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Janerik Larsson
Janerik Larsson
I New York Times idag skriver kolumnisten Maureen Dowd om Hillary Clinton och hela fenomenet Bill och Hillary.
The Clintons don’t sparkle with honesty and openness. Between his lordly appetites and her queenly prerogatives, you always feel as if there’s something afoot.
Everything needs to be a secret, from the Rose Law Firm records that popped up in a White House closet two years after they were subpoenaed to the formulation of her health care plan.
Yet the Clintons always act as though it’s bad form when you bring up their rule-bending. They want us to compartmentalize, just as they do, to connect the dots that form a pretty picture and leave the other dots alone.
Den senaste tidens avslöjanden om paret Clinton har främst handlat dels om hur Clintonstiftelsen fått betydande belopp från utländska regeringar under tiden fru Clinton var utrikesminister dels om att Hillary Clinton hade ett eget, hemligt e-mailsystem under sin tid som utrikesminister.
Förmodligen kommer i synnerhet den senare frågan att leva kvar ett bra tag till. Utskott i kongressen kommer vilja ha information från det hemliga e-mailsystemet.
Dowd:
The Times’s Michael Schmidt reported that, as secretary of state, Hillary did not preserve her official correspondence on a government server and exclusively used a private email account. She used a private server linked to her Chappaqua home, only turning over cherry-picked messages in December at the State Department’s request.
Given the paranoid/legalese perspective that permeates Clintonland, this made sense: It’s hard to request emails from an account you don’t know exists. And your own server can shield you from subpoenas and other requests. If you want records from the Clinton server, you have to fight for them. Clinton Inc. can tough it out and even make stuff disappear.
Det är presidentval i USA i november nästa år. Alltmer av amerikansk politisk diskussion handlar enbart om detta. Hillary Clinton har ännu inte tillkännagett att hon kandiderar även om ”alla” utgår från att så kommer att ske.