Hillary finally speaks
Mar 11, 2015, 8:59 AM | Updated: 12:48 pm
(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Hillary Clinton stood up in front of reporters at the UN and said that the Republicans who sent that letter to the Iranian leadership in hopes of killing the nuclear deal were pretty much traitors.
“Either these Senators were trying to be helpful to the Iranians or harmful to the Commander in Chief in the midst of high stakes, international diplomacy,” she said.
Normally that would be a big story. But nobody cared about that.
Asked one reporter, “I was wondering if you think you made a mistake in either exclusively using your private email or in response to the controversy around it. So, what have you learned from that?”
Yes, while she was Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton used a private email server at her New York home to store her emails.
The ones that she sent to the State Department, ended up on a government server and will be made public.
But the private emails, the ones covering strictly personal matters – she deleted: emails about family vacations, planning Chelsea’s wedding, “as well as yoga routines.”
Yoga routines are now lost to history, because she considered them personal.
It was CBS’s Nancy Cordes who asked the question that was on everybody’s mind, “How can the public be assured that when you deleted emails that were personal in nature that you didn’t also delete emails that were professional, but possibly unflattering?”
Her answer was that if you’re gonna ask me that question, then it would only be fair to ask every other government official.
“Because the way system works – the federal employee, the individual, whether they have one device, two devices, three devices, how many addresses, they make the decision.”
Who knew!?
Of course now, every opposition researcher in America wants to get at that private server and run an un-delete program.
The problem here is that every time Hillary Clinton explains something, an entire generation of voters suffers flashbacks to the 1990s when a Clinton was always explaining some weird thing reporters had dug up.
Weird things that, alas, would occasionally turn out to be all too true.
In this case the official explanation is that using the private server allowed her to use a single device for all her correspondence.
“I thought using one device would be simpler and obviously it hasn’t worked out that way,” she said.
But no one was buying the simplicity narrative.
Nobody was buying any of it, from what I could tell, because the truth is that none of those reporters was the least bit shocked to find out that a Clinton would want to control private information.
Oh, but this little eruption is merely a small taste; an amuse bouche, of what’s to come once she makes the really big announcement. Of course she knows that and is clearly ready for it.
The question is whether the rest of us are.