Hillary’s very bad day
Could it be Hillary fatigue that has taken hold in New Hampshire?
Maybe it’s the coronation effect that accounts for her slumping poll numbers in the latest Boston Herald/Franklin Pierce University survey that had Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders besting her among likely primary voters 44 percent to 37 percent. The idea that Hillary Clinton has been running for the presidency so long that she’s entitled to the nomination really doesn’t sit well with Granite State voters.
Or then again it could be the months and months of lies and half truths and obfuscation over her use of a private email server during her years as secretary of state — and her previous refusal to turn over that server, even after an inspector general confirmed that classified information had been transmitted via Clinton’s nongovernmental email.
Just hours after the latest dismal poll results were released a spokesperson for Clinton’s presidential campaign (the candidate herself being perpetually too busy to meet with the media) announced that Clinton “pledged to cooperate with the government’s security inquiry,” and was directing her staff to turn over to the Justice Department the server, which had been housed at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., and three thumb drives that had been in the possession of her lawyer, David Kendall.
Clinton has acknowledged that some 31,000 emails she insisted were “personal” have already been wiped off the server. Of course, she also insisted that the private server was never used to transmit classified documents — an assertion we now know to be a lie.
The inspector general for the intelligence community confirmed Tuesday that in a sample of 40 work-related emails already turned over by Clinton, four contained classified information and two of those contained “top secret” information. He also told Congress that potentially hundreds of emails contained classified information. The inspector general referred the matter to the Justice Department, which triggered the FBI’s involvement.
So how “voluntary” was Clinton’s pledge to “cooperate”?
Kendall, having been determined to be in possession of classified information (on the thumb drives) likely wasn’t exactly given a choice by the FBI. An educated guess would be that Clinton’s announcement simply anticipated by several hours the inevitable FBI knock on the door.