Keeping Hillary Clinton’s testimony private is a strategy sure to fail

washingtontimes.com ^ | April 5, 2015 | Jed Babbin

[PROCON]

After Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Sandy “the burglar” Berger stealing documents from the National Archives and Bill’s dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, political reporters got a bit lazy because they had to sit back and wait for the next scandal to break. The cascading Clintons always served one up.

Some reporters I know openly yearn for a return to the Clinton days. They miss remarks like what then-Sen. Fritz Hollings of South Carolina said when Bill’s poll numbers were falling. There was no reason to worry, Mr. Hollings said, because, “If they reach 60 percent, then he can start dating again.” The joke illustrated the big difference between the Clintons: Bill’s scandals were for the tabloids, and Hillary’s for the business page or the police blotter. His were perverse fun, hers not so much.

Now that the former senator and secretary of state is about to declare her run for the presidency, happy days for political reporters may be here again.

Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is perfectly consistent with how the Clintons have always done business: control, conceal, mislead, deny, cover up and admit only what you must. The only possible purpose for creating her private email system was to prevent federal record keepers from archiving her emails and all those reporters and historians from getting their hands on what she wrote and did at critical times.

[PROCON]

Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is perfectly consistent with how the Clintons have always done business: control, conceal, mislead, deny, cover up and admit only what you must. The only possible purpose for creating her private email system was to prevent federal record keepers from archiving her emails and all those reporters and historians from getting their hands on what she wrote and did at critical times.

Aren't these few words a concise recap of the entirety of the Clinton's criminal legacy?

[Fungi]

Bingo!!!!!!! The most coveted seven exclamation mark bingo is yours.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Well, I’m just a country lawyer, but methinks that the key is to have he deposition/examinations in private, but conducted simultaneously for Clinton, Mills and Sullivan, and perhaps a few others. If they are done in private or public in serial fashion, with time for the previous deponent or examinee (or their lawyers) to transmit the answers to the next scheduled witness, then they have the opportunity to coordinate their stories.

[okie01]

Well, I’m just a country lawyer, but methinks that the key is to have he deposition/examinations in private, but conducted simultaneously for Clinton, Mills and Sullivan, and perhaps a few others.

Most Congressional committee investigations are conducted in exactly that fashion, for the reason stated.

Depositions in private first, public testimony later. The first an attempt to find out the acts off the matter, the latter an attempt to tell the story in a coherent fashion.

[PGalt]

1 example in a long, long, long list of examples in an OUT-OF-CONTROL executive branch.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of 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.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

[JohnnyP]

It seems like it would be easy for all the targets to have “scheduling conflicts”, to prevent the simultaneous depositions.

[Liz]

Some presstitutes openly yearn for a return to the Clinton days.....like when then-Sen. Fritz Hollings of South Carolina weighrd in WRT Pres Bill’s falling poll numbers after he got lewinskied. Not to worry, Mr. Hollings suggested, because, “If they reach 60 percent, then he can start dating again.”

Oh, that reminds me.......Hillary is using her vagina as a reason to run for high public office. It's really, really important to remember that Hillary is running for the presidency b/c she has a vagina and, so far, her opponents don't.

A big plus is ----Hillary's vagina is "like new"... "hardly used"... (as a used car salesman clinching the sale would say).

Oh sure, Bill rode 'er around a few times, but then decided he wanted a younger, snazzier model.

And you can bet your bottom dollar, nobody's looked under Hillary's hood lately, either.

[Liz]

The only possible purpose for Hillary to have a private email system (which she "said" was in Chappaqua) was to prevent federal record-keepers from archiving her emails by law..... and to prevent reporters, historians, and American citizens from knowing what she did w/ ntl security secrets.

Lemmeeee see....what did Hillary do w/ ntl security secrets? I'll just take a wild guess:

"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."

[Liz]

Given what we know now about the Clinton Foundation raking in big bucks
while Hillary was privvy to US ntl security secrets, her well-rehearsed post-Benghazi
performance before Congress is straight out of a Shakespearean playbook.

"Methinks she protesteth too much."

Hillary oughta get the Drama Award for that performance.

[okie01]

It seems like it would be easy for all the targets to have “scheduling conflicts”, to prevent the simultaneous depositions.

I suppose they handle it best they can.

But I'm certain that most important witnesses in the most important investigations are deposed first.