{"id":25109,"date":"2015-03-05T15:34:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25109"},"modified":"2015-03-05T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:34:27","slug":"some-perspective-on-parallel-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25109","title":{"rendered":"Some Perspective On Parallel Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Commentary Magazine<\/a> posted an article entitled, “Clinton’s Parallel Government and Obama’s Great Miscalculation.” The article deals with some of the implications of the recent revelation regarding Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State<\/a> using a private email account and her own private server. This is not normally the way government business is conducted.<\/p>\n

The article points out:<\/p>\n

Operating her own server would have afforded Clinton additional legal opportunities to block government or private subpoenas in criminal, administrative or civil cases because her lawyers could object in court before being forced to turn over any emails. And since the Secret Service<\/a> was guarding Clinton\u2019s home, an email server<\/a> there would have been well protected from theft or a physical hacking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But homebrew email servers are generally not as reliable, secure from hackers or protected from fires or floods as those in commercial data centers. Those professional facilities provide monitoring for viruses or hacking attempts, regulated temperatures, off-site backups, generators in case of power outages, fire-suppression systems and redundant communications lines.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a few interesting things here. How many investigations into the Benghazi attack<\/a> failed to note the private email account? If the investigations missed that, what else did they miss? How many people in the Obama Administration<\/a> received emails relating to government business from this private email account and failed to notice that it did not come from a government email account? Was this noted? Did anyone care?<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

…Sometimes the Clintons\u2019 parallel government works in Obama\u2019s favor, such as Clinton\u2019s Benghazi<\/a> disaster. Her independent email server and private addresses enabled her to hide her correspondence on the attack, which also shielded the rest of the administration from that scrutiny. Obama is infamously secretive about his own records and his administration\u2019s unprecedented lack of transparency was a good match for the Clintons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it also meant a certain degree of this went beyond his control. Hillary\u2019s family foundation, which essentially became a super-PAC<\/a> for foreign governments, was supposed to have donations vetted. They didn\u2019t<\/a>. They were supposed to have Bill Clinton<\/a>\u2019s paid events cleared. And they did\u2013they were cleared<\/a> by Hillary\u2019s State Department. They weren\u2019t supposed to accept foreign-government money while Hillary was secretary of state. They did<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clintonworld operated as a distinct, independent entity for its own purposes while also running American foreign policy<\/a>. The phrase \u201cconflict of interest\u201d does not even begin to approach the disturbing ethical calculations here. But it can\u2019t be argued that Obama didn\u2019t know what he was getting the country into. He just thought he could control it. He was wrong, and he was wrong to try. And we\u2019re only beginning to see the consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This could get interesting. There is, after all, no honor among thieves.<\/p>\n

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