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Title: How Hillary Clinton manages a leaky scandal
Source: NYPOST
URL Source: http://nypost.com/2015/09/27/how-hi ... inton-manages-a-leaky-scandal/
Published: Sep 27, 2015
Author: staff
Post Date: 2015-09-27 10:45:34 by buckeroo
Keywords: None
Views: 2752
Comments: 15

While the presidential news continues to revolve around the Donald Trump & Barnum & Bailey Circus, by far the most significant political fact of the summer that just ended was the air that has been steadily leaking from the Hillary Clinton balloon.

She no longer commands the support of a majority of Democrats. She’s 20 points down from her poll peak, and is now significantly trailing a 74-year-old Socialist in the first primary state of New Hampshire. The most forbidding front-runner in modern history has become just another front-runner.

Yes, it’s all going according to plan — the Clinton plan.

If the plan works, she’ll come down to earth slowly and then be buoyed up again later on, as the lack of a truly acceptable alternative becomes clearer. And, more important, as the tangle of potential problems surrounding her e-mail system just keeps getting more and more confusing.

Hillary has spent the year seeing her reputation compromised by the drip-drip-drip of scandal. But that drip-drip-drip is deliberate. It’s a way of releasing damaging information in the least damaging way, and it’s been carefully designed by her and her team in response to various congressional subpoenas and judicial orders.

They, and the administration she served, are dribbling out information in a haphazard manner that is designed to keep the drips from pooling together in a way that would eventually cause a flood.

Or, to try a different kind of elemental metaphor, there’s a lot of smoke but there’s no discernible fire. And that’s entirely on purpose.

“It’s the Clinton way. Worked before. Worth a try now. …And given the past, who’d bet on that?”

I follow these matters for a living, and by now I can’t make head or tail of where the Hillary e-mail scandal is. Just in the last few days we learned that Hillary had been using the e-mail server she had supposedly taken off line as recently as this year. So the wiped server wasn’t wiped. I think. And that’s bad. I think. But I can’t remember why, and if I can’t, nobody can.

Trying to assemble a coherent story from the information we have is like assembling a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle that’s missing 700 pieces.

Neither Bill nor Hillary is the type to wish away trouble or pretend it doesn’t exist. More important, if I know my Bill and Hillary, I think they probably expected something like this would happen.

They must have always known she would have to slog her way through a series of scandals to get the nomination and win the presidency. Indeed, they may even have made calculations about how much risk they could take on when it came to their family foundation’s discomfiting fundraising practices and Hillary’s role as secretary of state.

They are realists, not fantasists, and they are well acquainted with the effort it takes to run a campaign with scandals nipping at your heels.

That was the story of Bill Clinton’s career, after all.

Supporters cheer as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during New Hampshire’s Democratic convention. Photo: AP

They must have known Hillary the Candidate would be brought down to earth after running 40 or 50 points ahead, in part because they must also have known what was going to bring her down to earth.

It’s their Foundation, after all.

Their joint life experience offers proof that a candidate can weather scandals and reputational slings and arrows that would take down most other people. Bill survived the Gennifer Flowers sex scandal to win the Democratic nomination in 1992 and the Whitewater financial scandal to win a second presidential term in 1996.

In both cases, Hillary’s conduct was crucial to his survival and ultimate triumph. And Bill is surely attempting to return the favor by working to guide her through the brambles along her own path to the White House.

So what’s the strategy here?

First, scare serious rivals away. Her 50-60 point lead in the polls throughout 2014 and early 2015 didn’t happen by accident. It was the result of a slow and steady quiet buildup that began from the moment she announced her departure from the State Department in 2013.

Recall that Barack Obama went on “60 Minutes” with her and essentially endorsed her as his successor. That appearance didn’t just suggest, but shouted out, that the White House would look unfavorably on any bid for the presidency by VP Joe Biden.

An open seat for the White House should have been contended by several major political figures. But it would have been nuts for anyone really serious to challenge Hillary when she was already enormously famous, sitting atop an unparalleled fundraising machine and clearly willing to use hard knuckles if necessary against anyone who might deny her this last shot at the big brass ring.

Second, manage the scandal you know is coming. A Congressional investigation into her conduct during and after the US consulate in Benghazi was stormed in 2012 had been ongoing for two years before the State Department was forced to concede it did not possess tens of thousands of subpoenaed e-mails. Those e-mails were on a personal server Mrs. Clinton had set up just as she was beginning her tenure as secretary of state in 2009.

She knew those e-mails were under subpoena. She just didn’t let Congress know about the server. The information came out in late March 2015, by which time the window to begin a serious challenge to her had all but closed.

Since then, it’s all been drip drip drip, in classic Nixonian fashion — what Nixon lawyer John Dean called a “modified limited hangout.” First she said the server had been destroyed. Then she said it had been wiped clean. Now it appears it may not have been wiped clean, and that it probably wasn’t destroyed.

Third, keep lying. These are what is known, in technical parlance, as “lies.” But there isn’t a single big whopping lie (yet) that makes the entire pack comprehensible. It looks bad, and it smells bad, and everybody knows it. But not bad enough to cause a full-scale Democratic panic.

And if she can just keep it all at this dribbling level, the lack of clarity will continue. The bet here is that Congress and the Justice Department will never be able to fill in the jigsaw puzzle sufficiently to figure out the whole.

It’s the Clinton way. Worked before. Worth a try now. She’ll go into election day 2016 with close to 48% of the vote whatever happens — unless she’s indicted or in jail beforehand. And given the past, who’d bet on that?


This article shows how there is no such thing as "law" in the USA; "law" is a charade.

