Gosh, it’s like it’s corruption and cover up to the core:
By allowing it, Clinton wasn’t just helping a friend boost her income. She was increasing the potential leverage of the Clinton machine, and in ways that could, and maybe did, benefit the Clinton Foundation.
The Abedin scandal is thus related to the “Clinton cash” scandal.
It is also related to Hillary’s email scandal. According to Grassley, the State Department investigators have “reason to believe that email evidence relevant to [its] inquiry was contained in emails sent and received from her account on Secretary Clinton’s non-government server, making them unavailable to [the investigators’ office] through its normal statutory right of access to records.”
Laws are for the little people.
[Update a while later]
Then there’s this:
The finding against Abedin, which she disputes, is that she was improperly paid while on leave. According to Sen. Grassley’s description of the investigation’s findings, Abedin’s time sheets indicate that she never took vacation or sick leave during her four years at the State Department. However, the investigation discovered that Abedin did, in fact, take time off, including a 10-day trip to Italy. In emails, she told colleagues that she was out “on leave.”
Just FYI, if you’re a government contractor, falsifying a time sheet is a firing offense.
Anyway, it’s pretty clear that when Her Highness said that she used a private server “for convenience,” she meant that she would find it very inconvenient for her political career for people to learn the contents of her emails.
I wonder how long Democrats will be able to endure Hillary’s non-stop stream of scandals, before realizing that these scandals, plus those surely to come, will make her untenable in the general election?
I predict the “Draft Biden!” movement will gain steam fast, and Biden, in a month or so, will formally jump into the race (unless he’s distracted by a train… he’s quite fascinated by trains and loves to play around at the controls.) Hrmmm, I’m sure his nomination acceptance speech will be memorable, because surely Neil Kinnock gave a suitable speech at some point.
Rand, falsifying your timecard when working on a government contract is not just a fireable offense, it’s a prosecutable offense.
In theory, yes, but it’s very rare for it to be prosecuted. That generally only happens when it’s on a larger scale, under management’s orders.
If Hillary told her, then it is under management’s order.
As far as I can tell, from the VA scandal, the only fireable offenses these days are blatantly prosecutable offenses.
In related news, Hillary and Huma have been ordered by a Federal judge to testify under oath, upon penalty of perjury (and not incidentally, contempt of court) on Friday, regarding whether or not ALL official records have been turned over (including, of course, E-mails).
http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/01/the-hillary-email-scandal-just-saw-its-most-significant-legal-development-to-date/
This puts Hillary in a very amusing conundrum; stick to her claims that this has been done, thus facing the real risk of prosecution (and the greater risk of being tossed directly in jail, by the judge, for contempt) should any surface (like they did with Blumenthal). Or, she can waffle and go against her own public statements and probably incur the wrath of the judge, who could, and probably will, order that server turned over pronto.
Popcorn time!
The Democrats have chosen their hill *snicker*, let them fight for it.
One of the first things LBJ did upon occupying the White House (after displacing the widowed Jackie, who had to be virtually crowbarred out of the building, she acted like she had a lease) was to install a private phone-line that bypassed the White House operators so that he could have private phone conversations without any official record. People talk about how Nixonian Hillary is, but really, she’s more of a LBJ in temperament and style.