Over at The Daily Beast, Michael Tomasky wants to give his readers some Straight Talk About ‘Crooked Hillary’ Clinton.
In his defense of Clinton, he claims that attacks on Clinton during the 90s were based on ideology alone. Move along, citizens. There is nothing to see.
Perhaps Tomasky wasn’t reading the New York Times back in the 90s. If he had, then he would have read this NYT story from June 1, 1996:
If one doesn’t understand why those documents are important, then only only needs to read the article Document Theft and Destruction Nothing New for Hillary Clinton written by retired D.C. attorney Paul Mirengoff.
Here is an excerpt from the article.
“In 1994, the Castle Grande billing records were subpoenaed. They were not produced at that time.
A year and a half later, Carolyn Huber, a White House employee, found the billing records in the private quarters of the first family, right outside Mrs. Clinton’s private office. Huber said that, not knowing what they were, she packed them up and took them to her own office. Only later, in early 1996, did she realize that these were the famous billing records that prosecutors were after.
The billing records were then produced, two years late. Hillary’s fingerprints were on them.
The records show that Clinton billed time for work on Castle Grande, and was the billing partner for this representation. More than that, they show that she and/or Hubbell performed legal services — described, for example, as “conference with Seth Ward” or just “Seth Ward” — on every day in which federal prosecutors had found that McDougal and/or his cronies had committed an act in furtherance of their unlawful conspiracy e.g., backdating documents and making phony loans.
In effect, the billing records place Clinton and Hubbell at the scene of the crime…
… Hillary Clinton was slated to be called as a witness at Hubbell’s trial. Her attorney met with lawyers from the special counsel’s office to try to persuade them that the charges had nothing to do with Hillary. This absurd claim was rejected. The very next morning, Hubbell’s lawyer informed the special counsel that he would plead guilty.”
Hillary Clinton’s cover-up of her involvement with Castle Grande was a precursor of another cover-up, the latter pertaining to Clinton’s time as U.S. Secretary of State.
The problem with a cover-up is that the cover-up itself has to go undetected in order for one to get away scot-free.
That hasn’t happened with the latter cover-up.
The general public now knows that Hillary Clinton’s “aides destroyed her BlackBerries with hammers.”
The general public now knows that “Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members were granted immunity deals in exchange for their cooperation in the now-closed FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.”
Hillary Clinton and her aides may have successfully covered up whatever was so damaging to Clinton. However, BleachBit can’t wipe the cover-up out of existence. The odor of the cover-up will stick to Clinton and her aides.
As Pepe Le Pew would say …
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