Since it is the Friday of Labor Day Weekend, the FBI used the occasion to release its notes of the interview with Hillary Clinton regarding her email system as well as the report it gave to Congress. If you want to read these documents, they can be accessed here. The documents are heavily redacted to block out classified information. Still, from what has been released, there is a lot to discuss. I want to focus on just one point, however. These documents seem to clearly demonstrate that Hillary Clinton lied to Congress when she testified under oath to that body. Hillary told Congress that before a decision was made on which email were personal and which ones were business records that would need to be turned over to the State Department, every email in her system was reviewed line by line. That is just not true. FBI Director Comey already told Congress that the email was never reviewed line by line or even page by page. The FBI report, however, tells us how the separation was actually done.
First of all, Clinton herself played no part in the document review. No one ever asked her about so much as a single email to find out if it was work-related. Second, the review was done by a lower level attorney working under the direction of Cheryl Mills, a Clinton aide and attorney. The review consisted of separating out emails (a) between Hillary and people at the State Department or White House; (b) that had work references in the subject line; (c) that were to or from certain foreign heads of state or foreign ministers; or (d) that contained a short list of words that were deemed to pertain to State Department work. No one ever read the emails to make a determination about their proper category. Finally, there is no indication or claim that anyone ever checked the work of this lower level attorney.
Think about this. Hillary was not involved in the selection process other than to ask that her email be separated so that the work-related items could be given to State. That's what Hillary said to the FBI, not some interpretation. She had no idea how the separation was done. When testifying under oath, she gave Congress clearly incorrect information about how the separation was done. This was not faulty memory; she had no memory because she wasn't involved. She was NEVER CONSULTED. But that did not stop Hillary. She testified in detail about how this separation was done. It sure looks like an intentional lie.
Remember: when Hillary was in front of Congress, she wanted to make her operations look like they had been handled carefully and properly. It would have sounded pretty bad for her to say that she had no idea how the separation of the emails had been done. Didn't she care enough about government records to at least monitor the system being used to return them to the State Department? Since that would have made her look bad and "extremely careless", Clinton just did what she usually does: she lied. But Clinton was under oath; that makes her lie the crime of perjury.
I know that Hillary will never be indicted for this perjury. Nevertheless, it is important for people to understand just how dishonest this woman actually is. Instead of fighting to get in the White House, she should be fighting to stay out of the Big House.
First of all, Clinton herself played no part in the document review. No one ever asked her about so much as a single email to find out if it was work-related. Second, the review was done by a lower level attorney working under the direction of Cheryl Mills, a Clinton aide and attorney. The review consisted of separating out emails (a) between Hillary and people at the State Department or White House; (b) that had work references in the subject line; (c) that were to or from certain foreign heads of state or foreign ministers; or (d) that contained a short list of words that were deemed to pertain to State Department work. No one ever read the emails to make a determination about their proper category. Finally, there is no indication or claim that anyone ever checked the work of this lower level attorney.
Think about this. Hillary was not involved in the selection process other than to ask that her email be separated so that the work-related items could be given to State. That's what Hillary said to the FBI, not some interpretation. She had no idea how the separation was done. When testifying under oath, she gave Congress clearly incorrect information about how the separation was done. This was not faulty memory; she had no memory because she wasn't involved. She was NEVER CONSULTED. But that did not stop Hillary. She testified in detail about how this separation was done. It sure looks like an intentional lie.
Remember: when Hillary was in front of Congress, she wanted to make her operations look like they had been handled carefully and properly. It would have sounded pretty bad for her to say that she had no idea how the separation of the emails had been done. Didn't she care enough about government records to at least monitor the system being used to return them to the State Department? Since that would have made her look bad and "extremely careless", Clinton just did what she usually does: she lied. But Clinton was under oath; that makes her lie the crime of perjury.
I know that Hillary will never be indicted for this perjury. Nevertheless, it is important for people to understand just how dishonest this woman actually is. Instead of fighting to get in the White House, she should be fighting to stay out of the Big House.
No comments:
Post a Comment