My first diary certainly generated a lot of heated discussion. In this one, I take a more conciliatory tone to discuss how I think Hillary could recover from her scandal and move on.
First, I think her attitude up until this point has not helped her, it needs to change. Second, she needs to go out and answer questions, all the questions, and provide real answers, not the politician speak we've head so far. Third, she needs to hand over her email (all of it) to the State department, and let them go through it. Not her, and not her assistants. I'll detail it all below...
First, let me talk about the attitude
The public has a real interest in government transparency, and what she has done both with the private server at the start, and in response to the revelations LOOKS bad. It looks very much like she has things to hide. Acting like the whole thing is something cooked up by Republicans and the media is not the right response.
Jokes about how Snapchat messages disappear on their own aren't funny right after you have been offering carefully crafted responses to valid questions and turned over a server that has been completely wiped. To a skeptical audience, it is akin to a police officer under investigation for racial bias making an off color joke about minorities. It doesn't lighten the mood, and it doesn't make the situation seem somehow less serious.
If she wanted to get out ahead of this (Assuming there are logical explanations for all of her actions), she should come forward and apologize, say it was a bad decision, and say she will cooperate fully with the FBI and State Dept. She should take a serious tone, and admit that it's not just a witch-hunt.
Second, she needs to answer the questions, ALL OF THEM. Why was the server wiped? Who ordered it wiped and why? Were there backup copies of the server, and where are they if so? What were the specific limitations of the State Department email system that caused you to look at other solutions? Who made the decision to put the server in the Chappaqua home and why? Why was that decision made over say hosting it at a datacenter? Plus about 50 others. If certain questions are too technical for her to answer, she needs to have someone in her service that was in charge of those things out there with her.
Third, and this is a big IF,..If there are still original backup images of the server, they should be turned over in their entirety to the FBI and the State Department for review. If there are personal emails there with private content that she doesn't want seen by her friends in government, she needs to swallow that pill and get over it.
Does she have to do all of those things? No. Am I saying she broke the law? No. But if she does all of the above, and there are reasonable explanations to those questions, I could consider voting for her, and more importantly, it would go along way towards stopping the bleeding in her campaign, which is pretty bad at this point.