Oh what a tangled web...
Posted on 03/04/2015 5:29:10 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
After claiming not to use email while Secretary of State, it has been discovered that Hillary Clinton in fact had private email addresses. This information was obtained in a shady manner by a hacker who called himself Guccifer. Much of the information was originally hacked from old Clinton hack Sydney Blumenthal. It appears that in addition to various personal greetings and inquiries Blumenthal send Hillary what he described as confidential information about Libya. Hillary’s problems at least start with Guccifer, they continue with 50,000 pages worth of documents she provided to the State Department in relation to the House Benghazi investigation. Those documents also come from Hillary’s private, FOIA shielded email accounts. It’s because of Guccifer that the general public even knew about Hillary’s private email account.
Now that the State Department has Hillary’s emails they’re going to be forced to go through them for both FOIA requests and any investigations conducted by Congress. Even the New York Times has noted Hillary’s actions are problematic. In fact, Hillary’s private email account may very well be illegal. Not illegal in the sense that public officials can’t have private email accounts but illegal because she conducted government business over her private account. By conducting government business over a private email account, Hillary prevented the public from obtaining information via FOIA requests and she prevented Congress from obtaining information about her tenure in the State Department.
Not surprisingly the Obama administration, current and former, have been quick to throw Hillary under the bus. Former press secretary Robert Gibbs led the way calling Hillary’s actions highly unusual. Whether the White House is orchestrating the release of these emails remains to be seen. Obama may want to knock off Hillary in favor of Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren. The administration could also be deflecting attention away from yesterday’s speech to Congress by Benjamin Netanyahu and the kerfuffle surrounding it. Either way, the administration is distancing itself from Hillary and perhaps bringing along other Democrats in the process.
Let’s face it, Hillary’s Presidential hopes are in desperate peril right now. She has two major problems facing her (we won’t count Bill who is a perpetual problem). Not only did she use her private email addresses for official State Department business, she also used her position in the State Department to solicit donations for the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Foundation is a $2 billion enterprise which, while Hillary was Secretary of State, obtained donations from several foreign governments. At least one was a “new” donation, meaning the country did not donate before Hillary became Secretary of State.In addition several corporations including General Electric gave hefty donations to the Clinton Foundation after Hillary negotiated favorable trade deals for them with various countries. In other words, the appearance is that Hillary’s Foundation was being paid in exchange for Hillary using her official position to further corporate interests.
Odds are Hillary is going to run for President despite all of this. If she doesn’t run then the Democrats will be left in the awful position of not having anyone ready to run for President. So many potential candidates have not started campaigns because they believe Hillary is inevitable. Hillary isn’t going to throw the entire Democrat Party under the bus like this. If she does it’s only because this scandal grows to the point that she has no chance whatsoever of winning in a general election which likely means that even the Democrats are turning against her. Nevertheless these twin scandals are massive. They show a fundamental breach of trust by Hillary. By hiding official business on her personal email and by the appearance of using the office of the Secretary of State to solicit donations for her personal foundation, Hillary looks like someone who is shady and cannot be trusted. The American public is a trusting sort but once trust is broken it takes a long time for a national politician to recover. Hillary’s chances of winning the Presidency have diminished substantially.
She’ll run. 2016 is an eternity away in politics.
Has Bill hired a food taster yet?
Separate set of rules for the elites and the proles.
Her emails require FOIA to open them. NSA can open mine at will.
All this information is out before she is even a declared candidate. Does anyone think that’s not deliberate?
The media has two years to sweep this under the rug and paint the picture of Hillary, Gramma to the Nation.
H! looks like she is devious and can’t be trusted? Looks? All the plastic surgery in the world can’t fix her looks on this.
“After claiming not to use email while Secretary of State, it has been discovered that Hillary Clinton in fact had private email addresses.”
She didn’t say which email she didn’t use.
What's hilarious about this is that everyone in the administration had to have known about Hillary's email situation. I can guarantee that they all sent her emails. To act surprised about it at this point is utterly laughable.
NSA could probably open Hillary’s emails at will too.
I’m sure the administration knew Hillary was using private email addresses for official business. This administration has a long history of shady dealings with emails and computers, this fits right in.
I would be surprised if the Hillary camp is leaking this. On one hand it’s good to get this information out early, then it’s old news by the time voting begins. On the other hand, this is pretty significant stuff that may very well be criminal. Right now Hillary is lining up big donations for her campaign, this is the sort of leak that scares off big donors. That’s why I think it’s coming from the Obama camp, which has been very quick to throw Hillary under the bus. My suspicion is that the Obama team is going to support Warren or Biden in a big way and they’re setting Hillary up for a downfall.
By this time in 2016, all of this will be conveniently forgotten by the GOPe, the MSM and most voters. if Hillary is still alive and even half way healthy, she will run and win.
At one time I thought her health issues and her sordid past might preclude her running. No more.
I think Bubba left his food taster on the billionaire teenage sex island.
“By hiding official business on her personal email and by the appearance of using the office of the Secretary of State to solicit donations for her personal foundation, Hillary looks like someone who is shady and cannot be trusted.”
My,my,my, such a terrible shame, before this she looked like a perfect angel, oh dear.
Whence come the LONG KNIVES? What goes around, comes around. The Clintons will eventually crash hard.
My sincerest thanks to Guccifer and all his variants out there doing valuable investigative reporting that get libeled and jailed for ‘hacking’...
...by exposing these scoundrels you are doing righteous works in the eyes of the Lord. God speed.
Oh what a tangled web...
A bump in the road & nothing more.
The Flying Buttress continues to cankle her way toward the WH, her butt approaching an unstoppable velocity of 0.5 Worp.
She was looking forward to 8 years of cooling her heals in the White Hut, a new set of White House china and silverware and then leaving the White House “dead broke”.
With apologies to The Usual Suspects,
“How do you stab the devil in the back? What if you miss?”
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