The Three Most Stunning Lies About Hillary’s Emails
Bernie Sanders said he didn’t care about Hillary Clinton’s emails but the Inspector General at the State Department sure did.
In a 83-page report released Wednesday the Obama-appointed Inspector General found that Clinton’s use of a private email system did not comply with federal records policies. And, while the IG’s declaration Clinton disregarded the rules is remarkable, it’s even more stunning how baldly Clinton lied, on multiple occasions, to multiple people about the matter.
Three noteworthy examples stand out.
First, Clinton told the press she was “not willing to say it was an error in judgment because…nothing that I did was wrong.” Now, it’s a regular bullet in her talking points to admit she made “a mistake.”
Second, in the past Clinton said she was fully cooperating with an FBI investigation into her email. “I’m more than ready to talk to anybody, anytime,” she said. “And I’ve encouraged all of, you know, my assistants to be very forthcoming.”
But, “anybody, anytime” was never true.
She may be cooperating on some level with the FBI, but she never did with the IG.
In a footnote on page 5 of the report, the Office of the Inspector General states that Clinton and several of her top aides, including her former chief of staff Cheryl MIlls, former deputy chief of staff for operations Huma Abedin, and former deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, refused requests for interviews.
Third, Clinton insisted everything she did was permitted. According to the report, page 43, staff at the State Department who were concerned about the fact that her personal system was not subject to federal records law and carried security risks were told Clinton’s “personal system had been reviewed and approved by Department legal staff.”
Not true. The IG found no evidence her system had ever been reviewed by legal counsel.
Moreover, State Department employees who raised those questions were instructed that their “mission is to support the Secretary” and to “never to speak of the secretary’s personal email system again.”
(Take a moment to absorb the fact that even her own staff were lied to about the legal merits about what she was asking them to help her do, possibly putting their careers in jeopardy.)
None of this was a “mistake” as Clinton says.
She intentionally lied about her secret email system many times, offering up false pretenses of transparency and legality. She made concentrated efforts to evade federal public records laws, while at the same time, putting national security at risk.
All because she wanted to protect her personal political agenda more than properly carry out her duties as a public servant.
And, she tried to cover it all up until she got caught red handed.
Bernie Sanders and other Democrats ought to care. Otherwise they are condoning the scandal. (For more from the author of “The Three Most Stunning Lies About Hillary’s Emails” please click HERE)
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