Posted on 03/03/2015 9:00:42 PM PST by kristinn
Hillary Rodham Clinton is facing a new set of questions about ethics and transparency - the sort that have dogged her and husband Bill for decades.
The latest disclosure, that Clinton used a personal email account while serving as secretary of state, comes on the cusp of her likely second bid for president. Combined with recent news about her family foundation raising money from foreign governments while she was at the State Department, it added fresh fuel Tuesday to the longstanding charge the Clintons play by their own rules.
"Does she believe that leadership means acting outside the law?" said Carly Fiorina, the former technology executive who is weighing a 2016 GOP presidential bid. "Does she believe that leadership can exist without transparency?"
Clinton ignored the issue during a speech Tuesday night at the 30th anniversary gala of EMILY's List, which works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights.
Clinton's aides were quick to dispute the notion that there was anything illegal or improper about her use of a personal email account for government work, noting that she was hardly the first secretary of state to do so. Meanwhile, her allies praise the work of the Clinton Foundation - and note that it isn't required to disclose its donors but does so anyway.
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People familiar with Clinton's private email address said it was known to about 100 people, but was not widely distributed throughout the department. Clinton also used a private email account while in the Senate, though senators' emails and other private records are not required to be archived.
The people familiar with her email spoke only under condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
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The Corrupt Clintons, this show has been going on for years, like a bad rerun.
BTTT
How to spell Democrat properly: P-r-i-v-i-l-e-g-e-d
Presstitutes trying to make the case that this makes only Hillary look badly.
Obama was the one who promised transparency.
This is NOT the first department in the Obama administration that has been busted using private email accounts to coordinate talking points.
The EPA, the IRS, and now the State Department.
Obama has not been transparent. His is a corrupt administration.
The Clinton Foundation pays Chelsea $400,000 per year.
They actually disburse VERY little to charity —maybe 10% or less.
The CF is a freaking SLUSH fund, and Molester Epstein contributed lavishly to them.
The Clintons get away with murder, so I doubt this email caper will be the one that brings her down.
As old as an alleged racist epithet under a rock on a camp that a candidate's father leased over thirty years ago?
As old as an allegation that the candidate was mean to an elementary school classmate?
President Clinton is sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. A voice is heard on his intercom. It is
his secretary.)
SECRETARY: Mr. President, Lieutenant Columbo is here to see you.
(The Oval Office door opens a bit. Columbo peeks in tentatively.)
COLUMBO: I hope I’m not disturbing you, Mr. President.
CLINTON (smiling broadly): Not at all! I heard that you were visiting the White House. That’s
why I had my people take you off the tour line to see me. I’ve always been a big fan of yours.
(Columbo, puffing on a cigar and wearing a wrinkled raincoat, walks in a slouching manner up to
Clinton. A beaming Clinton stands up from behind his desk and heartily shakes Columbo’s
hand.)
COLUMBO: Mr. President, this is indeed an honor. Let me tell you, my wife is a big fan of
yours. Sir, I don’t mean to impose but do you think you can autograph a photo for my wife?
CLINTON: Heck, that’s no problem. I’ll be happy to oblige.
(Clinton pulls a photo of himself from his desk, signs it, and hands it to Columbo.)
COLUMBO: This is terrific! You don’t know what this will mean to my wife_..Uhh, before I
go, do you mind if I ask you a personal question?
CLINTON: Huh? Okay, sure.
COLUMBO: Could you tell me how much you paid for your suit? I really admire the material.
CLINTON: I, umm, think it cost about $500.
COLUMBO: And so clean too. With a suit like that you must send it out to the cleaners after
each time you wear it.
CLINTON: Of course.
COLUMBO: Well, this is what’s bothering me. I heard that your good friend, the late Vincent
Foster, was also a nice dresser yet there were carpet fibers discovered all over his suit when they
found him after his tragic suicide in Fort Marcy Park.
(Clinton’s smile turns a bit tense.)
CLINTON: So?
