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BREAKING: State Department Audit Faults Clinton In Emails

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A State Department audit has faulted Hillary Clinton and previous secretaries of state for poorly managing email and other computer information and slowly responding to new cybersecurity risks.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report by the agency's inspector general Wednesday.

It cites "longstanding, systemic weaknesses" related to communications. These started before Clinton's appointment as secretary of state, but her failures were singled out as more serious.

The review came after revelations Clinton exclusively used a private email account and server while in office. Clinton is now the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

The 78-page report says the department and its secretaries were "slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership."

UPDATE 10:43 AM:  

Statement from Office of the Inspector General 

Inspector General Charles McCullough’s Congressional Notice 

NEW EMAIL: OIG report has new email where Abedin asks HRC if she wants to get State email. HRC says no bc privacy https://t.co/JSajEPwssC

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 25, 2016

MORE FROM REPORT: @hillaryclinton, Mills, Huma, Sullivan didn't cooperate w/State OIG probe. Powell, Albright, Rice did interviews

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 25, 2016

State OIG report has Clinton aide shutting down private server in 2011 because "someone was trying to hack us." pic.twitter.com/t9jlsvJ044

— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) May 25, 2016

Candidate Biden warming up in the bullpen. https://t.co/WLTykYdRBk

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 25, 2016

Clinton Runs At Upson Downs: The Inaugural Prison Break Derby

While Ted Cruz was seen in Millionaire’s Row at the Kentucky Derby this past Saturday, doubtless enjoying a traditional mint julep, another politician was also at a horse race—not Churchill Downs mind you, but at Upson Downs for the running of the Inaugural Prison Break Derby.

Hillary was astride a swayback gelding spending the entire race looking over one shoulder and then the other because:

The FBI investigation swirling around Hillary Clinton’s presidential run appears to have entered the final stages. 

Many of the former Secretary of State’s key aides have been interviewed over the course of the last month, and Clinton herself is expected to answer investigators’ questions about her use of a private email server in the coming days or weeks. 

Former officials and legal experts say that Clinton’s testimony will likely be the final puzzle piece for federal prosecutors and FBI investigators as they decide whether to file any charges over her use of a personal email server.  

Bryan Pagliano, the IT specialist believed to have helped set up and maintained Clinton’s server, was granted immunity in exchange for his help with the investigation.  

Whatever the outcome of the case, the political controversy over Clinton’s email setup is unlikely to subside. 

Even if the Justice Department comes up empty, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits are currently making their way through the courts, and are likely to shed additional light on Clinton’s setup for months to come.

The Wolves At Hillary’s Door

At 8:20 PM last night The Washington Post broke the story that the Justice Department is granting immunity from prosecution to Bryan Pagliano.  Pagliano isn’t a nobody.  He was a Clinton staffer during her 2008 presidential campaign, installed and maintained her now-infamous private email server and, who a scant six months ago, pled the Fifth while appearing before Chairman Trey Gowdy’s House Select Committee on Benghazi.

He has just been granted immunity by the government as the necessary step to obtain his testimony on the subject of whether Clinton’s State Department email traffic created a security violation or involved offenses.

WaPo reported that Clinton personally paid Pagliano to maintain her private email server, but he failed to list the outside income in the required personal financial disclosures he filed each year.  The attorney for Pagliano declined to comment.

With the advent of this revelation, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign said they were “pleased” to learn of Pagliano’s involvement.  Sure they are.  That statement might be convincing to the lemmings on the left, but anyone else sees the irony in that statement.

It was Clinton herself who called the FBI investigation a “security review” when, in fact, it was a full-on criminal investigation of “wrongdoing”.  FBI agents have poured over electronic timestamps on classified sources to clarify whether Clinton aides reviewed the sources and then retyped the information into emails that were sent or forwarded to the former Secretary of State’s private server.

Clinton is likely to be asked to be interviewed directly by the FBI in the coming months.

Hillary Clinton set out ten months ago to inspire and energize her party, but buried beneath all that is the fact that one in five people believe that she is “dishonest” or a “liar”.

