Hillary Clinton has described herself as the “most transparent public official in modern times.” The former secretary of state has insisted that she wants the public to see her emails.
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The reality couldn’t be further from the truth. At every turn, Clinton, her attorney, and the State Department officials have stalled, missed deadlines, and denied having information that mysteriously turns up later, usually at the insistence of a federal judge.
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Earlier this week, the State Department said they couldn’t find any emails belonging to Bryan Pagliano, the IT specialist who helped Hillary set up her private email server and has declined to testify before Congress. That’s awfully suspicious, according to freedom of information experts.
The stonewalling has been going on for more than two years. Here’s a (non-exhaustive) rundown of all the missed deadlines and obfuscations that have stymied the effort to investigate “the most transparent public official in modern times.”
Nuts! MT @sam_baker: State Dept. says it can't find any record of a press secretary e-mailing with the press. https://t.co/GfqBlOWI0t
— Rebecca Shabad (@RebeccaShabad) March 19, 2014
US judge pressures State Dept. to release Clinton’s emails https://t.co/zwvS4EmNSq pic.twitter.com/AYkZd5gopk
— FRANCE 24 (@FRANCE24) May 19, 2015
State Department says it can't find 15 of Hillary Clinton's emails when she was Sec. of State https://t.co/mLDncABuTT pic.twitter.com/NXTij56m1I
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 26, 2015
State Department Can't Find Enough Staffers To Process Hillary Clinton Emails https://t.co/NFgweIHyB7 #HillaryEmail
— Fox Nation (@foxnation) October 14, 2015
Clinton can't find emails from first two months at State https://t.co/x7zpdWor2O pic.twitter.com/ThnvzTX1iJ
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 23, 2015
State Department can't find emails of top Clinton IT staffer https://t.co/qYQJ12oRPP | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/1VkV7Cwb61
— POLITICO (@politico) December 12, 2015
State Department will blow off judge's order and produce half as many Hillary Clinton emails as expected today https://t.co/zMmn4x9vLT
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) December 31, 2015
State Department falls short on new batch of Clinton emails: https://t.co/FnddAbLtFk pic.twitter.com/yxjtabVPRP
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) January 1, 2016
State Dept. denies that @HillaryClinton email releases are a 'mess' https://t.co/BXOL6Lfcfu | Getty pic.twitter.com/fSHYtg0KhG
— POLITICO (@politico) January 8, 2016
Auditor faults State Department for response as more Clinton emails emerge https://t.co/0ke6VBRJw2
— Amanda Becker (@AmandaBecker) January 8, 2016
State Department misses court deadline for Clinton emails https://t.co/DfyLGEowb4 pic.twitter.com/NAaaL0lb2S
— Monterey Herald (@MontereyHerald) January 8, 2016
State Department asks for deadline extension on @HillaryClinton emails https://t.co/Rlr6CCQtFE | Getty pic.twitter.com/ypHn6oN1D8
— POLITICO (@politico) January 23, 2016
The State Department can't release the next round of Clinton emails because it's too snowy https://t.co/lbxb1Tu7uI pic.twitter.com/w45SZG32y0
— Gawker (@Gawker) January 22, 2016
What do you say, Hillary?
I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 5, 2015
Meanwhile, Hillary is already promising to be the most transparent public official in history on another matter interest: aliens. “I want to open the files as much as we can,” she said in a radio interview last month. “I want to see what the information shows.”
Hillary’s campaign manager and UFO obsessive John Podesta has claimed credit for pushing Clinton to declassify government files on extraterrestrials, although the candidate herself has at least hinted that she believes aliens are real. “There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up,” she said.
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