Yo, Gowdy – check the magic table for Hillary’s e-mails

• The one where the Rose law firm billing records magically appeared 
• Which one is more transparent — Hillary or Obama  — red brick or brown brick?
• Obama only knows what he reads in the newspapers
• Who all knew and when?  Hillary’s e-mail account raises the question — has Trey Gowdy been narrowly focusing the investigation of Benghazi — protecting elements of the Republican establishment?
  

One thought that comes out of the Hillary e-mail debacle, we find both amusing and chilling:

For what, the umpteenth time, Obama has told the American people that he knew nothing of this latest travesty in his administration until he read it in the paper!

How do you not “mock” someone who, as his “best” defense against charges that his is likely the most secretive administration in the nation’s history, regularly tells the world that if it weren’t for TV news and newspapers he would have no idea what’s going on in his administration!

That and as Richard Fernandez writing at PJ Media also points out:

Hillary and the mines of Moria

It wasn’t as if Hillary was an infrequent user of her email system. According to the Washington Post 55,000 pages of emails are said to have been turned over to State Department, though there are probably more.

Remember that the State Department doesn’t HAVE all of Clinton’s e-mails. They are held on her own private e-mail server. That’s the problem. The 55,000 pages of e-mails she has turned over to State were selected by either Clinton or someone on her team. … those are the e-mails that Clintonworld decided should be turned over.

. . . Hillary was exchanging a lot of emails to various someones. One person to whom she was not corresponding, or perhaps she was but he didn’t notice the return email address, was Barack Obama. Nor it would seem she was writing to any official person who might have noticed and thought it odd.

Lauren Harper and Nate Jones of the National Security Archive aren’t buying it. They believe it is highly improbable no one noticed Clinton operating her own private document management system. It was simply that either no one had the temerity to confront Hillary Clinton or were under instructions not to. They sadly conclude that while “the Secretary of State was responsible for all of the Department’s records … she failed to preserve even her own.”

Clarice Feldman writing at The American Thinker conveys :

Benghazibabeatclintonemaildotcom

For her entire term at the department she exclusively used this unprotected email server, utilizing at last count about 9 different email addresses for all her Internet communications. These entire addresses end in clintonemail@com, which signaled to anyone reading the message that this was not sent on a government server.

This tactic allowed her to avoid disclosure of her correspondence to Freedom of Information Act and other document production requests, including Congressional inquiries.

Can she claim she didn’t know this violated Federal laws and regulations requiring this correspondence be kept where it can be archived and, if required, disclosed? Hardly. All officials are routinely warned about such things. In fact, she ordered our ambassador to Kenya fired for failing to use a government server for his communications.

Frank Gaffney at The Washington Times adds that  one other high administrative State Department employee at the time who violated the federal rules requiring archiving of e-mails and who used a private e-mail account for official business — Hillary’s close confidant and Deputy Chief of Staff:

Huma Abedin’s private emails, Muslim Brotherhood

Her emails are of particular interest insofar as Ms. Abedin has extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. That’s the Islamist organization whose self-declared mission is “destroying Western civilization from within.”

Congressman Trey Gowdy who heads the House select committee investigating the Benghazi  terrorist attack  and who we have praised for what we took to be an aggressive and effective pursuit of the truth,  has come under criticism from another former prosecutor we respect:

Andrew McCarthy at National Review writes:

The Benghazi Committee’s Belated Interest in Hillary’s Hidden E-mails

Like your friend developing alligator arms when it comes time to reach for the tab, why has Gowdy said some things are out of reach?

Gowdy let something else slip while unburdening himself to Politico: he and his committee have known since last summer that Mrs. Clinton conducted business by private e-mail. So what you’re just finding out now, Gowdy has known for at least six months. So what did he do about it? According to Politico, “He said the committee has worked with Clinton advisers and the department to gain access to documents relating to the Benghazi attacks.” Fabulous! Gowdy just got finished railing about how Clinton used private e-mail precisely to avoid the government-mandated paper trail. So what’s he been doing about it for six months? Discussing the matter with Clinton’s loyal staffers — i.e., people who helped her carry out the scheme — and with the State Department — i.e., the people he just got done telling you have neither the relevant e-mails nor access to them. That’s it: no subpoenas, no hearings, no nothing. Just as Mrs. Clinton did not turn over any of her private e-mails until the State Department finally asked for them, Gowdy, by his own account, did not issue a subpoena to address a scandal he has long known about until the scandal became public. That in itself is a scandal.

We have read elsewhere that the intelligence committee heads in Congress along with Speaker Boehner should have been briefed on matters pertaining to what Ambassador Chris Stevens was pursuing in Libya prior to and at the time of his murder. E-mails from the time period surrounding the Benghazi attack are still missing.  Were they briefed on all pertinent aspects?

Some bloggers are suggesting that Benghazi can be embarrassing to Republican congressional leadership if they signed off on something.  Regardless, the prime responsibility for denying more extensive security precautions and the abandonment of Stevens and his small security detail  lies with Hillary Clinton and Obama.  The self serving falsity of hers and the rest of the Obama Administration’s spin that the attack was a spontaneous reaction to an obscure film has been exposed.

In the mean time Gowdy has picked up again on at least talking the talk, castigating Clinton for not being forthcoming with e-mails.

 Newsmax reports that on CBS Face the Nation today

. . . Gowdy said his committee is not entitled to everything on the email records, and he doesn’t want everything, “I just want everything related to Libya and Benghazi.”

We understand that e-mails as regards Japan are not under his committee’s select purview.  But how will the public know that e-mails withheld are not being withheld on Clinton’s sole assertion of what is relevant and what isn’t?  We are, after all, talking about Hillary Clinton.

DLH with R Mall

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