The falloff in Democratic primary turnout—which often reveals whether a candidate is exciting voters and attracting them to the polls—reached deep into some of the core groups of voters Clinton must not only win in November, but turn out in large numbers. It stands in sharp contrast to the flood of energized new voters showing up at the polls to vote for the GOP’s front-runner.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and constitutional law professor at Brooklyn Law School, opined in The Washington Times:

“The relentless barrage of bad legal news for Mrs. Clinton, which has been relegated to below-the-fold stories because of the primary news position of the presidential primary contests, must keep her and her lawyers up late at night. While her husband has been arguing with military veterans at her political rallies and while Marco Rubio and Donald Trump have been mocking each other’s body parts, a series of curious developments has occurred in the Clinton email scandal.”

“It is fair to call this a scandal because it consists of the public revelation of the private and probably criminal misdeeds of the nation’s chief diplomat during President Obama’s first term in office.  Mrs. Clinton’s job as secretary of state was to keep secrets. Instead, she exposed them to friend and foe. The exposure of state secrets, either intentionally or negligently, constitutes the crime of espionage. For the Secretary of State to have committed espionage is, quite simply, scandalous.”

Madame Mao Indictment? “It Will Be Like Watergate. It Will Be Unbelievable.”

The Daily Mail is reporting today that Joe DiGenova, a one-time federal prosecutor originally appointed by President Reagan, told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham Tuesday that the FBI's still-pending investigation of Clinton's email server seems to have reached a critical mass.

DiGenova warned the decision to charge Clinton personally with a crime lies with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, putting the Obama administration in a difficult political position.

"I believe that the evidence that the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that, unless [Lynch] agrees to the charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an attorney general. It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable," DiGenova said.

“The evidence against the Clinton staff and the secretary is so overwhelming at this point that if, in fact, she chooses not to charge Hillary, they will never be able to charge another federal employee with the negligent handling of classified information,” DiGenova continued.

“The intelligence community will not stand for that. They will fight for indictment and they are already in the process of gearing themselves to basically revolt if she refuses to bring charges.”

See also:  Clinton could face a criminal indictment from the FBI within the next 60 days.

Did Someone Call For A Hero?

Twelve days from today CNN, the Nevada Democratic Party and the Wynn Resort Las Vegas will host the first Democratic Presidential Debate.

The Democrats have always pinned their hopes on The Ice Cube In Heels except maybe that one time when The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer said in a debate that Hillary was “likeable enough” and went on to demolish her run for president waaaaay back in 2008.

Right now the Democratic Party is arguably in disarray with a socialist who is pulling the party further left and milquetoasts with zero chance of getting the party’s nomination like O’Malley and Chaffee.  The Dems need a hero and Clinton ain’t it.  Unable to convince the electorate (and the pundits for that matter) that she is warm and genuine and honest, she is mired in frantic talks with armies of attorneys about her emails.  She looks, well, she looks wobbly.  People are beginning to get that she’s been playing them for fools.

CNN recently announced that they’re going to keep a podium warm for Uncle Joe Biden allowing him to participate in the debate if he announces his candidacy as late as the day of the event.

The Democrats need Biden to pull them back from the edge of the abyss and give Granny Hillary a vigorous shove into retirement with three hots and a cot under the watchful eye of officers at a federal penitentiary. 

UPDATE:  CNN reported earlier today that Biden is not preparing for the first Democratic debate and is not expected to participate.   He and his team “have been inundated by mounds of research and battle plans” but “feels no pressure” to reach a decision prior to the second half of October.

The Ice Cube In Heels Got Hot Under The Collar

The Ice Cube In Heels and The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer loathe each other.  Some examples of their abhorrence for each other are cited in former senior advisor David Axelrod’s book "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics," 

In a new tell-all book, “Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary”, one passage tells of ol’ Granny’s outrage over damaging leaks by Obama aides that led to investigations of her use of a private email server as secretary of state. So she went right to the top to settle the matter.

Clinton requested a meeting with the president, against the advice of hubby Billy Jeff, believing “she was being persecuted for minor, meaningless violations,” Klein writes.

Clinton initially took a friendly approach during the meeting and Obama reacted as if he didn’t know what she was talking about.  “He was almost being deliberately dense,” a Clinton source said. “It really angered her.”

“What I want for you to do is call off your fucking dogs, Barack!” Clinton allegedly said.

