Email Farce Over? May take a minute

Posted: Sep 16, 2015

Earlier this summer a State Department spokesperson told CNN that Hillary Clinton hadn’t broken and rules or policies with her use of email while Secretary of State, a revelation which was almost inexplicably ignored by most other news outlets. Than an FBI spokesperson told the New York Times that Clinton was not a target in their email investigation, which was focused on hackers; rather she was being viewed as the potential victim. Again, the major news of a second federal agency giving Clinton the all-clear on email was ignored. But now that the Department of Justice has flat-out stated in a legal briefing that Hillary Clinton had all along been within her legal rights to handle her Secretary of State email however she wanted, the mainstream media outlets appear to no longer have any choice but to acknowledge that the entire “controversy” had been a sham. The Washington Times admitted as much on Friday. MSNBC host Chris Hayes did the same on-air. And now the conservative leaning USA Today, whose audience consists largely of moderate to conservative readers, is finally fessing up and admitting that there was never any “there” there. The DOJ has stated that “There is no question that former Secretary Clinton had authority to delete personal emails without agency supervision — she appropriately could have done so even if she were working on a government server,” and USA Today printed the quote yesterday under a headline reading “Justice Dept.: Clinton allowed to delete personal emails.” Also heard this on NPR--that FBI is more concerned with whether her server had been hacked than with content of emails.;