Posted on 08/13/2015 12:54:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the Hillary email scandal deepens, Team Hillary has to figure out how to deal with it. Richard Cohen in the Washington Post has already deployed the usual Clinton partisan "LOL this is silly and a waste of time" defense.
But there are serious legal issues that aren't going away. So it may be time to roll out the Benghazi solution. Fake fire a bunch of lower ranked people. Here's a preview of Option 2.
"Hillary only used her personal account for unclassified email. No information in her emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them," campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement to supporters Wednesday.
But a State Department official told Fox News that the intelligence community inspector general, who raised the most recent concerns about Clinton's emails, made clear that at least one of those messages contained information that only could have come from the intelligence community.
"If so, they would have had to come in with all the appropriate classification markings," the official said.
The official questioned whether someone, then, tampered with that message. "[S]omewhere between the point they came into the building and the time they reached HRC's server, someone would have had to strip the classification markings from that information before it was transmitted to HRC's personal email."
The official said doing so would "constitute a felony, in and of itself. I can't imagine that a rank-and-file career DOS employee would have done this, so it was most likely done by someone in her inner circle."
The messages apparently contained satellite imagery and signals intelligence, information that diplomats cannot unilaterally obtain.
Yet, like the Clinton campaign, the State Department public affairs team also maintains that the emails were "not marked classified" when Clinton received them.
"None of them were classified at the time," department spokesman Mark Toner said.
The usual Clinton strategy comes in three parts.
1. We didn't do anything wrong
2. We didn't know we were doing anything wrong
3. You can't prove we knew we were doing anything wrong
You can see elements of all three here. The Clintons understand the lawyer game of plausible deniability well enough. Everyone knows they did X, but they just have to create enough doubt to make it hard to prove it. They're obviously lying, but... it could have been (a) a miscommunication (b) someone else's fault (c) a mistake.
Clintonworld is so huge that the Clintons can easily find some people to sacrifice. They've been amassing people and paying them through the Clinton Foundation. So they can always hand someone a golden parachute. If Sandy Berger was willing to stuff classified documents into his clothes, they can find someone to take the fall for Hillary's emails.
New Campaign Slogan: “I feel confident that there is no evidence that the buck every got anywhere near me”
Hillary throwing the Huma under da bus.
The Smartest Woman in the World didn’t know eh?
Sorry, doesn’t fly.
It was her illegal server, the consequence is hers as well.
The aide is willing to go to jail for Hillary??
DAMMIT! WHEN IS FR GOING TO GET AN ‘EDIT’ FEATURE
You know there is a desease which causes you to be unable to see your typos until after you hit ‘post’
Huh? DON’TCHA?? HUH????
I’m puttin’ my money on Craig Livingstone.
Thing is no emails related to her job should have ever been on that server in the first place.
The FBI,DOJ do their job? Hah!
Under the bus? How do you say, “crunch”, in Urdu?
Huma knows too much. Hill will keep her happy.
Or else...
**Fake fire a bunch of lower ranked people.**
Except these folks may not want real prison.
Of course they may meet an untimely death before any of them has a chance to testify.
Blame it on Vince Foster.
Wilbur.
Joel Cairo and the Fat Man agreed to let Wilbur take the fall.
Richard Cohen is a Dick.
> The aide is willing to go to jail for Hillary??
Huma will call her radical MB mom or dad and they’ll dispatch one of their Mb buddies over here to do a Harry Reid on her...
Or, Anthony Weiner
She could blame it on Bill, after all, it was his server to begin with.
Where the hell is he anyhow?
I hear she's been "really depressed" lately. I sure hope she doesn't have a sudden bout of Vince Foster syndrome.
Weiner is a vienna sausage.
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