Hillary Clinton’s defense of her seemingly criminal mishandling of the nation’s secrets now looks to be pretty much I live in a parallel universe.
The latest: She insists the email story is still in the news only because some “people are selectively leaking and making comments that have no basis in anything I’m aware of.”
That’s what she told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Monday — just three days after the State Department announced it can’t release 22 of her emails because they’re too dense with highly classified information.
Not remotely a selective leak, ma’am.
To be fair, insiders are leaking — but the basis for it is pretty obvious. For example, one intel official who’s seen the unreleased emails told Fox News they include “operational intelligence” — such that keeping them on her unsecured home server jeopardized “sources, methods and lives.”
Clinton seems to think that’s not her concern. On Sunday, she insisted to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that “when you receive information, of course, there has to be some markings, some indication that someone down the chain had thought that this was classified and that was not the case.”
In fact, high officials are supposed to recognize clearly confidential info even when unmarked and keep it secure — not store it on a personal, private server. Clinton signed a legally binding pledge to that effect before taking over at State.
It’s hard to see how Clinton can keep ignoring all these inconvenient facts for another 10 months. But when the parallel-universe shtick stops working, is she going to start blaming her imaginary friend?