Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, was in Kokomo, Indiana this past week at a campaign event for his wife. That would be Hillary Clinton, serial felon who is running for president as, of course, a Democrat.
During the event, Mr. Clinton addressed the fact that his wife is under investigation by over 100 FBI agents looking into her gross misuse of electronic mail while Secretary of State. That is a post she held in the Obama Administration, presumably to shut her up from continuing to oppose the man who beat her out for the Democratic Party's nomination in 2008.
In the course of his remarks, Mr. Clinton referred to the email incident and investigation as a "game", created by Hillary's political opponents.
A game. Political opponents.
How far can the lemmings who follow this couple and believe even some of what they say go, before they have to shake their heads? First, I have the greatest difficulty understanding anyone thinking that there is anything game-like about what she did.
She proactively set up a private server -- not just an email account, but a private mail server, literally on the day her confirmation hearings to be Secretary started. She conducted all her official correspondence on her private account on that server, despite it being illegal, non-secure and that it exposed extensive national security information to hackers. Over 2,000 of those emails have since been designated by the State Department as containing classified information.
But it's a "game."
Look, I can't imagine how someone looks at that and doesn't come to the conclusion that the server was set up to conceal information, and certainly that it was done to shield her correspondence as a Federal official from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. But I'll let that go for now. If you don't see that, you are beyond reach anyway.
And you may somehow see this affair as a "game." But it has to stop at the line about it being created by her "political opponents." And here is why.
Her political opponents are really only two.
One is Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont who is running for the Democrats' nomination for president against Hillary. It ain't Bernie. The socialist Vermonter famously said, early in the debate series, that "no one cares about [her condemned] emails." He may care, whatever he says. But he is in no position to play the "game" Bill Clinton referred to. He was elected to the Senate not as a Democrat but as an independent (socialist), and is, accordingly, a back-bencher with little power and no accomplishment.
The other opponent is the Republican Party. Particularly it is the set of Republicans running for president, but there is also the leadership of both houses of Congress, if you want to be flexible. Shoot, let's bring all of Congress into it. Not one of them was complicit in setting up the server -- in fact, it is hard to imagine that there was not one email from the Secretary of State to a single Republican member of Congress, not one. Any such email would have had the "hrc40@clintonemail.com" address or whatever it was, and such a congressman would have responded with a "huh?" and a "what the heck is this" reaction.
So now let's look at the email scandal and who is actually "doing it." That would also be two entities. One is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the folks whose agents are putting together a case for Hillary's indictment. That case cannot be ignored by the parent of the FBI, which is the U.S. Department of Justice, which would have to issue such an indictment.
The other is the Department of State, to which "all" of Hillary's emails (according to Bill, but apparently not including the tens of thousands that were deleted from the private server by Hillary's lawyers before State got to look at them in the first place). That State Department, of course, is the one that has determined that over 2,000 of the ones Hillary's lawyers didn't delete contained classified information exposed to the world's hackers. State may be doing it reluctantly, but they're doing it.
The Department of Justice is run by Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General, so her timesheets are signed by Barack Obama. Remember him? He's the president. The State Department is run by John Kerry, another Democrat. Guess who signs his timesheets? You guessed it.
A "game being played by Hillary Clinton's political opponents." Sure, Bill. This investigation is being run by people under the authority of two of the highest-ranking Democrats in the country. There are no Republicans running Cabinet departments these days, and everyone looking at the situation works for Democrats.
At some point, you have to stop letting people like friendly old Bill Clinton say things that on the surface are simply wrong. The press needs to ask the right questions -- "Bill, I know you said this was a game played by Hillary's political opponents. But it's Barack Obama's administration who is doing all the investigation! What political opponents are you actually talking about?"
I think we will wait along time for anyone in the press to have the integrity to ask.
But I will.
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