Ironically, the party that brought us the "I am not a witch," candidate is all in on a witch hunt. The e-mail "scandal" has all the incendiary markings of the classic hunt. Believing that Hillary must be guilty of something, the ends justify the meanness. The media, unwilling to pay its debt to the truth, is a Greek chorus. Even the grand old lady, the NY Times, has done more retracting than didacting.
Of course, prior Secretaries of State, including the beloved Colin Powell, used a private e-mail for official duties. More important is to look at the small almost imperceptible ant hill this represents as viewed from the mountain of a real scandal.
Ambiguous and faulty intelligence was forged into an incontrovertible case for war with Iraq. To date, the most we know is that out of tens of thousands of e-mails, a few e-mails contained material that, after Hillary sent them, some agencies marked or considered classified. The result of Bush and Chaney mishandling and interpreting intelligence was thousands dead and wounded. Hillary's errors if any were hardly life threatening. The war cost 2 trillion dollars. Hillary's errors had no cost, unless you consider the millions spent fruitlessly investigating Benghazi.
Trump and others have proclaimed the handling of e-mails makes Hillary unfit to be president. George W. Bush served two terms. The Grand Old Party acts like it is emerging from the womb. Trump and company should take a deep breath before wailing. A slap on the back wouldn't be a bad thing either.
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