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Monday,
March 16, 2015 - Volume 6, Number 5 © Copyright 2015, The Ultrapolis
Project. All Rights
Reserved. No One Knows What the
Clinton Shadow Knows Will ‘Clinton Fatigue’
Return too Soon for 2016? ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: ·
Cartoons: Clinton Email Technicalities; A Safe
Place; Room for More? By Beeler, Margulies & McKee |
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The
Clinton Shadow The Convenience of
Being Conveniently Clinton Thus continues the unfolding of our forecasts on 2016. The
Scandals Break If there is one thing clear about the
recent Clinton scandals, it is that nothing is ever clear with the Clintons. The first scandal broke with the Washington
Post story published February 25, revealing donations by foreign
governments to Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s foundation while she served as
U.S. Secretary of State, and while she was conducting government business
with those same governments. The second scandal broke on March 2,
with a story by the New
York Times reporting that Mrs. Clinton had used a personal email
address housed in a personal server controlled by her, instead of a
government-issued email address maintained on a government server, to conduct
State Department business. In
addition, she took two years to respond to requests for copies of emails that
by law need to be handed over to the government. Technically,
It’s All Good On the first issue, while apparently
it was technically not illegal for her closely related foundation to accept
this money, it is the first time such a foundation so closely associated with
a Secretary of State and future presidential candidate has done so. The donations would have been illegal had
she accepted them directly, and so they raise the issue of the fungibility of
the money, and the spirit of the law, and of the agreement Mrs. Clinton
signed with the Obama administration in 2008 regarding these kinds of
donations. Did Mrs. Clinton personally benefit
from the money donated to the foundation that operates in and under her name,
and for which its activities she can direct and take credit? Did she, for that reason, in return not
take on the donor governments’ policies that her foundation is supposed to be
opposing? On the second issue, again, while
apparently it was technically not illegal for her to set up the private email
and use it as she did, she did violate her own department’s policy, which her
own office had communicated as a required policy for everyone else at the
State Department; and she is the only cabinet official to actually set up a
private server under her physical control.
She has also indicated she will not allow that server to be examined,
even after she announced that she had already deleted all emails her staff
deemed not pertinent to her service to the State Department. Did Mrs. Clinton take all these
actions, (set up private server, delay two years turning over emails, and
preemptively delete all other emails) in order to avoid incriminating emails
to become part of the public record? A
Who’s’ Who of Phantoms As with all the scandals of the
1990’s, we will likely never have a definitive answer. We will never know who gave the order
to investigate, and then fire, all the career (non-political) staff at the
White House Travel Office that had served various presidents, to be replaced
by Clinton staffers. Lives were ruined
(all later exonerated from the false accusations); but we do know the
Clinton’s kept the new staff. We will never know who ordered the firings
of all the elderly ladies who had worked in White House mail for decades,
again to be replaced by Clinton staffers.
Our forecast record cannot be beat. One can follow the herd chasing the latest
hyperbolic, melodramatic, and soon-forgotten micro-trend, or one can be
wisely and judiciously in front of it with UWFR. |
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Email Technicalities
(1 of 3)
A
Safe Place (2 of 3)
Room
for More? (3 of 3)
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