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   From: investigate.pelosi@cnn.com   
      
   Election 2016: The FBI report on its investigation into Hillary   
   Clinton's use of emails, which it released publicly on Friday,   
   might not contain any smoking guns, but it does reveal the   
   lengths to which Clinton will go to deny responsibility or cover   
   up an obvious lie, even if it makes her look like an ignorant   
   fool.   
      
   Clinton's attempts to avoid responsibility became particularly   
   strained when the topic turned to classified material she said   
   never showed up on her email server. The report is replete with   
   so many different attempts to duck blame that we thought it   
   would be helpful to categorize them.   
      
   The Blanche DuBois Excuse:  Like the character from "Streetcar   
   Named Desire" who famously says that she "depends on the   
   kindness of strangers," Clinton says that she depended on anyone   
   emailing her to know the rules of classification. If there was a   
   problem, it was their fault, not hers.   
      
   As the FBI relates her comments, Clinton "relied on State   
   officials to use their judgment" when emailing her and couldn't   
   remember anyone raising concerns with her regarding the   
   sensitivity of the information she received on her emails.   
      
   The Sesame Street Excuse: When the FBI pointed out that some   
   documents she had sent or received had a "C" marking denoting   
   the information was classified, she told the FBI that she   
   thought "it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical   
   order." Apparently it never occurred to Clinton that if that   
   were the case, the "C" paragraph should have come after the "A"   
   and "B" paragraphs. But then again, Big Bird wasn't invented   
   until after she was adult.   
      
   The I Fell And Can't Get Up Excuse: When asked about briefings   
   she received about how to handle her emails as she transitioned   
   out of the government, Clinton said she couldn't remember   
   because she fell and suffered a concussion in 2012 and "could   
   not recall every briefing she received."   
      
   The Watergate Hearings Excuse: According to one analysis of the   
   FBI report, Clinton said things like "I can't recall," or "I   
   don't remember" 26 times in her interview with the FBI.   
      
   The Al Gore Excuse: Many years ago, when Al Gore was confronted   
   with evidence that he'd made campaign calls from his White House   
   office, his defense was to robotically repeat that "no   
   controlling legal authority" said it was against the law.   
      
   Hillary's version, when asked about a classified email she   
   received on Dec. 27, 2011, was to say that "no policy or   
   practice existed relating to communicating around holidays."   
      
   The Alfred E. Neuman Excuse, aka, The 'What, Me Worry?' Excuse:   
   Clinton told the FBI that she didn't think conversations about a   
   planned drone strike were a problem. As the FBI put it, "Clinton   
   stated deliberation over a future drone strike did not give her   
   cause for concern regarding classification."   
      
   The 'Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer' Excuse: Years ago, Saturday Night   
   Live featured a character played by the late Phil Hartman, who,   
   although he was a sharp and sophisticated lawyer, would pretend   
   at key moments not to understand something, saying "I'm just a   
   cave man."   
      
   In her interview with the FBI, Clinton said that she couldn't be   
   held responsible for letting classified information slip into   
   and out of her unsecured private email server because she didn't   
   know how such things were determined.   
      
   "Clinton could not give an example of how classification of a   
   document was determined," the FBI said in its interview notes.   
      
   As Clinton might say, at this point, what difference does it   
   make? None, except that FBI report makes it clear that Clinton   
   is either a liar or she's incompetent, or she's an incompetent   
   liar.   
      
   In any case, she's ill-suited to hold the highest office in the   
   land.   
      
   http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/clinton-email-   
   scandal-hillarys-riot-of-lame-excuses-revealed/   
                                        
      
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