FTR: “No question” Hillary Clinton had the authority
September 11, 2015 by still4hill
Thank you Ruby Cramer and Chris Geidner as well as Karen Finney.
In a court filing on Wednesday, the Justice Department argued on behalf of the State Department that there was “no question” Hillary Clinton had the authority to determine and delete personal email without supervision.
posted on Sept. 11, 2015
Chris Geidner
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In a little noticed brief, filed on Wednesday to a federal court, Department of Justice lawyers outlined a comprehensive defense of the contentious decision by Hillary Clinton to wipe the private email server she used as secretary of state: The attorneys assert that, regardless of whether she used a personal or government account, Clinton was within her legal right to handpick the emails that qualified as federal records — and to delete the ones she deemed personal.
“There is no question that former Secretary Clinton had authority to delete personal emails without agency supervision — she appropriately could have done so even if she were working on a government server,” write the Justice Department attorneys, representing the State Department in the brief.
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Posted in Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department | Tagged Buzzfeed, Chris Geidner, emails, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Karen Finney, Ruby Cramer | 13 Comments
YES!!!! 🙂 So glad to read this. Thank you still4hill for bringing the germane news to us.
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Gotta thank Ruby and Karen too! Great buddies in the struggle!
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agreed. Thank you Karen and Ruby. I come here when my mind curdles after watching tv news for like 10-15 mins.
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ba-bye Gov.Rick Perry, don’t let the door hit your tush.
And may be now going forward you will rethink your policy on (not supporting) women…
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OOPS!
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Reblogged this on The Department of Homegirl Security.
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They had it on Media Matters today too.
I am sure it will be front page tomorrow all over …….. nah.
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Several media sources have picked up the story but Ruby and Chris were the ones who broke the story and Karen Finney shared that one. Everyone else is kite-tailing on Buzzfeed.
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Not to quibble but all the early sources yesterday said The Washington Times broke the story on the 10th – the day before. The next place I saw it was on Uppity Woman at 10 am. Media Matters at 1:30 time stamp. And I did do a google search early yesterday before Buzzfeed timestamp which was at 4:30. I do not know when the twitter came out but it wasn’t the 10th.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/11/doj-debunks-media-speculation-that-hillary-clin/205497
But yes, the info is slowly getting out that there is no there there.
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yeah, all that finger pointing at Hillary for nothing. Media doesnt seem to let go of picking-on-Hillary penchant. I really hope this stops them going forward.
If the topic comes up downstream – say, in debates – Hillary can certainly point to this DOS defense of her.
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lol, so true.. they media never got to this wonderful tidbit, now, did they? Oh, go figure!
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Thanks Still, You made my day.
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