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发帖数: 256 | 1 http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-department-of-clinton-1472167746
The U.S. Department of Clinton
This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary
Clinton’s server turned into a waterfall. This is the week that we finally
learned why Mrs. Clinton used a private communications setup, and what it
hid. This is the week, in short, that we found out that the infamous server
was designed to hide that Mrs. Clinton for three years served as the U.S.
Secretary of the Clinton Foundation.
In March this column argued that while Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of
classified information was important, it missed the bigger point. The
Democratic nominee obviously didn’t set up her server with the express
purpose of exposing national secrets—that was incidental. She set up the
server to keep secret the details of the Clintons’ private life—a life
built around an elaborate and sweeping money-raising and self-promoting
entity known as the Clinton Foundation.
Had Secretary Clinton kept the foundation at arm’s length while in office—
as obvious ethical standards would have dictated—there would never have
been any need for a private server, or even private email. The vast majority
of her electronic communications would have related to her job at the State
Department, with maybe that occasional yoga schedule. And those Freedom of
Information Act officers would have had little difficulty—when later going
through a state.gov email—screening out the clearly “personal” before
making her records public. This is how it works for everybody else.
Mrs. Clinton’s problem—as we now know from this week’s release of emails
from Huma Abedin’s private Clinton-server account—was that there was no
divide between public and private. Mrs. Clinton’s State Department and her
family foundation were one seamless entity—employing the same people,
comparing schedules, mixing foundation donors with State supplicants. This
is why she maintained a secret server, and why she deleted 15,000 emails
that should have been turned over to the government.
Most of the focus on this week’s Abedin emails has centered on the
disturbing examples of Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band negotiating
State favors for foundation donors. But equally instructive in the 725 pages
released by Judicial Watch is the frequency and banality of most of the
email interaction. Mr. Band asks if Hillary’s doing this conference, or
having that meeting, and when she’s going to Brazil. Ms. Abedin responds
that she’s working on it, or will get this or that answer. These aren’t
the emails of mere casual acquaintances; they don’t even bother with
salutations or signoffs. These are the emails of two people engaged in the
same purpose—serving the State-Clinton Foundation nexus.
The other undernoted but important revelation is that the media has been
looking in the wrong place. The focus is on Mrs. Clinton’s missing emails,
and no doubt those 15,000 FBI-recovered texts contain nuggets. Then again,
Mrs. Clinton was a busy woman, and most of the details of her daily State/
foundation life would have been handled by trusted aides. This is why they,
too, had private email. Top marks to Judicial Watch for pursuing Ms. Abedin
’s file from the start. A new urgency needs to go into seeing similar
emails of former Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills.
Mostly, we learned this week that Mrs. Clinton’s foundation issue goes far
beyond the “appearance” of a conflict of interest. This is straight-up pay
to play. When Mr. Band sends an email demanding a Hillary meeting with the
crown prince of Bahrain and notes that he’s a “good friend of ours,” what
Mr. Band means is that the crown prince had contributed millions to a
Clinton Global Initiative scholarship program, and therefore has bought face
time. It doesn’t get more clear-cut, folks.
That’s highlighted by the Associated Press’s extraordinary finding this
week that of the 154 outside people Mrs. Clinton met with in the first years
of her tenure, more than half were Clinton Foundation donors. Clinton
apologists, like Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, are claiming that statistic is
overblown, because the 154 doesn’t include thousands of meetings held with
foreign diplomats and U.S. officials.
Nice try. As the nation’s top diplomat, Mrs. Clinton was obliged to meet
with diplomats and officials—not with others. Only a blessed few outsiders
scored meetings with the harried secretary of state and, surprise, most of
the blessed were Clinton Foundation donors.
Mrs. Clinton’s only whisper of grace is that it remains (as it always does
in potential cases of corruption) hard to connect the dots. There are “
quids” (foundation donations) and “quos” (Bahrain arms deals) all over
the place, but no precise evidence of “pros.” Count on the Clinton
menagerie to dwell in that sliver of a refuge.
