She is a slippery one, and nothing is ever her fault. We can't wait to see what the next four or eight years will bring; and by that time Chelsea will have enough seasoning to be ready to inherit the throne.
By J0hn Shaffer In case you might believe that self-enrichment is the only motivation behind the Hillary Clinton email scandals, this week we have more evidence that secrecy also is lurking behind that dark curtain. Excerpts from a forthcoming book on Bill Clinton were released this week. One of the most intriguing recounted a conversation said to have taken place at the home of former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, with invited guests former Secretaries Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and then-Secretary Hillary Clinton. Asked for "one bit of advice" for the current Secretary, Mr. Powell is supposed to have advised her to use her own email, except for classified information. Mrs. Clinton is said to have repeated this advice during her FBI interview, in an apparent effort to be absolved of the blame herself. In Mr. Powell's time at State, email was somewhat primitive. After the news broke about Mrs. Clinton's email, Mr. Powell was not pleased, and told People magazine that he has no recollection of the conversation but did send a memo which described how he used his personal account - strictly for private things. He says that Mrs. Clinton is "trying to pin" the blame for her email practices on him. Oh, Mrs. Clinton already had been using her private server and email long before Mr. Powell's conversation or memo. Mrs. Clinton's server was out of the control of the State Department, and on it she mixed business and personal items (with more than a sprinkling of classified material). She sent thousands of emails, and lo and behold, this week the FBI found another 14,900 that weren't previously acknowledged. Some of them are damaging, or would be if we were taking about any of our other former Secretaries of State, but Mrs. C. has a certain "above the law" quality that keeps the dogs at bay, as it were. Who cares if the emails weren't turned over as promised or if they show that most of the people who visited her at State ended up donating to the Clinton Foundation, or if several of her closest aides were mingling Foundation business with that of the State Department. Mrs. Clinton says she did nothing wrong, and besides, Colin Powell did it too and said it was OK.
She is a slippery one, and nothing is ever her fault. We can't wait to see what the next four or eight years will bring; and by that time Chelsea will have enough seasoning to be ready to inherit the throne. Comments are closed.
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