The president was so stunned by Clinton’s disrespectful demands; he needed a moment to compose himself.  “There is nothing I can do for you one way or another. Things have been set in motion, and I can’t and won’t interfere. Your problems are, frankly, of your own making. If you had been honest…”

While the Clinton camp is dismissing Klein’s book as “bullshit”, the exposé he submits sounds totes legit.

Cankles Has Fallen

Jonah Goldberg painted captivating images in his article this past Saturday at National Review.  He imagines the veteran grifters of Team Clinton:  Lanny Davis “in the middle of a meeting with an African dictator when, suddenly, his assistant hands him a note.”  Upon reading the note, which simply read “Cankles Is Down”, Davis abruptly terminates the meeting declaring, “The Clintons need me.” 

Goldberg then directs us to the banks of a bayou where James Carville, who has caught a catfish, proceeds to devour its entrails in the manner of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gollum.  His snack is interrupted by a signal flare.  He knows instantly its meaning.  Quickly, he steps into his waiting limousine which speeds him to an MSNBC studio.  Meanwhile the other gutter rat, David Brock, “slinks out of his leather onesie” racing to his command center barking orders, “This is a level-one Alpha scenario.  Cancel all leave.”

Goldberg was, of course, thinking of action movies where grizzled old pros get together one last time to spin furiously as their dowager queen rapidly sinks in the quicksand of scandal.

Goldberg continues to posit, ”For 30 years, Hillary Clinton has been defensive bordering on paranoia (with occasional forays far over the border). For 30 years, Hillary Clinton has responded to every challenge—not just every scandal, but every challenge (like HillaryCare)—by convening huge task forces of loyalists."

We now know that Cankles’ Emailghazi troubles are just beginning as we learn that a State Department whistleblower told The Daily Signal a “boiler-room operation” was set up to hide documents after Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others attached to the CIA complex in Benghazi perished in a hail of gunfire and mortar rounds.

As one commenter noted, this movie will be a “popcorn bonanza.”

UPDATE:  Dvorak News broke the news today that the former Secretary of State used MX Logic, a spam filtering service now owned by McAfee that had full access to all her classified State Department email in unencrypted form.  It could be read, tapped, archived or forwarded to anyone in the world without anyone ever knowing.

Curmudgeonly Cartoon: Meanwhile, Back At Chappaqua

Throne-sniffer Maureen Dowd, surprised me yesterday with her “Open Letter To hdr22@clintonemail” in which she snarled, “…you knew you could count on the complicity of feminists and Democratic women in Congress” as she recounted the pathologically unpresidential behavior of her husband’s cigar fetish in the Oval Office.

Dowd goes on to say, “You seem like an annoyed queen, radiating irritation at anyone who tries to hold you accountable.”  She goes a step further giving her take on “Clinton Fatigue”, perhaps because she remains enamored with The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer saying, “You’re still idling on the runway, but we’re already jet-lagged. It’s all so drearily familiar that I know we’re only moments away from James Carville writing a column in David Brock’s Media Matters, headlined, ‘In Private, Hillary’s Really a Hoot.’”

On Saturday, March 14, 2014 Ed Klein, who broke the story about Mrs. Clinton’s email scandal, told Larry Kudlow on his WABC radio show that this Administration “is up to its eyebrows in efforts to stop” her and Valerie Jarrett has launched six investigations into her years as Secretary of State.

This movie is rated 5 out of 5 stars; so pull up your recliner, grab your popcorn and enjoy the show folks.

Bumper Sticker Of The Day: DELETE Hillary Clinton

Curmudgeonly Cartoon: The Server Will Remain Private

Hillary knows how to home brew a server. Hillary does not know you can have two emails on ONE device.
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) March 10, 2015

Hillary Clinton is actually saying she thought it easier to set up a “homebrew” server than to figure out two accounts on 1 device.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 10, 2015

"One device" is Hillary's talking point. Not good enough.
— Crystal Wright (@GOPBlackChick) March 10, 2015

Hillary Clinton and the Emails of Doom

...or, No Sequel for Hillary!

My friend Adrienne, over at Adrienne's Corner, put up a post minimizing the importance of Hillary's email in flagrante delicto, characterizing it as a "tempest in a teapot". I'm sure that plenty on the Left would love for us to believe this, and have in the meantime, come up with some of the lamest excuses, defenses  and doublespeak I have ever heard from a liberal, bar none.

Surprisingly, though a number of folks on the Left are outraged by her conduct as well. Let's examine (and shred) some of the arguments put forth on Hillary's behalf.  

