[EDITORIAL] Hillary’s practiced deceptions

The ‘inevitable’ Democratic nominee is faithfully Clintonesque

The State Department said two dozen of the emails exchanged on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private server included classified information — potentially undercutting the former first lady’s claims that she did not handle classified information on the secret account. (Associated Press) 

The idea that telling a lie in Washington is somehow shameful was probably born with the fabricated tale of little George, his hatchet and his father’s favorite cherry tree at Mount Vernon. Lies are to Washington what cars once were to Detroit. In our own time Bonnie and Clod have made deceivers fashionable, demonstrating that speaking in fable is no dishonor.

Hillary, aka Bonnie, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is trying to see whether she can successfully follow Bubba’s example with her passionate denial that she ever got a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the magic private email server she used when she was the secretary of State. She isn’t as adept at it as Bubba was, with his aw, shucks, good ol’ boy charm. Few pols are. But the larger question is whether Americans in 2015 will let her get by with this abuse of the facts. The answer will say as much about the nation as it does about her.

She cast herself into the trap. In her first full-fledged TV interview since she announced officially, she assured CNN correspondent Brianna Keilar that she had received no subpoena directing her to produce the electronic messages that she had stored on her personal server at home, rather than on official State Department computers. “I’ve never had a subpoena,” she said. “Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation. Now, I didn’t have to turn over anything. I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the State Department system.”

Those specific words didn’t fool a former prosecutor who hasn’t allowed his current job as a congressman cloud his understanding of the law. The next day Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, issued a sharply worded rebuttal of Mrs. Clinton’s subpoena denial. “The committee has issued several subpoenas, but I have not sought to make them public,” said Mr. Gowdy. “I would not make this one public now, but after Secretary Clinton falsely claimed the committee did not subpoena her, I have no choice [but] to correct the inaccuracy.”

Via: Washington Times

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