I have a question about the investigations into Hillary

[Peacetrain]

Am I the only one that has noticed,, the emails come out just before a debate or election.. or something else .. it is kind of mind boggling..tonight is a debate..I got up yesterday morning and asked my hubby who sometimes posts here as peacetrain also.. what would be happening today.. since the debate is tomorrow.. and he said.. oh nothing.. they got all the emails out there now.. by the afternoon.. the immunity thing was out of the young man who set up her server.. you start to want to go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[randys1]

1. Bush appointees are pushing this in the official category and Rovians are pushing it

elsehwere, like here at DU


It is a win win for us, BTW

If she goes down, Bernie is prez

If she doesnt, she is.

either way, we are good

[emulatorloo]

3. I think you're correct. A lot of Republican spin and speculation

Obviously I do not know where the investigation will go. But the main folks in the media promoting it 'Clinton indictment' in the media are the same right-wing hacks who've promoted lots of shit that isn't true.

[NaturalHigh]

4. Rovians have invaded DU? WTF?

Dude, you're killing me.

[randys1]

12. ...

[NaturalHigh]

13. If you're posting for my benefit...

I enjoy Keisha and Iggy Azalea. Never was big on Shakira.

[vdogg]

2. I've definitely noticed this pattern

It seems timed to do the most damage to Hillary (emails have come out the day before a primary several times ). It's almost as if someone has a political axe to grind.

[karynnj]

14. Not really - ANY time in the campaign season is bad

However, it was only the end of 2014 that HRC returned the "work" emails to the SD, only in March 2015 did everyone learn that she had a private server. Then, maybe to quell the uproar, HRC called on the SD to put them all on line. (Entailing a huge amount of work to avoid putting anything out that should be redacted.) The SD wanted to process everything then in one fell swoop put it online. Various news organizations asked the court to intervene - which they did establishing a schedule with monthly dumps of the email. The SD did not fully meet the schedule - so there were about 4 dates given to the SD to get the remainder of the emails out. All the early dumps were the last work day of the month. The February ones were the last day of the week and the last day of the month.

The BIG problem relative to timing was that HRC did not turn them over when she left. Had she done that, the SD would have had them for the various FOIA -- and it is possible that no one would ever have noticed that she had a private email and almost certainly there would have been no demand to put ALL of them out. Even if someone noticed the address - assuming it was not just H, the answer that she made sure that the emails went to the archives would have made a very different story.

This entire thing was a HUGE effort for the State Department .... and no one is more to blame than HRC. Ironically by wanting to keep control over them, she ended up with far more made public than otherwise. You would think after decades she would learn that trying to hide anything causes trouble.

[NurseJackie]

5. Yet she still LEADS and remains strong.

[JaneyVee]

6. The State Dept releases them. This was the final batch.

[DesertRat]

7. I've noticed that as well

[Peacetrain]

8. I am trying my darnedest not to fall into the conspiracy thing

But you know.. you start to wonder.. it just keeps happening..

[DesertRat]

10. I know

I'm right there with you.

[Adrahil]

9. Well, I don't think it's actually planned.

The release of the emails themselves was at least partially dictated by the court's order. And now they are all out there. No possible "April surprise" on that front.

As for the investigation itself? We are at the height of the primary season, so whenever they do something, it will be right before something important. But most people have already decided how they feel about the email situation. Short of an indictment, I can't see any significant impact on the primary. It's baked in.

The fact that the FBI think s they will have the investigation wrapped up by early May tells me that nothing serious is coming out of this.

[Peacetrain]

11. Good to know.. now that you mention it..

I remember hearing that on one of the cable news shows a couple of weeks ago..that it would be wrapped up in May..