Politico has a long piece about her email correspondences with Hillary.
The thousands of now-public emails from Hillary Clinton’s years as secretary of state reveal dozens of staffers and supporters eager to please and praise her, and one person who’s willing to say no.
Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s 50-year-old former chief of staff at the State Department and a family attorney dating back to the early'90s, stands out for her uniquely unvarnished communications with the boss.
She can be brusque, sometimes responding to Clinton’s questions with a simple “y,” as if she is too busy to finish typing the three-letter word.
She’s not always available, often unable to immediately take a call or email from Clinton on the weekend because she is at physical therapy, or getting home from the pool, or participating in an Easter egg hunt with her family.
And she can be irreverent, joking to Clinton in a 2009 email about Clinton's dancing skills, “you shake your tail feathers, girl.”
"When kudos are traded between Clinton and Mills, it’s more often Clinton who is complimenting her aide than the other way around. What is most striking about Mills’ correspondence compared with anything else found in Clinton’s inbox is that she appears to treat Clinton like an equal — which appears to be a rarity in Clinton's world. That posture stands in great contrast to the sycophantic praise, or deferential pose, that many of her staff and outside allies used when communicating with Clinton."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/cheryl-mills-hillary-clinton-aide-213242#ixzz3kb45KqtV
Well, Kudos to Ms. Mills, I guess, if she's Mighty enough not to let the Boss Lady get High and Mighty with her. Should we give her a medal or a monument in commemoration?
What's not clear is what any of this has to do with national security or classified information. It's almost as if this is a nothingburger.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/hillarys-emails-are-about-nothing-but.html
But that just can't be as there has been a unanimous media chorus for 6 months that this is serious, very, very serious-as is not surprising from such Very Serious People.
Now the big smoking gun is that only one person has the moxie to talk back to Hillary? Waiting to see if this makes it into Trent Gowdy's investigation.
What is now clear is that the worst thing for the Emailgate Truthers is for so many of her emails to actually become public. Now we can see how serious all this really is.
I think this piece by Washington Post Beltway insider Dana Milbanks shows that yesterday is going to be remembered as when Emailgate officially jumped the shark.
No accident that this comes the same day we get all these emails that the GOP and MSM have been howling about for six months. Meanwhile O'Keefe surfaced the same day with a breathless tale of how he tried to entrap the Hillary campaign into selling a Hillary t-shirt to a Canadian.
I mean you just have to say the name James O'Keefe and it should tell you it's a joke. And everyone understands this except teh NY Times.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/01/everyone-but-the-ny-times-realizes-james-okeefe/205311
But with O'Keefe's joke of a press conference with such revelations of illicit t-shirt buying even Milbank-who as a Beltway insider is predisposed to believe every such revelation-admits that the wheels are coming off of the Hillary scandal machine.
"Conservative activist James O’Keefe, whose undercover videos brought down ACORN and embarrassed National Public Radio, came to Washington Tuesday to unveil evidence of “illegal activity conducted by high-level employees within Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”
"He then rolled tape of . . . a Canadian woman attempting to buy a T-shirt and some campaign pins at a Clinton rally. To O’Keefe, this was evidence of foreign contributions being made to Clinton – an “illegal activity” with a total value of $75."
"Many of the 50 reporters who showed up at the National Press Club for this unveiling felt as if they had been punked.
“My first reaction is this is about buying a T-shirt,” said one. “It doesn’t seem like much of a bombshell.”
“Is this the best thing you have?” I asked O’Keefe.
“Is this a joke?” inquired Olivia Nuzzi of the Daily Beast. “This feels like a prank… We’re talking about buying campaign swag.”
"But O’Keefe was serious: “This is just the beginning! We’ve got more!”
It now seems that everyone-other than possibly the NY Times-in the MSM gets that this is a joke.
The thousands of now-public emails from Hillary Clinton’s years as secretary of state reveal dozens of staffers and supporters eager to please and praise her, and one person who’s willing to say no.
Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s 50-year-old former chief of staff at the State Department and a family attorney dating back to the early'90s, stands out for her uniquely unvarnished communications with the boss.
