http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-private-email-at-state-department-raises-flags.html?_r=0
She's doing it again, and we are quivering with pleasure screaming "Beat me! Hurt me, Hillary!" as if she was some leather-clad dominatrix whipping Amurrica, which in a way she is.
The Gray Lady reports: “Hillary
Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government
business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have
violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as
part of the agency’s record.”
Okay, first off, there is no “may
have” about it. The ageing old crone broke the law, she knew she was breaking at
the time, and she knew full well that nothing would ever be done about it. Nor
will there be.
“Mrs.
Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at
the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails
preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records
Act. It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort
to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers
reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which
ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails
were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary’s
post in early 2013.
“Her
expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former
National Archives and Records Administration officials and government
watchdogs, who called it a serious breach. ‘It is very difficult to conceive of
a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in
allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email
communications channel for the conduct of government business,’ said Jason R.
Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation
at the National Archives and Records Administration.
“A
spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Nick Merrill, defended her use of the personal
email account and said she has been complying with the ‘letter and spirit of
the rules.’”
Which is
clearly horse dung. She doesn’t even try any more. She knows she’s completely
unaccountable, and basically she’s just telling us to piss off, little people, I
am immune to your laws, and you don’t matter.
And yes,
she is. And no, we don’t.
“Under
federal law, however, letters and emails written and received by federal
officials, such as the secretary of state, are considered government records
and are supposed to be retained so that congressional committees, historians
and members of the news media can find them. There are exceptions to the law
for certain classified and sensitive materials.”
(And of course, there is an exception for Hillary Clinton. I mean, some on now, she’s Hillary!)
Okay, this just goes on and on. Basically, she’s doing it again. Flipping us all the bird again, and we love it.
Even some of the Democrats are getting twitchy about her behavior. They are hemming and hawing and politely suggesting that maybe, just maybe, the Sea Hag needs to have a primary race with a lefty sparring partner like her eviler twin Elizabeth Warren just to get her set for the main bout with Jeb Bush, who apparently has been persuaded that if he acts as a palooka and takes a dive in 2016 it will be his turn in 2024.
He’s a fool, of course, but then neither of those two Bush boys were ever precisely the sharpest knives in the drawer.
