Uh, there was just a small matter of the financial crisis during the 2008 election cycle. Absolutely no party would have survived that fallout if their party was currently in office.
The thing is ... the 2008 financial crisis
has not actually ended. Several financial media outlets have responsibly been pointing out that the Fed and other instruments have been trying everything to stimulate growth and recovery for the past 7 years, and it's utterly failing.
In other words, we're still implementing all sorts of measures to recover, and it's utterly stalled. We've just post-poned the inevitable, with a massive and continued influx of monetary policy at depression-fighting rates. In fact, it's one reason I want Clinton to win. I don't want another 2000-2001. I want it to happen after Clinton takes office.
It's telling though that you view the Hillary email crisis as "pointless". Kind of shows your bias. Especially after I listened to her assure everyone that Russia is hacking the DNC and that they're waging cyber warfare. I guess they're good enough to hack the DNC but not good enough to hack her unsecured private server that she kept hidden from State Dept view?
When the story that Clinton was using her own e-mail servers for 100% of her communication a little over a year ago, the first thing all of us did was hit the RBL and other sites. Sure enough, they were all over it. Several of the sites basically 'rate' the security of servers, and for a good portion of the time they were operating, they were chronic fail.
They were also regularly replaced, which most assume were because they were compromised at times. Because of the lack of logs and auditing, we'll never know for sure.
But then we were then wondering, if the Internet was blackballing her servers constantly ... then how was she communicating with State, Defense and others? That too led to a lot of question. After all, we're usually talking Symantec, TrendMicro and others, which most of us deal with and know how they operate.
Then in 2016 June, the leak -- and subsequent release by the FBI -- finally came out how. State was just disabling all security. Not whitelisting her servers, but just disabling all TrendMicro software. Total liability compounded by total incompetence compounded by other things. And then add in the fact that Clinton's and even State's own lawyers didn't bother getting DoD 8570 certified, much less cleared, people.
Now all that was only confirmed for State. DNC, Congress and other things ... well, now you're understanding what happens when
you have a compromised X.500 directory like MS Exchange schema, which is what Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES), requires. Which means it was quite cake to get a crapload of information with ease. Talk to any gray hats and they'll all tell you the same thing. Everyone and everyone, not just the Russians, with an intelligence agency had access, a trove of information. From there, it's just a matter of compromising additional systems using similar credentials and information.
Furthermore, many us have been following a lot of information about various people, especially those who were granted immunity, as their 'semi-anonymous' accounts on various technical sites and forums have been figured out and disclosed. So all their posts to various forums, reddit, etc...
really tell a major, "smoking gun" story. Basically a catalog of not only all their technical f'ups, but the fact that they
were doing things after court orders to cover things up.
The problem is that immunity was already granted, and the FBI wanted it closed. Nothing can be done about that now. It's just private lawsuits, largely around FOIA left.
With all this 'new information' pieced together that is slowly coming out, with more every day,
the FBI are looking like complete idiots, especially in the technical, but also legal, community. But then again, I'm sure if some in the FBI could talk, they'd say the move to close wasn't a technical argument, and probably 180 degrees from it. Which is why most everything anyone says in the US media is just utter garbage.
Hillary even trying to defend herself on this gets her own statements dead wrong, as even Comey had to finally warn her about.