Hillary Clinton's Imperious Brush-Off of Email Rules
Hillary Clinton's Imperious Brush-Off of Email Rules
Friday, 27 May 2016 00:00 By Ray McGovern, Consortium News | News Analysis
It turns out that she deliberately chose to use a hacker-friendly, unprotected email server, and not so much for convenience -- unless you define "convenience" as the ability to operate in total secrecy with no possibility of being held accountable for your policies or behavior. In one email to an aide, Clinton explained, "I don't want any risk of the personal being accessible."
When some staffers had the temerity to voice concerns over the vulnerability of a non-governmental email system, they were warned by their seniors "never to speak of the Secretary's personal email system again." The IG report establishes that Clinton's claim that her use of an insecure email system for official business had been "allowed" is, well, disingenuous.
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In the print edition, the Post lead editorial's headline reads: "Ms. Clinton's willful misjudgments: She repeatedly ignored warnings not to use private email during her tenure as secretary of state." The online headline reads: ""Clinton's inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules." The editorial ends with the recommendation: "We urge the FBI to finish its own investigation soon, so all information about this troubling episode will be before the voters."
In the Post's news columns, a report on the IG findings runs as the page-one lede under the headline "State Department watchdog rebukes Clinton over email: No approval sought for private server," undercutting Clinton's argument that her decision to operate an email tied to her home-based server "was permitted" by the State Department. Too early to tell, of course, but Ms. Clinton may begin to worry that the editorial page editors, who until now have enthroned her as their favorite neocon, may be getting wobbly.
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