Democrats need to be worried about Hillary’s FBI problem

[NWCorona]

"A specter is haunting the Hillary Clinton campaign – the specter of an FBI investigation. The possibility of an indictment for her use of a private email system as secretary of state has been looming for months now, but the story hasn’t engulfed Clinton’s inevitability narrative. Thanks to Sanders’ commitment to running a positive campaign, Clinton’s FBI problem has scarcely been mentioned in Democratic debates.

It’s entirely possible that nothing will come of this. The final result may well be a slap on the wrist and a noisy news cycle for Clinton, but that’s easily endurable. It’s also possible that the story has legs, that a scandal could erupt months from now in a heated general election."


http://www.salon.com/2016/03/28/democrats_need_to_be_worried_about_hillarys_fbi_problem_the_looming_political_fight_could_cause_real_damage_in_november/

[onehandle]

1. Nope.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1591104

[NWCorona]

2. All the spin in the world by mediamatters/ David Brock

Won't help Hillary's situation.

[CalvinballPro]

19. All the "momentum" in the world won't help Sanders' position either. nt

[NWCorona]

23. Then you don't understand the meaning of momentum.

[CalvinballPro]

27. momentum =/= delegates

[NWCorona]

28. Yes

We saw what happened in the last 6 elections. Hillary and her supporters are sweating something fierce.

[CalvinballPro]

31. Are you high or something? They both had 5-state sweeps, back-to-back. nt

[NWCorona]

33. And?

I'm not denying that Hillary has put up a great fight.

[JoePhilly]

3. Indictment fairy to the rescue!!!!

[NWCorona]

7. Yes. I know that's your standard response

And it's all you have.

[randome]

13. It's all it deserves considering that this 'possibly, maybe, could be' has been floated for months.

You give the word 'revolution' a bad name when you resort to hoping to win by default.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[NWCorona]

15. Actually if you follow my posts about this

I've said that this won't necessarily help Bernie. Biden will just jump in.

[emulatorloo]

36. Indictment Porn

[peacebird]

4. The part that is most worrying is the mingling of Clinton Foundation donations and Sec State

A lot of money flowed into the foundation from foreign countries who were actively courting Sec State for weapons deals, and weapons deals were reached.

[NWCorona]

9. Yes indeed!

It's been reported that the FBI is looking into just that.

[peacebird]

17. Some details...

Among the most striking and troubling aspects of the Clinton System are the large contributions corporations and foreign governments have made to the Clinton Foundation, along with Bill Clinton’s readiness to accept six-figure speaking fees from some of them, at times when the donors themselves had a potential financial interest in decisions being made at Hillary Clinton’s State Department. An investigation published in April 2015 by Andrew Perez, David Sirota and Matthew Cunningham-Cook at International Business Times shows that during the three-year period from October 2009 through December 2012, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, there were at least thirteen occasions—collectively worth $2.5 million—when Bill Clinton received a six-figure speaking fee from corporations or trade groups that, according to Federal Government records, were at the time engaged in lobbying at the State Department.

These payments to Bill Clinton in 2010 included: $175,000 from VeriSign Corporation, which was engaged in lobbying at the State Department on cybersecurity and Internet taxation; $175,000 from Microsoft, which was lobbying the government on the issuance of immigrant work visas; $200,000 from SalesForce, a firm that lobbied the government on digital security issues, among other things. In 2011, these payments included: $200,000 from Goldman Sachs, which was lobbying on the Budget Control Act; and $200,000 from PhRMA, the trade association representing drug companies, which was seeking special trade protections for US-innovated drugs in the Trans-Pacific Partnership then being negotiated.

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/30/clinton-system-donor-machine-2016-election/

[Else You Are Mad]

30. Gee whiz...

... stop pointing to those facts. By publicly stating facts about a legitimate concern that may result in criminal charges, you are just propagating a RW smear.

[840high]

35. .that^

[itsrobert]

5. "Sanders’ commitment to running a positive campaign"

Too bad the same can't be said about his surrogates.

[NWCorona]

11. This is politics

Besides IMHO the other side has been much worse.

[loyalsister]

6. The John Edwards analogy is completely appropriate

There seems to be an absurd level of arrogance behind running for president with baggage that can be detrimental to a campaign. Both seem to be of the mind of "who cares who gets hurt as long as my giant ego is satisfied."

[agracie]

40. A total disregard of their responsibility to the Dem Party and the nation.

[casperthegm]

8. Why not just vote for Bernie?

All things being equal, why not vote for the candidate who isn't being investigated by the FBI?

[agracie]

41. And why did the Dem Party allow someone under FBI investigation to run ?

[highprincipleswork]

10. Naw. We don't need to concern ourselves with this any more than we do her stance on war or...

her stance on TPP or her stance on Medicare and Social Security.

We're the "head in the sand" party. It will all work out just fine, if only everyone would just "toe the line".

It's all just an illusion that Democrats of today act like Republican of years ago and Republicans act like crazy people.

I love the righward tilt of the country and the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party, not quite completed.

[hollowdweller]

12. She's rich and well connected. Nothing will happen.

Look at Reagan and Iran Contra.

Look at Bush and Iraq or the firing of attorneys and the same sort of email deal.

They guys at the top get a free pass unless somebody with more money wants them gone.

[grasswire]

14. that's a pretty bland article compared to what we are seeing elsewhere...

...but perhaps it introduces the problem gently to those who are paying little attention, and is useful in that regard.

[NWCorona]

18. Yes that is true

I figured that a mild article would counter it's a RW conspiracy crowd but I know that I'm being wishful.

[CalvinballPro]

16. Salon has yet to meet the white male author with an anti-Clinton piece it won't publish. nt

[cosmicone]

20. "Salon.com keeps beating a dead horse"

[NWCorona]

26. You should inform the FBI then

[noiretextatique]

38. Wapo and LA Times too eom

[Scuba]

21. As long as she hasn't been indicted it's all good. Read that right here on DU.

[Divernan]

29. After she's indicted, it will be "as long as she hasn't been convicted"

[Scuba]

32. And after she's convicted it will be "a right wing conspiracy."

[dr60omg]

34. And after that it will be a vast left wing conspiracy

[amborin]

37. absolutely! the more one reads about this mess, the harder it is to fathom how she could escape

indictment

[2banon]

39. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger,

Just to name a few that come to mind..

I don't believe she will ever face criminal prosecution, but I do believe it will be a monumental cluster f**k for her ultimate coronation, before during and after.

and that's an understatement. Her legal troubles could be the ultimate cause of Repuke victory in the general.

(But the Bernie supporters will be blamed for it, naturally.)