Questioning the Gaps in HRC's Document History

The following article raises some very interesting questions about the documents missing from HRC's servers and offers some suggestions as to what they may contain. Comey may have spoken, but this story is far from over.

This article is well worth the read and has some interesting graphs to prove his points. Here are some highlights:

The Strange Gaps in Hillary Clinton’s Email Traffic

But, when it comes to Clinton’s correspondence, the most basic and troubling questions still remain unanswered: Why are there gaps in Clinton’s email history? Did she or her team delete emails that she should have made public?
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Why does this matter? Because Clinton signed documents declaring she had turned over all of her work-related emails. We now know that is not true. But even more importantly, the absence of emails raises troubling questions about the nature of the correspondence that might have been deleted.

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Based on the emails the State Department released, Clinton sent or received an average of 21 work emails per day during her tenure—including on her numerous trips overseas, when email must have been a lifeline for communication. But there are numerous odd low-traffic days in the email record during her foreign travel.

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There are other anomalies. The email traffic for the secretary of state seems for the most part to be event-driven.

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Equally bizarre is the absence at certain times of basic logistical emails pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton.

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The media has spent a lot of time parsing through the Clinton emails that already have been released—compiling lists, looking for specific names or discussion of particular issues. But they ought to pay more attention to the holes. Bob Woodward has declared that Hillary Clinton’s email scandal “reminds me of the Nixon tapes.” He’s right. In that case and here, it’s not what’s in the record that’s most troubling. It’s what’s not there.

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As a side note,

Comey opted out of recommending criminal charges on the basis of there being no precedent for this case. Precedents are created by someone doing it the first time, so this is an incredibly weak excuse especially after he has laid the evidence out for all to see. I did not say that he laid out ALL the evidence becasue I am pretty sure he is holding something back. The hope is that it involves an investigation into the foundation.

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A theme song for leaving the current party system and engaging in the Revolution:

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Lyrics:

"Small Axe"

Why boasteth thyself
Oh, evil men
Playing smart
And not being clever?
I said, you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so)
But the goodness of Jah, Jah
I-dureth for-I-ver

So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down

These are the words
Of my master, keep on tellin' me
No weak heart
Shall prosper
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, fall in it
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it (... fall in it)

If you are the big tree, let me tell you that
We are the small axe, sharp and ready
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down

(To cut you down)

(To cut you down)

These are the words
Of my master, tellin' me that
No weak heart
Shall prosper
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, uh, bury in it
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall bury in it, uh (... bury in it)

If you are the big, big tree
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
If you are the big, big tree, let me tell you that
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
Sharpened ...

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MsGrin's picture

Equally bizarre is the absence at certain times of basic logistical emails pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. In general, Bill gets plenty of mention in the official emails released by the State Department, emails covering everything from travel logistics to press releases about Clinton Foundation work. But there’s an email silence in June 2010, when Hillary Clinton was in South America for a series of high-level meetings. According to her memoir, “by coincidence” Bill was in Bogota, Colombia, apparently for Clinton Foundation work, at the same time she was in the country. Also there with Bill was Frank Giustra, one of the Clinton Foundation’s largest contributors. Bill, Hillary and Giustra reportedly had dinner together, and the next morning, Bill met with Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe, followed immediately by Hillary’s meeting with Uribe. In the weeks that follow, Giustra’s companies scored concessions from the Colombian government on matters ranging from oil to timber.

The State Department released plenty of emails concerning Bill Clinton during other foreign trips when Hillary and Bill were traveling together, including dining recommendations, travel schedules and records of Bill’s daily activities. And yet there is not a single email in the public Clinton email trove about Bill’s presence in Colombia, the couple’s dinner with Giustra or the fact that Bill and Hillary met separately and back-to-back with Uribe.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

WindDancer13's picture

especially not when they involve the Clintons. Just how many "coincidences" can one couple have?

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I shudder that I find so much which makes sense written by someone from The Hoover Institute who is an editor for Breitbart, but this is not editorializing,, it's just FACT:

...the system by which this sorting took place was highly arbitrary, and was undertaken not by objective government officials but by lawyers and close aides. Keep in mind that those lawyers have used a more expansive term than Clinton to describe what was deleted. They called them “private, personal records.” By this definition, “private, personal records” doesn’t just have to apply to wedding planning; that term could involve anything related to the Clinton Foundation or Bill’s commercial activities. But the world has a right to know if and when Hillary Clinton’s State Department work overlapped with the Clinton Foundation’s agenda—and what resulted from such blurring of lines.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

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bedfellows everywhere nowadays. We the People have to look for facts from RW writers while she scrambles for bucks from RW neocons.

I wonder what would happen if the author put his timelines together with HRC's missing or corrupted schedules. It could fill out the picture even more.

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