Posts by Tom 13

Re: Did anyone sending or receiving an official email...

What? And get Vince Fostered? Not a chance.

They knew what they were doing. They were pre-emptively covering up what she did.

FISMA does not supplant FRA, it supplements it. She still had to comply with both. Given

“Her top staffers used those Clinton email addresses” at the agency, said the source, who has worked with Clinton in the past. The source named two staffers in particular, Philippe Reines and Huma Abedin, who are said to have used private email addresses in the course of their agency duties. Reines served as deputy assistant secretary of state, and Abedin as Clinton’s deputy chief of staff. Both rank among Clinton’s most loyal confidantes, in and out of the State Department.

http://gawker.com/source-top-clinton-aides-used-secret-email-accounts-at-1689246408

there's a higher likelihood I will win both lotteries (Mega Millions and Lotto tickets) I bought this morning than that she didn't violate FRA.

Re: I don't think this is going to amount to anything illegal...

Clinton added that she deleted all of her personal emails from her private account of the more than 60,000 emails in total that were sent and received. About half of them were personal emails, she said. Some of those emails pertained to her daughter Chelsea’s wedding, her mother’s funeral arrangements, and her yoga routine.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/03/10/clinton-i-opted-for-convenience-only-having-private-email-account/

Hillary Clinton is defending her use of a private email address, hosted at ClintonEmail.com, to conduct official State Department business by claiming that her emails were captured by official @state.gov accounts that other agency employees were instructed to use to contact her. But according to a knowledgeable source, at least two other top Clinton aides also used private email accounts to conduct government business—placing their official communications outside the scope of federal record-keeping regulations.

http://gawker.com/source-top-clinton-aides-used-secret-email-accounts-at-1689246408

Yes, it was illegal. No, like her husband raping women and creating what would otherwise be deemed a "hostile work environment" by feminazis, I doubt we'll get a conviction.

Re: Let's face reality,

Well the timing of it was quite odd. Maybe not faked, but she certainly could have made arrangements to testify. Oh, and on that whole email FOIA thing, seems most of what we're learning now is because Judicial Watch has continued to press for Benghazi emails. Guess what? Yep, they found she sent a lot of them from exactly this personal email account. And no, they don't quite match up with public pronouncements.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/documents-obtained-judicial-watch-reveal-top-hillary-clinton-advisers-knew-immediately-assault-benghazi-armed-attack/

Re: Let's face reality,

Not at all. We'd be happy if she simply did the time required for at least a couple of her blatant felonies.

Re: Record keeping

The start of her political career has forever foreshadowed her path: she was booted from the House

committee investigating Nixon's Watergate break-in for unethical behavior.

Re: In this case it certainly wasn't illegal:

Quoting a story from flacks working for the DNC doesn't work in this case.

It's been illegal since she was too young to vote, specifically the Federal Records Preservation Act of 1950.

I work as a contractor in IT Support for the government. There simple truth is a high level politician CAN'T have a single email account and comply with all the laws governing the use of email and government equipment. You can't use official government accounts for fundraising. You can't use personal accounts to transmit government sensitive information. Anything that is a record MUST be preserved. The only way you can work all of this is with separate email accounts for each function, and the government one has to be on government equipment to meet discovery and preservation requirements.

Re: Taxing at the wrong end

For four paragraphs you made a logical argument. Then you went smoked something not even legal in Holland.

Land Value Taxes have their place in government taxing systems. But they have the same problem that all taxes except the VAT and to a lesser extent progressive income taxes have: modern governments spend entirely too much money to raise sufficient revenues that was.

You can argue for a sales tax on the basis of economic efficiency and taxing the correct person. You can argue for a flat income tax on the basis of fairly distributing the risk of government abusing its citizens. But ultimately the problem boils down to government spending too damn much money, regardless of which side of the pond you live on.

Re: How about if it brings in less money

His kind do because for them it is all about the hate and not about the actual tax revenue.

Re: As for College Football.

According to Wiki, of the 10 largest stadiums in the world, 7 are in the US, and all are football stadiums. I didn't understand either until after I went to a couple of games in one of them.

I hear the high school games down south give you a taste of what to expect in a big stadium, but only a small one.

Snowden released classified information to world plus dog. The general released it to his mistress and the court reports the intelligence agencies have no cause to believe it went beyond her. That' a huge difference.

Re: he was leaking classified information ... in return for sex

Not clear at all. The issue is muddied by the fact that she is also legitimately his biographer. Thus the Black Books are precisely the sorts of papers biographers seek.

He still should be prosecuted for failure to protect classified information.

I'm not sure the sentence is adequate. Even with that, I can't help having the feeling it was a politically motivated prosecution. He was an obstacle to implementing policies The Big 0 wanted.

Re: I guess if Obama likes you you're fine.

If The Big 0 liked him, this never would have seen the light of day. The request from Jill Kelly would have been lost along with Lerner's emails.

Re: How the hell did we get to people being lent 8 times their salary...

Application of the analysis of a niche market to the broad market, or what became known as NINJa loans. The legitimate niche market was in what was essentially high stakes sales jobs. On paper, the people in these jobs have no reliable income because they work on commission. In reality, they have real high 5 digit or better incomes. So if you know how to do the analysis, you can make lower interest loans to these people than a regular bank will. But that analysis got adopted outside of its niche area because all those niche players were outperforming the regular loan market. Throw in some government backing for said loans, and some government regulations forcing all banks to make those kinds of loans or face racial discrimination penalties and you have a toxic brew that can topple an economic system.

Re: There are barriers to entry in that market

This is the real secret to Buffett's success. He invests in markets where there are significant barriers to entry that he can easily cross. One of them Tim left out is the regulatory market where he gets to talk directly to regulators and Congress critters and they take his advice on how to tailor bills and regulations. One item I frequently see mentioned these days is his opposition to the Keystone Pipeline and the money he makes on the freight line that currently carries the Canadian oil into the US for processing.

Re: Please stop using terms and concepts you do not understand.

You first.

Re: CPI or whatever, is core inflation plus food and energy.

Maybe on paper, but it sure isn't reflecting the price changes I see when I buy things.

More importantly, I just went to check what it actually is, and it seems they have once again changed definitions and some technical details. While it is supposedly "new and improved" it loses the most critical part from a scientific standpoint: continuity of the measurement.

@tom dial

I don't imagine the IT staff were clueless. I expect they are all well aware of their legal exposure on this issue. Which makes me think they were following direct orders. Maybe verbal orders, but none the less, direct orders. Like I said above, I'm just a minor cog in the machine. I'm well aware of all the land mines surrounding me fucking up anything related to creating email accounts. I'm not even a real mail admin, more like a data entry clerk on that count. Every time were disabling/deleting an account, the phrase "litigation hold" occurs several times on the paperwork. If I've done my job, it's great CYA, if I don't, I could be the one in the dock.