Her emails were public (because she sent them out publicly ) Lannie Davis, long time Clinton apologist, tried to make the argument that Hillary had made her emails public because she sent out so many of them publicly. Let's call this the "iceberg defense". As long as you can see part of it, just assume you've seen it all!

what she did was open. She sent these e-mails to thousands of people with that e-mail address. So there's no intent to hide...

This is absurd on the face. Any email she sent to you is not necessarily public to me. The fact that thousands of people may have received emails from Hillary's account, means the account may have been public, but not the emails. Apples and Orangemen. The fact that she sent out thousands of emails is irrelevant unless all of them are archived with the government so that they can be searched, and if need be, subpoenaed. If she sent 1,000 emails to Kim Kardashian and 20 to Vladimir Putin, turning over all the Kardashian emails doesn't mean her email was "public". They are public when the public has access to them all, according to prevailing law. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was passed because some government officials had to be forced by law to turn certain documents that should have been part of the public record, over to 'we the people'. But, FOIA doesn't give you access to Hillary's private server, therefore the original documents are in fact being hidden away from the public who owns them.

Any possibility that there are emails from Ambassador Chris Stevens to his boss and good friend Hillary Clinton, telling her of deteriorating conditions, requesting more protection for the compound at Benghazi? Emails from Hillary to Chris telling him to pound sand?? It would be most unusual if there weren't.

Any emails to Saudi Arabia around the time the Saudis gave $25 Million to the Clinton Foundation? From them? Any veiled (pun intended) hints of a quid pro quo?

No Independent Legal Authority This from former alleged conservative turned conservative inquisitioner David Brock. He says the NYT had 'no independent legal authority' to say that Hillary broke any law. This sounds a little bit like the Al Gore's fundraising excuse, back in 1996, when the Clintons were looking at a different controversy in accepting money from foreign governments. "There is no controlling legal authority",was what the vice president said. David Brock notwithstanding, there was a 2009 regulation

"agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic email messages using a system not operated by the agency, must ensure that federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record keeping system."

Hillary's house is NOT in an appropriate agency record keeping system.  

The State Dept manual on foreign affairs stated that employees "must use a secure, department approved computer system". Who, dear Hillary, aside from yourself, in your department approved your personal system? Craig Livingston*? Was there a tape back up run by Rose Mary Woods**??

False equivalence "Hillary did nothing wrong, everybody has a private email account!" Everyone may have a belly button, too, but that's equally irrelevant. Having an additional email account to one's government account is not unusual for public officials. In fact, Congressmen are forbidden by law to use their gov't email for fund raising or campaign events, so they use private accounts for those, as liberals are pointing out with glee. "See? See? Congressman Hornblatt has a private email and it's RIGHT ON HIS BUSINESS CARD!!!"***  However, not one of them uses a private account exclusively for conducting government business. That's a distinction that falls solely to Hillary Diane Rodham Milhous Clinton.

In fact, you do remember the faux outrage over the suggestion that a Republican governor may have conducted some government business on a private email account? Romney? Palin?? "What were they trying to hide???" What if they had conducted ALL of their communications on a private email server, say one called GOP.org? Would the lynching be public or would they be flayed and boiled in oil first? Can I get even a small fraction of the outrage there, for one of the highest office holders in the land, who used a private email account EXCLUSIVELY for all her government business, none of it properly archived in government agencies?  

"Bush did it" in 2007, something something, missing emails, something something, Bush and Cheney did it, too! More false equivalence. Whatever Bush and Cheney did, you can be 100% certain that Bush did not exclusively conduct government business on private email, with some private server in Crawford, Texas. You can also be 100% certain that Bush was not soliciting cash for any private eponymous foundation and arranging any quid pro quos for infusions of cash to foreign governments.  

Hillary turned over 55,000 emails. That's a LOT! State Dept spokesperson Marie Harf may be easily impressed with large numbers. And shiny objects. Actually, it's 55,000 pages of documents. Out of how many emails? Ever get a highly detailed email or one with attachments that ran more than one page? Me too.

