Clinton: I’m the ‘most transparent public official in modern times’

[KamaAina]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/271879-clinton-im-most-transparent-public-official-in-modern

Hillary Clinton says she's the "most transparent" public official of modern times, slamming critics of her email practices in a new interview.

“I said, ‘make them all public,’” she said of her State Department emails on CNBC’s "Closing Bell" on Friday. "I’ve been the most transparent public official in modern times as far as I know.

I agree. I can see right through her. Not so much about the tired old emails , but about her neoliberal Turd Way policies.

[2pooped2pop]

1. That's what I was gonna say when I saw the title

Transparent to all but those who refuse to see.

[roguevalley]

46. if that were true, where are the speeches?

[2pooped2pop]

48. Good point

But we are not supporting her but saying we can see through her bullshit.

[whatchamacallit]

2. Trumpesque claim

[Enrique]

56. i'm so transparent

it'll make your head spin.

[dchill]

3. The most transparent liar.

I agree!

[NWCorona]

4. This must be the onion right?

[dana_b]

16. maybe - since her top donor now owns it n/t

[2pooped2pop]

49. Lol good one. N/t

[Press Virginia]

5. Funny how she said it only after the subpoena. The whole personal server thing

Wasn't about transparency

[7wo7rees]

6. Well alright then. Let it all go Please.

[Maedhros]

7. Sure. "Transparent" politicians always set up private email servers

to circumvent FOIA requests.

[R. P. McMurphy]

8. vv THIS vv

[Hydra]

9. Pardon me for a moment...

...She thinks we're all stupid or something, doesn't she?

[rhett o rick]

11. Those in the Aristocracy often believe they were meant to rule by devine intervention.

They think that because God gave them wealth they need to rule those without wealth. Maybe they will let us eat cake.

[840high]

12. Yes she does. She creeps me out.

[Barack_America]

10. "As far as I know". Just like Obama's Christianity.

"As far as I know".

[Fairgo]

13. I was choking there for a minute, but I'm ok now.

Transparent? In a manner of speaking...yes. Not in the way you mean however. Ironically, that you would say you are transparent in the sense of honesty and forthright demeanour, and claim some moral superiority in the process, while lying with such practiced and staged conviction...is a perfect example of how transparent your true nature is...

[me b zola]

14. What a hoot

Reminding me that House of Cards is in its new season.

[Docreed2003]

15. .

[dana_b]

17. "I am the Princess of Monaco!!"

Saying it doesn't make it so.

I am literally shaking my head. Does she think that we all have ADD and don't pay attention to anything she ever says or does?

[stranger81]

55. No -- just 51% of us.

And sad to say, but she's probably not wrong about that.

[ladjf]

18. Well, you are right about that. It's transparent the the millions of dollars

received for "speeches" are payments for influence.

[Autumn]

19. She's as transparent as glass, I'll give her that cause this time around I can see right

through her. A lot of us can.

[Raster]

22. DING!

[silvershadow]

26. thread winner^^ nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. She should consider stand up

that was hilarious...

[Raster]

21. My goodness. Miss Thang certainly does thing highly of Herself....

....well, yes, she is rather see through... and shallow. She has her neoconjob panties on.

[Helen Borg]

23. Transparent as in "insubstantial"

[silvershadow]

25. Well, the others aren't very transparent either, so that isn't saying much. nt

[6chars]

51. hadn't seen that B logo before

clever

[silvershadow]

60. I stole it from someone here on DU! nt

[silvershadow]

24. Those transcripts read like a piece of Saran Wrap. And now she is under threat of

Federal charges. I think I will just pass.

[Todays_Illusion]

27. She only makes it public as a result of investigations, first she dodges like those speeches she is

still thinking about releasing the transcripts for.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Yep. Hillary Clinton is the ‘most transparent public official in modern times’

And I'm a retired Kamikaze pilot.

[rpannier]

40. High ranking officer?

Or just one of the regulars?

[Jack Rabbit]

58. Just one of the regulars

It's pretty hard to make rank as a Kamikaze.

[CentralMass]

29. Pants on fire.

[tomm2thumbs]

30. to be fair, she added 'as far as I know' -- and she doesn't know ANYTHING about transparency

truth in advertising

[AzDar]

31. Get the $%#& OUTTA here!! I'm rendered speechless...

[Fuddnik]

34. Can we get a transcript of that speechless speech?

[AzDar]

35. I'll look into it...

[SoapBox]

32. Good gawd, she's a joke...

Too bad a really, really bad joke.