COLUMBO: So it seems like a mystery how all these fibers ended up on his suit. You might pick
up a few carpet fibers around the bottom of the pants but not all over the suit.
CLINTON: I think the FBI determined that the carpet fibers probably came from his home.
COLUMBO: That is only an assumption because the FBI never actually took samples from the
carpet fibers at his home. With all those fibers on his suit, you would think that they would make
a comparison.
CLINTON (Slightly exasperated): Look, Lieutenant Columbo, there have already been three
investigations into this matter and they all ruled that Vince Foster committed suicide.
COLUMBO: Oh, I’m not questioning the investigations. I’m sure Mr. Foster died just the way
they said but there are still a few loose ends.
CLINTON: Such as?
COLUMBO: Such as the autopsy X-rays.
CLINTON: What about the X-rays?
COLUMBO: Dr. James Beyer, the Deputy Medical Examiner for Northern Virginia, conducted
the autopsy but no X-rays were taken.
CLINTON: No X-rays were taken? That’s absurd! They must have been taken in a case of this
importance.
COLUMBO: Dr. Beyer checked off a box on the autopsy report stating that he took X-rays yet he
later claimed the X-ray machine was inoperable.
CLINTON: Aren’t you forgetting the suicide note that Foster left behind?
COLUMBO (slaps forehead with his hand): That’s right! The suicide note! Obviously it must
have been suicide if Foster left behind a suicide note.
(Clinton looks cheerful again.)
CLINTON: I guess that closes the case then.
COLUMBO: It sure does! Mr. President, you don’t know how relieved this makes me feel. I’m
sorry to have taken up your time with this matter.
CLINTON: Think nothing of it.
(Columbo leaves through the door and Clinton returns to his desk. A few moments later the door
opens again and Columbo leans just inside the doorway.)
COLUMBO: Uhh, there’s just one little point that I overlooked.
CLINTON (looking irritated): What is it, Lieutenant Columbo?
COLUMBO: How do we know that the suicide note was actually written by Mr. Foster?
CLINTON: The suicide note’s handwriting was analyzed and judged to be authentic.
COLUMBO: Yes, by a Capitol police sergeant who only studied handwriting as a hobby. The
fact of the matter is that three renowned handwriting experts including Reginald Alton of Oxford
University determined that the note, supposedly written by Mr. Foster, was an obvious forgery.
CLINTON: Lieutenant Columbo, are you one of those conspiracy kooks? The autopsy report,
even without the X-rays, proved it was a suicide.
(Columbo reaches inside his raincoat and pulls out a couple of sheets of paper.)
COLUMBO: The strange thing is that the official finding says it was a mouth to head wound yet
take a look at the report of the Fairfax County Medical Examiner, Dr. Haut. It came from the
National Archives and was placed on the Internet from where I downloaded it.
(Columbo hands the papers to Clinton.)
Clinton: Hmm...It says that the wound was “mouth-head” just like the official report.
COLUMBO: Yes but look at the word “head.” It’s obvious that was typed in after another word
just to its left was whited out. Then if you look on the second page of Haut’s report it actually
says the wounds were “mouth to neck.” I submit, sir, that the first page was altered to change the
wound location.
CLINTON: The bottom line is that, despite these discrepancies, the investigators have
determined that Vince Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park.
COLUMBO: Oh, sir. I’m not disputing their expertise. It’s just that professional police officers
are trained to treat every death as a homicide until suicide is proven. In this case, however,
Cheryl Braun, the senior Park Police Officer testified that they determined that Foster had
committed suicide before they had even inspected the body.
CLINTON: This is all very interesting theory but the fact is that the Foster case has been ruled a
suicide...Case closed.
COLUMBO: I’m sure you’re right about that. After all, if those in authority say it was a suicide
then it must be so. Well, good day, Mr. President. Sorry for troubling you about details that must
have some logical explanation.
CLINTON: Thank you for visiting, Lieutenant Columbo, and goodbye.
