It’s getting harder to hide Hillary Clinton’s dishonesty and duplicity under a blizzard of denials, blame-sharing and minimizing.
A year-long audit of her use as secretary of state of an unsecured email server by the State Department inspector general upbraided the Democratic presidential front-runner Wednesday. The report noted a number of inconsistencies in what she said and what she did, in what she said and what the law was, and in what she said and what was the truth.
Only in such an unusual political year could a candidate survive such a report and expect to remain viable. But voters who consider her candidacy in the fall should surely understand what they get if they elect her – a president to whom truth is a stranger.
The 78-page report, perhaps most importantly, said Clinton never sought permission to use a private server, a charge she attempts to deflect with the “but everybody knew about it” defense on her campaign website.
“Secretary Clinton had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business with [State Department] offices, who in turn would have attempted to provide her with approved and secured means that met her business needs,” it said, adding that agency officials “did not – and would not – approve her exclusive reliance on a personal email account to conduct Department business, because of the restrictions and the security risks in doing so.”