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.
Then re-direct your efforts against the kingmakers, the media, and put THEM on the defensive.
People need to STOP BEING AFRAID OF THE MEDIA. It’s that simple. Take the ultimate “sticks and stones” approach, or claim that label and wear it proudly. And when is everyone going to wise up, stop picketing and writing politicians and start picketing media outlets to point up their treason? And go after their advertisers and sponsors as well. This war is not going to be won in political quarters any more, but on the doorsteps of the MSM.
Yes - I like this approach...go after the logistics! Make the politicians starve for political funding...
You have painted some interesting pictures and scenarios. Obama, the most venal politician since Richard Nixon surely knows that Hillary must distance herself from him and even run against his record and legacy. Destroying Hillary, in effect, beating her all over again would give him sadistic pleasure as well as keeping him out of the line of fire of an administration insider.
Yes, yes, Hillary will never stop taking money, but I doubt she will even be allowed to become king-maker. Obama, who will never, never drop out of sight like GWB, will paint himself as queen-maker, very likely lifting E. Warren into the instant lead.
That four major liberal outlets suddenly got an attack of accidental journalism and attacked Hillary on the same day defies coincidence. Somebody smells blood in the water and has begun chumming to bring even more sharks to the frenzy.
I have a feeling that somebody is out to literally destroy the Cliintons. BUT. They’re like the walking dead. They’ll fight back like wounded animals.
BIden will be emboldened (delusional). As will others. Depends on whether the extreme left can lift Warren onto Obama’s shoulders, then successfully pivot her to the center (Good Lord, voters won’t fall for that again, will they?).
Possible that Dem. centrists can arise and lift Jim Webb?
Ought to be telling in the next week. Can Hillary be forced to respond to these attacks? And will we see new, even more damaging revelations.
Back at you.
Oh, my, I just saw the New Republic has piled on.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121208/hillary-clintons-email-use-shows-shes-unprepared-election
And Aljazeera. We won’t count that, and I sure as heck ain’t gonna link to it.
Numbers...
There are many more Ex-service folks in the states; than there are PRESENT service folks in the army/navy/airforce/marines now.
Hasn't it always been this way?
If you do NOT control information; you lose.
I have no doubt that there are fake social media posters; computerized identities; that reside in programs right now; that will; some day; saturate the web with false story(s) designed to stampede the duped in the direction the Controllers want.
AMEN!!
(And schools; too!)
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