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<\/a><\/p>\nYes, I meant it, every word. But to lose your\u00a0temper is\u00a0to show weakness. I\u00a0don’t\u00a0want everyone to know what sets me off, because none of us ever get very far beyond high school, not really, and now I’ve invited everyone to poke\u00a0me in order to get\u00a0a rise out of me.<\/p>\n
Well, fuck the Republicans anyway, and fuck the media too.<\/p>\n
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During my last years in the Air Force, and for the ten or so years I worked as a defense contractor afterward, email became a primary means of communication. Even so, it was\u00a0always considered\u00a0an informal form of communication. It wasn’t to be used\u00a0for\u00a0anything actionable:\u00a0new\u00a0rules,\u00a0policies, final decisions, or\u00a0the like. Oh, you might hear about new rules and policies via email, but the actual rule or policy was always formally set down upon paper. After all, people can say they never got the email, right? You can’t use that excuse with a formal written directive or regulation.<\/p>\n
I don’t think voters care much one way or the other about Hillary Clinton’s emails. She says she’s turned over all the State Department-related emails she sent during her tenure as Secretary of State, and I believe her. Political opponents from both sides, and of course the media (which has always had a hard-on for the Clintons), now want to root around in\u00a0her\u00a0personal email\u00a0archives. Well of course they do. I’d like to root around in the personal email archives of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. And the Koch Brothers. Where does this all end?<\/p>\n
Honestly, if you want to know what Hillary Clinton did while she was Secretary of State, and what the State Department did under her leadership, look at the public record. Look at what they did. Look at the policies and decisions that were made during Clinton’s tenure. Look at the diplomatic initiatives that were taken. Look at personnel transfers, state visits, sanctions imposed on recalcitrant regimes, foreign aid programs, cooperative ventures, trade agreements … look at the formal rules, policies, and final decisions that were set down upon paper.<\/p>\n
What they’re trying to get at, by demanding\u00a0to see Clinton’s\u00a0personal email archives, is\u00a0not to learn\u00a0what Clinton or other high level officials did\u00a0… that is already known\u00a0… but to learn what\u00a0she was thinking. Since when did anyone have the right to know what government officials are\u00a0thinking? You can know what they\u00a0did. You cannot know what they\u00a0thought if they\u00a0don’t choose to share that information with you.<\/p>\n
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Me, on the other hand … if anything I share too much. But isn’t that what blogs are for? See you in a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Donna and I leave tomorrow on a road trip to a for-now classified destination. If we don’t have internet access where we’re going, you’ll hear from us later next week, when we get back. Meanwhile, those of you who suffer my rants on Facebook will enjoy a few days of peace. I try not to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,10,16,2,8,827,6],"tags":[1823,1822,568,1821],"class_list":["post-16306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-wars","category-current-events","category-media","category-personal","category-politics","category-social-media","category-a-series-of-tubes","tag-email","tag-hillary","tag-republicans","tag-sabotage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16313,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions\/16313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}