President Suggests Hillary's Email "a Matter for Voters to Decide" [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 29 May 2015 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Irritated that the media would dare to pose a question about the legality of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's unsecured email communications, President Obama refused to comment, suggesting that "whether she did anything that was really wrong is a matter for voters to decide. And from what I've seen so far, she's on her way to securing the Democratic nomination for president. I think that says the majority of Americans are okay with how she's handled it."

The media's unwelcome inquiry was spurred by an 83-page State Department Inspector General's report calling Clinton's email operation an "inexcusable and willful disregard of the rules. Contrary to the Secretary's public statements, her use of a private server was not 'allowed' as she has alleged. It was in direct violation of State Department regulations that the Secretary had previously cited in issuing punishments to lower-ranking violators. There is no record of her receiving a valid exemption from these regulations from any higher-ranking authority."

A key piece of evidence in the IG's report cited Secretary Clinton's warning to all State Department personnel that "personal email accounts could be compromised and officials should avoid conducting official Department business from personal e-mail accounts."

Among the classified information showing up in the Secretary's unsecured email was long-time Clinton family confidant Sid Blumenthal's message urging Hillary "to expedite the overthrow of Libya's Mohamar Qadaffi before his scheme of establishing a 7-billion dollar fund of gold-backed dinars undercuts the US government's ability to control the oil industry." The overthrow was expedited. Qadaffi was murdered and the country thrown into a chaos that later resulted in the assassination of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens in 2012.

Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook denounced the IG report, calling it "as gross an invasion of privacy that any public figure has had to endure. The staff that were under Secretary Clinton's direction were instructed to never speak to anyone, ever, on the topic of her private email account. That some of these staffers have talked to the Inspector General is a betrayal of the first magnitude. Those undertaking the tasks of governing this country need to know that their orders are heeded and obeyed. Sad to say, the Secretary's orders on this matter were neither heeded nor obeyed. We're confident that voters will correct this injustice by electing Hillary president in November."

In related news, Judge Emmett Sullivan ordered that videos of Clinton aides' testimony on the email scandal "be sealed so as not to unduly diminish Secretary Clinton's chance of being elected president. If we want the best and brightest of Americans to seek and obtain the reins of power we need to protect them from excessive intrusion into their efforts to serve the public." Judge Sullivan said he would allow "written transcripts to be released to the media" in order to "deflect charges of a 'cover-up.' The written word is a format with which the vast majority are not adept. Officially, the information will be available, but few will read it."

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[x_plus_one]

Hillary used NO password, her server security was nill. It was an open ended proposition. Anyone could have a go.

[Lumper20]

Any military officer who did anything like Hillary would have been in Leavenworth years ago.

[John Semmens]

ping

[UCANSEE2]

"The written word is a format with which the vast majority are not adept. Officially, the information will be available, but few will read it."

Wow.

Throughout the article, everything was truth, with only a few sentences (or thought trains) slightly re-ordered.

Then, you capped it off with the perfect summary.

I think this is one of your best.

[Mark]

Then there was this E=mail:

Police Report of the Year

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The Richland Police report finding a man's body in the Columbia River, near the confluence of the Yakima River, at Columbia Park.

The dead man's name will not be released until his family has been notified.

The victim apparently drowned due to excessive marijuana consumption. He was wearing black fishnet stockings, a red garter belt, a pink G-string, purple lipstick, and a ‘Hillary for President' T-shirt. He also had a cucumber in his rectum.

The police removed the Hillary T-shirt to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.

In spite of what we sometimes think, the police do care.

[berdie]

Hmmm...a matter for voters to decide...

Well, I’m a voter. I say guilty as he!!...throw her in the brig.