Is this a thing? Somehow I don't think it is:
Hillary Clinton wiped her email server "clean," permanently deleting all emails from it, the chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said Friday.
Representative Trey Gowdy, South Carolina-4 Republican, said the former secretary of state has failed to produce a single new document in recent weeks and has refused to relinquish her server to a third party for an independent review, as Gowdy has requested.
See what I mean? Ask yourself this question: Are either of the above the slightest bit surprising? And are not both precisely what we would have expected Mrs. Clinton to do? Indeed, are both not what any of us would have done in her position? Do the Clintons not ALWAYS have a ton to hide?
If your answers to the above questions are not "no, yes, yes, aaaaaaand yes" then you're suffering from Clinton rust, and if there's enough Clinton rust out there, she might actually have a chance next year after all.
Clinton's attorney, David Kendall....
Remember him?
....said Gowdy was looking in the wrong place. Instead of asking Clinton for the emails, Gowdy should look to the State Department, which is "uniquely positioned to make available any documents responsive to your requests," Kendall said.
In a six-page letter released late Friday, Kendall said Clinton had turned over to the State Department all work-related emails sent or received during her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
Translation: Hillary wiping her server is not a thing, and you're not getting anything more than what we've given you. And if you're not down with that, we've got just two words for ya....
Seriously, could anybody have possibly forgotten Clinton SOP?
Now this, I think, is a thing. Or, as Ace deftly entitles it, "Her majesty's secret service":
Starting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime Clinton family confidante Sidney Blumenthal supplied intelligence to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gathered by a secret network that included a former CIA clandestine service officer, according to hacked emails from Blumenthal’s account.
The emails, which were posted on the internet in 2013, also show that Blumenthal and another close Clinton associate discussed contracting with a retired Army special operations commander to put operatives on the ground near the Libya-Tunisia border while Libya's civil war raged in 2011.
Blumenthal's emails to Clinton, which were directed to her private email account, include at least a dozen detailed reports on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya as well as events in other nations....
It’s unclear who tasked Blumenthal, known for his fierce loyalty to the Clintons, with preparing detailed intelligence briefs. It's also not known who was paying him, or where the operation got its money. The memos were marked "confidential" and relied in many cases on "sensitive”"sources in the Libyan opposition and Western intelligence and security services. Other reports focused on Egypt, Germany, and Turkey.
Indeed, though they were sent under Blumenthal's name, the reports appear to have been gathered and prepared by Tyler Drumheller, a former chief of the CIA's clandestine service in Europe who left the agency in 2005. Since then, he has established a consulting firm called Tyler Drumheller, LLC. He has also been affiliated with a firm called DMC Worldwide, which he co-founded with Washington, D.C., attorney Danny Murray and former general counsel to the U.S. Capitol Police John Caulfield. DMC Worldwide’s now-defunct website describes it at as offering "innovative security and intelligence solutions to global risks in a changing world." [emphases added]
This is more surreal than finding a Bible in Miley Cyrus's bong bag. Hillary Clinton had a shadow intelligence agency within the Obama Regime? Because....why? The CIA wasn't good enough? Or maybe it was too good and she didn't trust Langley for precisely that reason? Or did she want intel she could legitimately trust and figured that anything connected with Obama would be fatally tainted? Or is she just such a megalomanical control freak that she has to run everything herself, in the same way that she kept all her Foggy Bottom emails on her own server, and couldn't abide accountability and transparency getting in the way of what she wanted to do? Whatever that was, since her server has been wiped cleaner than a baby's bunghole. And since she believes herself entitled to do anything she wants, whatever the Constitution and the law dictate, there you go.
It's probably true that CIA (Clinton Intelligence Agency) got its funding from La Clinton Nostra, but it wouldn't surprise me all that much if it was illegally siphoned from the State Commissariat budget. Perhaps some of both. Which makes it so gosh darn interesting that Mrs. Clinton wiped her server, but only after she first noticed the congressional posse on her tail around last Halloween. Which suggests that she's getting slow in her old age, as twenty years ago that server would have been molten slag the day she left Foggy Bottom.
Exit question: Isn't it telling that I only mentioned the chairman of the congressional committee "investigating" Mrs. Clinton once (in the title - thrice if you count blockquotes)? How sad is it that Trey Gowdy has about as much relevance to any of this as Viscera doing a SlimFast commercial....
....and he's about the only one not to realize it?
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