Regarding the Clintons’ Never-Ending Ability to Completely Screw Things Up — Hillary’s State Department Emails

© 2015 Peter Free

 

21 May 2015

 

 

The Perpetually Cocky Clintons never seem to run out of ways to make a mess of what should have been relatively straightforward — even for plutocratic power mongers

 

For example, Hillary’s State Department emails — which she regally kept on her personal server — have been a bone of foreseeable political contention for some time.

 

Under political pressure, and in the face of her 2016 presidential dream, Hillary coyly turned them over to the State Department for safe-keeping. Which is where they should have been all along.

 

With former Secretary Clinton now (equally coyly) pretending that she wishes them made public, a US district court had to get involved, so as to get the State Department off its bureaucratically pudgy behind in releasing her unclassified messages to the public:

 

 

A US judge ordered the State Department on Tuesday to promptly release thousands of emails from Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, dating back to her time as America's top diplomat.

 

In his ruling, US District Judge Rudolph Contreras ordered that the hub of US global diplomacy must come up with a "schedule for rolling productions of Secretary Clinton's emails" by next Tuesday, a State Department official said.

 

In March, the State Department set up a special internal team to review every single email and black out any classified material.

 

© 2015 Jo Biddle, Court orders State Dept to release Clinton emails, Yahoo News (20 May 2015)

 

With the result that:

 

 

The State Department indicated Tuesday that it would comply with a court order to provide rolling production of some 55,000 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of state, with the Benghazi -related emails to be released first.

 

Within a week, the State Department will also provide a timeline for the release of all Clinton's emails on a rolling basis.

 

Judge Contreras ordered a specific deadline for the production of emails related to the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi. The order to produce the emails is a response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Vice News' Jason Leopold.

 

Clinton was in charge of the State Department during the December 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.

 

© 2015 Margaret Brennan and Paula Reid, State Dept. to comply with court order on Hillary Clinton's emails, CBS News (19 May 2015)

 

 

Where there should have been one step — Hillary using the State Department’s servers — there have arguably become four

 

Count ‘em:

 

 

(1) Secretary of State Hillary arrogantly uses her own server.

 

(2) Under pressure, she secretly and almost certainly unreliably sorts her emails and purportedly sends State’s back to State (where they should have been in the first place).

 

(3) The Department, never having seen the messages, drags its Police State Feet in regard to releasing any of them.

 

(4) The US District Court then has to get involved, so as to expedite a process that already exists in law and (again arguably) should have been complied with from the beginning.

 

 

The moral? — Wherever they go, the Clintons turn messes of their own making into time-consuming squishy-poop disasters

 

This arrogantly self-entitled couple has become a long-standing and destructive pain in our American Ass.

 

I am irritated that both political parties are unable to come up with someone who can contest this profoundly irritating pair, while simultaneously demonstrating a semblance of personal and professional honor.