Another shoe has dropped in the mess surrounding Hillary Clinton's email during her term as secretary of state. According to the AP, a whole batch of new email was released today. All of it consisted of work-related email sent or received by Clinton. None of it was included in the email that Clinton had previously given to the State Department. In fact, every one of these new emails was obtained from third parties. The biggest batch was in the files of Clinton aide Huma Abedin who was forced to turn over her records in response to a court order.
This may not sound like much, but consider this:
1. Hillary lied to the American people. She told us all that she had turned over all of her work related emails to the State Department. She deleted the rest and said that it was all about purely personal matters. We now know of at least 50 email strings concerning work that Hillary deleted because they turned up on the computers of others like Abedin. Who knows what else Clinton deleted?
2. Hillary lied to the State Department. She represented to the State Department that what she had turned over to them was everything, her entire batch of work related files. She was required by the Federal Records Act to make such a turn over of EVERYTHING. By misleading the State Department she was also violating that law.
3. Hillary lied to a federal court. Her lawyer represented to the judge that Hillary had turned over all work related emails to the State Department. I cannot find the correct document on the internet, but my memory is that Clinton submitted an affidavit in which she swore this to be the case. If my memory is correct, then Clinton most likely committed perjury. We will need to see how, if at all, the court reacts.
Every time it seems that there is nothing more that can make the Clinton email story worse, another shoe drops. Will they ever run out of shoes? It certainly doesn't look like it.
This may not sound like much, but consider this:
1. Hillary lied to the American people. She told us all that she had turned over all of her work related emails to the State Department. She deleted the rest and said that it was all about purely personal matters. We now know of at least 50 email strings concerning work that Hillary deleted because they turned up on the computers of others like Abedin. Who knows what else Clinton deleted?
2. Hillary lied to the State Department. She represented to the State Department that what she had turned over to them was everything, her entire batch of work related files. She was required by the Federal Records Act to make such a turn over of EVERYTHING. By misleading the State Department she was also violating that law.
3. Hillary lied to a federal court. Her lawyer represented to the judge that Hillary had turned over all work related emails to the State Department. I cannot find the correct document on the internet, but my memory is that Clinton submitted an affidavit in which she swore this to be the case. If my memory is correct, then Clinton most likely committed perjury. We will need to see how, if at all, the court reacts.
Every time it seems that there is nothing more that can make the Clinton email story worse, another shoe drops. Will they ever run out of shoes? It certainly doesn't look like it.
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