To avoid admitting that she lied, Hillary offers a ‘master class in obfuscation.’

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[h=1]Clinton Short-Circuits the Truth[/h][h=2]To avoid admitting that she lied, Hillary offers a ‘master class in obfuscation.’[/h]

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[FONT=&quot]Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY





[FONT=&quot]By L. GORDON CROVITZ
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Aug. 7, 2016 5:54 p.m. ET



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[FONT=&quot]About two-thirds of voters say Hillary Clinton isn’t “honest or trustworthy,” which in most elections would be decisive. With so much media focus on Donald Trump, it’s worth parsing Mrs. Clinton’s most recent efforts to persuade voters of her honesty.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Late last month, Fox News’s Chris Wallace played clips of Mrs. Clinton’s statements over the past year about her unsecure home email server. Then he said to her: “After a long investigation, FBI Director James Comey said none of those things that you told the American public were true.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Mrs. Clinton’s reply: “Director Comey said that my answers were truthful.”


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[FONT=&quot]Not even close. Mrs. Clinton denied sending or receiving classified email, but Mr. Comey told Congress: “There was classified material emailed.” Mrs. Clinton claimed there was “nothing marked classified”; Mr. Comey testified: “That’s not true.” He cited more than 100 classified emails, 36 of them top secret. “There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about the matters should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation,” Mr. Comey said.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]To her pledge that she had turned over all her work-related email, Mr. Comey testified: “No, we found work-related emails, thousands, that were not returned.” When asked, “Did she lie to the American public?” the lawyerly Mr. Comey testified: “That’s a question I’m not qualified to answer.”[/FONT]
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The Washington Post awarded Mrs. Clinton four Pinocchios for her falsehood in the Wallace interview. But the New York Times didn’t even cover the story until its public editor, Liz Spayd, wrote a blog post Tuesday titled “The Clinton Story You Didn’t Read Here.” Ms. Spayd observed: “If you’re getting all your political news from the New York Times, this may be the first time you’re hearing this.”
On Friday Mrs. Clinton had a chance to revise her comments when a reporter asked her: “Are you mischaracterizing Director Comey’s testimony and is this not undercutting your efforts to rebuild trust with the American people?”


Her reply: “Director Comey had said that my answers in my FBI interview were truthful. That’s really the bottom line here and I have said during the interview and in many other occasions over the past few months, that what I told the FBI, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what I have said publicly. So I may have short-circuited and for that, I, you know, will try to clarify.”
A writer for the left-of-center website Slate called Mrs. Clinton’s comments a “master class in obfuscation” and “an awkward journey of dissembling and lawyerly quibbling.” A spokesman for Mr. Trump called it a “painful, pretzel-like response.”


Mrs. Clinton’s short-circuiting of the truth on Friday also included a repetition of her false claim that “I never sent or received anything that was marked classified.” Mr. Comey testified that she did, and added that in any case “participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”


Clintonian obfuscation won’t hide the reason she set up her private email server in her basement. She publicly claimed it was for “convenience,” so that she could use a single device for her work and personal emails, but Mr. Comey confirmed she used multiple devices. Mrs. Clinton disclosed the real reason in a 2010 email that came to light later. “I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible,” she wrote her State Department advisers. She chose to evade the requirement that her work emails be on State’s servers because that would have made them accessible to the public under disclosure laws.


The result is that her emails are available—just not to Americans. Contrary to Mrs. Clinton’s claim that “there were no security breaches,” security experts agree China, Russia and unknown others hacked into all 63,000 emails on the home-brew server—including the 33,000 she failed to provide under court order.

 

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[FONT=&quot]The timeline suggests after Russia hacked Mrs. Clinton’s emails, its spies decided to complete their knowledge of Mrs. Clinton’s relationships by hacking the Clinton Foundation, State Department and Democratic National Committee. Unless a friendly spy agency that hacked Mrs. Clinton’s emails does Americans a favor by publishing them before the election, if she is elected Vladimir Putin will have the capacity to blackmail her at will.


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[FONT=&quot]In this election year, voters may not have the option of getting everything they want in a candidate. For all Mr. Trump’s gaffes, at least none directly threaten national security. But voters are now on notice that Mrs. Clinton’s “short-circuited” truth is far from the truth.[/FONT]

 

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Windham, New Hampshire (CNN)Donald Trump pumped up his attacks on Hillary Clinton's character Saturday night by suggesting that the former secretary of state is not mentally fit to be president.

