Another Day, Another Clinton Scandal

Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.

Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. (New York Times, 3/3/2015)

Question: How do we know that the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal is serious? 
Answer: ABC News yesterday featured the story fourth...after reporting on an imminent East Coast snow storm.

Question: Why would the New York Times even bother to report the story?
Answer: This is a bit more difficult to ascertain, but RedStateVT has a theory. Goes like this...

We believe that some "Ready for Hillary" staffers working at the New York Times may have broken ranks. Recent revelations that Hillary has accepted money from foreign governments including Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, ISIS, etc. may have led these staffers to conclude that Hillary was unelectable. With much regret, this group may have decided to trade in their pantsuits for native American headdresses and get behind Lizzie Warren. Hence the e-mail-gate story effectively putting both Bill and Hill out to pasture. The silver lining for Bill, of course, is that he does not have to tone down the skirt-chasing for the next ten years. 

By the way, here is Hillary's defense:
Mrs. Clinton’s aides have said her use of private email was not out of the ordinary, pointing to the fact that former Secretary of State Colin Powell also used a personal email account, before the current regulations went into effect. (New York Times, 3/4/2015)

So Colin Powell used his personal e-mail account before the policy was changed to prohibit the SOS from using his/her personal e-mail account. Therefore, Hillary Clinton - who used her personal e-mail account AFTER the policy was changed to prohibit such usage - is in the clear. 

Got it. 


Boom Time
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received numerous standing ovations and booming cheers from both sides of the aisle when he addressed a joint meeting of Congress Tuesday. Netanyahu’s remarks focused on the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran.

A deal with Iran, the prime minister said, will permit the country to keep its large nuclear infrastructure of thousands of spinning centrifuges intact. This will enable Iran to get to the bomb in a short period of time, he said. (Dailycaller.com, 3/3/2015)

Left unsaid in Netanyahu's statesman-like address was the following:

"Hey people, is there anyone left on the planet who thinks that Obama is a good negotiator? I am NOT going to have the fate of Israel decided by a community organizer who has screwed up every negotiation he ever engaged in."  (See Russia, Cuba, Iraq, etc.)