The big lie. Tell it enough times, let it be told enough times, and it becomes true. For some of us anyway.
Even though the facts which prove [the truth] may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
She keeps saying things that are inaccurate, and it looks like the FBI has probably contacted her lawyers. George finally asks the right question, but watch how her response doesn’t answer his question. He asked if she or her agents (lawyers) had been contacted by the FBI. She replied that the FBI had not asked her to come in for an interview. This exactly the same game she played when she was asked if the FBI was investigating the Clinton foundation. (The State Department was). She denied that “anything like that” was going on, right before the critical Iowa caucus.
In the ABC interview, she gave several answers that are false by any sensible interpretation of the facts.
She said the rules were not clarified until she left. Wrong.
She sent out memos telling others to follow the rules she was violating.
She claims she was only doing what others did before her. Not a good excuse, and completely wrong. As George points out a couple of times no one else conducted all their official business using a private server. She sent thousands of classified emails, Powell sent two. He cooperated with the inquiry, she and her aides did not.
She claims that hundreds of people in government knew she was using a private server for all her email. That is likely to open up more questions about the investigation. If hundreds of people knew she as breaking security rules (and perhaps the law) then we need to know who knew what and if they overrode the concerns of the security staff who were told to never speak of it again.
NPR lays out the rules and laws she may have broken:
The Laws
At issue are four sections of the law: the Federal Records Act, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) regulations and Section 1924 of Title 18 of the U.S. Crimes and Criminal Procedure Code.
In short:
- The Federal Records Act requires agencies hold onto official communications, including all work-related emails, and government employees cannot destroy or remove relevant records.
- FOIA is designed to "improve public access to agency records and information."
- The NARA regulations dictate how records should be created and maintained. They stress that materials must be maintained "by the agency," that they should be "readily found" and that the records must "make possible a proper scrutiny by the Congress."
- Section 1924 of Title 18 has to do with deletion and retention of classified documents. "Knowingly" removing or housing classified information at an "unauthorized location" is subject to a fine or a year in prison.
At least the corporate media asks some good questions. But obviously she isn’t worried they will force her to actually answer them. The FBI won’t be so easy to push around, they have all the access they want.