State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost

Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by epistasis on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:32AM (#11667926)

If somebody says "it is obvious that this is illegal and the person should be in jail," and then somebody else says "well all these other people did it and they we're scrutinized for it but didn't go to jail," then perhaps the reasonable thing to conclude is that it is not an act that somebody should go to jail for.

I mean, that's the only thing I can conclude. If you're assuming a priori that there's a crime, then you're putting the cart before the horse.

When you're assuming that counter points can only come from some sort of paid posters, you're being disrepectful.

This is why political topics are bad in HN. There's no news for nerds in here, just lots of people playing fast and loose with the facts to score political points.

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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by mladenkovacevic on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:03PM (#11668186)

   then perhaps the reasonable thing to conclude is that it is not an act that somebody should go to jail for. I mean, that's the only thing I can conclude.

If that's the only thing you can conclude than you're choosing to ignore circumstances and the complexity of real life situations. I am arguing that both Bush/Powell and Clinton's misuse of personal email servers should be investigated to the fullest extent and prosecuted without considerations for protection of reputations of those individuals. Any ordinary citizen trying to wiggle credible-sounding arguments for the other side is working against their own interest (unless they are being paid - which I am not accusing anyone of).

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