEPHANOPOULOS: Go ahead.
CLINTON: Well, George, I have to tell you that -- that, you know, I -- I will say it was a mistake. I would not do it again. But I think that the rules were not clarified until after I had left and the first secretary of State to use a government email account was John Kerry, some months into his tenure. Those are the facts.
But WHAT personal error does Hillary admit to? None at all. The problem is that you, America, are over-reacting to this whole subversion of the FOIA and confidentiality protocols. It's a mistake only in the sense that other people have made it a headache for Hillary.
And nobody in the press ever pins her down on this salient point. It's maddening. They prepare the same set list of questions so she can answer them in exactly the same way.
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How on earth do you get to "It's a mistake only in the sense that other people have made it a headache for Hillary" from "I will say it's a mistake. I would not do it again"? I know there's no limit to the hostility this woman arouses on the right, but I don't see the chain of logic here at all.
Also, let's assume the worst - that she was totally indifferent to the country's security needs when she set up her email system, and has been totally stonewalling in every way since then. What exactly is the great crime here, the horror that justifies the attention being paid to this issue? I mean, is this really all you guys got? Is it as great as Bush getting us into Iraq on faulty and hyped intelligence, resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilians killed and thousands of American soldiers? As bad the lies Trump utters on an hourly basis? The country needs reasoned and reasonable conservative discourse. This isn't it.
I am almost amazed that ABC lets that former Clinton operative George Stephanopolous do any interviews with her; the SOB donated $75K to her 'foundation' and do not see any conflict of interest? What partisan hacks.
What exactly is the great crime here, the horror that justifies the attention being paid to this issue? I mean, is this really all you guys got?
Please explain why you are indifferent to matters of national security (state secrets, identities of CIA operatives, etc.) being accessed by every foreign intelligence service. The Romanian hacker Guccifer has bragged about hacking her e-mails (and Sidney Blumenthal's) and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI; what makes you think the Russians, Chinese, etc. have not done so as well?
By the way, those same intelligence services all concurred that Saddam had a WMD program. Nice try - thanks for playing.
There is ZERO evidence that her account was hacked - that Romanian's brag was widely discredited. Furthermore, there is evidence that the State Department's servers were hacked. I'm far from indifferent to national security issues - but her supposed indifference to such issues because of her email approach is wildly overstated and overhyped on the Right. Colin Powell in an interview today acknowledged he was as "guilty" in using personal emails for State Department business.
As for the Iraq War, if you still think that wasn't one of the most catastrophic mistakes in American history, let me guess: You're a Republican.
Explain it to me like I'm five: what mistake is Hillary admitting?
It was indeed a mistake, but always keep in mind that it was a mistake that was allowed.
Viking Pundit, April 13, 2004:
The press seemed intent on getting him [Bush] to admit a mistake. I’m sure the Dems will fault him for this, but [i]he’s the President.[/i] He makes decisions based on the information available and, in the context of post-9/11, I find it hard to fault Bush on his point. Would any other President admit a mistake, while still in office? (Think Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor). Not a chance.
I'm not going to engage in your strawman argument, except to say that Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and John Kerry - with the same information - voted for the Iraq war.
What is Hillary's "mistake", the one she keeps citing? Tell me.
As for the Iraq War, if you still think that wasn't one of the most catastrophic mistakes in American history,
Worse than Vietnam? Shut your worthless mouth, asshole.
You know how to pick your friends. 'Anonymous'...
My lack of response until now can be explained thusly - I found the Copa America matches far more interesting than anything you've had to say up until this point, when it became necessary to respond / refute your bullshit.
No. She was too busy swapping gossip and classified information with Clinton loyalist Sidney Blumenthal.
You were saying?
Memo to Gary Byrne - stay away from Fort Macy Park!
Viking Pundit: I'm not going to engage in your strawman argument
It's not about relitigating the Iraq War, it's about you and the sea change in your tolerance level between 2004 and 2016.
Hillary Clinton's empty rhetoric "drives you crazy." You find her refusal to acknowledge or even identify "some kind of error" "maddening."
I fully agree. Her non-answer answers are guileful and insufficient.
Yet in 2004 you saw George W. Bush say this--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQzdW7hg4A
--and you found him to be "resolute, determined, and (yes) presidential."
Hillary Clinton's "it was a mistake" mantra also qualifies as resolute and determined. You might have said so again, if she were Laura Bush.
The question isn't whether Hillary Rodham Clinton's "it was a mistake" mantra qualifies as presidentially resolute and determined.
The question is whether her very resolute and determined actions as Secretary of State will result in her being indicted for multiple felonies.
They won't. What's the next question?
Nice to see you don't dodge every question!
Here's one for you: how's that polling surge been treatin' you?
I've got no complaints.
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