FBI Agreed to Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides with Immunity Deal (interview, ethical)
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It sounds like the Clinton camp basically went in and told the FBI what to do. We want complete immunity, all evidence destroyed, no looking at stuff past a certain date, no questions about this, this, this, and oh yeah, Comey run out and get us some doughnuts...chocolate icing with sprinkles.
The RW smear simply has no legs or tractions. Of course that is what you would hear.
The FBI has no rational way to obtain those lap tops except if the owners cooperate. In order to get that the FBI had to deal. There other choice really would be to try and subpoena them from highly sophisticated lawyers with lots of resources.
The people involved are more than capable of safe guarding a couple of lap tops. That says the FBI has to go to court and get an order requiring them to produce the lap tops. The aides involved will fight the order and will likely be able to stay it and require appeals court rulings before it is resolved. The schedule is now into 2017. That says any view of the material is well after it could have any use. So the FBI makes the best deal it has available.
The RW of course finds this horrible. Just exactly as they would have had the FBI tried the court route and failed. So this way they at least got a look at the records. The other way they would have only been found wanting.
The RW smear simply has no legs or tractions. Of course that is what you would hear.
The FBI has no rational way to obtain those lap tops except if the owners cooperate. In order to get that the FBI had to deal. There other choice really would be to try and subpoena them from highly sophisticated lawyers with lots of resources.
The people involved are more than capable of safe guarding a couple of lap tops. That says the FBI has to go to court and get an order requiring them to produce the lap tops. The aides involved will fight the order and will likely be able to stay it and require appeals court rulings before it is resolved. The schedule is now into 2017. That says any view of the material is well after it could have any use. So the FBI makes the best deal it has available.
The RW of course finds this horrible. Just exactly as they would have had the FBI tried the court route and failed. So this way they at least got a look at the records. The other way they would have only been found wanting.
I agree that chasing major figures over nonsense charges is generally a waste of time and energy.
Clinton was wrong to use the private server. It may have been convenient but was also dumb. If any indication that Clinton was operating a sophisticated scheme to escape FOIA or such I would change my view. But she was dumb seems to best explain the behavior. If it had been a sophisticated scheme done by the knowledgeable none of those records would have been recovered. Even after having been out of the business for 20 years I would be able to do that. A knowledgable and current person would have made sure there was not a trace.
In earlier posts I have pointed out her problem is not her direct behavior but her lack of understanding of the role of staff. They are the ones who make sure things like this do not happen. No Executive other than Bill Gates or Elon Mosk is smart nought to cover all aspects of the job. So the Executive must manage staff who does all that. I worked on a couple of high level staffs in the 80s. Executive VP levels in a Fortlune 100. Staffs were 20 to 100 and there were always a dozen who were quite powerful as they controlled access and actions of the great man. That is what she gets wrong...she needs people who cover her back so that she does not do dumb things. She does not do this as well as she should and got nailed by basically a nonsense violation of good practice. And I doubt very much she understood until it blew up.
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