Hillary Emailgate Update
Rules are for the little people – Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Chinagate, Donorgate were bad enough. But Emailgate may be the scandal that disqualifies Hillary Clinton for president. ~ Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: When news broke that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had used a private e-mail address for her official work, many in the media were quick to defend her. It was nothing unusual and did not violate any rules, her supporters claimed. Not so fast.
Last night, Jonathan Karl reported that a senior official at the State Department confirmed to ABC News that Hillary was in fact violating communications policy for "all four years she served" as secretary of state.
Using a private e-mail account is not a violation by itself, IF the e-mails are quickly turned over to be archived. But Clinton did not do that, Karl noted, "until late last year, nearly two years after she stepped down as secretary." Her failure to disclose her e-mails was the violation of policy.
The State Department has had guidelines in place since 2005 discouraging the use of personal e-mail accounts for government business. And in 2011 a memo was issued warning State Department employees to "avoid conducting official Department [business] from your personal e-mail accounts."
Who signed the memo? Secretary Clinton. So it seems she was violating her own policy!
And this policy was enforced. In 2012, the ambassador to Kenya was forced to resign for, among other reasons, according to the Washington Post, the "use of private e-mail for public work," which "was a violation of agency rules and created security risks."
But wait, there's more!
Fox News is reporting that there may be at least nine additional e-mail addresses connected to Clinton's private e-mail server that she may have used. So even after she handed over 55,000 pages of e-mails, it is not at all clear that the State Department has everything that it should. The department is reportedly reviewing Clinton e-mails -- at least the ones it has -- to see if any contained classified information.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
Editor's Note: Three days ago, Investors Business Daily declared: Emailgate Disqualifies Hillary Clinton For POTUSThe former secretary of state's use of a personal account to exclusively conduct government business and to protect her political future in violation of the law ought to disqualify her from the presidency.
'Witch hunts" sometimes find a witch, and those who dismissed the establishment of the House Benghazi Select Committee, chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., as just another witch hunt are eating their words.
The existence of a personal account that Hillary Clinton used to conduct government business as secretary of state was discovered by the committee and reported by the New York Times.
Clinton's use of this personal account explains why investigations of the Benghazi terrorist attack — and her culpability in our diplomatic mission's vulnerability there, the failure to heed warnings and the cover-up afterward — failed to find much email evidence of her direct involvement.
According to the Times, Clinton never used her official government email account at all. What's more, she used exclusively one set up on the day of her Senate confirmation as secretary of state. This indicates premeditation in an attempt to deceive the American people by someone determined to fulfill her ambition to be the first woman to sit in the Oval Office.
The Times said that Clinton's aides made no attempt to systematically preserve her emails on government servers as required by the Federal Records Act. Team Hillary is now trying to use the excuse that they thought their government recipients would archive the emails and that was thought to be good enough.
Instead, Clinton's aides carefully culled the emails to find which ones contained no information damaging to her political future, and only these would be turned over to the State Department to be archived.
Jason Baron, a former director of litigation at the National Archives, told the Times that it was "very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business."
Actually, we can conceive of such a scenario — a presidential wannabe determined not to leave a potentially campaign-ending paper trail.
Though Benghazi occurred after the account was set up, the account fulfilled its predefined purpose and served to hide a paper trail documenting her malfeasance in office and deadly incompetence.
We know from others that warnings of the Benghazi terrorist attack came to her office along with warnings of the Benghazi mission's lack of security as it told of a surrounding sea of terrorist training camps.
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Last night, Jonathan Karl reported that a senior official at the State Department confirmed to ABC News that Hillary was in fact violating communications policy for "all four years she served" as secretary of state.
Using a private e-mail account is not a violation by itself, IF the e-mails are quickly turned over to be archived. But Clinton did not do that, Karl noted, "until late last year, nearly two years after she stepped down as secretary." Her failure to disclose her e-mails was the violation of policy.
The State Department has had guidelines in place since 2005 discouraging the use of personal e-mail accounts for government business. And in 2011 a memo was issued warning State Department employees to "avoid conducting official Department [business] from your personal e-mail accounts."
Who signed the memo? Secretary Clinton. So it seems she was violating her own policy!
And this policy was enforced. In 2012, the ambassador to Kenya was forced to resign for, among other reasons, according to the Washington Post, the "use of private e-mail for public work," which "was a violation of agency rules and created security risks."
But wait, there's more!
Fox News is reporting that there may be at least nine additional e-mail addresses connected to Clinton's private e-mail server that she may have used. So even after she handed over 55,000 pages of e-mails, it is not at all clear that the State Department has everything that it should. The department is reportedly reviewing Clinton e-mails -- at least the ones it has -- to see if any contained classified information.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
Editor's Note: Three days ago, Investors Business Daily declared: Emailgate Disqualifies Hillary Clinton For POTUS
'Witch hunts" sometimes find a witch, and those who dismissed the establishment of the House Benghazi Select Committee, chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., as just another witch hunt are eating their words.
The existence of a personal account that Hillary Clinton used to conduct government business as secretary of state was discovered by the committee and reported by the New York Times.
Clinton's use of this personal account explains why investigations of the Benghazi terrorist attack — and her culpability in our diplomatic mission's vulnerability there, the failure to heed warnings and the cover-up afterward — failed to find much email evidence of her direct involvement.
According to the Times, Clinton never used her official government email account at all. What's more, she used exclusively one set up on the day of her Senate confirmation as secretary of state. This indicates premeditation in an attempt to deceive the American people by someone determined to fulfill her ambition to be the first woman to sit in the Oval Office.
The Times said that Clinton's aides made no attempt to systematically preserve her emails on government servers as required by the Federal Records Act. Team Hillary is now trying to use the excuse that they thought their government recipients would archive the emails and that was thought to be good enough.
Instead, Clinton's aides carefully culled the emails to find which ones contained no information damaging to her political future, and only these would be turned over to the State Department to be archived.
Jason Baron, a former director of litigation at the National Archives, told the Times that it was "very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business."
Actually, we can conceive of such a scenario — a presidential wannabe determined not to leave a potentially campaign-ending paper trail.
Though Benghazi occurred after the account was set up, the account fulfilled its predefined purpose and served to hide a paper trail documenting her malfeasance in office and deadly incompetence.
We know from others that warnings of the Benghazi terrorist attack came to her office along with warnings of the Benghazi mission's lack of security as it told of a surrounding sea of terrorist training camps.
Tags: Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, Hillary Clinton, Emailgate To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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2 Comments:
Don't forget Hookergate Coverup!
Good Point -- trying to keep it clean. Arkansans suffered many years with their escapades & have lots of sordid stories
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