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The Hillary Cover-Up and the End of Democracy
FrontPage Magazine ^ | March 4, 2015 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 03/04/2015 4:26:15 AM PST by SJackson

On Monday, The New York Times reported that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never — not once — used her official State Department email address for her official communications. Instead, she utilized a private email account, effectively protecting her emails from public scrutiny. The Washington Post then broke the news that Hillary had registered her email address the same day her confirmation hearings for secretary of state began. In other words, Hillary knew she would be secretary of state conducting official business, and coincidentally opened a private email account at the same time to guard her from Freedom of Information Act requests.

Sure, Hillary Clinton has a nasty history with crucial documents going missing — she is the only first lady in American history fingerprinted by the FBI, and the FBI found missing documents with her fingerprints on them in the White House personal quarters. But the media SuperFriends quickly activated to protect Hillary. Glenn Thrush of Politico tweeted that Hillary must have relied on incompetent staffers and lawyers. Ron Fournier of National Journal tut-tutted that this made her “no better” than Republicans. Of course, the media also ignored Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman handing millions to the Clinton charity just before Hillary’s big run.

Clinton is hardly the first Obama administration official to utilize a private email account to shield herself. Lisa Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency used a private email address under the name “Richard Windsor” to conduct official business. According to Vice News’ Jason Leopold, the Department of Defense told him that they would not release any emails from former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, since “SecDef does not maintain an official email account.” Other Obama administration officials using unofficial email accounts include former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Donald Berwick, the former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Welcome to the most transparent administration in American history, where the Federal Communications Commission can regulate the Internet and keep those regulations secret before a vote, where top government officials can deliberately hide their emails from the public, but where your health records, income and emails are all government business.

The public and private spheres have now been completely reversed.

The federal government can punish its own employees for enforcing federal immigration law; if you oppose this, you are a racist, but if you hire an illegal immigrant, you will be fined or imprisoned. The feds can monitor your electronic metadata, but they can hide their own correspondence from records requests. After all, they are our betters, and we must kneel before Zod.

What possible violations of the Constitutional system will Americans actually fight? The list of possibilities grows short. Reports emerged this week suggesting that President Obama will consider banning bullets by executive order, effectively castrating the Second Amendment by fiat. Shrug. The Obama White House announced this week that Obama was “very interested” in unilaterally raising taxes. Shrug.

Democracies die not with a whimper or a bang but with a shrug. When we don’t care enough about the system to stop its breakdown — when we’re happy with our dictators so long as we agree with them — the constitutional order collapses. But so what? By electing Hillary Clinton the presidency, we’ll strike a blow against non-existent generalized sexism in American society. And that’s far more important than having an answerable, accountable government.


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary2016; hillary2016not; hillarycorrupt; hillaryemails; piginapantsuit
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1 posted on 03/04/2015 4:26:15 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

bump


2 posted on 03/04/2015 4:28:31 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: SJackson

Isn’t it great that people can vagrantly disregard the law and not be punished...and yet, the Citizen who does not pay $5 worth of taxes get their personal property or their bank account emptied seized without notice....and yet we complain...vote in the GOP majority...and nothing changes...I think the Great Experiment in Freedom is over....


3 posted on 03/04/2015 4:31:48 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: BCW

Time to repeal the 17th amendment


4 posted on 03/04/2015 4:35:30 AM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: SJackson

Times for the friends of Patreus to come out and throw some stones her way too.


5 posted on 03/04/2015 4:38:31 AM PST by Usagi_yo (You get what you can take and you keep what you can defend.)
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To: BCW

You’re right, it’s over.

Laws are for the little people.

We are over the tipping point.


6 posted on 03/04/2015 4:38:42 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (GOP-RIP 3/3/2015 Suicide By Betrayal)
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To: Article10

I second that!


7 posted on 03/04/2015 4:39:06 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the '17th amendment.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Have been for quite some time.


8 posted on 03/04/2015 4:41:17 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: SJackson


9 posted on 03/04/2015 4:42:33 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: SJackson

Our finest are in combat to defend this?????


10 posted on 03/04/2015 4:45:25 AM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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11 posted on 03/04/2015 4:46:17 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Elsie

Clinton used her own private servers to do government business and paid for by WHOM? Should you or I try that and we would definitely be headed to a Fed penn someplace and damn soon.

I wonder how many OTHER politicians are doing the same thing? Nothing would surprise me, NOTHING.


12 posted on 03/04/2015 4:55:05 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: SJackson

What difference does it make?


13 posted on 03/04/2015 4:55:47 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: Russ

Start hitting your Senators, and get others to do the same


14 posted on 03/04/2015 4:56:12 AM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: BCW
Flagrantly.

-PJ

15 posted on 03/04/2015 4:56:32 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: SJackson

Simple solution: Ask Hildabeast to turn over her emails!

After all she turned over the records from the Rose law Firm so quickly! (SARC)


16 posted on 03/04/2015 5:00:32 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: SJackson

It’s not so much for the anti non existent feminism perhaps but for the sake of preserving the right to have birth control and all of its trappings

Women will still be miserable in this whining search for happiness.

Fast times at ridge mint high an ugly, inexplicably popular movie actually tells this story

We are those dopey amoral aimless animals. Well those who want this are anyway more than half of us or close to it

The right to be amoral trumps the constitution. Birth control is at the core

Watch how they go after the GOP pres candidates over birth control, not even abortion btw, after the nomination if you doubt it


17 posted on 03/04/2015 5:03:52 AM PST by stanne
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To: SJackson

The American people believe in “democracy”. So they vote “Democratic” many times. They don’t understand the terminology.


18 posted on 03/04/2015 5:06:07 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Elsie

That’s right, people don’t think it makes a difference anyway, so the electoral vote majority is with HRC. She starts out with about 240 electoral votes without lifting a hand.


19 posted on 03/04/2015 5:07:49 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: SJackson

DEPOPULATE criminals/socialists/scumbags/totalitarians and their enablers from the body politic.

Get I$$a on emailgate. Free Gowdy from Benghazigate.

/Hillaryous and her talking member, Willie.

Obliteration without representation.

“That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”


20 posted on 03/04/2015 5:08:02 AM PST by PGalt
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