By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--July 27, 2015
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"I am confident that I never sent or received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received," Clinton said. "What I think you're seeing here is a very typical kind of discussion, to some extent disagreement among various parts of the government, over what should or should not be publicly released." Clinton reiterated that she wanted the emails in question to be made public as soon as possible, and expressed no opinion as to whether the Department of Justice should investigate. "They can fight over it or argue over it. That's up to them. I can tell you what the facts are," she said. "I think there's so much confusion around this that I understand why reporters and the public are asking questions, but the facts are pretty clear. I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time," she said.Bolshevik. Even the New York Times isn't buy her nonsense about this anymore:
Mrs. Clinton has said for months that she kept no classified information on the private server that she set up in her house so she would not have to carry both a personal phone and a work phone. Her campaign said Friday that any government secrets found on the server had been classified after the fact. But the inspectors general of the State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies said the information they found was classified when it was sent and remains so now. Information is considered classified if its disclosure would likely harm national security, and such information can be sent or stored only on computer networks with special safeguards. The findings by the two inspectors general raise new questions about Mrs. Clinton’s use of her personal email at the State Department, a practice that since March has been criticized by her Republican adversaries as well as advocates of open government, and has made some Democrats uneasy. Voters, however, do not appear swayed by the issue, according to polls. In their joint statement, the inspectors general said the classified information had originated with the nation’s intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency. It is against the law for someone to receive a classified document or briefing and then summarize that information in an unclassified email. The two investigators did not say whether Mrs. Clinton sent or received the emails. If she received them, it is not clear that she would have known that they contained government secrets, since they were not marked classified. The inspectors general did not address whether they believed Mrs. Clinton should have known such information was not appropriate for her personal email. Regardless, the disclosure is an example of an unforeseen consequence of Mrs. Clinton’s unusual computer setup. Security experts have questioned whether her practice made government secrets more vulnerable to security risks and hacking.What's ultimately going to trip Hillary up here isn't the sheer brazenness of her dishonesty, as galling as that is. It's that she's not very smart, and she doesn't surround herself with very smart people either. She thought she could keep everything on a private homebrew server, print out the e-mails she was willing to make public, scrub the rest from her server and call it good. She had no real understanding of how digital information is preserved and didn't realize how easy it would be for congressional investigators to uncover evidence from those with whom she corresponded that prove she absolutely did send and receive e-mails she claimed didn't exist. Case in point: She claimed that many of these "personal" e-mails were with Bill. That's obviously a lie because Bill doesn't use e-mail, and has said so publicly. She didn't think people would put that together? No, she didn't, because she doesn't think things through very thoroughly, and she doesn't understand a lot of the things she lies about. Then she gets really pissed off when people who are smarter than her notice the obvious inconsistencies in her stories, and start probing for other likely lies. Hillary is like George Costanza, except without the comedic value. She gets into situations that put her far outside her competency, and she constructs elaborate illusions to make it look like she belongs there - only to be exposed in the end since you can only pull off a con like that until people start really paying attention. There's another difference: George knows he's a fraud. Hillary really thinks she's qualified for the presidency, but is convinced she has to sell you this nonsense because you're too dumb to understand how brilliant she really is. Oh, and you're also too dumb to understand why she's entitled to benefit from all the graft and corruption that are the hallmarks of her entire lifetime in the public eye. That's what she thinks. And she'll continue to think it even as everyone comes to recognize that she's lying about the e-mail. The real fun will start when we get to see what some of these e-mails actually contained - and we find out how many other things she's lied about. Not that she'll ever admit it, but at least you'll know.
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