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"Hillary Clinton would probably be president if FBI Director James Comey had not sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28. The letter, which said the FBI had “learn

"Hillary Clinton would probably be president if FBI Director James Comey had not sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28. The letter, which said the FBI had “learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation” into the private email server that Clinton used as secretary of state, upended the news cycle and soon halved Clinton’s lead in the polls, imperiling her position in the Electoral College." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probab...

jessaustin 5y ago
It wasn't that long ago; don't act as if we can't remember it. Comey's comments were not about the DNC emails. They were about emails that FBI discovered on a laptop owned by Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin. Apparently FBI had the laptop as part of an investigation into Weiner for sending unsolicited messages. Do you mean to imply that "the Russians" exfilled emails from DNC and sent them to FBI? That seems... unlikely. Maybe future secretaries of state won't try to hide 30,490 official emails from the oversight of the public...
- dangerlibrary 5y ago
  I've made no claims whatsoever, wacky or otherwise, on this topic. Nor have I identified myself as a Clinton fan - you've constructed a straw man from the wisps of the aether. Re: Email behavior in other administrations: "The State Department has discovered a dozen emails containing classified information that were sent to the personal email accounts of Colin L. Powell and close aides of Condoleezza Rice during their tenures as secretaries of state for President George W. Bush." https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/state-dept-classified-data-found-ex-secretaries-personal-email-john-kerry-condeleezza-rice-colin-powell.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/state-dept-cl... "At least six of President Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday. The disclosures came a day after news surfaced that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, used a private email account to send or receive about 100 work-related emails during the administration’s first seven months. But Mr. Kushner was not alone." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/politics/private-email-trump-kushner-bannon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/politics/private-email...
  - jessaustin 5y ago
    Did you mean for this comment to go somewhere else? This seems to have nothing to do with the difference between DNC emails and Anthony Weiner emails. [EDIT:] The point of this thread is whether alleged Russian hacks of the DNC turned the election in Trump's favor. This seems extremely dubious to me, and references to both Comey's letters and Colin Powell's dozens of email indiscretions seem completely beside the point.
    - dangerlibrary 5y ago
      I don't think most voters understood or believed in the distinction. Further, I think you know that, and that you are arguing in bad faith. To wit: you've repeatedly edited the portion of a parent comment in which you made reference to other administrations' use of state department email resources. I'm going to stop responding now. Have a nice day.
      - jessaustin 5y ago
        It doesn't matter whether any voter understood the distinction. These are two different events, neither of which had any effect on the other. I'm not convinced most voters were even aware of the DNC email leaks. The USA news media certainly didn't want to emphasize something that put the USA news media in such a bad light.

jessaustin 5y ago

It wasn't that long ago; don't act as if we can't remember it. Comey's comments were not about the DNC emails. They were about emails that FBI discovered on a laptop owned by Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin. Apparently FBI had the laptop as part of an investigation into Weiner for sending unsolicited messages. Do you mean to imply that "the Russians" exfilled emails from DNC and sent them to FBI? That seems... unlikely. Maybe future secretaries of state won't try to hide 30,490 official emails from the oversight of the public...

dangerlibrary 5y ago
I've made no claims whatsoever, wacky or otherwise, on this topic. Nor have I identified myself as a Clinton fan - you've constructed a straw man from the wisps of the aether. Re: Email behavior in other administrations: "The State Department has discovered a dozen emails containing classified information that were sent to the personal email accounts of Colin L. Powell and close aides of Condoleezza Rice during their tenures as secretaries of state for President George W. Bush." https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/state-dept-classified-data-found-ex-secretaries-personal-email-john-kerry-condeleezza-rice-colin-powell.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/state-dept-cl... "At least six of President Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday. The disclosures came a day after news surfaced that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, used a private email account to send or receive about 100 work-related emails during the administration’s first seven months. But Mr. Kushner was not alone." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/politics/private-email-trump-kushner-bannon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/politics/private-email...
- jessaustin 5y ago
  Did you mean for this comment to go somewhere else? This seems to have nothing to do with the difference between DNC emails and Anthony Weiner emails. [EDIT:] The point of this thread is whether alleged Russian hacks of the DNC turned the election in Trump's favor. This seems extremely dubious to me, and references to both Comey's letters and Colin Powell's dozens of email indiscretions seem completely beside the point.
  - dangerlibrary 5y ago
    I don't think most voters understood or believed in the distinction. Further, I think you know that, and that you are arguing in bad faith. To wit: you've repeatedly edited the portion of a parent comment in which you made reference to other administrations' use of state department email resources. I'm going to stop responding now. Have a nice day.
    - jessaustin 5y ago
      It doesn't matter whether any voter understood the distinction. These are two different events, neither of which had any effect on the other. I'm not convinced most voters were even aware of the DNC email leaks. The USA news media certainly didn't want to emphasize something that put the USA news media in such a bad light.