No...More...Clintons.

[liberal_at_heart]

33. Well she has said she would continue Obama's legacy. Remember when Obama said

he would be transparent. She's right on par with Obama on transparency I think. They both stink at it.

[Third Doctor]

36. BUUUULLLLL SHIIIIIIITTTT.

[Waiting For Everyman]

37. If she keeps that up, she's going to spontaneously combust

or get struck by lightning, or something.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. "I’ve been the most transparent public official in modern times as far as I know."

Nope:

[Betty Karlson]

47. True!

Carter has been class act all his life.

[rpannier]

39. She'll be here all week ladies and gentleman. Two shows on Saturday

Once the primaries are over she has a career in stand up awaiting

[Old Crow]

41. She says she said "Make them all public"?

Sure she did--after she deleted over 30,000 of them.

This whole private server nonsense--and all the trademark Clinton dissembling that's gone along with it--is making me very, very tired. If she winds up in the White House, it is going to be one clusterf*ck scandal after another.

[99th_Monkey]

42. This is akin to Nixon's "I'm NOT a crook!!" proclamation. n/t

[Divernan]

43. While refusing to provide transcripts of her Big Bucks speeches to Wall Street.

My jaw literally hit the floor! And the "as far as I know" is a classic liar's tell and slick lawyer's qualifier, just in case evidence surfaces to prove other than what they've testified to.

I mean, give me a fucking break! Transparent? This from the person who "lost" the subpoenaed records of her Rose law firm billing records for TWO YEARS?!?! Only to have them mysteriously turn up in the White House living quarters with HER fingerprints on them?

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/06/us/elusive-papers-of-law-firm-are-found-at-white-house.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/05/us/hillary-clinton-s-fingerprints-among-those-found-on-papers.html

And this from the woman who as a law school graduate (albeit unlicensed and unadmitted to any bar), stole and hid records from the members of the Watergate investigating committee?

Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.

The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970.

“As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer,” Zeifman said.

The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files. So what did Hillary do?

“Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public,” Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding – as if the Douglas case had never occurred.

http://www.eohistory.info/2013/hillaryHistory.htm

And from the woman who hid from even her closest friends and associates FOR DECADES, the fact that she failed to pass the D.C. bar exam?

To quote Jon Lovitz/SNL character, "Yeah, that's the truth!"

[Lorien]

44. She really has reached Drumpf levels of bullshittery

Bernie is the most honest and transparent public official, and has been for years. Oh, and where are those transcripts again Hill?


Taking a page from the GOP playbook; if she's going to lie, make it a BIG one!

[Betty Karlson]

45. Yeah... not really buying anything she says.

She has lost my trust many months ago. Trust comes by foot and leaves by horse.

[spin]

50. All her email could not be made public. Some was so highly classified...

they could not be released in any form.

22 Clinton Emails Deemed Too Classified to Be Made Public
By STEVEN LEE MYERSJAN. 29, 2016

WASHINGTON — The State Department on Friday said for the first time that “top secret” material had been sent through Hillary Clinton’s private computer server, and that it would not make public 22 of her emails because they contained highly classified information.

***snip***

Emails previously released by the State Department have been redacted because they were deemed to contain information that should not be made public. But the 22 top secret emails are the first to be withheld entirely.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/us/politics/22-clinton-emails-deemed-too-classified-to-be-made-public.html?_r=0

[azurnoir]

52. yep I agree she's pretty see thru

[Major Hogwash]

53. Hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love to hear a good joke when I hear it.

[islandmkl]

54. wait a minute, folks....look at the end of her comment...

"...as far as I know."

that's almost Palinesque...just with better grammar....

[Orsino]

57. Yep. Not in the way she means, alas. n/t

[MisterP]

59. what's it been--30 days?

[felix_numinous]

61. A comedian is now writing for HRC?

With the undisclosed emails, and the undisclosed speech transcripts, all the banking and overseas money being funneled to the Clinton Foundation, is this a joke?

[Teamster Jeff]

62. Clear to me

[jwirr]

63. Is it possible that she really believes that?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

64. John Dillinger: I work in the banking industry.

[KamaAina]

65. Thread win!!

[Punkingal]

66. I can't believe she actually said that.