Hillary Clinton and her supporters have a big problem. The official State Department spokesman confirmed that more than twenty email chains on Clinton's private unsecured email system were not only classified, but were of the most secret classification in the government system. That means that Hillary had more than twenty conversations back and forth with people by email which covered America's most sensitive and most secret national security information. It's the rough equivalent of president Obama using an unsecure email system to send the launch codes for America's nuclear missiles. The level of disregard that Clinton showed for the handling of America's secrets is staggering. With this disclosure, there is no longer any doubt that there will be indictments coming. Even president Obama could not ignore this sort of activity for political purposes.
But until those indictments come, Hillary is still in the middle of her campaign. Lately, as this information has trickled out, the Clinton machine has been using the old tactics of the 1990 in which the Clinton people attack those handling the investigation as if they were rabid right wing Republicans whose only goal was to destroy the Clintons no matter what the truth of the situation is. That may have worked against Ken Starr in the Monica Lewinsky days, but it is hard to paint the non-partisan Inspector General of the Intelligence Agencies as a crazy Republican out for blood. After all, the IG was appointed to his position by president Obama and confirmed with the unanimous support of the Senate Democrats. Clinton and her people were in the process of trying that, nevertheless. Now, however, that tactic has to stop. After all, the information that came from the IG has now been confirmed by Admiral Kirby, the official spokesman for the State Department. Kirby works directly for the secretary of state, John Kerry. Even Clinton cannot hope to paint Kerry as a right wing Republican. Indeed, attacks on Kerry and his spokesman would be correctly seen as direct attacks on Obama himself.
This means that Hillary will have to deal with the actual facts of the investigation. That is an impossible task for Mrs. Clinton. The only relevant facts are that (1) she set up her own private email system to use while secretary of state; (2) she got about 1500 emails on that system that contained classified information; (3) about two dozen email chains (which is probably about 60 emails) contained super secret information so highly classified that any secretary of state (even Hillary) would have to recognize the nature of the information; (4) the only way that such information could even get to Hillary's email system is for someone with extremely high security clearance (like Hillary or her direct aides) to cut and past the info into non-secured emails; and (5) Hillary did nothing to secure the secret data once it was on her private unsecured system.
All of this cannot be disputed. It is all public information. The time of the Clintons is coming to an end.
But until those indictments come, Hillary is still in the middle of her campaign. Lately, as this information has trickled out, the Clinton machine has been using the old tactics of the 1990 in which the Clinton people attack those handling the investigation as if they were rabid right wing Republicans whose only goal was to destroy the Clintons no matter what the truth of the situation is. That may have worked against Ken Starr in the Monica Lewinsky days, but it is hard to paint the non-partisan Inspector General of the Intelligence Agencies as a crazy Republican out for blood. After all, the IG was appointed to his position by president Obama and confirmed with the unanimous support of the Senate Democrats. Clinton and her people were in the process of trying that, nevertheless. Now, however, that tactic has to stop. After all, the information that came from the IG has now been confirmed by Admiral Kirby, the official spokesman for the State Department. Kirby works directly for the secretary of state, John Kerry. Even Clinton cannot hope to paint Kerry as a right wing Republican. Indeed, attacks on Kerry and his spokesman would be correctly seen as direct attacks on Obama himself.
This means that Hillary will have to deal with the actual facts of the investigation. That is an impossible task for Mrs. Clinton. The only relevant facts are that (1) she set up her own private email system to use while secretary of state; (2) she got about 1500 emails on that system that contained classified information; (3) about two dozen email chains (which is probably about 60 emails) contained super secret information so highly classified that any secretary of state (even Hillary) would have to recognize the nature of the information; (4) the only way that such information could even get to Hillary's email system is for someone with extremely high security clearance (like Hillary or her direct aides) to cut and past the info into non-secured emails; and (5) Hillary did nothing to secure the secret data once it was on her private unsecured system.
All of this cannot be disputed. It is all public information. The time of the Clintons is coming to an end.
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