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bounty44 -> RE: Hillary's E-Mails (4/2/2015 5:57:28 AM)
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ORIGINAL: epiphiny43
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ORIGINAL: bounty44
"Looking back, it would have been probably, you know, smarter to have used two devices," Clinton said. Her office that day released a statement saying she "wanted the simplicity of using one device."
yet (never mind that devices can have multiple accounts on them):
Only a small correction, but any reading in the media reveals the frequent statement that the Govt. issued Blackberrys of the time (The device she used) could only handle one account. Thus multiple devices required to do multiple accounts. Keep up?
NOT in reply other than to bounty44
“keep up?” you know---it’d be nice to find a liberal on here who was able to converse without the sort of smug condescension that makes talking with them unpleasant.
I have been reading/viewing plenty and ive not seen/heard anything saying the devices issued by the state department at that time could physically only handle one account. so your "any reading" pretty much goes out the window. that doesn't mean you personally won't be able to find something, it just means im not.
I found one little blurb from the Washington times that said this:
“Hillary Clinton was barred from operating multiple email accounts on a singular hand-held device such as a Blackberry or iPhone by State Department rules, two former officials told Business Insider.
“The officials, who spoke to the news outlet on the condition of anonymity, said State Department regulations during her tenure as secretary of state permitted only one email account per Blackberry.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/10/hillary-limited-1-email-account-phone-state-depart/
You’ll note that it doesn’t say the blackberry’s were “incapable” of holding two accounts, but rather that (apparently) state department rules forbade it. (gee you think they'd know, if it was the case, that the devices at the time could only physically handle one account.)
Except for that I don’t buy that for a couple of reasons. First, the “anonymous” source. The information contained in “this was the rule at the time” doesn’t require secrecy. There’s no reason I can see that a state department spokesman didn’t come right out, straight away and declare to the public in bold letters: “Hillary Clinton was only allowed by our rules to have one account on her device.”
Second and more importantly, Hillary Clinton didn’t say during her press conference “rules demanded I have only one account on my blackberry.” That’s a definitive statement that would put some qualms to rest---instead she said she “opted for convenience,” which doesn’t.
Lastly, there are blackberry forums discussing the very issue having and how to set up multiple accounts on blackberry devices that predate hillary’s time in office.
so unless you've got an actual rule in writing from the state department at the time, or blackberry model specs of her device from 2010 that somehow show hers to be incapable, and an explanation as to why Clinton herself and other state department people aren't putting that argument forth, I'm pretty comfortable with what im thinking.
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