someproteinguy wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Doesn't mean that there aren't reporters following up that angle, I suppose. But it's hardly something that's risen to the level of broad public awareness as she seems to suggest.
I'd imagine writing an open letter like that was probably a clear enough signal to convince any reputable media source that was poking around to go away. Given there's laws about protecting child victims and all that, and if they went full-on harassing her there'd probably be major fallout in public perception for the media outlet along with the legal trouble.
Seemed more to me like it was about finding another reason to bash the FBI for re-opening the investigation into Clinton by finding a really obscure way to tie their action to harassment of the victim of Wiener's actions. Even in the letter, she acknowledges that it was Wiener who provided information that reporters used to track her down, but somehow it's the FBI's fault?
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I'm more-or-less taking this as a sign there's still some degree of humanity left in the world. Which is rather refreshing to see during election season.
Maybe. From my admittedly jaded conservative viewpoint, it looks a lot more like the usual method of using a victim for political advantage (or cover in this case). Which is kinda a standard op in the Dem political playbook. She was victimized by a Democratic politician in the first place. She was victimized further by the same Democratic politician by having clues to her identity released. But somehow it's the FBI being blamed, I suppose only coincidentally after taking an action which harms a Democratic politician in an election.
I can't help but assume that if the FBI had found emails between Wiener wife and Trump on that laptop, with potentially incriminating information about Trump on it, and had opened (or reopened) an investigation based on that, and Wiener had taken the exact same action as he did here, the blame would not be on Wiener, nor on the FBI, but on Trump for, I suppose, allowing his emails to be on Wiener's laptop, which fell into the FBI's hands, which was later found and commented, which caused Wiener (I guess?) to leak some clues about his original victim, of course, making it all Trumps fault. Right? Cause that's how logic works on the left side of politics.
Or we could, and I'm just talking crazy here, maybe just look at the emails found on the laptop as a completely separate thing that ought to have no bearing at all on the case involving Wiener and his sexting of the teenage girl, and act on that. I suppose that would require some humanity. And rationality.
