{"id":8076,"date":"2016-11-12T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T21:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2016-11-12T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T21:47:55","slug":"the-hillary-e-mail-non-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8076","title":{"rendered":"The Hillary e-mail non-scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a single cause that sank Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bid for the presidency, it was undeniably the &#8220;e-mail scandal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Which is really, really sad because it was really no scandal at all. I just read a fascinating account (written back in September I believe) that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/09\/hillary-clinton-emails-2016-server-state-department-fbi-214307\">offers details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/09\/hillary-clinton-emails-2016-server-state-department-fbi-214307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8077 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hillary-blackberry.jpg\" width=\"658\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hillary-blackberry.jpg 658w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hillary-blackberry-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of what happened\u00a0was due to ineptness (either by Clinton&#8217;s team or the State Department&#8217;s), some of it was a result of outdated, inconvenient, or unreliable technology, some of it was just the customary bending of the rules to get things done&#8230; most notably, there was no recklessness, no conspiracy, no cover-up, just the typical government or, for that matter, corporate bungling. (And as I noted before, Clinton&#8217;s e-mails were likely more secure on the &#8220;home brew&#8221; server sitting in a residential basement than on the State Department&#8217;s systems.)<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8076' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a single cause that sank Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bid for the presidency, it was undeniably the &#8220;e-mail scandal&#8221;. Which is really, really sad because it was really no scandal at all. I just read a fascinating account (written back in September I believe) that offers details. Some of what happened\u00a0was due to ineptness <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8076' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-politics","category-51-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8079,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}