(03-14-2019, 10:38 AM)B2hibry Wrote:

(03-14-2019, 09:54 AM)mikesez Wrote: On one level, Hillary was clearly breaking the rules and clearly trying to hide something.  An thorough, independent, investigation should have been done way back in 2013 when this first became known.

But on another level, every email that is ever sent is stored in two places.  The investigation would be finite.  It wouldn't take long to get the spooks to round up the logs of the suspected recipients.  Remember, no warrant is required to search foreign communication.  Suppose they did exactly that.  Suppose they were done in a week.  Would we believe that they had been thorough? They wouldn't be able to reveal their exact methods nor their exact suspects.  So even if they had done it, and found nothing compromising, most people would never believe they had done it. 

That's why this is a tar baby.

Thorough as in to document a long line of corruption...sure that is a daunting task but doable. It's even more dificult when you don't follow Federal law and utilize your own servers. I have a real issue with not attempting a REAL investigation outside the control of the corrupt DOJ. Why no Special Council? I mean Mueller is on year two with arguably lesser and mostly fantasized information. In any case, it doesn't take a long list to show absolute law breaking and reason to charge. It only takes just one and it was a doozy! I can't support the reasoning of not doing a thorough job just because it's too difficult.

You're not following.
I don't think it was particularly daunting for them to get at least the metadata of the people that Hillary Clinton's email server was most likely communicating with.
Nor do I think it was difficult for them to get the content of the deleted messages from the recipients who looked like they might be suspicious.
And I suspect the FBI did both things quickly and thoroughly.
And then they turned around and told us that there was nothing corrupt or compromising in what they found. 
But then this leaves them trying to prove a negative to a skeptical public.
Maybe they're lying, maybe they're not, but there is no way to satisfy the skeptics without revealing further confidential information.
Hillary should have used government servers.
Even if she was on a private server she should have kept everything.
But she publicly admitted to deleting stuff.  Regardless of why she did it, she put the FBI in a literally impossible position. Shame on her.

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