More Clinton Drips

Hillary Clinton keeps insisting it’s all so simple, yet it all turns out to be so tangled — except when it turns out she simply lied. While most of the nation had its eyes on the papal visit last week, fresh waves of bad Clinton news broke.

Start with her lie about OK’ing the unusual arrangement whereby her top aide, Huma Abedin, was allowed to pull down outside paychecks from the Clinton Foundation and the firm Teneo (the forprofit arm of Clinton Inc.) on top of her job at the State Department.

“I was not directly involved with that, but everything she did was approved, under the rules, as they existed, by the State Department,” Clinton told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell just this month.

Oops: Documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch show Clinton’s signature on forms that created a new title for Abedin in March 2012 — a key step in the whole “outside consulting” gambit. That is, Hillary personally OK’d Huma’s “special employee” status.

Abedin, incidentally, is among the aides known to have sent classified info to Clinton’s unsecure private account — emails that make Hillary’s claim to have had nothing clas sified on her server another patent untruth.

Meanwhile, a Freedom of Information suit by another group, Citizens United, turned up the fact that the State Department had left quite a few relevant emails out of what it turned over to the Benghazi Committee.

(That would be the Benghazi Committee that finally caught on to the whole Hillary’s-secretemails thing in the first place. State hadn’t noticed, not in all the months since Hillary left as secretary, nor in all the years she’d been in the job — even when it faced Freedom of Information court orders to cough up her communications, or when past Benghazi “investigators” came knocking.)

By pure coincidence, State on Friday sent another 925 Clinton emails over to the committee.

Of course, by then State was getting a fresh trove of the stuff, courtesy of the FBI. Now that it’s taken custody of Hillary’s old server, the bureau has managed to recover at least some of the messages she deleted before sharing what she believed State was entitled to.

Clinton said the deleted emails were personal; the FBI plainly disagrees.

All this was just half a week’s news. Hey, all you donors being told by Team Hillary not to panic? You should.