Posted on 09/23/2015 10:10:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
If the Democratic Party cares to salvage a sliver of moral authority, its leaders and early state voters need to send Hillary Rodham Clinton an urgent message: Come clean or get out. Stop lying and deflecting about how and why you stashed State Department email on a secret server—or stop running.
Tell her: We can’t have another day like this:
Story 1: The State Department confirmed that Clinton turned over her email only after Congress discovered that she had exclusively used a private email system. According to The Washington Post, the department first contacted her in the summer of 2014, at least three months before the agency asked Clinton and three of her predecessors to provide their emails.
The story undercuts Clinton’s claim that her decision to turn over self-selected email was a response to a routine-sounding records request. She hasn’t been telling the truth.
Story 2: A federal court has helped uncover more emails related to the Benghazi raid that were withheld from congressional investigators. Clinton has insisted she turned over all her work-related email and complied with congressional subpoenas.
Again, she hasn’t been telling the truth.
Story 3: The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from her private server, raising the possibility that the deleted information becomes public. “The FBI is investigating how and why classified information ended up on Clinton’s server,” Bloomberg reported.
While the Democratic front-runner still insists there was no classified information on the unsecured server, the FBI has moved beyond whether U.S. secrets were involved to how and why. In the language of law enforcement, the FBI is investigating her motive.
On Sunday, Clinton told Face the Nation host John Dickerson: “What I did was allowed. It was fully above board,” and “I tried to be fully transparent.” Both claims are objectively and indisputably false.
From the moment this story broke in March, senior Democrats told me they were worried about where the questions would lead. Several said they feared what the emails might show about the intersection of Clinton’s work at the State Department and the family’s private foundation. One Clinton loyalist, a credible source who I’ve known for years, told me, “The emails are a related but secondary scandal. Follow the foundation money.”
That is still speculation. But months of dishonesty and deception took their toll: A majority of Americans don’t trust her, and the Democratic nomination fight has shifted from a coronation to a competition. A poll released today by Bloomberg shows Clinton barely leading socialist Bernie Sanders and Vice President Joe Biden, who’s not even in the race.
For Democrats, this is an opportunity wasted. A crowded GOP field has been taken hostage by a celebrity billionaire with a history of bankruptcies, sexist behavior, and racially offensive statements. Lacking a firm grip on policy or the truth, Donald Trump is the GOP front-runner. His closest competition, Dr. Ben Carson, said Sunday he didn’t think a Muslim should be president, and his efforts to clean up the controversy have been as ham-handed as they are dishonest.
Which brings me back to Clinton. Loyalists argue that her policy agenda speaks to America’s new demography and addresses 21st-century challenges. Even if they’re right, the Clinton team has underestimated the value that voters place on a candidate’s character. One top Clinton adviser told me in the spring, “Trust doesn’t matter.”
Oft-burned Americans understand that a policy agenda is a collection of promises. If they can’t count on Clinton to be honest, they can’t count on her to keep her word about income inequality, jobs, health care, and the environment.
She announced a plan Tuesday to reduce prescription-drug costs, promising to cap monthly out-of-pocket expenses at $250 without curbing profits that fund research into life-saving drugs. Can you believe her?
Overshadowing that news was her long-awaited decision on the Keystone pipeline: Clinton now opposes a project she was once inclined to support at the State Department, a flip-flop that she justified with a rhetorical wave of the hand. “I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe it is—a distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change.”
A distraction from the important work. That could be her campaign slogan.
Woo hoo that is a hoot...moral authority? Where, on the planet, Zorton?
Come clean, THEN get out.
1) Who transported Hillary’s server from NY to NJ? Did the Secret Service (who Hilary insists had been guarding it since it was really Bill’s Lie-Berry/Foundation asset) accompany and supervise the transport of the server? Per the interview with Platte River Networks, did they just take it, lock it up, not power it up, connect it to the internet, or not have it functioning as an active email server? Was there continuity of server activity between May 2013 to August 2015, or did the server go off-line starting in June 2013?
