Tuesday, March 24, 2015

EMAILGATE: Team Hillary Invokes The 'Everybody Does It' Defense

Emailgate: Spokesperson Jen Psaki now says that the State Department has no record of Hillary Clinton signing Form OF-109, and it could find no record of Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice signing it either. Why check that?
'We have reviewed Secretary Clinton's official personnel file and administrative files and have no record of her signing the OF-109," Psaki said Tuesday, not bothering to explain why that seemingly simple check wasn't done earlier.
Of course, there's no evidence or statement from Hillary that she did not sign the form, though Psaki added, "I think we are fairly certain she did not sign the form."
A signed OF-109 form would, as we have noted, be Exhibit A in a perjury trial. That would be motive enough, we think, for such a document to have found its way to the nearest paper-shredder, and there would be no way of proving such a documents ever existed.
But never mind, Psaki insisted. Rice and Powell did not sign the separation form when they finished their service as secretaries of state, noting that "after looking into their official personnel files, we did not locate a record of either of her immediate predecessors signing." Amazing how thorough you suddenly can become when your ex-boss — and possible future one — has a felony hanging over her head.
Neither Rice nor Powell established private email accounts and domains the day they were confirmed, and neither did they have personal email servers in their houses. They did not exclusively use a personal email account to conduct official government business.
There is no record, to coin a phrase, of either sifting through their official government emails in the privacy of their home or deleting those they found inconvenient for their political future.
Even if Clinton did not sign Form OF-109, she's still guilty of illegally possessing official government records — records that were under subpoena by Congress, that were the subject of lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests, that were the property of U.S. taxpayers who paid for them and that she did not want the public and the press to see.
Read the rest of the IBD Editorial HERE.

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