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.”
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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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