Where Are the Yoga Emails?

Gradually, drip after drip, the emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server have been released by the State Department.  That would be the server that we know was set up in 2009, started on the day Hillary's confirmation hearings started, with the intent to obstruct any possible FOIA inquiries that may have occurred thereafter.

Hillary Clinton went about nine months without taking a single question from a reporter in a press conference about anything, let alone the email server and obstruction of FOIA inquiries.  So all we have to go on is the transcript of the FBI's interview with her, under oath, as part of the investigation they did.

Oh, wait a minute, she wasn't under oath.  And there wasn't a transcript. And all the people who worked on the server either no-showed when asked to testify before Congress, or took the Fifth Amendment.

So all we really have to go on is her speeches about the whole affair, and where she did interviews over the last couple years.

And we all remember what she said, or at least we should.  Her server was wiped clean (not "with a cloth") after her lawyers -- who, by the way, did not have the security clearance necessary to view classified information -- deleted tens of thousands of emails.  They were deleted because they were "personal", in Hillary's words.

They were about -- and this is what Hillary Herself said -- "yoga classes" and "Chelsea's wedding plans."  For almost, or more than (who can remember?) two years, that has been the narrative, because that's what she said the soonest after the wiping took place, right?  Yoga classes.  Chelsea's wedding.

So let's take her at her word.  Except there's one problem with that.  If the deleted emails were "personal" and about "Chelsea's wedding", then now, after the FBI recovered as much of the deleted content as contemporary technology allowed them to do, and we were able to discover that highly classified material was indeed part of emails that were found to have been on her server in the first place, where are the yoga emails?

Seriously, has anyone seen even one email about yoga or the wedding?  I can't say as I have, because I haven't actually looked at them one by one, but there is a problem here.

We are going off Hillary's statement about the emails' topic, and it would certainly help her claim to even a shred of truthfulness if a bunch of those emails that were deciphered actually were about yoga.

So if the "Justice" Department and the once-respected FBI are so in Hillary's corner, why don't they just dump out to the public all the yoga emails they found.  That would certainly grant at least a shred of defense to her claims of a year or two ago.

Of course, if the emails had been about yoga and the wedding, we would have seen a bunch of them once the FBI cracked the code on her server.  They did find classified communications, which she claimed weren't there at all.

But no yoga.  Not even one have we seen.  What she said wasn't there indeed was there, in spades, and what she said was there has never been found.

Makes you think.

Copyright 2016 by Robert Sutton
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