According to a Washington Post report, Hillary Clinton and
her family, “personally paid a State Department staffer, Bryan Pagliano, to
maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency,” thereby
helping her retain total control over
the system that she used for both her
public and private duties. The staffer recently told a congressional committee
that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights instead of testifying about the
setup.
NBC’s
Andrea Mitchell asked Mrs. Clinton if anyone in her inner circle ever expressed
concern about the private server. In a Hall of Fame caliber non-answer the
former First Lady replied, “I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was
so much work to be done. We had so many problems around the world. I didn’t
really stop and think- what- what kind of e-mail system will there be?”
Well, that’s certainly presidential! How long
would it take her to start thinking if she, God forbid, were to become
President of the United States of America? 100 days? If she trots out the old,
“woe is me, there was so much work, and so many problems that I was overwhelmed
and just couldn’t think straight,” excuse about being Secretary of State, how’s she going to handle being President?
Also, this statement isn’t exactly, “I am woman, hear me roar!” She sounds more
like a whiny teenage schoolgirl than a world statesman along the lines of, say,
Margaret Thatcher.
But, in
reality, as with almost any Clinton statement, by almost any Clinton, much of her
response was an outright lie. She had, in fact, given the matter so much thought before taking the head
job at State, that she hired Pagliano and paid him for “computer services”
before he himself- coincidentally!- ended up in the State Department.
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Bonus Hillary Material:
The
head of an independent review board that studied the 2012 attacks in Benghazi,
Libya, has stated that a top advisor to Hillary Rodham Clinton read a draft of
his findings before they were made public and made “suggestions” that were ultimately accepted for the final version.
I don’t
believe Richard Nixon was afforded the same courtesy. Just sayin’.
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