{"id":26000,"date":"2015-07-08T21:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T01:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26000"},"modified":"2015-07-08T21:12:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T01:12:29","slug":"sometimes-lying-just-gets-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26000","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Lying Just Gets Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday CNN posted the transcript of an interview of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by Brianna Keilar<\/a>, CNN’s<\/a> Senior White House Correspondent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The is part of the transcript:<\/p>\n

KEILAR:\u00a0 One of the issues that has eroded some trust that we’ve seen is the issue of your email practices while you were secretary of state.\u00a0 I think there’s a lot of people who don\u2019t understand what your thought process was on that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you tell me the story of how you decided to delete 33,000 emails and how that deletion was executed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLINTON:\u00a0 Well, let’s start from the beginning.\u00a0 Everything I did was permitted.\u00a0 There was no law.\u00a0 There was no regulation.\u00a0 There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate.\u00a0 Previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing.\u00a0 And people across the government knew that I used one device – maybe it was because I am not the most technically capable person and wanted to make it as easy as possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

KEILAR:\u00a0 But you said they – that they did the same thing, that they used a personal server and –<\/strong><\/p>\n

KEILAR:\u00a0 – subpoena deleted emails from them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLINTON:\u00a0 You know, you’re starting with so many assumptions that are – I’ve never had a subpoena.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 There is – again, let’s take a deep breath here.\u00a0 Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation.\u00a0 I had one device.\u00a0 When I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now I didn’t have to turn over anything.\u00a0 I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the State Department<\/a> system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And now I think it’s kind of fun.\u00a0 People get a real-time behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about and what I was communicating about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

KEILAR:\u00a0 Wearing warm socks, you said to John Podesta<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLINTON:\u00a0 Exactly and – or, you know –<\/strong><\/p>\n

KEILAR:\u00a0 Working a fax machine<\/a> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLINTON:\u00a0 – yes, a secure fax machine, which is harder to work than the regular.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So yes, this is being blown up with no basis in law or in fact.\u00a0 That’s fine.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 This is being, in effect, used by the Republicans in the Congress, OK.\u00a0 But I want people to understand what the truth is.\u00a0 And the truth is everything I did was permitted and I went above and beyond what anybody could have expected in making sure that if the State Department didn’t capture something, I made a real effort to get it to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And I had no obligation to do any of that.\u00a0 So let’s set the record straight.\u00a0 And those 55,000 pages, they will be released over the course of this year.\u00a0 People\u00a0 can, again, make their own judgments.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I know you say you were permitted.\u00a0 I just am trying to understand some of the thought process behind it.\u00a0 One former state attorney general, a Democrat, told CNN that they know of no lawyer who would advise someone, a client, facing the kind of scrutiny that you’ve been facing to wipe their server.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I mean, what do you say to that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLINTON:\u00a0 Well, what I say to that is turned over everything I was obligated to turn over.\u00a0 And then I moved on.\u00a0<\/em><\/span> People delete their personal emails, their work-related emails, whatever emails they have on a regular basis.\u00a0 I turned over everything that I could imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I added the underlines and italics.<\/p>\n

So what are the facts? The National Journal<\/a> posted a picture of the subpoena that Hillary Clinton says she never got. The subpoena was sent to her in March:<\/p>\n

\"SubpoenaOfHillaryClinton\"<\/a>The National Journal reports:<\/p>\n

That (Hillary Clinton’s statement that she had never had a subpoena) drew a rebuke from Trey Gowdy<\/a>, the GOP chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi<\/a>, who said the need to “correct the inaccuracy” led him to break with his practice of not releasing subpoenas the panel has issued.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The committee immediately subpoenaed<\/a> Clinton personally after learning the full extent of her unusual email arrangement with herself, and would have done so earlier if the State Department or Clinton had been forthcoming that State did not maintain custody of her records and only Secretary Clinton herself had her records when Congress first requested them,” Gowdy said in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The subpoena sought Clinton’s messages from 2011 and 2012 related to Libya and the 2012 attack on a diplomatic compound and CIA facility in Benghazi that killed four Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very few people have honorable reasons for wiping a computer hard disk clean–particularly after they have been subpoenaed.<\/p>\n

On March 3, 2015, The Atlantic<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

On January 13, 2009, Hillary Clinton attended her first confirmation hearing as a Secretary of State nominee. The same day, with Bush officials still under fire for using private email accounts to circumvent public records laws, someone registered Clintonemail.com<\/a>, a domain that now appears to be at the center of a scandal. “Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department,” The New York Times<\/em> reported<\/a> in a story published late Monday. “Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was willful, flagrant disregard for public records rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why does this matter? Other than the disregard for the Federal Records Act, it means that we will never have an accurate record of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. The record we do have will have omissions and changes, and we will have no way of knowing what is missing or what is edited. Evidently Mrs. Clinton did not feel that the law applied to her.<\/p>\n

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