I don't really have anything new here that we didn't cover over the course of the past week or two. Hillary hasn't stopped being a self-serving liar, and she hasn't become a bigger one because that isn't possible. But in her Potomac Watch column for the Wall Street Journal, Kim Strassel did a nice job of cataloging what we know so far about just about big a liar Hillary has been concerning her private e-mail server, the e-mails she turned over to the State Department and what they contained.
I suppose this should be no surprise considering who were talking about here, but Hillary hasn't just lied extensively. As Strassel demonstrates, she's lied exclusively:
Nothing Mrs. Clinton has said so far on the subject is correct. The Democratic presidential aspirant on March 10 held a press conference pitched as her first and last word on the revelation that she’d used a private email server while secretary of state. She told reporters that she’d turned over to the State Department “all my emails that could possibly be work-related.” And she insisted that she “did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material."
Not true and not true. The State Department has now admitted that it is aware of at least 15 work-related emails that Mrs. Clinton fully or partially withheld. We know this only because congressional Republicans, as part of their Benghazi probe, required longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal to turn over his correspondence with her. It revealed work-related emails that had not been disclosed.
These don’t appear to be random oversights, but rather emails that Mrs. Clinton would likely have had an interest in keeping from the public. Most appear to be instances of her telling Mr. Blumenthal about State Department business, even though he was a private citizen and was advising a business seeking contracts from the Libyan government. Others appear to contain discussions that might undermine Mrs. Clinton’s or the administration’s public position on the Libyan conflict.
We also know that the State Department has now upgraded at least 25 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails to “classified” status. State is suggesting this is no big deal, noting that it is “routine” to upgrade material during the public-disclosure process. But that’s beside the point. This isn’t about after-the-fact disclosure. It’s about security at the time—whether Mrs. Clinton was sending and storing sensitive government information on a hackable private email system. Turns out, she was. For the record, it is a federal crime to “knowingly” house classified information at an “unauthorized location.”
So basically, every worst-case scenario envisioned about Hillary's exclusive use of a private e-mail server to conduct State Department business appears to have been reality. She did use her private e-mail server for classified information. She didn't turn over everything work-related. She was using it to help Sidney Blumenthal pimp contracts to his friends in Libya.
Not only is Hillary a liar, she is reckless as an administrator and as a person trusted with information sensitive to national security. If the media in this country had any shame at all, this woman would have been forced in humiliating fashion to end her campaign months ago. But they don't, so she presses on. Voters, if you elect her, you will deserve the doomed country you will have guaranteed.
