MSNBC Dr Jason Johnson RE Boehner on Hillary Clinton Server 3/17/15
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This month, Hillary Clinton has tweeted seven times. Two tweets cameMonday in a less-than-280-character critique of a congressional "trifecta against women." Another was praise for the events in Selma. The most famous was her initial response to the e-mail controversy.
Twitter is a perfect medium for Clinton, who is followed by nearly 3 million accounts (as of this writing) and who follows only nine: Bill, Chelsea, and a slew of Clinton-affiliated nonprofits. It's as though 3 million people have signed up for terse press releases from Clinton and, belying the stated promise of the tool, almost no actual interactions with her followers. (One of the only exceptions: This cutesy exchange with Bill, which a cynic might think was calculated.) Toss your message over the castle walls and ignore all return fire.
We wrote in July about Clinton's play-it-safe campaign. Since then, things have not gotten much looser. Her news conference last week was an exceptionally rare moment in which Clinton engaged in an unscripted dialogue, to her obvious annoyance. Otherwise, it's been a series of public presentations, more paid speechesand an event earlier this month, which the Associated Press suggested included a casual conversation that was read off a teleprompter. It's also been tweets, which offer an excuse for brevity and allow for Clinton to simply say, 'I addressed it' -- even when she hasn't really. So little has been revealed about any policy agenda that the murkiness itself is a topic of conversation.
Some of this is the gut reaction of someone who has spent decades in politics -- a field in which being unscripted is the best way to ruin your career. Some of it is Clinton and/or the Clintons being the Clintons. Some of it, almost certainly, is scar tissue from the 2008 disaster. And some of it is a function of leading all of her Democratic opponents by a country mile (or, perhaps more accurately, by a country).
Contrast Clinton's campaign so far with Jeb Bush's. Neither is officially a candidate, but Bush has been making numerous public appearances, appearing at fundraisers and talking to the press. He's starred in online videos. He's tweeted three times as often as Clinton in March, often including photos or videos. And, of course, he tried to score points during the Clinton e-mail brouhaha by noting that he released the e-mails from his time as governor in bulk.
Bush has more ground to make up in his race, and Clinton is not yet really campaigning in the way that the Republicans are. Once she does, it's very possible that the castle walls will fall away and that she'll similarly bop around Iowa and New Hampshire, casually documenting her path to the nomination. These mightbe the Clinton 2016 Dark Ages, a tightly controlled era that is an anomaly.
It also mightnot be. The moment of Clinton's 2008 campaign that is normally cited as the most natural and honest was when she became emotional at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.That came as polling in the state looked bleak and she'd just lost Iowa to Barack Obama; she eventually won it and injected some life into her campaign.
Until the general election, it's unlikely she'll see that level of pressure, making it safe to wonder if we'll see that level of openness. So far, we haven't seen anythingto suggest we will.
Philip Bump writes about politics for The Fix. He is based in New York City.
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The Fix: When will Hillary Clinton let her guard down?
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Speaker John Boehner demanded that Hillary Clinton turn over her private email server to a third party administrator today, but stopped short of directing House Republicans to subpoena the former Secretary of States personal records.
"The way forward is for the Secretary to turn over all of her emails that pertain to the public, Boehner, R-Ohio, insisted during a news conference on Capitol Hill. But some neutral third party's gonna have to make some decision about what documents are quote personal and which ones are public record. And thus far she's been unwilling to do this.
At her own news conference last week, Clinton admitted that more than 31,000 emails were destroyed because she determined them to be personal. She said she deleted all of the personal emails, which she characterized as messages related to wedding planning and yoga, because she felt she had no reason to save them.
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Boehner said he believes that turning the server over to an independent party is the fairest way to ensure all public documents are turned over, particularly in regard to the deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi on Sept 11, 2012.
The American people deserve all the facts about what happened in Benghazi, Boehner said. That's why it's so important for Secretary Clinton to turn over her personal server to a neutral third party.
Boehner said the House Oversight and Government Reform committee will continue examining Federal Open Records law, but he indicated it is premature to subpoena the records from Clinton.
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Boehner Demands Hillary Clinton Turns Over Email Server to 3rd Party
Lately, it seems every time Hillary Rodham Clinton sneezes er, tweets it is a news event.
Take Monday, for instance. The likely 2016 Democratic nominee took to Twitter, admonishing congressional Republicans for delaying the nomination of Loretta Lynch for attorney general, calling it part of a "trifecta against women."
Ms. Lynch has been waiting for Senate confirmation for 128 days. Her confirmation is being held up by a bipartisan human trafficking bill stalled over an abortion provision that Democrats do not like, which Clinton alluded to in her second tweet. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has said that Lynchs nomination would not be considered until the legislation moves forward.
At a Monday press briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest called the delay unconscionable and a bunch of political obstructions set up by Republicans.
Mr. Earnest's comments didn't get much coverage. Hillary's tweets did. Why?
For starters, he's not running for president. She likely is.
And her not-yet-campaign has done a masterful job leveraging Twitter and using it to their candidate's advantage, as the National Journal pointed out.
"[A]s she continues to map out a presidential campaign while rarely dipping into daily political or policy debatesor speaking with the media outside of last week's conferenceher Twitter account has become a potent tool. The (presumably) carefully tailored, deliberate, short blasts have taken the place of news releases, and have been used for everything from spreading information about her personal initiatives to responding to controversy," it said.
Consider this: Between Jan. 25 and Feb. 21 of this year, Clinton sent only three tweets, but averaged 14,099 retweets per tweet, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
"If retweets were votes, Hillary Clinton would win a 2016 Twitter election in a blowout," the Post reported in a piece titled, "Hillary Clinton has the biggest and most effective Twitter reach of any potential 2016 candidate. Its not even close."
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Before she married Bill Clinton, she was Hillary Rodham. Here, Rodham talks about student protests in 1969, which she supported in her commencement speech at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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Rodham, center, a lawyer for the Rodino Committee, and John Doar, left, chief counsel for the committee, bring impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon in the Judiciary Committee hearing room at the U.S. Capitol in 1974.
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Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton helps first lady Rosalynn Carter on a campaign swing through Arkansas in June 1979. Also seen in the photo is Hillary Clinton, center background.
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Bill Clinton embraces his wife shortly after a stage light fell near her on January 26, 1992. They talk to Don Hewitt, producer of the CBS show "60 Minutes."
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