"She took a short-circuit in the brain. She's got problems," Trump said, seizing on Clinton's explanation that she "short-circuited" a recent answer about her truthfulness in discussing her email server.

"Honestly, I don't think she's all there," he added.

 

[russ1945]

Has Hillary come out and said that she will see to it that private servers will not be allowed at any level by federal employees, elected or not? Nope

Bottom line is that if she did not realize the security problems involved then she places her personal privacy way ahead of national security.
All this from someone who has probably not driven a car in how many years? She lives in a world of her own and her priorities are all that matter.
Trump would never do what she did. He takes more flack for what he says then her for what she does.

 

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- AUGUST 06, 2016 -

WHEN TALKING POINTS GO WRONG: HILLARY CLINTON SHORT CIRCUITS IN FRONT OF THE PRESS

Yesterday’s Pseudo-Presser Gives Four Reasons Why Clinton Will Probably Never Hold Another Press Conference Before The End Of The Campaign


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Yesterday Clinton Held What Was Described As A “Halfway Press Conference,” Which Was Her First Time Holding Something Approximating A Presser In 244 Days:
August 5, 2016: “Hillary Clinton Sort Of, Kind Of, Almost Broke Her Streak And Held A Press Conference On Friday.” (Eliza Collins, “Hillary Clinton Holds A Halfway Press Conference,” USA Today, 8/5/16)

• USA Today Headline: “Hillary Clinton Holds A Halfway Press Conference” (USA Today, 8/5/16)

Clinton Has Not Held A Press Conference Since December 4, 2015, Which Was 244 Days Prior. “The Clinton campaign suggested the event was a press conference. Several reporters covering Clinton’s candidacy said otherwise. Why anyone would debate what, officially, constitutes a press conference stems from a long-running rift between the Clinton press corps and the campaign over the candidate’s accessibility. Clinton had not held a press conference since Dec. 4, 2015, in Fort Dodge, Iowa ― or 244 days ago ― and reporters have frequently highlighted this drought on Twitter.” (Michael Calderone, “Hillary Clinton Held Her First Press Conference Of 2016 — Or Not,” The Huffington Post, 8/5/16)


REASON ONE – Clinton Lied Yet Again About Her Private Email Server:


Clinton Said “She May Have ‘Short-Circuited’” When She Claimed FBI Director Comey Said Clinton’s Answers On Her Private Email Server Were “Truthful.”“Hillary Clinton acknowledged Friday that she may have ‘short-circuited’ when she claimed in a recent interviews that FBI Director James Comey said she was ‘truthful’ about her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Clinton insisted in two televised interviews aired this week, including one with Fox News' Chris Wallace aired Sunday, that Comey had found her statements ‘truthful’ and ‘consistent’ with what she has said publicly.” (Nick Gass, “Clinton: I 'Short-Circuited' On 'Truthful' Email Answer,” Politico, 8/5/16)
Clinton Later Said Her Answers To The FBI On Her Email Practices Were “Truthful” And “Consistent With What I Had Said Publicly.” “Clinton repeated that her email practices represented a ‘mistake, and I take responsibility for that.’ ‘But I do think, you know, having him say that my answers to the FBI were truthful and then I should quickly add, what I said was consistent with what I had said publicly. And that's really sort of in my view trying to tie both ends together,’ she added.” (Nick Gass, “Clinton: I 'Short-Circuited' On 'Truthful' Email Answer,” Politico, 8/5/16)

On July 7 Comey Said It Was “Not True” That Clinton Was Correct In Saying “There Was Nothing Marked Classified On Her Emails Either Sent Or Received.”GOWDY: "Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received, was that true?" COMEY: "That's not true. There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents." (House Oversight Committee, 7/7/16)


REASON TWO – Clinton Called Trump Her Husband:

Clinton “Nearly Called Her Rival Donald Trump Her ‘Husband’” At Friday’s Event.“Hillary Clinton nearly called her rival Donald Trump her ‘husband’ before quickly correcting herself and saying Trump was her ‘opponent.’ The embarrassing gaffe came as she addressed the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists on Friday in Washington, DC.” (Daniel Halper, “Clinton Mistakenly Refers To Trump As Her ‘Husband’,” New York Post, 8/5/16)
New York Post Headline: “Clinton Mistakenly Refers To Trump As Her ‘Husband’” (New York Post, 8/5/16)



