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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 7-6-2016
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Slick Hillie — The Slick Willie Sequel
Hillary Clinton's Teflon Veneer
By Mark Alexander
Jul. 6, 2016
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” —Thomas Jefferson (1785)
In 1980, Arkansan Paul Greenberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the “Pine Bluff Commercial.” In September of that year, after listening to his state’s greenhorn governor fallaciously extol his brilliance and virtues, Greenberg dubbed William Jefferson Clinton “Slick Willie.”
That derogatory nickname was a perfect fit.
A decade later, when Bill and Hillary Clinton set their sights on the White House, Greenberg wrote, “[Slick Willie] doesn’t mean liar. It means dissembler. This is a particular subspecies of lying. It’s a very lawyerly, sophisticated, elastic lie. In my opinion, the old-fashioned lie would be a step up.”
Indeed, Slick Willie perfected the art of the BIG Lie1, but “Slick Hillie” is no piker. With the help of her patron saint Barack Obama2 and their Leftist cadres3 in the Democratic Party4, Hillary now trots out whoppers with a frequency that defies comparison.
A year ago, as Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid was getting underway, I outlined her long record of deceptions, obfuscations and subterfuges5, from Little Rock to Chappaqua. The question now is, “Slick Hillie — will any scandal stick?”
So, just how slick is she?
On Monday night, June 27th, the Democratic National Committee’s point man, Bill Clinton6, had a “primarily social7” private meeting with Obama’s Attorney General, Loretta Lynch.
Despite their assertions that the meeting was “unscheduled,” it was obviously coordinated to give Bill advance assurance of the FBI’s decision to refrain from indicting Hillary. This would explain why, when a local Phoenix news crew heard the two were at the airport at the same time, there was an effort to black out any coverage. According to one of those reporters, “The FBI there on the tarmac instructed everybody around, ‘No photos, no pictures, no cell phones.’”
According to Hillary, “I learned about [the meeting] in the news and it was a short, chance meeting at an airport tarmac and both of their planes, as I understand it, were landing on the same tarmac at about the same time. … It was purely social.”
Once news of their tarmac social broke, Lynch announced that she would remove herself from the decision process regarding a Clinton indictment and, in the words of the New York Times, “accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director made.”
Of course she could remove herself. She knew the fix was already in.
The next day, BO, who obviously received the same report Lynch gave to Bill Clinton, scheduled his first joint appearance with Hillary Clinton for this week.
On Saturday, July 2nd, unannounced and under cover of a holiday weekend, Hillary Clinton reported for an FBI interview8, which was apparently little more than a formality.
And that brings me to Tuesday morning of this week, when I was working on my column, “What Difference Does 13 Hours Make?” I had finally seen the movie “13 Hours9,” based on the assault and murder of our ambassador and three American security personnel by al-Qa'ida terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.
Given the recent release of the House Benghazi report10, it was a good juncture to revisit the false narrative Clinton propagated regarding this attack to protect Obama’s 2012 re-election bid11.
Indeed, that report stated unequivocally, “What we did find was a tragic failure of leadership — in the run up to the attack and the night of — and an administration that, so blinded by politics and its desire to win an election, disregarded a basic duty of government: Tell the people the truth.”
To reiterate, the reason Obama centered his 2012 re-election bid on his claimed “Middle East victories12” was because his domestic policies were a disaster. Predictably, BO’s campaign-driven withdrawal from Iraq13 left a power vacuum filled by the Islamic State14 and the unprecedented escalation of terrorism15 worldwide.
We have provided substantial analysis on Clinton’s “Web video” charade to divert attention from the al-Qa'ida attack in Benghazi.
Ahead of the 2012 election, we delivered a “Memo to Mitt Romney16,” insisting that Mitt must, in his final debate with Obama, “make the case that the reason Obama is obfuscating the facts on who attacked and killed our Ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi is to maintain his thematic campaign pretense that ‘al-Qa'ida is on the run.’”
Unfortunately, Romney didn’t challenge Obama. Had he done so, he’d likely be running for re-election this year.
We provided detailed analysis of Hillary’s cover-up of the Benghazi cover-up17 and her diversionary protest, “What difference does it make18?” The difference between lies and the truth.
But the topic of my column changed mid-morning on Tuesday, as news broke that FBI Director James Comey would not recommend prosecuting Hillary Clinton19.
Before getting to his conclusion, let’s revisit a few facts.
Obama made peace with Hillary after the 2008 election by appointing her secretary of state on January 21, 2009, the day after he took office. She held that position until February 1, 2013.
After being sworn in, Clinton signed a national security secrecy agreement, a breach of which constitutes a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 793(f) for anyone who “through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed.”
In May 2014, after Clinton had resigned as secretary of state, the House established the Select Committee on Benghazi to investigate the false narrative that Clinton and others floated to protect BO’s re-election campaign.
When investigators discovered Clinton had concealed her official communications on a private, non-secure email server in order to hide them from Freedom of Information requests ahead of her 2016 election bid, she denied it. And that was the beginning of another plethora of lies20.
Clinton denied there were emails about her orchestration of the Benghazi cover-up21 to protect Obama’s 2012 re-election bid. But that, too, was a lie.
Clinton denied there were classified communications, sent and received, on that server, but — you guessed it — that was a lie. Some were classified “Top Secret/Special Access” — the highest classification. And, according to Comey, “She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.”
Clinton insisted her off-the-grid server was secure: “It had numerous safeguards and was on property guarded by the Secret Service and there were no security breaches.” But that was a lie. There were archived backups of all her emails stored on an insecure server in a closet of a vendor in Colorado. The FBI determined that it’s highly probable her emails — all of them — were read by both the Russians and Chinese.
Clinton claimed that she provided all her official emails to the State Department: “We went through a thorough process to identify all my work-related emails, and delivered them to the State Department – and provided all of my emails that could possibly be work related.” But that was a lie. After all, it was Clinton’s team that decided what constituted “official” and “work related.” Comey noted, “The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails” that had not been turned over to the State Department. |
