2nd
Kings 11:14 KJV And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a
pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the
king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with
trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
Judge
Andrew Napolitano - The Hillary Chronicles
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The
bad news has continued to cascade onto the Hillary Clinton for
President campaign, and none of it has anything to do with Clinton's
opinions on issues. It all is about her fitness for office.
Since
Labor Day, we have learned that the folks into whose hands Clinton
reposed her computer server for safe keeping do not believe it has
been wiped clean of all emails, as her lawyer told a federal judge it
was. That means the 33,000 emails she thought she destroyed probably
still could be recovered. What will they reveal?
And
we learned earlier this week that of the emails released thus far --
those Clinton did not attempt to destroy -- there is a five-month gap
for which no emails were produced. For a government official who sent
or received about 15,000 emails a year, five months of silence is not
believable. Two of those months followed the assassination of the
U.S. ambassador to Libya in Benghazi. Where are her emails from that
time period?
Why
should you care about this?
It
is now well established that when she was secretary of state, Clinton
refused to use government computers or servers for any of her emails
-- governmental and personal. She kept all of her emails from the
government. That constitutes theft of government property, as it
violates a federal law that mandates that the government owns the
emails its employees generate in their work, and if an employee
commingles her personal emails with the government's, the government
owns those, as well.
Clinton
said she did this because she believed it would be easier to do all
emailing from one hand-held device, even though she eventually used
four devices. Instead of accepting a secure government-issued
BlackBerry, she had aides buy an off-the-shelf BlackBerry. We now
know she was trying to conceal her Middle Eastern escapades -- secret
wars and personal approvals of arms dealings to terrorists -- from
the president, from FBI investigators, from State Department
colleagues and from history.
But
her most serious crime is her failure to safeguard national secrets.
The secretary of state is the nation's chief diplomat. She deals with
military, diplomatic and national security secrets every day. One of
the reasons government employees are required by law to use a
government-issued hand-held device and a government-owned and secured
server for their official work is to safeguard the national security
secrets that pass to and from them by securing their emails with
government software and encryption.
Why
should you care about this?
When
she became secretary of state, Clinton told the president she wanted
to hire her friend Sidney Blumenthal -- whom the press has nicknamed
'the prince of darkness' and 'grassy knoll' -- to work as her senior
adviser. The president himself blocked the toxic Blumenthal from
working for the State Department, whereupon Clinton had her husband's
foundation hire him. She then proceeded to engage with him as if he
were a senior adviser and to share top-secret emails with him.
Blumenthal did not have any national security clearance, and it was a
felony for Clinton to share government secrets with him.
Why
should you care about this?
You
should care about this because Clinton is running for president. Yet,
she is uniquely unqualified for the presidency because she is the
moral equivalent of a common crook.
Like
a crook, she breaks the law, lies about why she broke the law, sees
no wrongdoing in her ways and expects to get away with it. Though
millions of Democrats have dreamed of her in the White House, and are
apparently willing to overlook her crimes, her support is beginning
to erode.
How
can a person with the morals of a crook be the chief law enforcement
officer in the land, the commander in chief of the military and the
repository of more lawful power than any person on the planet? How
can she be entrusted with national security secrets in the future
when she has failed to safeguard them in the past?
Because
Blumenthal lacked the government's encryption on his email devices
and server, he was hacked by foreign agents. Because he was hacked,
Clinton was hacked. Because she was hacked, some of the nation's
military, diplomatic and national security secrets in a dangerous
world are now in dangerous hands.
A
sailor faces 20 years in federal prison for taking a selfie in front
of a radar screen and sending it to his girlfriend, and a courageous
Marine who used his Gmail account in an emergency to warn his
superiors of the near proximity of an assassin faces 20 years for
failing to keep the email about the assassin in a secure venue.
Then-CIA Director David Petraeus kept secrets in an unlocked desk
drawer in his home, which was guarded 24/7, and he pleaded guilty to
failure to safeguard secrets.
Clinton's
crimes are far worse, but is she any different legally? Can she get
away with her crimes because of her last name? She seems to think so.
Last week she apologized for making poor choices -- not crimes, but
poor choices. And she has given no coherent legal justification for
all this.
Full
Disclosure.
I
have read the honest and friendly biography of Secretary Clinton by
Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame.
I
largely regard her as a Methodist do-gooder gone astray.
I
know enough about developmental psychology to attribute much of her
difficulties to the histories and characteristics of her parents. It
is a tragedy, much like that of Jim and Tammy Baker.
I
am getting too old to spend mental energy detailing how a verse of
scripture sheds light on a current event. I trust the knowledge and
intellect of my readers to discern those elements that are truly
parallel.
Be
happy to reply to comments or email for those wanting to know more
about my reasoning.
Mailto:
jimsmiling333@gmail.com
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