Jophiel wrote:
Uglysasquatch wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
She said she didn't have a computer in her State Department office.
Was it in for repairs cause that's about the only way I could believe that in this day and age.
Well, she ran the State Department so I'd guess that it's her call.
Only if the last time you worked in a real job, you still sent people memos or something. I'm going to second Ugly's point about this. It's monumentally unlikely she simply didn't have a computer at all, unless she specifically asked to not have one. Which, I suppose, for one who didn't want to leave an electronic trail of her activities, might make a lot of sense.
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The committee wanted to see more of a paper trail of her communication with Stevens. Her point was that email wasn't her primary method of being in contact with diplomats, an assertion
backed up by others who worked for her.
That was really a minor part of the whole thing though. It's not about volume. It's about establishing that she personally knew that requests for additional security had been made. Something she denied before, but now turns out to be true. Whether she used other means for the bulk of her communications is kinda irrelevant when just the small percentage we do have clearly shows that several of the things she claimed in the aftermath of the attack were not true.
IMO, the real bombshell wasn't necessarily in her testimony, but in the information revealed from her email server about what she told people about the attack on day one. It's clear now that she knew the attack had nothing to do with a protest over a video, and stated this to several people. Which just leads to more questions about how on earth her subordinate was sent on TV 5 days later to tell everyone in the US a lie.
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The hearings turned out to pretty much be a dud for Republicans. Even Gowdy said he learned nothing much new (after eleven hours) than from her previous testimony at the many committees before. That the biggest news is whether or not Clinton's office had a desktop pretty much backs this up.
If you thought that was the biggest news, then I'm curious what sources you're using. Everything I've read and listened to has been about the whole "she knew the protest thing was false from day one", bit.
Edited, Oct 23rd 2015 4:18pm by gbaji