It’s too little, too late, but Hillary Clinton finally apologized to the American public for using a private email account and server while serving as U.S. Secretary of State. CLINTON has been all over the map about the emails, from denial to contrition. How refreshing if she would have admitted to the error right off the bat.
All along Clinton has insisted the brouhaha is no more than a media invention — “Nobody talks to me about it other than you guys,” she said in a blame-the-messenger retort to reporters.
To its credit, it was the Associated Press that first discovered Clinton was using her home computer for sending classified information. The risk is that a home computer’s operating system could, theoretically, be more easily hacked than one operated by the U.S. government.
The FBI has since confiscated Clinton’s home server. She also has provided more than 55,000 pages of emails from when she was secretary of state to prove it was all legit.
Clinton maintains she was within her rights to conduct government business on equipment other than that issued by the U.S. government. She’s wrong. It wasn’t until she left office that President Barack Obama signed changes to the Federal Records Act that allows such practice only if copies of all transactions are also sent to official accounts.
If someone at the Register were her speech writer, here’s how her mea culpa would have read: “Omigosh, I’m so stupid! Of course I should had two email accounts, one for personal use and one for work. I don’t know what I was thinking!”
Who, after all, has not missent an email.
But instead of embracing her humanity, Americans increasingly view her as contriving and untrustworthy.
Which is really too bad.
Of all the candidates, Hillary has the most expertise in both domestic and international affairs and would probably be an outstanding president.
But if stupid stuff as this keeps happening, we may never know.
— Susan Lynn
Hillary’s lame apology
