There has been a pretty consistent pattern to the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Every time the former secretary of state insists that the truth is all out, and it’s no big deal, yet more damaging information emerges. Recently she and her surrogates have been dissembling so much they’ve barely had a chance to catch a breath between dishonest soundbites.
On January 29, the Associated Press reported that 22 Clinton emails on her insecure private server were at the highest levels of classification. (Classified information was also emailed to Clinton’s pal, the oleaginous Sidney Blumenthal, on his AOL account. If you’re going to help former aides scheme about war-profiteering, can’t you at least pick one with the good sense to use Gmail?) The Clinton camp responded with the usual dismissals. “This is overclassification run amok. We adamently [sic] oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails,” said Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon.
Naturally, a few days later on February 3, the Washington Examiner reported that seven more emails had been found to contain “top secret” information. And some of that information includes “classified sources, and they do reveal human assets,” said Rep. Chris Stewart, a member of the House Intelligence Committee. The New York Post is further reporting that this includes the names of CIA officers working overseas.
If these reports are true, we have to consider the possibility that the Clinton apparatus is engaged in an incredibly deceitful gambit, and given the Clintons’ storied arm’s-length relationship to the truth, this is a pretty sturdy limb to climb out on. They know that the more sensitive the information is, the more unlikely it is this information is going to see the light of day. All they have to do is raise enough doubt among voters and skirt an indictment—a plan both Bill and Hillary Clinton have executed to perfection many, many times before.
Nonetheless, the Clintons, for all their connections, have thus far been unable to stop the drip, drip of revelations about the email scandal, and it’s damaging to Clinton’s political fortunes, regardless of whether she faces legal consequences. (At a recent New Hampshire event, a man stood behind Marco Rubio wearing a “Hillary for Prison” T-shirt.)
So why is it that federal apparatchiks, normally so content to let Democratic scandals slide, are investigating this email scandal to the hilt? We don’t discount the possibility that some members of the government still take pride in their country and respect the rule of law. However, a friend of The Scrapbook emails with another plausible explanation for why this is happening to Hillary Clinton:
