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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Hillary:There she goes again

Editorial: There she goes again

By Herald Staff12 hours ago

Hillary Clinton's ego planted a land mine that she has now detonated in her unannounced run for the presidency. Who knows what other land mines are out there?

By not using a government email account as secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton made it possible for her to control the response to any request for public records, to which much of her email traffic would be subject.

She also risked exposing her emails to hacking, which would be less likely with a secure government account.

It was not forbidden then (it is now) to use only private email, but emails had to be saved. Mrs. Clinton did not. She turned them over - we have only her word on that - when the State Department asked previous secretaries in October to yield any that were not sent on government accounts; the department then sent about 300 to a U.S. House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi. The committee has issued a subpoena for any further relevant material.

These deplorable facts fit what we know of the former secretary, too often ordering "my way or the highway." That hurt her in her husband's first presidential term when she refused to hold public meetings on the drafting of the "Hillarycare" health insurance proposals.

Further self-centeredness: The Clinton family foundation, after pledging not to, accepted donations from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary.

Remember the $100,000 she supposedly made trading cattle futures back in Arkansas? Remember the disappearance of the Rose Law Firm billing records that turned up in a parlor in the White House living quarters? Remember her unwarranted evisceration of the White House Travel Office?

It's always something with Hillary Clinton. And if she thinks none of this will come back to haunt her in a future presidential campaign - this enduring pattern of behavior - she thinks wrong.

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