WashPost: Clinton had the Worst Week in Washington

[Redstreak 6,653]

By now, Hillary Clinton almost certainly expected that she would be well into a general election fight against Donald Trump — punching down at the target-rich real estate developer amid polls showing her sweeping into the White House.

Not so much.

Instead, Clinton spent the week in California, fighting for votes in advance of the Golden State's June 7 primary against the still-lingering challenge of Bernie Sanders.

But that was a cakewalk compared with what came out of Washington on Tuesday.  The State Department's inspector general released an 83-page report detailing a series of missteps made by Clinton when she decided to exclusively use a private email server and address for all of her electronic correspondence as the nation's top diplomat.

Here's the key snippet, as reported by WaPo's Rosalind Helderman and Tom Hamburger:

The inspector general, in a long-awaited review obtained Wednesday by The Washington Post in advance of its publication, found that Clinton’s use of private email for public business was “not an appropriate method” of preserving documents and that her practices failed to comply with department policies meant to ensure that federal record laws are followed.

The report says Clinton, who is the Democratic presidential front-runner, should have printed and saved her emails during her four years in office or surrendered her work-related correspondence immediately upon stepping down in February 2013. Instead, Clinton provided those records in December 2014, nearly two years after leaving office.

 

Clinton initially sought to downplay the report as old news. "It’s the same story," she told Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas. "Just like previous secretaries of state, I used a personal email. Many people did. It was not at all unprecedented."

Except that it was. While other secretaries of state had used personal email addresses, none of them had exclusively done so. And as Helderman and Hamburger noted, the State Department IG report scolded Clinton not only for using the email address exclusively but also for slow-walking the release of those emails to the State Department.

For Clinton, who has struggled for more than a year with how to best respond to the email problem — and to the broader honesty and trustworthiness questions it raises — it was exactly what she didn't need as she seeks to finally close out Sanders and unite the party in the face of a surprisingly strong showing by Trump in early general election polls.

By Thursday night, Clinton was calling in to cable shows to revise and extend her initial dismissiveness about the IG report. Too late. Damage done.

Hillary Clinton, for watching your march to the nomination — and the White House — turn into a curvy, unpredictable tramp through the political woods, you had the Worst Week in Washington. Congrats, or something.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/28/hillary-clinton-just-had-the-worst-week-in-washington/

[Born To Slay 10,996]

I hope the email thing destroys her and they have to give the nom to Bernie. 

[brizoda 4,197]

Unlawful Hillary

[Didymus 34,380]

#exceptthatitwas

[SISTERV 3,887]

She's crooked

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Poor ha

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

42 minutes ago, Born To Slay said:

I hope the email thing destroys her and they have to give the nom to Bernie. 

Oh honey we're talking about people's lives here not your favorite pop stars charting  

Just because your pop queen lost the Grammy doesn't mean you have to get nasty.

Oh wait I forgot what site I'm on  

When will your fave?  

[Born To Slay 10,996]

10 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

Oh honey we're talking about people's lives here not your favorite pop stars charting  

Just because your pop queen lost the Grammy doesn't mean you have to get nasty.

Oh wait I forgot what site I'm on  

When will your fave?  

Well I didn't mean I want it to ruin her life, just her chance at the nom. I'd even prefer she not get indicted. Just enough to weaken her candidacy so the super delegates have to give it to someone else. I don't hate her, she seems nice enough. I just really prefer Bernie and will hope for whatever allows him to win.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

6 minutes ago, Born To Slay said:

Well I didn't mean I want it to ruin her life, just her chance at the nom. I'd even prefer she not get indicted. Just enough to weaken her candidacy so the super delegates have to give it to someone else. I don't hate her, she seems nice enough. I just really prefer Bernie and will hope for whatever allows him to win.

You said you want her to be destroyed though.  

I mean sure if this issue becomes significant enough then yeah it may have an effect. As it stands it seems that there isn't much to worry about, as far as we know.

Glad you're invested in the political process. Just remember that these are actual people.  

[Whispering 18,865]

12 minutes ago, Born To Slay said:

Well I didn't mean I want it to ruin her life, just her chance at the nom. I'd even prefer she not get indicted. Just enough to weaken her candidacy so the super delegates have to give it to someone else. I don't hate her, she seems nice enough. I just really prefer Bernie and will hope for whatever allows him to win.

That's not happening. The Superdelegates will go with the candidate that has the most pledged delegates, and that candidate is Hillary Clinton. 

[Born To Slay 10,996]

21 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

You said you want her to be destroyed though.  

I mean sure if this issue becomes significant enough then yeah it may have an effect. As it stands it seems that there isn't much to worry about, as far as we know.

Glad you're invested in the political process. Just remember that these are actual people.  

I should've been more specific, when I said that I meant her chance at the White House this cycle. Not her life, as far as her personal life outside of the race goes, I wish her the best.

and yeah I understand that this more likely then not nothing will come but it's one of the few pieces of hope the Bernie supporters have left.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

14 minutes ago, Whispering said:

That's not happening. The Superdelegates will go with the candidate that has the most pledged delegates, and that candidate is Hillary Clinton. 

It doesn't help that Bernie is basically ****ing up repeatedly  

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Just now, Born To Slay said:

I should've been more specific, when I said that I meant her chance at the White House this cycle. Not her life, as far as her personal life outside of the race goes, I wish her the best.

and yeah I understand that this more likely then not nothing will come but it's one of the few pieces of hope the Bernie supporters have left.

I understand. I know it can be frustrating.

[Goosey 3,017]

4 hours ago, Redstreak said:

By Thursday night, Clinton was calling in to cable shows to revise and extend her initial dismissiveness about the IG report. Too late. Damage done.

Hillary Clinton, for watching your march to the nomination — and the White House — turn into a curvy, unpredictable tramp through the political woods, you had the Worst Week in Washington. Congrats, or something.

She's going down. I love it.