You Will Anyway: On the Subject of Masks

Sunday, November 1, 2015

On the Subject of Masks

A new batch of Hillary's emails has been released.

When a masked gunman wearing a Hillary Clinton mask robbed a bank in Virginia in December 2010, the former Secretary of State wondered if she "should be flattered… even a little bit?"

"Do you think there could be copycats? Do you think the guy chose that mask or just picked up the nearest one? Please keep me informed as the case unfolds—" Clinton wrote

Vice News

I know. I know. Rich for psychoanalysis. Please, be my guest. She's beginning to feel like Dick Nixon.

Another email Clinton received [...] from her advisor Jacob Sullivan, marked "sensitive but unclassified," contained updates on the conflict in Syria.

Sullivan wrote, "See last item: AQ [Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria. Otherwise, things have basically turned out as expected."

A bonus!

Many of the emails were heavily redacted, including one about Wikileaks and another about Occupy Wall Street, which VICE News' FOIA attorney, Ryan James, will challenge after the State Department releases all of Clinton's emails at the end of January.

Good luck with that. Maybe after Hillary is appointed president.

The New York Times first revealed in March that Clinton had exclusively used a private email account to conduct official government business during the four years she served as the nation's top diplomat. Open government experts suggested that Clinton's decision to use her personal email was an attempt to thwart FOIA requests. Clinton's work-related emails are considered government records and are supposed to be preserved on the State Department's servers in accordance with the Federal Records Act so that journalists, historians, and the public can access them.

Clinton said that she had decided to use a private email account to conduct official business because it was "convenient."

Hillary can circumvent the rules any time they're inconvenient for her. We understand, totally. I don't know how a different email account could be more or less "convenient", but I'm sure she'll let us know if anyone ever asks.

She has also repeatedly denied that she sent or received classified information over her email account, which was connected to a private server operated out of her home in New York.

So, see? It doesn't matter that the server wasn't fully secure. She didn't send or receive anything classified during her entire time as Secretary of State. Nothing. Case closed.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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