Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run

Re:Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America... by nxc18 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:14AM (#12844998)

Also, second comment: I would be pissed if someone leakes my emails to the public. I don't care who you are, that is such an invasion of privacy that it does feel cringey reading the emails even though they are now public domain.

I was going to say that you should never put sensitive information in (unsecured) email because of things like this. "Never write anything you wouldn't want printed on the cover of the NY Times" is sage advice I've heard in the past. Unfortunately, the standard of what is acceptable is quite subjective - I don't see anything objectionable in Podesta's emails. If I were him I would see them as innocuous - and yet, here he his, taking a serious hit from it all.

Now, the question is, where the heck are the Republican email leaks? At the very least, it would be interesting to compare...

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Re:Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America... by swissoak on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:50AM (#12845222)

Podesta is part of the opaque political machine that has largely betrayed the American people. I have no sympathy when, as a last ditch resort to restore a semblance of accountability, a person working on a campaign for a public office gets their emails served as public record. Especially when Americans have been denied their fight to FOIA Hillary's emails during her SoS tenure by her use of a private email server.

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Re:Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America... by Roboprog on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:56AM (#12846936)

But when the emails are about business, they belong to the business. They can be subpoenaed, and so on.

Doing stuff that is very close to official business on private email accounts is shady.

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Re:Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America... by hga on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:16PM (#12847951)

But what would be the grounds for a subpoena?

To the extent he was giving advice to Hillary while she was Secretary of State, I suppose, and you can be sure Judicial Watch is on that, but simply running her campaign?

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Re:Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America... by Roboprog on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:57AM (#12846953)

Yeah, I would like to hear about the red side, too.

Both parties represent the rich, alas.

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Re:Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America... by dilemma on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @09:11AM (#12845370)

>I don't see anything objectionable in Podesta's emails

So his emails are fit to print on the cover of NYT?

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