2) Who received actual server in NJ - the name of the Platte River Networks employee/technician? What WAS it - make/model/form factor, etc.? Did the Clinton Foundation (or issuer of the RFP on Hillary’s behalf) indicate that the company that would provide data services be qualified to handle national-security-level data?
3) In various interviews and reports, Platte River Networks repeatedly stated they were to “upgrade, manage, and secure” the server. What - specifically - does that mean?
4) What did Hillary’s RFP/contract instruct the data center to do specifically?
5) Does Platte River Networks have sufficient security clearance to handle this type of contract?
6) What were the firewall protocols in place at the time?
7) Who - by name - had access to the server, and the administrative authorization to wipe and cleanse the server? When was that done? Does “upgrade, manage, and secure” the server mean that Platte River Networks was given the task to remove all data from the server when it received it in June 2013?
8) Was malware or antivirus also on the server? Was the inherent firewall, virus protection, or operating system “upgraded, managed, and secured”? Any incidents reported such as DOS attack, hacking, etc.? What were they? How were they resolved?
9) Other than arranging for the server to be moved from NY to NJ, what was the Denver company contracted to do in relation to maintaining the server? What tangible evidence is there that the server arrived in functioning condition, was being used as an email server, was “upgraded, managed, and secured”, then wiped just prior to seizure by the FBI? Did Platte River Networks set up a “mirror” server, wipe out a dummy server, and send the zombie server to the FBI?
10) Were normal and regular backup procedures executed on the server, and where would the back ups be kept? If no backups were taken, was there a disaster recovery location? Where was that? If no backups and no disaster recovery, what was the plan if the equipment failed or found to have been wiped of any functionality?
11) Were any foreign nationals employed at Platte River Networks that had access to the Clinton server?
Come clean and turn yourself in!
Just get out.
I don’t really care what she has to say, and I’m really over her stand up comedian voice.
come out or get clean....
.....nevermind
None of the slack press has bothered to ask this:
If you didn’t traffic classified materials through your own server, where did you receive and send it?
Come clean or get out of the race.
Uh huh. Yeah. That’s what needs to happen. Sweep sweep sweep Benghazi under the rug. It’s all about lying about email, *that’s* the scandal.
This is the Uniparty protecting itself. They can not allow the truth about Benghazi to be exposed. Clinton must be sidelined. She will destroyed to whatever degree necessary. She can go quietly, now, or her legal problems will increase.
Why has no one asked Hillary how she conducted "sensitive" State Dept business with various departments if not via email to her private server.
Hillary, while the Secretary of State, had her own personally-funded spy operation in Libya when Qadaffi was still there.
Remember, this is a woman who is so cheap that she sold their dirty underwear for a tax write-off.
So, she is just going to spend her own money on a spy operation in Libya? When she can get the taxpayers to pay billions for spying operations in Libya?
Nope. No way.
She was looking for something that she didn’t want a lot of people to know she was looking for.
Qadaffi’s wealth and somebody to kill Qadaffi.
Our girl Hillary did some bad things with Libya and Qadaffi.
This isn’t about politics.
This is about the security of The United States and the prosecution of Hillary Clinton.
She will never confess.
She will have to be dragged out with the fingers clinching the flooring.
Should be...
“Come clean AND get out”.
When liberals like Fournier start calling for her to get out then it’s only a matter of time now.
Hillary! on Qadaffi: ‘We came, We saw, He died’ taking personal responsibility for the torture and death. Wow, and I thought Democrats were sooo compassionate! This woman stinks to high heaven.....how she arrived at where she is, is a complete mystery, except for the fact that Dems and their lying sock puppets in the Media, will cover for any Dem, every time.
Yes, “coming clean” would make “getting out” positively anti-climactic. There’d be nowhere else for her to go if she came clean.
Just die, Don’t tell the truth just die.
When a ‘rat can no longer string along Ron Fornicaterer and the National Urinal... that ‘rat is not only dead, but stinking dead.
I suspect that the treasure trove will be the Clinton Foundation “personal” emails that were deleted. You can bet dollars to donuts that she did not send 30,000 emails about Yoga classes while she was Secretary of State and her family was running the “Clinton Global Initiative”.
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative
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