Why oh why would people on Dkos be so ready to jump on the right wing bandwagon and start forecasting that the most recent effort to undermine Hillary is finally the one that has some teeth to it??? And yes, I'm talking about the diary that contains true facts with a silly interpretation.
To start, I'm a Sanders supporter. Along many other Sander supporters, I've long thought Hillary was too embedded with the corporate elitists. However, that doesn't mean I have to hate her. Nor does it mean I think it would benefit Democrats to permit the right wing whackos to destroy her.
That diary makes three factual statements. The first is that a federal judge made the statement that Hillary didn't follow State Department policy when she used her private e-mail for State Department business. The second is that four e-mails were found on her server that contain some type of classified information. The third is that the FBI has been authorized to do a criminal investigation to discover where these came from.
The diarist then concludes that these three facts suggest Hillary is in trouble - from the tone of the diary, he or she seems to believe Hillary will be criminally charged. And that is absolute nonsense. The truth is, those three facts are misinterpreted by the diarist.
First, everyone has long known that Hillary didn't follow the policy. Not following policy is not breaking the law. Not following policy is a pretty common place thing. So a judge making that comment is not an earth shattering thing.
Second, these four e-mails were found on her server - she didn't send them; they were sent to her. Her public statements on this issue have been that she received no e-mails that indicated they were classified - and she stated that being marked classified is how a person can tell whether they are. If she received information that was classified but that the sender included without indicating it was classified, she'd have no way of knowing it. She is not at fault for being on the receiving end of receiving something.
Third, the criminal investigation is not an investigation of Hillary. It's an investigation to discover who sent this information.
Hillary might be in trouble - if we fail to have her back. Yes, she made a mistake when she followed a procedure that at the time seemed to make sense to her but which the right wing haters have managed to blow way out of proportion in their never ending quest to destroy the Clintons and do as much damage to the Democratic party as they possibly can.
You might not like Hillary. In fact, you might intensely dislike her and the policies you think she espouses. But unless you hate Democrats and want to see the right wing Republicans succeed in taking this country over even more, please don't join forces with them in taking Hillary down.
Sanders supporters, please join me in doing what you can to show support for Hillary in this "scandal". They have been digging so deep for so long to find something to take her down, of course they finally discovered something that shows she's not perfect in all her decisions. But let's participate in insisting that some perspective remain. Let's point out what's not such a big deal about this. Not one person can point to one single thing that's caused the slightest bit of damage to this country as a result of Hillary's decision to use her private e-mail account. She made one not perfect decision that would be no big deal - wouldn't even be known -if the right wing wasn't so focused on destroying her because they knew they couldn't beat her. Let's not help them. In fact, let's fight back against them.