SHE'S REALLY SORRY
Let’s see – less than 24 hours after declaring she would not apologize, Hillary Clinton apologized for the email scandal (or at least apologized as much as a Clinton ever does). We guess that a candidate who decided to plan more “spontaneity” and show more “humor and heart” probably is equally insincere about her apologies. We also have the news that Bryan Pagliano, IT director for Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination, was a “Special Advisor” at the State Department (paid by the taxpayers) while she was Secretary of State, and also was simultaneously paid directly by Mrs. Clinton for maintaining her private email server. Her campaign claims that was to assure that the taxpayers would not pay for her private server. However, he did not declare that income on his State Department form. No explanation for that yet, but we are sure that whatever the Clinton campaign comes up with will be spontaneous and have plenty of humor and heart. The Clintons have never been shy about using taxpayer money for their own purposes (and continue to use it today); therefore, it follows that the reason for this was not to spare the taxpayers, but for Mrs. Clinton to keep full control. After all, if it was paid for only by the State Department, it all would be “public”; if it was paid with her own funds, it could be claimed to be “private,” and thus beyond public scrutiny. The reason she set up the private server in the first place was so she could keep things secret. And recall that the government systems were “secret” and protected, but Mrs. Clinton considered the emails her own property, not government property. She admitted that she deleted some 30,000 emails. Why would she do this? In order to keep the public from seeing them. And she decided what would be deleted. And we believe that the biggest reason that Mrs. Clinton wanted the protections of her own private server was the secrets of the Clinton Foundation, and the amazing number of times that hefty donations from foreign governments accompanied decisions made by Mrs. Clinton’s State Department. The Foundation has never had much trouble attracting money, but it really raked in big amounts while Mrs. Clinton was Secretary of State, and she strived to keep this as quiet as possible.
Anyway, Mr. Pagliano has announced he would invoke the Fifth Amendment and would refuse to testify before Congress. The Fifth Amendment gives Americans the right to avoid self-incrimination. Does that mean that he engaged in some type of incriminating behavior? The mere invocation of the Fifth does not in and of itself mean that he did, but one can’t invoke the Fifth to protect someone else,or to keep something secret, but only to keep from incriminating oneself. There is some reason that Mr. Pagliano doesn’t want to testify, and it is obvious he does not want us to know what that reason is.
Earlier, Mrs. Clinton told an interviewer “I was not thinking a lot when I got in [as Secretary of State].” Really? Imagine the reaction if a Republican had said that. She also said that “I am sorry that this has been confusing to people...” In other words, it is not her fault, but ours, that we are “confused.” Actually, we aren’t confused – it is pretty clear that Mrs. Clinton had top-secret, classified material on her private emails and thought the regular rules did not apply to her.
We also learned that the State Department has hired a “Transparency Coordinator.” Not only is this a concession that the Department’s transparency has been lacking – but get this: the coordinator, Janice Jacobs, donated $2,700 to the Hillary Clinton campaign earlier this summer. We suppose her fondness for Mrs. Clinton will in no way compromise her objectivity.