Hill’s ‘Convenient’ Excuse: Can Anyone Trust Her?
Hillary Clinton sent around 60,000 emails during her time with the State Department over an unsecure network (“Hillary the Patriot,” Editorial, March 11).
Why? Because she “opted for convenience.”
It’s disturbing to see how flippant she is with our national security. What’s also shocking is that Democrats are rallying around her thinking that’s an acceptable excuse. Rich Codey
Manhattan
Clinton is saying she deleted 30,000 personal emails. Let’s say each one took an average of five minutes to compose. That’s 150,000 minutes, 2,500 hours or 104 days of writing “personal” emails, 24/7 with no sleep.
It’s amazing she found the time to run the State Department, not to mention the time it must have taken to identify which ones the public, in her singular and omnipotent opinion, has no right to see. Michael Darling Stamford, Conn.
I seem to recall reports that 40 years or so ago, a staffer on the Watergate Committee wanted to hang President Nixon out to dry, didn’t even want to let him enjoy the right to legal counsel and probably wanted to have him sent to the gulag.
The same lawyer now wants to be president herself, and somehow she can’t account for emails on Benghazi and other matters. What would some young legal scholar on a Benghazi committee recommend as her fate?
Since, in our postconstitutional era, we’ve become the Roman Empire, a proportional punishment would be send ing her to the lions. Walt Johanson
Yonkers
There are times I feel the government releases too much information for the world to know. In this case, the government should know everything Hillary did related to her job and therefore, she should have used government email assigned to her.
All companies keep tabs on employees’ computers used for their jobs. She is no different. I cannot imagine what she will do if she is elected president. It’s our country, not hers to use at will. The key here is that she wants absolute control.
This is scary. She is not entitled as she seems to think. K. Crisson Staten Island
Politicians ask for our vote, which is to ask for our trust. To vote for someone is to confirm, “I trust you.” But people who lie cannot be trusted. Clinton has a long and wellestablished track record of dishonesty. She cannot even be trusted to tell us the origin of her name.
She claimed to be named after the Hillary of Mount Everest fame. But that Hillary conquered Everest several years after our Hillary was born. It comes down to this: Would you buy a used car from Clinton?
Francis J. Gordon
Morris Plains, NJ
My presidentialelection prediction is that even if Clinton beats this email scandal, to get the nomination, she’ll still fall in defeat — to herself.
Johnny T. Sollitto
Red Hook
Clinton claims she opted for convenience in rationalizing her use of a personal email account for government business.
Next time I am at the supermarket, I can opt out of paying for my groceries, because it would be more convenient than waiting in line. Her excuse is beyond pathetic. Robert S. Dickstein
Paramus, NJ
Clinton not using her government email and choosing her personal email was wrong and deceitful. She then announced that it was more convenient to carry only one cellphone. Also, she could delete whatever she chose to.
Obama declared on national TV that he knew nothing about it and only found out when the public found out in the media.
My question is: If he answered the emails that he received from her, he had to know the address he was sending them to was not a governmentsecured address. Very puzzling. D. Havenick
Forest Hills