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 Hillarys 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 dont care enough about the system to stop its breakdown when were happy with our dictators so long as we agree with them the constitutional order collapses. But so what? By electing Hillary Clinton the presidency, well strike a blow against non-existent generalized sexism in American society. And thats far more important than having an answerable, accountable government.
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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....
Time to repeal the 17th amendment
Times for the friends of Patreus to come out and throw some stones her way too.
You’re right, it’s over.
Laws are for the little people.
We are over the tipping point.
I second that!
Have been for quite some time.
Our finest are in combat to defend this?????
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.
What difference does it make?
Start hitting your Senators, and get others to do the same
-PJ
Simple solution: Ask Hildabeast to turn over her emails!
After all she turned over the records from the Rose law Firm so quickly! (SARC)
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
The American people believe in “democracy”. So they vote “Democratic” many times. They don’t understand the terminology.
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.
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.”
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