AN ASTONISHING ARTICLE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ken Berwitz

I am floored.  
Today, at the New York Times web site, and in its print edition (though buried on page A21 with no front-page teaser to lead readers to it)), you will find an article, written by Eric Lipton and Michael S. Schmidt, titled:

      How the Story of Hillary

Clinton\’s Emails Has Changed

If you use the link I\’ve provided and read it, you will find that Mr. Lipton and Mr. Schmidt make absolute mincemeat of everything that Hillary Clinton has said about the emails.  Everything.  To read this is to know that Hillary Clinton is a serial liar, who lied about all aspects of this scandal, from her use of smart phones, to what was on the emails, to when she…..etc. etc. etc.   Everything.
I will show you one example below – which, trust me, is just a small part of what is there:
Did Mrs. Clinton turn over all her work-related emails to the State Department?

INITIAL STATEMENT

March 10, 2015“We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work-related emails and delivered them to the State Department,” she said. “I have absolute confidence that everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the State Department.” – statement by Mrs. Clinton at United Nations news conference

LATER COMMENTS

June 25, 2015It was disclosed in June that there were 15 emails between Mrs. Clinton and her longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal, mainly dealing with events in Libya, that Mrs. Clinton did not provide to the State Department. In response to that development, a Clinton campaign official said, “We do not have a record of other correspondence between her and Mr. Blumenthal beyond that which was turned over to the State Department.” The official added, “We do not recognize many of those materials and cannot speak to their origin.” – The New York Times

Aug. 8, 2015 –Mrs. Clinton said in a sworn statement in August, filed in federal court, that she directed that all her emails in her custody that “potentially were federal records”be turned over to the government and that “on information and belief, this has been done.” – Mrs. Clinton’s sworn statement

Sept. 27, 2015“From my perspective, we have a very thorough review process that we conducted. And my attorneys supervised it, they went through everything. And what we had available at the time was turned over,” Mrs. Clinton said in September on NBC. -“Meet the Press” interview with Mrs. Clinton

Analysis

The campaign has not said what happened to these emails. But its failure to turn them over to the State Department has raised questions about whether Mrs. Clinton gave the department all the messages pertaining to her work as the nation\’s top diplomat.

At the beginning of this blog I said I was floored.  I meant it.  I never ever expected that The Times would write such an honest, straightforward take-down of Hillary Clinton – and, if it did, that the take-down would be published on the day she will testify about the exact same things the article shows that she has ducked, dodged or outright lied about.

Many commendations to The Times for this atypical show of serious reporting.  May this be the start of a new era, not only for The Times, but for a great many other media venues which – with good reason – would also floor me if they did the same.

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