If you found the Patriots’ Bill Belichick convincing when he explained underinflated footballs in the playoffs by citing “atmospheric conditions,” you no doubt thought Hillary Clinton was persuasive at the Tuesday press conference where she explained why her e-mails as secretary of state ended in clintonemail.com rather than state.gov.
Start with her claims that the server she had in her New York home was set up for her husband, and that she’d deleted some e-mails rather than hand them over to State because they were “personal” exchanges between her and Bill.
That’s strange, because that same day her husband’s spokesman told The Wall Street Journal he “has sent a grand total of two e-mails during his entire life.”
Hillary also said she used one device for the sake of “convenience.” Two weeks ago, she admitted to using an iPhone and a Blackberry.
And if “convenience” were the priority, why — as Fox News’s James Rosen reported — did her server have multiple accounts?
The State Department says it will sift through the 30,000 emails (of 55,000 pages) Hillary turned over and make them public.
But unless Mrs. Clinton submits her personal server to a third-party computer expert, we’ll just have to take her word that there’s nothing else in Deleted Land we should know about.
Notwithstanding her claims to the contrary, in setting up her e-mail as she did, she went well past what any of her predecessors had done.
And as secretary of state, she left important communications more vulnerable to our enemies.
Contrary to earlier assertions, moreover, President Obama did get e-mails from her on her private account. In effect, Hillary is declaring that only she gets to decide what the American people are entitled to see.
Put it this way: Hillary’s presser Tuesday demonstrated why she’s not fit to be president — but more than ready to coach the New England Patriots.