Here’s a link to an Alternet story that came in last night, Oct 29th.
The story points out a couple of times that it is not known what is in those emails. Nor how many there are. Here’s another article I pulled off the net on Huma Abedin.
Should we assume that Abedin was sharing a computer with Weiner? Given that Abedin was the closest advisor to the Secretary of State would she share a computer even with her husband? If they had their own computers is it possible that Weiner knew his wife’s password and stole the emails? Could he be the kind of guy that wanted something that he could use to blackmail for protection? What do you think are in the emails? Could there be some love letters between Hillary and Huma? Hard to imagine that they didn’t get it on once in a while. Huma’s sex life with Weiner could have been really disappointing, to say the least. Given the closeness of the relationship between Clinton and Abedin, the utmost stress and intensity of their jobs, the amount of time they are alone together, talking…and what full blooded/hot blooded good looking people they are…if there were liaisons at all the comfort that may have brought might have only served to improve the quality of what they did with the rest of their time.
#Disclosure: I’m a single male.
Of course, most of the emails would be about State Department business as it pertains to Clinton. You wouldn’t expect it to be otherwise. Abedin was her closest aide. Talking about one’s doubts, the intricacies of issues which in diplomacy is almost always about the complexities and personalities of others, the tons of relevant asides or bits of information involved in every single interpersonal relationship and issue, foreign and domestic…that’s why people with power and authority have aides and advisors. It gets scary too, and usually leads to no good when advisors seem to have too much influence. I think of Robert Byrnes (advising Truman, particularly on the use of the bomb), George Kennan and the Cold War and our recent fave, Dick Cheney. I doubt this is the case between Clinton and Abedin.
At this point I haven’t heard anything that would make me think that Clinton as president would behave any different than I already expect. My expectations are not high. All of Shakespeare’s tragedies, written over 400 years ago, were about, among other things, the foibles of human behavior particularly in the halls of power. Apparently the Romans were no strangers to this, either. Clinton does not appear as though she will break with tradition. Saints may be those few leaders in history that didn’t seem to use their power abusively. Or were at least relatively and sufficiently unabusive given their opportunities to be otherwise.
Use a courier!
It’s an unusual development in an already strange election year.
I’m not sure I understand how the FBI could have any right to seize the new Weiner-Clinton emails. They didn’t have a search warrant for them until after they found them, and they were found during a search for an unrelated case. (Oh wait, we got rid of that pesky 4th amendment didn’t we?)
Either Comey knows there is something truly significant there, or he’s really stupid. For his sake, there better be a bombshell in the new emails, and it needs to be found immediately. If not, his career is over.
That said, I don’t trust any denials or comments from Podesta, Mook, or other campaign surrogates. They have their talking points and postures. I find it interesting that they avoided weekend talk shows, and are laying low after initial outrage. The Podesta emails show that a common response to bad news is to hunker down and say nothing, as giving reporters facts often leads to more questions. (Really?) If possible, the goal is to avoid questions.
Plus, it’s campaign season. People will say anything this week if they think it will help.
National polls are still surprisingly close. Will Clinton and her supporters accept the outcome of the election no matter what? Perhaps it is best to wait and see what the results are. : )
I’m beginning to wonder why super rich people use email at all. Why not use personal couriers? No one hacks a courier carry wax-sealed documents. (Same for super rich driving drunk – hire a driver!)
Saint Debbie
Can anyone at this point doubt the wheels have come off the cart. It does not seem like we live in a functional democracy. It feels like hysteria. “BREAKING NEWS! Hillary Had Sex with Bill Clinton in 2003!” Anything would be fodder for the crazed and craven…
The way the media is slinging innuendo, and mobs are attacking journalists, and agencies domestic and foreign are injecting, interjecting, leaking, tweaking, and subverting–to say nothing of the quotidian racism and hate–it’s hard to feel even the passing of an inaugural torch- to anyone, isn’t a set-up for dysfunction, and explosive backlash.
How come...
no one is demanding that Trump release his emails?
Already doing it
He releases them every few hours on twitter… : )