For some reason, Hillary Clinton is still the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2016.
This is the same woman whose office, according to a just-released report by the federal office of inspector general, repeatedly lied about the existence of a secret email account when she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
Clinton, herself, has lied about how the server was used.
The inspector general's report found widespread problems with transparency during her tenure at the Department of State and noted the department was four times worse than the average government agency in fulfilling a document request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Although dozens of Clinton's top aides knew she maintained the secret account at her home in New York, the department told a public interest group in 2013 it had no information on her using a non-government account.
The report noted the secretary's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, knew of the request as well.
"Dozens of senior officials throughout the Department, including members of Secretary Clinton's immediate staff, exchanged emails with the Secretary using the personal accounts she used to conduct official business," the inspector general's report said. "OIG found evidence that the Secretary's then-Chief of Staff was informed of the request at the time it was received and subsequently tasked staff to follow up. However, OIG found no evidence to indicate that any of these senior officials reviewed the search results or approved the response to CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)."
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the deception became so bad, according to The Washington Times, that the government ended up making false sworn statements in court - and didn't correct them, even though they knew they were untrue.
Judicial Watch, a public interest law firm that, like CREW, has tried to find out the truth about the emails, said it would submit the inspector general's report to federal judges in Washington, D.C., looking into the issue.
The emails, themselves, are another matter.
Clinton has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified material on her personal account, but 66 more messages tagged classified were included in the group released in the early hours of Friday, bringing the total of classified emails to 1,340.
The State Department, stretching the imagination, has said that none - not one - of the emails was deemed classified at the time it was sent.
Rewriting, restating and obfuscating the truth has become an all too common practice for Clinton. Voters should want better of their presumed presidential nominee.