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I am\u00a0willing to admit the obvious, which is that sometimes I am a bit slow on the uptake.<\/p>\n

Things can and do get past me. The swirl of news events at times overwhelms me to the point that I cannot keep straight the particulars of this or that controversy\/scandal.<\/p>\n

The Hillary Rodham Clinton e-mail matter provides a case in point.<\/p>\n

She used her personal server while leading the State Department. The question then became whether she distributed classified or “highly classified” information on this server.<\/p>\n

The FBI investigated it. So did the U.S. House Government Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n

The FBI concluded that it couldn’t find a reason to prosecute Clinton for any illegal activity. FBI Director James Comey, though, did provide a pile of critical analysis of Clinton’s handling of the e-mails, calling it “reckless,” and “careless.”<\/p>\n

Now, though, Donald J. Trump is accusing Clinton of “illegal” use of her personal e-mail server.<\/p>\n

Didn’t the feds determine already that she didn’t break the law, or that they couldn’t find reasonable grounds to recommend an indictment?<\/p>\n

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has goaded Russia into looking for 30,000-something missing e-mails. The House Oversight and Judiciary committees are looking for proof that Clinton committed perjury when she testified before Congress.<\/p>\n

Then we hear about 15,000 more e-mails that have surfaced. What does that mean? Anything?<\/p>\n

The Democratic presidential nominee has endured a serious media and political scrubbing over all of this.<\/p>\n

She hasn’t been accused formally of a single criminal act.<\/p>\n

And yet …<\/p>\n

Republicans keep calling her a criminal. They want to “lock her up!”<\/p>\n

My head is spinning.<\/p>\n

I need help.<\/p>\n\n

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I am\u00a0willing to admit the obvious, which is that sometimes I am a bit slow on the uptake. Things can and do get past me. The swirl of news events at times overwhelms me to the point that I cannot keep straight the particulars of this or that controversy\/scandal. The Hillary Rodham Clinton e-mail matter … Continue reading E-mail story is getting more convoluted<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[5355,1424,2139,4398],"class_list":["post-16717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-clinton-e-mails","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16719,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions\/16719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}