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#1. To: buckeroo (#0)

"They must have always known she would have to slog her way through a series of scandals to get the nomination and win the presidency."

The scandal is the private server she used while Secretary of State. Knowing she was going to run for President, it was a scandal easily avoided. So that statement is bullshit.

"If the plan works, she’ll come down to earth slowly and then be buoyed up again later on, as the lack of a truly acceptable alternative becomes clearer."

If she comes "down to earth", Biden will run and Hillary will never rise.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-09-27   11:55:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: misterwhite (#1)

The scandal is the private server she used while Secretary of State.

No it isn't. The scandal is about her communications concerning the 2012 Benghazi issues.

She hid her data conspiring against the People of the United States of America.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-09-27   12:48:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: buckeroo (#2)

"The scandal is about her communications concerning the 2012 Benghazi issues."

Looking into Benghazi is how they found out about her private server.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-09-27   13:19:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: buckeroo (#0)

The scandal really is that she wasn't hung in the public square or treated like Joan of Arc. We really do get the government we deserve. Our lack of attention and this dream state we live in is the cause. We don't wake up because WE DON'T WANT TO. Like a child that wants just 10 more minutes on a school day, we know it is there but we purposely push all thought of it aside.

jeremiad  posted on  2015-09-27   13:28:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: buckeroo (#0)

How Hillary Clinton manages a leaky scandal

"It's old news. Instead let's address the problems of the American people."

"There's no THERE there"

and my favorite - "Move on" (a phrase which inspired the name for a website for brain-deads, btw)

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . . . "

~Psalm 33:12a

Rufus T Firefly  posted on  2015-09-27   13:28:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: misterwhite (#3)

Looking into Benghazi is how they found out about her private server.

It was all "minor" causation leading to how America has failed in international meddling characteristics with both elected and appointed leaders reigning US government power around the world.

Hillary failed. America failed. But the US taxayer is stuck with the failuers just like we are stuck with GWBush creating all the problems in the ME. Don't you get sick of the SHIT the US government stuffs down the citizenry throats?

buckeroo  posted on  2015-09-27   13:33:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: buckeroo (#0)

Those e-mails were on a personal server Mrs. Clinton had set up just as she was beginning her tenure as secretary of state in 2009.

Today Mrs Bubba is saying the "new deleted files that have been found" were on the server Bubba set up for his foundation after he left the WH.

IOW,talk to Mr.Bubba cause I'm just a gurl,and doan no nuffin bout no servers,'n these mean Republican mens keeps pick-in on me,'n shit".

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-09-27   13:58:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: buckeroo (#2) (Edited)

No it isn't. The scandal is about her communications concerning the 2012 Benghazi issues.

Yup,although there is zero doubt in my mind the biggest scandal since the A bomb trials of the early 1950's would be her emails that went out with,NoForn, Top Secret and even Code Word Restricted classified information with no encryption or security at all,and that could have been,and WERE,hacked by anybody and everybody interested. THAT is why she ordered all the deletions.

There is also no doubt in my mind she was selling influence to the highest bidder along with national security secrets,and that is why she had the private server. She knew she couldn't delete the State Dept servers without somebody ringing the bell on her,and she knew they would be reviewed.

That's not careless. That is outright treason.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-09-27   14:01:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: sneakypete (#8)

Sneaky: both you and I were US military personel, especially during Vietnam. We were accountable to NOT perform duties unless specifially tasked.

Do you suspect a new class of operations above law has aspired within the US government?

buckeroo  posted on  2015-09-27   14:10:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: jeremiad (#4)

The scandal really is that she wasn't hung in the public square or treated like Joan of Arc. We really do get the government we deserve. Our lack of attention and this dream state we live in is the cause. We don't wake up because WE DON'T WANT TO. Like a child that wants just 10 more minutes on a school day, we know it is there but we purposely push all thought of it aside.

Can you provide a small and pureist resume beyond your copied post just above. Thanks in advance. I might add, I see eye to eye to the content of your post.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-09-27   14:30:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: buckeroo (#0)

How Hillary Clinton manages a leaky scandal

Some years ago Isaac Asimov, Professor of chemistry at Columbia University and author of 400 books on various subjects including the basic sciences, gave a public lecture which concluded with the assertion, "People are stupid". Politicians know it and use the fact to make a living by lying to the American people without conscience in the realization that the obviousness of the lies will not be discerned. The Clintons are prime examples.

rlk  posted on  2015-09-27   15:03:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: buckeroo (#0) (Edited)

Does this author presume that Americans will just forget what they know - that Clintons are shitballs?

Drip, drip, drip doesn't erase that. Incompetent GOPussy candidates might blow it, but the Clinton Crime Family can't fix this on their own.

Hank Rearden  posted on  2015-09-27   15:18:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: buckeroo (#10)

I don't know what you mean.

jeremiad  posted on  2015-09-27   17:22:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: buckeroo (#9) (Edited)

We were accountable to NOT perform duties unless specifially tasked.

I worked Special Operations with SOG,so I can't say that. We pretty much ran our own operation our own way.

That does NOT mean I was casual with classified information,though. Neither of my parents even knew what I did in VN,Laos,and Cambodia on the days they died,and I am absolutely certain either was a communist agent or going to blab to the media.

If it was classified,you didn't share it with ANYBODY that did not have a need to know,period. Not even your best friends in the army that you personally know had the same security clearances as you. No matter how high your security clearance was,if you didn't have a need to know,you didn't get informed. Period.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-09-27   18:48:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Hank Rearden (#12)

Does this author presume that Americans will just forget what they know - that Clintons are shitballs?

It would be a hard argument to counter.

Hell,they even elected Boy Jorge and Bathhouse Barry twice.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-09-27   18:53:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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