No One Can Decide Whether Hillary Clinton's Comms Fail Is a Scandal

Is this really a scandal or not?

In what will probably serve as a sign of things to come over the next 18+ months, The New York Times broke what looks like the first potentially scandalous story of sure-to-be-candidate Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

In short, she skirted official rules while serving as Secretary of State by never using an official government email address…or did she?!

Here’s NYT reporter Michael Schmidt explaining his scoop on TODAY:

Hillary injects politics into almost everything? What is she, a career politician?

While a Clinton spokesperson defended the move as something that past Secretaries of State such as Colin Powell have also done, former Obama administration Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called the decision “highly unusual” and theorized that “it’s something that they’re going to have to explain in good measure today.”

So

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