But does it even matter? What we discovered this week is that one of the
nation’s top officials created a private server that housed proof that she
continued a secret, ongoing entwinement with her family foundation—despite
ethics agreements—and that she destroyed public records. If that alone
doesn’t disqualify her for the presidency, it’s hard to know what would. | x****n
发帖数: 950 | 2 老杂毛的国务院就是他们基金会的工具。老妖婆道德无底线。
finally
server
【在 c******y 的大作中提到】
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-department-of-clinton-1472167746
: The U.S. Department of Clinton
: This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary
: Clinton’s server turned into a waterfall. This is the week that we finally
: learned why Mrs. Clinton used a private communications setup, and what it
: hid. This is the week, in short, that we found out that the infamous server
: was designed to hide that Mrs. Clinton for three years served as the U.S.
: Secretary of the Clinton Foundation.
: In March this column argued that while Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of
: classified information was important, it missed the bigger point. The
| t******r
发帖数: 8600 | 3 If that alone doesn’t disqualify her for the presidency, it’s hard to know
what would. | n****g
发帖数: 14743 | 4 嗳哟。
finally
server
【在 c******y 的大作中提到】
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-department-of-clinton-1472167746
: The U.S. Department of Clinton
: This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary
: Clinton’s server turned into a waterfall. This is the week that we finally
: learned why Mrs. Clinton used a private communications setup, and what it
: hid. This is the week, in short, that we found out that the infamous server
: was designed to hide that Mrs. Clinton for three years served as the U.S.
: Secretary of the Clinton Foundation.
: In March this column argued that while Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of
: classified information was important, it missed the bigger point. The
| R**********9
发帖数: 1487 | 5 WSJ还成，不算太左
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 13 | h*s
发帖数: 2134 | 6 华尔街日报是右翼媒体 对希拉里从来没好感 对川爷也一般 因为被共和党建制派把持 | h*******u
发帖数: 15326 | 7 把国务院搞成家天下，金主直接控制老婊的政策。
这比独裁还独裁，比有理想的独裁者还可恶。
希拉里比希特勒还糟糕。
finally
server
【在 c******y 的大作中提到】
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-department-of-clinton-1472167746
: The U.S. Department of Clinton
: This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary
: Clinton’s server turned into a waterfall. This is the week that we finally
: learned why Mrs. Clinton used a private communications setup, and what it
: hid. This is the week, in short, that we found out that the infamous server
: was designed to hide that Mrs. Clinton for three years served as the U.S.
: Secretary of the Clinton Foundation.
: In March this column argued that while Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of
: classified information was important, it missed the bigger point. The
| g********f
发帖数: 1112 | 8 WSJ is more on the right. It criticized FBI director when he closed Killary
email case. | t******g
发帖数: 1667 | 9 wsj对希拉里还是有好感的吧，看这种天朝特色的马屁文
http://www.wsj.com/articles/photos-hillary-clinton-through-the-years-1469658779
【在 h*s 的大作中提到】
: 华尔街日报是右翼媒体 对希拉里从来没好感 对川爷也一般 因为被共和党建制派把持
| f********a
发帖数: 4239 | 10 川普算不上被建制派把持吧，应该是和建制派互相妥协。即便如此，做到这个地步的也
没有第二个人了。
【在 h*s 的大作中提到】
: 华尔街日报是右翼媒体 对希拉里从来没好感 对川爷也一般 因为被共和党建制派把持
| t*******d
发帖数: 12895 | 11 因为WSJ被共和党建制派把持
【在 f********a 的大作中提到】
: 川普算不上被建制派把持吧，应该是和建制派互相妥协。即便如此，做到这个地步的也
: 没有第二个人了。
| h*s
发帖数: 2134 | 12 擦，赞阅读能力
【在 f********a 的大作中提到】
: 川普算不上被建制派把持吧，应该是和建制派互相妥协。即便如此，做到这个地步的也
: 没有第二个人了。
| g****x
发帖数: 3862 | 13 应该要先贴中文摘要，不然很多人不会读完。
看反响读到的人不多，顶一个！
finally
server
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 1.0.6
【在 c******y 的大作中提到】
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-department-of-clinton-1472167746
: The U.S. Department of Clinton
: This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary
: Clinton’s server turned into a waterfall. This is the week that we finally
: learned why Mrs. Clinton used a private communications setup, and what it
: hid. This is the week, in short, that we found out that the infamous server
: was designed to hide that Mrs. Clinton for three years served as the U.S.
: Secretary of the Clinton Foundation.
: In March this column argued that while Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of
: classified information was important, it missed the bigger point. The
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