Seventeen Words That Spelled Trouble for Hillary Clinton
posted a lengthy piece on Hillary Clinton’s general-election prospects when a long-awaited report from the State Department’s inspector general, a watchdog appointed by President Obama, was leaked, a day in advance of its release on Thursday. The report concluded that, as Secretary of State, Clinton violated the department’s rules by conducting official business via a private e-mail account and setting up a private e-mail server to handle and store her correspondence.
The story is big news. On Wednesday, it was all over the Internet. The broadcast networks featured it prominently in their evening newscasts. On Thursday, it led the print editions of the Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. While few readers and viewers will take in all the details in the report, they will surely get the message that Clinton broke the rules, and that her explanation for setting up her private e-mail system, which never seemed very credible, has now been discredited by her own words.
Clinton has repeatedly said that she set up her private e-mail system for the sake of convenience. The new report details an e-mail exchange from November, 2010, between Clinton and Huma Abedin, her deputy chief of staff. Abedin told her boss, “We should talk about putting you on state email or releasing your email address to the department so you are not going to spam.” (Apparently, some messages from Clinton’s private account were being intercepted by the department’s spam filter.) Clinton replied to Abedin, “Let’s get separate address or device but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible.”
Those seventeen words seem to confirm what many observers have suspected from the outset: Clinton’s main motive in setting up the e-mail system wasn’t to make it easier for her to receive all her messages in one place, or to do all her business on her beloved BlackBerry; it was to protect some of her correspondence—particularly correspondence she considered private—from freedom-of-information requests and other demands for details, for example, from Republican-run congressional committees.
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...this is a woman who vilified Edward Snowden for revealing how the NSA spies on all of us, and who wants to initiate a Manhattan Project to enable the government to spy on all of us even more effectively.
She claims to be ignorant of technology ("what, you mean with a cloth?"
-- ha ha so cute -- and yet instead of hiring a true professional to set up her private email server, she hires a sort-of techie with a degree in political science to set it up. She then proceeds to conduct all of her U.S. Dept of State business on said server, compromising national security, but hey, she protected her own privacy, so it's all good, right?
Forgive me if I give a big, fat FU finger to that.
I didn't know that.
But, it's hard to keep up on all the news coming out about this situation.
Someone should write a book about it!
