Comment by slantedview
9 years ago
This narrative doesn't address the fact that Clinton was actively opposed to FOIA requests and had sought means to keep her public work private as much as possible.
Following common sense here, her decision to ignore State Department regulations (which she lied about) and participate in classified communications (which she also lied about) on a private server immediately after she had made efforts to minimize public access to her communications, leads to the obvious conclusion that she put secrecy above transparency. If her narrative in private testimony matches the public one, then she likely perjured herself as well on the point of whether the State Department authorized the server, since they now say they did not (which again, she lied about).
Not only actively opposed to FOIA requests -- unresponsive to subpoenas, including the Judicial Watch lawsuit's subpoena which requested all emails related to Benghazi and Libya.
Judicial Watch didn't get her emails about Libya with Sid Blumenthal until after the Guccifer hack made the email address public knowledge.
If it weren't for the Guccifer hack (of Sid Blumenthal's email), we wouldn't even know about the server, and she would have ignored that subpoena forever.
Forgive me, but I have only casually followed this. Perjury requires she falsify her testimony under oath, has there actually been a formal deposition from Clinton under oath?
I'll admit, I'd love to see nothing more than for her to go to prison (and I am expecting downvotes for this) - but I don't think it's going to be for perjury unless I missed something.
I'm not sure about exactly where she gave all of her testimony and I won't make any claims of purjury (though I think the evidence shows many lies here), but I feel I should point out that it's also possible to purjure oneself by lying to Congress.
See also: http://time.com/3628324/torture-congress-lying-hayden/