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Hillary’s Email Defense Is Laughable: I should know, I ran FOIA for the U.S. government.
POLITICO ^ | 03/17/2015 | DAN METCALFE

Posted on 03/17/2015 9:28:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

I thought when I retired from the Justice Department in 2007, I was done with records-related scandals. By that point, I had spent more than a quarter-century as founding director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy, effectively serving as the federal government’s chief information-disclosure “guru.” In that position, I had weathered many a Clinton records scandal during the 1990s—about two dozen, all told, including two that amazingly have still never become public—and I thought I had seen the last of them. At the very least, I thought I had become immune to being shocked by anything in that vein.

It turns out I was wrong on both counts.

We now have former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being revealed as someone who took the unprecedented step of arranging to use her personal email account for all of her official email communications. What’s more, she decided to use her own email server equipment, rather than a commercial Internet service provider, so that the records of her email account would reside solely within her personal control at home. And if that were not enough, she then proceeded blithely—though not uncharacteristically—to present herself to the public, at a press conference held on March 10, as if there were really nothing “wrong” about any of this at all.

Well, as the saying goes, “reality is not her friend.”

For anyone considering this sad tale carefully—including the media, members of Congress and the public at large, whether from “inside the Beltway” or not—some basic points of both law and reality should be borne in mind.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintoncrimefamily; email; federalrecordsact; foia; hillary; hillarycorrupt; hillaryemailgate; miraclewhip; washedupoldhag

1 posted on 03/17/2015 9:28:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"And I say that even as someone who, if she decides to run for president and is the Democratic nominee, will nevertheless vote for her next year."

--displays the mindset of the true Democrat--no matter what if the candidate is a criminal , he will vote for her---

2 posted on 03/17/2015 9:35:24 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: SeekAndFind
she decided to use her own email server equipment,

Hillary in her private server checking the e-mails.

3 posted on 03/17/2015 9:35:26 AM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: SeekAndFind; maggief; Liz
...including two that amazingly have still never become public...

Most interesting.

4 posted on 03/17/2015 9:40:34 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad. FOIA has expired and no information will be forthcoming from the dictator or his possee.


5 posted on 03/17/2015 9:41:55 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SeekAndFind
“reality is not her friend.”

The truth is not her friend is probably a better way of putting it. The Clintons are habitual and pathological liars. The amazing thing is that so many people in the Washington establishment, the Democrat Party and the MSM are willing to lie repeatedly to protect the Clintons. Carville, Begala and others simply repeat lie after lie.

6 posted on 03/17/2015 9:46:17 AM PDT by detective
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To: philman_36

Indeed. One of those “I’ll just leave this here” comments.


7 posted on 03/17/2015 9:56:05 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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In Hillary's foiled attempt to become President she ran a 5 minute commercial narrated by hubby Bill who said he wanted to share some things we may not know about Hillary’s background. His version of her biography, says insider Dick Morris who was a key member of the Clinton staff, is about as reliable as if it appeared in Pravda!

So, on his website he made a few corrections.

Bill says: Hillary never wanted to run for public office, but she did want to work at public service.

The facts are: When Clinton was considering not running for another term as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he didn’t. She and Bill even had me take two surveys to assess her chances of winning. The conclusion was that she couldn’t win because people would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking his wounds after losing for president. So she didn’t run. Bill did and won. But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as opposed to service, long ago.

Bill says: In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the poor.

The facts are: Hillary’s main extra-curricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights violations and develop grounds for appeal.

Bill says: Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a children’s rights project for poor kids.

The facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an internship with him.

Bill says: Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she turned down all the lucrative job offers.

The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam and only passed the Arkansas bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas and only got hired by the University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was already teaching there. She only joined the prestigious Rose Law Firm after Bill became Attorney General and made partner only after he was elected governor.

Bill says: President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services Board of Directors and she became its chairman.

The facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill’s support for Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary became chairman in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter’s choice to be chairman.

Bill says: She served on the board of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

The facts are: Yes she did. But her main board activity, not mentioned by Bill, was to sit on the Walmart board of directors, for a substantial fee. She was silent about their labor and health care practices.

Bill says: Hillary didn’t succeed at getting health care for all Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million children with health insurance.

The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP. It was included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority Leader Senator Trent Lott. I helped to negotiate the deal. The money came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals’ tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either source of funds.

Bill says: Hillary was the face of America all over the world

The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of town so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them

Bill says: Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for children’s and women’s issues.

The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like changing the names on courthouses and post offices, she passed only four substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national park in Puerto Rico. A second provided respite care for family members helping their relatives through Alzheimer’s or other conditions. And two were routine bills to aid 9-11 victims and responders which were sponsored by the entire NY delegation.

8 posted on 03/17/2015 10:08:23 AM PDT by Baynative (Liberal greed keeps people in need.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lots of words to tell us what we already know


9 posted on 03/17/2015 10:12:31 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SeekAndFind
And I say that even as someone who, if she decides to run for president and is the Democratic nominee, will nevertheless vote for her next year.

A true liberal: The end (the progressive agenda) justify the means (his vote).

10 posted on 03/17/2015 10:23:08 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: SeekAndFind

Unclassified Emails is a LIE. Everything at the Department of State is Sensitive But Unclassified, therefore, being Sensitive it requires official handling. As a former Information Management Specialist for DoS, I actually was a systems and network administrator, handled ran the Information Processing Centers at various postings, so I can tell you - SBU is the lowest classification at State; everything is Sensitive. Period.


11 posted on 03/17/2015 10:23:51 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: SeekAndFind
And I say that even as someone who, if she decides to run for president and is the Democratic nominee, will nevertheless vote for her next year.

Incredible - he says this while articulating the details of her illegalities from the basis of his 30 years in the exact profession she raped!

This is the real purpose of this article, the real plan - to tell Democrats, yep, she's a certified, treasonous felon, so vote for her anyway.

The Clintons are down to straight-out mind control now, no cover story, in the face of admitted criminal acts. Just vote like you're programmatic to, zombies. Just Do It.

12 posted on 03/17/2015 11:46:00 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Baynative

Bookmark.


13 posted on 03/17/2015 12:50:48 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: SeekAndFind

Doesn’t matter - all she has to say is “my dog ate your FOIA” and the media and her supporters will say

“see? Her dog ate it! Now shut up!”


14 posted on 03/17/2015 12:51:59 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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15 posted on 03/18/2015 2:14:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: philman_36

...including two that amazingly have still never become public...

Most interesting.

Indeed.


16 posted on 03/18/2015 2:21:58 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SeekAndFind

GREAT POST! Sooooo Thorough! Amazing that he clearly says I’m still voting for her too, that really threw me. Whew.


17 posted on 03/19/2015 3:19:54 PM PDT by Pagey (HELL is The 2nd Term of a POTUS who uses the terms “social justice” and “fair distribution".)
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