Even if that were 99.999% of the government documents generated, it would not be enough. If there were 55,002 emails she sent, and she conveniently neglected to hand over two incriminating ones, it circumvents both the spirit and the intention of the law, and the record is incomplete. Short of giving all the servers to the government for a forensic evaluation, there cannot be full compliance. The Clintons sending out copies of however many emails they want is not evidence that the email was totally or properly archived. The servers need to be turned over. Every document she authored as Secretary of State needs to be properly archived. This is part of the history of this country and this government. Those emails do not belong to Hillary.

The Clintons should turn over all the servers to an impartial third party or court, to separate the personal from the professional, so that the professional can be archived and searchable. Until then, one can never know if there has been a full compliance with the law.  

At that time, there was no time requirement. Now there is.  Again, the lovely Ms. Harf strains credulity. Even though there was not a 60 day requirement, as I believe is the case today, is it reasonable to assume that Hillary was in compliance if after two years, she only turns documents over after they were subpoenaed?

If a politician generates hard copy documents on their own stationery, are they entitled to store them in their garage until such time as someone compels them to be delivered?

"And she has given everything, according to her staff, to the State Dept." 

Key words being "according to her staff".

But! But! There's a lot of private information on them too! All of the Clintons' private emails! This is just a "fishing expedition" by Republicans! Gosh. Actions have consequences! Even Hillary's. No one made Hillary set up her own private email servers. If she had wanted to keep her personal email separate from those emails which properly are the property of the people of the United States, then the "smartest woman in the world" should have figured out to keep her personal emails on her private servers and emails dealing with the office of the Secretary of State should have been archived on government servers from the very beginning. Period.  

National Security Risk We know that Hillary's email was hacked. What we don't know is how many times and by whom? A hacker who goes by the name of guccifer hacked Hillary's email and published a number of them. But, if a common everyday garden variety hacker could hack Hillary's email, how about teams of hackers from foreign governments? Could a foreign government or governments have hacked Hillary's email for confidential or even classified information? We don't know. That's one of the reason why the government needs to conduct a forensic search of her private servers.

The thought occurred to me, given the insecurity of Clintonemail, that if a foreign government or governments had hacked her account, they would have had the inside scoop, play by play of US foreign policy, for possibly as many years as she was Sec State. Imagine the foreign policy failures of the last six years. What if Barack Obama is not the bumbling, fumbling incompetent we've come to know and love. What if the reason he was so easily thwarted by Putin in the Ukraine, by Bashar al-Assad ignoring his red lines, by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the mad mullahs of Iran was not because he was a foreign policy noob, but because there was a gigantic hole in his secure communications, and nations unfriendly towards the US were listening in?

Did Hillary ever in her entire tenure as Secretary of State send a classified document via email? Not inconceivable, in fact, probable. That means at least for a time, that document was stored on whatever device she was using, her Blackberry, perhaps, desktop or laptop and a copy of it was created (illegally) on the server in her Chappaqua home. How is this any different than the felony that Gen. Petraeus was charged with in having classified documents in an unsecure location. Because Petraeus brought his in notebooks and Hillary brought hers in "1"s and "0"s?  

But! But! Secret Service Agents surrounded the server in her house Physically, maybe. But secure against hacking? See: Guccifer. Oh, and did I mention it's against the law? Was the Secret Service even aware the servers were there, possibly with classified information on them, much less needing protection against intruders? Knowing the Clintons, I rather doubt it. Was her webmaster a frequent visitor at the house? Was it by any chance Craig Livingston??  

The law changed after Hillary left office True. But that doesn't mean that many of the same requirements weren't in place before the law changed. The law became more specific, but the underlying principles of archiving official US mail in US government agencies, via whatever medium, did not change.  

Questionable foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation That's what put everyone onto the missing emails in the first place. It seems that the Clintons have been accepting tons and tons of money from foreign governments, laundering it, er benevolently distributing it, after passing through the sticky fingers of Bill and Hil, who spent about a million dollars just on transportation last year, even providing first class tickets for an actress and her dog to some such "charitable" event.  The Clintons continue to live like kings and queens, filtering millions through their charitable organization (charity apparently begins at home!), along with the millions of dollars of government pensions, presidential expenses and speaking fees.

We do know that the State Dept. sent literally billions of dollars to the government of Haiti. And in 2012, the government of Haiti gave a gold mining permit to Hillary's brother, the first one coincidentally, issued in 50 years. Quid pro quo, anyone? Maybe having a record of correspondence between the Secretary of State, or the Clinton foundation (or both) and the government of Haiti might tell a tale!

