If you want to watch Hillary Clinton’s press conference live…
…go here. It’s supposed to occur at 2:15 PM.
I won’t be watching, for the simple reason that as usual I prefer to read excerpts or the transcript, and then watch some clips if there’s anything of special interest where I want to see a person’s demeanor.
My prediction: excuses, excuses, plus a lot of assertions about how transparent and above-board she’s been about releasing the emails. Also perhaps some “Jeb did it” accusations thrown in. But of course Jeb Bush was a mere governor, not the Secretary of State with all the special security concerns that position entails.
[UPDATE: Ace summarizes what Clinton said.
More at Politico, including the following:
Clinton said her lawyers had examined all of her emails, about 60,000 in all over four years at Foggy Bottom, and sent every government-related missive ”” about 30,000 ”” to the State Department in the hopes that all would be released to the public on the Web.
Yet in an act of defiance certain to stoke a new round of questioning, Clinton said she had no intention of turning over any of the approximately 30,000 emails she deemed “personal” for the sake of her family’s “privacy” ”“ exchanges she said included planning for daughter Chelsea’s wedding and her mother’s funeral, correspondence with her husband and yoga schedule.
When a reporter asked her if she planned to allow an independent commission to examine all of the emails on her personal she server, she responded with a flat ”“ no way.
“The server contains personal communications from my husband and me,” Clinton said of the system, which was originally set up to handle Bill Clinton’s post-presidential correspondence. “And the server will remain private.”
So, Hillary says that Hillary gets to decide.
It strikes me that, whatever the legality or illegality of her email setup, it could have been a tactical error to mix the private with the governmental if the account is subject to subpoena in the event of an investigation for wrongdoing. Taking that into consideration, if Hillary had wanted to use private email for government business, it might have been wiser of her to have set up a second private email account just for her Secretary of State business.
One big problem with using any sort of private email for public business is the fact that it can be so easily hidden from FOIA accountability (although for Hillary that was probably a feature rather than a bug). The other is, of course, lack of security.]
So far its just a bunch of cops and tools wandering around. Won’t be much different when the crone comes in.
Still hanging about with nothing going on. Maybe trying to get to the point where Rush Limbaugh can’t comment live.
This is like waiting for Keith Richards to show up. Except he’s better looking.
Rush is off the air in 13 minutes. Let’s see how close she cuts it.
Oh my now we get to watch her walk by Picasso’s Guernica. Be still my heart.
They gotta be applying a ton of pancake makeup.
Will she be wearing her “I survived February Rehab” t-shirt?
You know this is probably the most that one person has had a comment section to himself at neoneocon…. ever.
vanderleun…She’s one(or more)of the Bombs in the painting!! ((-:
Oh my the heavy makeup and the botox is holding.
So far,
It’s 2:00 PM Central, here. Did she ever show up?
And she opens with a broadside of feminist flatulence. With a bumpup to the Clinton foundation.
Oh gawd…. I just threw up a bit in my mouth listening
She’s puffing on about the Obama iran deal.
I thought it would just be easier.
It just didn’t seem like an issue.
My emails went to gov employees so it was kosher cause they were captuered by government.
Providing all my emalls that “could possibly be work related”
Other emails were just personal,,,,,. yoga routines…. moms funeral… etc.
Unprecedented step of making “all my work related emails available.”
It was just easier to use one device [that fit in my pocket/purse] rather than two devices.
In this instance her lies make her smirk.
This is rich: “It was my practice to email dot govs so my emails were preserved”
…. in widely different email accounts not in mine.
Ah yes… ““The server contains personal communications from my husband and me,””
And earlier we learn…
But just before Hillary began the press conference at the United Nations building, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bill Clinton does not use email.
“The former president, who does regularly use Twitter, has sent a grand total of two emails during his entire life, both as president, says Matt McKenna, his spokesman,” WSJ reported. “After leaving office, Mr. Clinton established his own domain that staff use – @presidentclinton.com. But Mr. Clinton still doesn’t use email himself, Mr. McKenna said.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-said-she-emailed-with-bill-but-the-thing-is-…/article/2561325
Thanks for the running commentary, Gerard. Better than watching it, that’s for sure.
Hillary just can’t be bothered to do it the way regular citizens are supposed to. “Wouldn’t be convenient – have to carry two phones. What difference, at this point, does it make. Now shut up and accept the inevitability of my Presidency.”
It amazes me that Hillary, a woman we’ve been assured is so intelligent and capable, couldn’t handle using a work email for work, and a private email for personal use. I simply don’t know any working adults that can’t manage this.
So I wonder when her defenders are going to get around to explaining why Hillary intentionally set up a system that mixed the two. Or three, since there likely was a third set of communications related to the Clinton Foundation. Oh wait, it’s becoming clear…
Also still wondering where that email server resides, who maintains it, who manages the backups and archive data, etc
Eventually hrc will tell the world to eat cake.
This thing is far from over.
Just wait until Israel leaks all of the emails it hacked from her private account.
She left state secrets out in the open for the world to see.
“L’etat, c’est Moi.” –Hillary the First
Way back in 2000 I had a friend ask me (I’m a computer guy) about putting a password on her email account (on the mail that had already downloaded) that she had from work. I don’t remember all the details but anyway I told her that if she wanted real privacy she needed to have a second account. Even then there were free Yahoo accounts, etc.
So a few months pass and guess what news hits the fan? Her boyfriend had gone onto her computer and found emails between her and a married guy she worked with. Her boyfriend had contacted the guy’s wife and it all blew up in public. My (stupid) friend’s work email wound up getting subpoenaed in the ensuing court case. So her employers had to go through her mail archives and supply that to the court. Think of the embarrassment she could have saved herself if she had just kept the two separate. Her boyfriend probably wouldn’t have found out and even if he did she wouldn’t have had to drag her bosses into the whole mess.
“L’etat, c’est Barack.” is probably more accurate.
“L’email, c’est é Moi.”
Is it better to say that the personal is the political or that the political is personal? Any leftists care to comment?