Ken Berwitz
Just how much of a liar is Hillary Clinton?
Well, here are excerpts from the New York Post\’s editorial of August 16th, which provide a partial – repeat, partial – compilation:
“I remember landing under sniper fire.”
“I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before [Obama] did.”
“We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.”
Hillary Clinton\’s relationship with the truth has always been one of disdain, as shown by her accounts of landing in Bosnia (she was actually greeted by a child on the tarmac), her policies (she voted for the war in Iraq and only criticized it later, after the winds shifted, and after Obama) and her finances (if owning two multi-million-dollar homes is “dead broke,” then sure).
But the Democratic front-runner has really outdone herself with her varying explanations for her home e-mail server. Here are her five fabrications in the shifting story of why she hid her correspondence from public records and compromised national security.
1. “I thought it would be easier to carry one device for my work.”
Truth: …a freedom of information request by the AP discovered that Clinton used multiple electronic devices, including an iPad and a BlackBerry, to send e-mail.
2. “The server contains personal communications from my husband and me.”
Truth: If that\’s true, it will come as a surprise to Bill Clinton. “The former president, who does regularly use Twitter, has sent a grand total of two e-mails during his life, both as president,” said his spokesman, Matt McKenna, in an interview published around the same time.
3. “I\’ve never had a subpoena…Let\’s take a deep breath here.”
Truth: Clinton was under subpoena when the question was asked…
4. “I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. I\’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”
Truth: Another claim made during that March 10 press conference that has fallen apart. After taking a random sample of 40 of Clinton\’s e-mails, the inspector general for 17 spy agencies told Congress that two contained information deemed “Top Secret.”…
5. “Everything I did was permitted. There was no law. There was no regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate.”
Truth: As The Washington Post points out, “In 2009, just eight months after Clinton became secretary of state, the US Code of federal regulations on handling electronic records was updated:
\’Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic-mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.\’ The responsibility for making and preserving the records is assigned to \’the head of each federal agency.\'”
The Washington Post concludes: “She appears to be arguing her case on narrow, technical grounds, but that’s not the same as actually complying with existing rules as virtually everyone else understood them.”
And in case that\’s not enough for you, Reuters reported, yesterday, that it has found “dozens” of emails that were classified from the start, not after they passed through Clinton\’s email server, but when they did. Another lie.
Does Hillary Clinton ever tell the truth about anything?
Why would anyone ever believe a word she says?
