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  "The Rules Don't Apply To Me" Hillary's email line crumbles "Martha Stewart Went To Jail For Much Less" <multiple.felonies@hillaryclinton.com> - 2016-06-01 00:06 +0200

#5788 — "The Rules Don't Apply To Me" Hillary's email line crumbles

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• Hillary’s email line crumbles
• Trump seals the deal
• Bernie supporters: Clinton has ‘blood on her hands’
• Senate race in the Keystone State heats up
• Baaaaah, they got the munchies

HILLARY’S EMAIL LINE CRUMBLES
It was okay and everyone else was doing it, Hillary Clinton’s 
often repeated defense of her private email set-up, has a 
problem. And a State Department audit seems to agree.

In true Clintonian fashion her campaign is sticking with that 
defense in rebutting a State Department watchdog group’s audit 
released Wednesday that said the former secretary “did not 
comply with the Department’s policies” in using a private 
server. The audit also said that had the Department known about 
the server they would not have given its blessing because of 
“security risks in doing so.”

Whether or not security was compromised remains to be seen. 
Clinton’s FAQ’s page claims there wasn’t a breach, but the 
hacker known as “Guccifer,” who was indicted on Wednesday for 
other identity theft charges, claims he did access Clinton’s 
private server, though he has refused to provide evidence of 
such a hack. The State Department audit did not find specific 
evidence of a breach, but notes that the Clintons’ outside I.T. 
consultant twice shut down her home-based server because he 
feared that someone was trying to hack the system.

While a separate FBI investigation continues to loom over 
Clinton, the fallout from the report is likely to send Clinton’s 
already poor numbers on honesty and trustworthiness down even 
further as she fights a two-front war with Donald Trump and 
Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders.

The audit’s findings play right into Trump’s repeated 
characterization of “Crooked Hillary” and makes Sanders’ backers 
even more infuriated with her in a nominating process they 
already feel is corrupt.

All the while, Clinton has continued to cast a narrative of the 
scandal as a Republican witch hunt designed to cast her 
candidacy in a bad light. As WaPo’s Chris Cillizza points out, 
“That’s a very hard story to sell, given that the current 
inspector general was appointed by President Obama.”

With editorials using terms like, “inexcusable,” and phrases 
like, “proof of her deceptions,” hitting the presses, how long 
the Clinton camp can maintain her current line of defense is 
questionable.

Short of an indictment this is about as bad as things have yet 
to get in Hillaryland. And though few are questioning her 
security of the nomination, how she maneuvers her way out of 
this will be very telling of the general election back-and-forth 
yet to come.

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