How many other deals conducted by the State Dept may have been preceded or closely followed by "contributions" to the Clinton Foundation? Yet another reason, if not the primary reason, to keep their correspondence secret and unsearchable?  

Put the shoe on the other foot Forget all of the arguments you've heard to date. Now suppose the identical circumstances exist, but the official in question was George Bush, Sarah Palin, or Dick Cheney, or even...Richard Nixon?  If they told you, "Look, I've given you all the pertinent emails, because I said I've given you all the emails. Trust me!" At this point, does anyone, however so gullible, say, "Oh, well! If you say so, it must be true. Nevermind!"  

Guilt by association... What Charles Krauthammer refers to as "Early Onset Clinton Fatigue", is Hillary's close association with...Bill and Hillary! As bad as the 'dialing for dollars' of the Clinton Foundation, the apparent quid pro quos of Hillary's State Dept, with a strong suspicion of dialing for dollars for the Clinton Foundation, the missing emails and possible cover up of Benghazi, and perhaps even criminal enterprises, the longer Hillary's integrity stands in question, the more apparent it is, that she does not have any! This whole sordid affair has stirred up Clinton scandals long forgotten, but never resolved. Cattle futures? Rose Law firm records? Travelgate? Whitewater? FBI files?  Every shady deal that Hillary ever stuck her fingers into is now coming back to haunt her, like King Hamlet's ghost. "Out, out, damned servers!", she shrieks.

Speaking of self inflicted wounds, how does Hillary ever completely convince anyone, other than the Kool-Aid drenched, low information voters, that she has indeed turned over all official emails?  Having been the sole custodian of her emails, both good and bad for six years, how could any outsider know how many emails, or servers that might be incriminating that are not turned over? Do you ask the fox how many chickens were originally in the henhouse? Would you believe him? Exactly how many emails were there? How long is a rope?

Given the Clintons' long and checkered past, can anyone believe that they a) never did anything even questionably unethical, or b) they haven't tried to cover it up, ala the Rose Law firm billing records. Or Filegate or travelgate or who hired Craig Livingston...  

Bottom Line for the Drama Queen of Chappaqua  Hillary is sticking to the typical Clinton playbook: dribble out a little information and then hunker down until things hopefully quiet down, then, it's "old news". But this is, I'm convinced, the beginning of the end of Hillary's political career. I'd been thinking for a little while now that Hillary was just being coy about running for President, because, if she's a potential or viable candidate, she's courted by media outlets, her speeches command more money, her influence carries more weight. All of this translates into cash. And then, there's her ego, but...follow the money!

After Hillary makes it clear she is not running, she's yesterday's news. Period.  Her influence shrinks, her speeches aren't as exciting (or expensive). No one is quite so eager to purchase access to citizen Clinton as they might to candidate Clinton, with a hope of being President Clinton. The media would turn its eye to actual candidates, leaving Hillary in the dustbin of history, to spend the rest of her life to knitting booties for the grandkids and making sweet, sweet love to Billy Jeff.****

 Her emails regarding Benghazi have already been subpoenaed.  It's just a matter of time.

Stick a fork in her, she's done.

* Craig Livingston, employed by the Clintons at the time of the FBI file scandal, although no one would admit to having hired him

** Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's secretary, allegedly responsible for erasing 18 minutes of White House office recordings

***For brevity's sake, I did not use the prerequisite number of exclamation points generally used by the Left in such cases.

**** I know. Where's the mind bleach when you really need it?

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Curmudgeonly Cartoon: There Will Be No Mistakes In My Rise To The Top

Saturday Night Live’s Cold Open featured Kate McKinnon in the role of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who as we all know, is fixated on becoming the first female president of the United States.

While mildly funny, I believe the skit would have been considerably funnier if there had been a “Billy Jeff” character seated on the sofa with Cankles and the infamous homebrew server in plain view of the couple.

Curmudgeonly Cartoon: Foggy Bottom’s “Emailghazi”

Liar, liar pantsuit on fire.

The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives. It also would distinguish Clinton's secretive email practices as far more sophisticated than some politicians, including Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, who were caught conducting official business using free email services operated by Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.

“it was a planned maneuver to give the Clintons more control over their electronic correspondence.”