REASON THREE – Clinton Said Her “Crew” Of African-American Friends “Tried To Expand (Her) Musical Tastes”:


Clinton Responded She Had A “Crew” Of Friends, Including Her Two African-American Chiefs Of Staff When Asked About The “Most Meaningful Conversation (She’d) Had With An African-American Friend.” “She mostly gave prepared remarks at the event, but when it was time for journalists in the audience to ask questions, her discomfort with press conferences emerged — with one question in particular. Kevin Merida, editor-in-chief of ESPN's The Undefeated, asked Clinton: ‘What is the most meaningful conversation you've had with an African-American friend?’ … Then she responded: ‘Can I tell you that I am blessed to have a crew of great friends, and I've had two chiefs-of-staff who were my African-American women friends, Maggie Williams and Cheryl Mills.’” (Meg Anderson, “Asked About Black Friends, Clinton Says She's 'Blessed To Have A Crew',” NPR, 8/5/16)

Clinton Also Said Her African-American Friends “Tried To Expand (Her) Musical Tastes.” “Hillary Clinton recalled on Friday that her black friends have ‘tried to expand my musical tastes’ while speaking before the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.” (Steve Guest, “Hillary: My Black Friends Have ‘Tried To Expand My Musical Tastes’,” The Daily Caller, 8/5/16)

Mediaite Headline: “Clinton Botches Question Over African American Friends, Calls Them Her ‘Crew’” (Mediaite, 8/5/16)

Washington Examiner Headline: “Clinton To Journalists: I Have A Lot Of Black Friends” (Washington Examiner, 8/5/16)


REASON FOUR – Clinton Asked Journalists To Specifically Go After Donald Trump:


Clinton Told Reporters They Had A “Special Responsibility” And Civic Duty To Target Trump With Tough Coverage. “Telling the Fourth Estate that it has a ‘special responsibility’ in an election cycle like this one, Hillary Clinton on Friday urged journalists to keep up tough coverage of Donald Trump, and said that any news organization targeted by the Republican presidential nominee should be proud. … Speaking to a joint meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Mrs. Clinton recited many of Mr. Trump’s ugly clashes with the press and said journalists have a civic duty to keep after the billionaire businessman.” (Ben Wolfgang, “Hillary Clinton Urges Journalists To Go After Donald Trump,” Washington Times, 8/5/16)


Washington Times Headline: “Hillary Clinton Urges Journalists To Go After Donald Trump” (Washington Times, 8/5/16)


The Daily Caller Headline: “Hillary Lectures Journalists About How They Cover Trump”(The Daily Caller, 8/5/16)

 

[Dave007inVegas]

It all depends on what your definition of is is.

 

[Coldweather]

She is a big fat ca ca head!

 

[GasMan]

Doesn't matter...the Democratic lunatics don't care about honesty, integrity or truth. They just want their free shit and welfare checks so they will vote for Hillary no matter what.

 

[LENBO]

No wonder why the cackling c**t avoids them.
And this was a soft toss presser.


On Friday, Hillary Clinton took questions from the press for the first time in 260 days. A number of her answers revealed why she doesn’t hold press conferences more: Her answers to both difficult and easy questions were often evasive, excessively legalistic, and frustrating to watch.

 

[jimmythegreek]

she should voluntarily walk into the nearest penile facility and turn herself in.

 

[roadreeler57]

Doesn't matter...the Democratic lunatics don't care about honesty, integrity or truth. They just want their free shit and welfare checks so they will vote for Hillary no matter what.

So true....

 

[carlspackler]

I'm sure she will straighten all this out at her next press conference.

 

[JDeuce]

Doesn't matter...the Democratic lunatics don't care about honesty, integrity or truth. They just want their free shit and welfare checks so they will vote for Hillary no matter what.

Partially true.

The rest of the dimocrap party consists of the millionaires and billionaires who somehow never get called upon to pay their "fair share." You know, the actors, athletes, etc. And why? Because dim voters like them, or something.

I just saw Fat Grandma's ad commercial... She's going to round up Wall Street and make sure they pay their fair share? Sure she is. Take a look at how much Wall Street money has flown into her campaign...does anyone with half a fucking brain really believe "Wall Street" will suddenly agree to pay more in taxes after they supported her financially? There will be ridiculous loop holes they can easily exploit in these new laws, but that's too much for the average dim voter to grasp.

It never ceases to amaze me just how fucking mindlessly devoted dim voters are. And if you asked them, I doubt most could even enunciate why.