What if you had used your private email account……?

(My new Babalu Blog post)

On a normal day, this story would have led the newscast.  Of course, most of the media today is talking about the amazing speech by the Primer Minister of Israel.

Nevertheless, the Clintons are doing their magic again, or pushing ethics to the limit.

Today, we learned this about Secretary of State Clinton:

"Hillary Rodham Clintonexclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.

Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department.

Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.

It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department.

All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department.

Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary’s post in early 2013.

Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach.

“It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration."

You can't make this up, as people like to say.

The story also calls into question Secretary Cinton's judgement.   Didn't it occur to her, or aides, that using a personal account was a bad idea?  or maybe illegal given that this is government business?

We will keep an eye on this story because it will be a big problem for Mrs Clinton.

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Let the PM of Israel Speak!

(My new American Thinker post)

With all due respect to President Obama, I want to hear what PM Netanyahu has to say.  

I understand that the White House is disappointed with how Speaker Boehner invited him. Frankly, I think that the "Beltway spat" is rather small compared to the big picture of negotiating a deal with Iran.

My friend Barry Casselman believes that there is an ideological component to the Democrats' reaction. He wrote this:

So then, what is the real reason Mr. Obama and so many Democrats, including Jewish Democrats, don’t like and oppose “Bibi” Netanyau?
The answer is simple and it is political,  Mr. Netanyahu is a genuine conservative, not only in foreign policy, but very importantly, in domestic policy.

Barry has a point.   

My sense is that there is another reason or the fact that the PM of Israel makes the president of the U.S. look rather weak.  

PM Netanyau speaks with incredible authority on matters of national security at a time when Americans are growing more concerned about terrorism and security, as Gerald Seib wrote recently: The fear is back!

That's what this is about!   

The Obama White House is concerned that "Bibi" will blow up the nuclear deal by simply telling the American people the truth about Iran.
Let him speak. I want to hear what he has to say.  

Let's not do the Iran nuclear deal like we passed ObamaCare. Let's not sign the deal and then find out what's in the agreement. We can repeal ObamaCare but we can't undo a bad nuclear deal. 

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