(Columbo leaves the room. Clinton returns to his desk and begins writing on some papers. A
little while later we see Columbo looking from the outside into the Oval Office through a
window just behind Clinton. Columbo begins tapping on the window. At first Clinton doesn’t
hear him. Then he turns around and opens the window.)
CLINTON: Columbo! What is your problem?
(Columbo bends over and then stands back up again holding his shoes.)
COLUMBO: See all that dirt on the soles of my shoes?
CLINTON: Okay, they’re dirty. So what?
COLUMBO: It’s just like when my cousin Guido visits me. He likes working in my yard which is
great but my wife throws a fit when Guido tries to walk into the house because of all the dirt on
his shoes.
CLINTON: Will you please get to the point, Columbo!
COLUMBO: Well, the FBI scraped Mr. Foster’s shoes thoroughly but found no traces of soil.
Everybody else who walked in the area of Fort Marcy Park where Foster was found came away
with lots of dirt on their shoes.
CLINTON: You’re wrong, Columbo. A forensic expert found soil on Foster’s shoes.
COLUMBO: Oh yes. Henry Lee thought he found microscopic quantities of the soil on the shoes
long after the FBI carefully went over them. Lee was the same fellow who determined that OJ
Simpson must have been innocent because he thought he saw another footprint which never
existed at the murder scene. Somehow I don’t think Mr. Lee is the most reliable expert in this
regard.
CLINTON: Are you trying to say that Foster did not commit suicide in Fort Marcy Park?
COLUMBO: I think that could be a distinct possibility, sir. I’m sure that you, having been a
friend of Mr. Foster, would want to leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of this matter.
CLINTON: Just what do you expect me to do?
COLUMBO: It would be helpful if you could make the videotape from the White House parking
lot surveillance camera available. We need to see Mr. Foster entering his car on the day he died.
CLINTON: That tape is missing from the White House vault where it was stored.
COLUMBO: Then how about the videotape from the vault surveillance camera? Maybe we can
find out who removed the parking lot video from the vault.
CLINTON: The vault video is missing too. Perhaps the parking lot camera never caught Foster
entering his car?
COLUMBO: At the most guarded building in the world? Not likely. As a matter of fact I’m sure
that cameras are watching me right now and that Secret Service guards should be apprehending
me at any moment.
(Suddenly several uniformed guards grab Columbo and haul him away.)
COLUMBO (shouting from the distance): This has been a really enlightening conversation, Mr.
President! I hope we can pick up where we left off in the near future!
(Clinton slams the window shut.)
There might be a handful of foundations that do act within norms for charity operations, but the bulk are simply tax-free associations to funnel money into the pockets of the executives of the foundation. If regular Americans would get smart and re-create their whole financial situation within a fake-charity foundation.....we could cut off fifty percent of the taxable income in the US easily.
Jesu Christo, these two grifters deserve nothing less than the Mussolini / Ceausescu Treatment.
Anything can be used as the straw that breaks the camel's back. What's necessary is for people to find the balls to do it.
So let's see, Hillary had NO government email account, only a private, unsecured email, yet did NOT use it for classified information? So how did she get classified emails - tickertape? So for four years, the Secretary of State somehow conducted ALL confidential government business without sending, receiving, or even being ABLE to send or receive classified email?! Sure, because like, why would such a position possible need such a requirement, right?
The contemptuous arrogance of such brazen, impossible lies is disgusting - and Harf seems to be in the lead for lying-scag-of-the-month, or at least a doggy treat and a pat on the head from Hillary.
“Does she believe that leadership means acting outside the law?
Well she’s had the example of Obama for 6 years so of course she believes it.
Good point....”Democrat Leadership” means you don’t have to obey ANY laws!
The Clinton’s have been getting away with their corruption long before the came on the federal playing field. They are experts at cheating and corruption. Nothing new there. To quote a famous ex-gubmint crook, “What difference does it make?” Nothing has or will change if she gets the nod for POTUS.
Believe it or not, that Columbo skit won me a publisher’s prize which included a FREE vacation in Costa Rica (including airfare).
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