Originally posted by KunsooYes, claiming executive privilege against a freedom of information request is precisely the same thing as using a private unsecure email server to communicate classified information.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/mike-pence-email-lawsuit/index.html?sr=fbcnni111516mike-pence-email-lawsuit0220AMStoryLink&linkId=31158870
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Originally posted by Suzianne
Funny how I don't see any Republicans willing to spend seven million dollars putting Pence through a witch hunt.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence is embroiled in a legal challenge stemming from his decision to withhold information from a public records request in a case local Democrats say raises the specter of the Indiana governor shielding all of his emails from public view.
It's a bit ironic as Pence, along with running mate President-elect Donald Trump blasted their way into the White House in part by hammering away at Democrat Hillary Clinton's own email scandal.
Pence's lawyers have argued, in part, that a state court decision protecting state lawmakers from releasing their own records should also apply to his office.
The hysterical anti-Trump tone being used by the mainstream media even in their "news" articles since the election is amusing.
Originally posted by sh76The media got Trump elected.
[quote]Vice President-elect Mike Pence is embroiled in a legal challenge stemming from his decision to withhold information from a public records request in a case local Democrats say raises the specter of the Indiana governor shielding all of his emails from public view.
[b][i]It's a bit ironic as Pence, along with running mate President-elect Donald Trump ...[text shortened]... being used by the mainstream media even in their "news" articles since the election is amusing.
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Originally posted by sh76So your response to your party's chosen leaders' act of hypocrisy is to put blame on the source?
[quote]Vice President-elect Mike Pence is embroiled in a legal challenge stemming from his decision to withhold information from a public records request in a case local Democrats say raises the specter of the Indiana governor shielding all of his emails from public view.
[b][i]It's a bit ironic as Pence, along with running mate President-elect Donald Trump ...[text shortened]... being used by the mainstream media even in their "news" articles since the election is amusing.
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Originally posted by vivifyNo, my response is that the two issues are not comparable at all (other than, perhaps, that they both involve email) as I said above.
So your response to your party's chosen leaders' act of hypocrisy is to put blame on the source?
The post you quoted was merely an observation.
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Originally posted by sh76Well I think they're also comparable in that Clinton's motivation was her obsession with privacy and to elude FOIA.
No, my response is that the two issues are not comparable at all (other than, perhaps, that they both involve email) as I said above.
The post you quoted was merely an observation.
Originally posted by sh76Did Pence lie about it repeatedly and then use bleach bit and then destroy the servers?
Yes, claiming executive privilege against a freedom of information request is precisely the same thing as using a private unsecure email server to communicate classified information.
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Originally posted by sh76They don't have to be exactly the same; both involve charges of illegal or corrupt actions involving emails. Quibbling over the fact the the details aren't the same doesn't change the fact that conservatives would've buried Hillary for doing the same as Pence.
No, my response is that the two issues are not comparable at all (other than, perhaps, that they both involve email) as I said above.
The post you quoted was merely an observation.
Originally posted by vivifyThey aren't parallel situations.
They don't have to be exactly the same; both involve charges of illegal or corrupt actions involving emails. Quibbling over the fact the the details aren't the same doesn't change the fact that conservatives would've buried Hillary for doing the same as Pence.
Originally posted by vivify=== Quibbling over the fact the the details aren't the same doesn't change the fact that conservatives would've buried Hillary for doing the same as Pence. ===
They don't have to be exactly the same; both involve charges of illegal or corrupt actions involving emails. Quibbling over the fact the the details aren't the same doesn't change the fact that conservatives would've buried Hillary for doing the same as Pence.
I'm quibbling over the fact that the situations are barely comparable, not that the "details aren't the same."
Originally posted by KunsooThe governor of Indiana doesn't have access to the same kind of classified information as does the Secretary of State.
Well I think they're also comparable in that Clinton's motivation was her obsession with privacy and to elude FOIA.
Surely we can agree that this salient different shows the lack of comparability of the situations.