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But State can only release the e-mails Hillary gives them because they're on her private server.

Hillary: Hey, I've told the State Department to release my e-mails



If you've listened to Hillary Clinton's nonsense for a long time, you start to recognize the way she parses words to create misleading impressions. Now that everyone is questioning why she ran her own homebrew e-mail server out of her home rather than using a government account during her time as Secretary of State, Hillary seeks to diffuse the story by giving you the impression that she's jumping full-in with transparency.
So she goes on Twitter and makes an announcement that she hopes will fool you into thinking that:
Hillary Clinton said late Wednesday that she had asked the State Department to make thousands of her emails available to the public, her first public response to a furor that followed the revelation that she used a private e-mail account for her correspondence while Secretary of State. Clinton tweeted late Wednesday, "I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible." State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf released a statement early Thursday saying, "The State Department will review for public release the emails provided by Secretary Clinton to the Department, using a normal process that guides such releases. We will undertake this review as quickly as possible; given the sheer volume of the document set, this review will take some time to complete.

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Now you see the problem here, right? The issue is not that the State Department is hiding e-mails from the public. The issue is that the State Department can't even get the e-mails unless Hillary provides them. A State Department employee who followed the rules wouldn't need to provide anything, because all their e-mails would have been on the government's servers in the first place and State would already be in possession of them - and that employee would have no power to pick and choose the e-mails that would be provided for release. Not the case with Hillary, which is of course the whole reason she set up clintonemail.com at her house in the first place. Who knows what's in those e-mails? And who knows what type of correspondence we'll never see because she will decide what's relevant and worthy of being turned over to the State Department? Discussions with foreign governments about contributions to the Clinton Foundation? Insight about Benghazi? Hillary ranting and raving about Obama, or Bill, or the Bushes, or how incensed she is that someone didn't give her something she felt she was entitled to? This is the real issue. By announcing that she's asked State to release her e-mails, Hillary hopes we are so stupid that we forget they can only release the e-mails she gives them, when they should have been in possession of all of them all along. By the way, you know that the next time she actually gives an interview, someone will put her on the spot and ask her personally to explain why she didn't follow the rules and instead went to all this trouble to set up her own personal e-mail server. And because of that, you can be sure she won't be giving any interviews until she and her advisors concoct some sort of answer they think might fly. Which leads me to think she won't be giving any interviews for awhile. She'll just put out completely dishonest tweets and hope you're fooled. Don't be.


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