She can be brusque, sometimes responding to Clinton’s questions with a simple “y,” as if she is too busy to finish typing the three-letter word.
She’s not always available, often unable to immediately take a call or email from Clinton on the weekend because she is at physical therapy, or getting home from the pool, or participating in an Easter egg hunt with her family.
And she can be irreverent, joking to Clinton in a 2009 email about Clinton's dancing skills, “you shake your tail feathers, girl.”
"When kudos are traded between Clinton and Mills, it’s more often Clinton who is complimenting her aide than the other way around. What is most striking about Mills’ correspondence compared with anything else found in Clinton’s inbox is that she appears to treat Clinton like an equal — which appears to be a rarity in Clinton's world. That posture stands in great contrast to the sycophantic praise, or deferential pose, that many of her staff and outside allies used when communicating with Clinton."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/cheryl-mills-hillary-clinton-aide-213242#ixzz3kb45KqtV
Well, Kudos to Ms. Mills, I guess, if she's Mighty enough not to let the Boss Lady get High and Mighty with her. Should we give her a medal or a monument in commemoration?
What's not clear is what any of this has to do with national security or classified information. It's almost as if this is a nothingburger.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/hillarys-emails-are-about-nothing-but.html
But that just can't be as there has been a unanimous media chorus for 6 months that this is serious, very, very serious-as is not surprising from such Very Serious People.
Now the big smoking gun is that only one person has the moxie to talk back to Hillary? Waiting to see if this makes it into Trent Gowdy's investigation.
What is now clear is that the worst thing for the Emailgate Truthers is for so many of her emails to actually become public. Now we can see how serious all this really is.
I think this piece by Washington Post Beltway insider Dana Milbanks shows that yesterday is going to be remembered as when Emailgate officially jumped the shark.
No accident that this comes the same day we get all these emails that the GOP and MSM have been howling about for six months. Meanwhile O'Keefe surfaced the same day with a breathless tale of how he tried to entrap the Hillary campaign into selling a Hillary t-shirt to a Canadian.
I mean you just have to say the name James O'Keefe and it should tell you it's a joke. And everyone understands this except teh NY Times.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/01/everyone-but-the-ny-times-realizes-james-okeefe/205311
But with O'Keefe's joke of a press conference with such revelations of illicit t-shirt buying even Milbank-who as a Beltway insider is predisposed to believe every such revelation-admits that the wheels are coming off of the Hillary scandal machine.
"Conservative activist James O’Keefe, whose undercover videos brought down ACORN and embarrassed National Public Radio, came to Washington Tuesday to unveil evidence of “illegal activity conducted by high-level employees within Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”
"He then rolled tape of . . . a Canadian woman attempting to buy a T-shirt and some campaign pins at a Clinton rally. To O’Keefe, this was evidence of foreign contributions being made to Clinton – an “illegal activity” with a total value of $75."
"Many of the 50 reporters who showed up at the National Press Club for this unveiling felt as if they had been punked.
“My first reaction is this is about buying a T-shirt,” said one. “It doesn’t seem like much of a bombshell.”
“Is this the best thing you have?” I asked O’Keefe.
“Is this a joke?” inquired Olivia Nuzzi of the Daily Beast. “This feels like a prank… We’re talking about buying campaign swag.”
"But O’Keefe was serious: “This is just the beginning! We’ve got more!”
It now seems that everyone-other than possibly the NY Times-in the MSM gets that this is a joke.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/01/everyone-but-the-ny-times-realizes-james-okeefe/205311
"As with much of the product generated by the anti-Clinton scandal mill, the merit of the allegations doesn’t really matter. What’s important is that the constant stream of accusations further the notion that Clinton is corrupt."
"Sometimes they are sinister (she murdered Vince Foster!), sometimes they are nonsensical (she ordered the military not to rescue those Americans in Benghazi!), sometimes they are legitimate (her boneheaded use of a private email server as Secretary of State) and sometimes they are silly (her staff sold a T-shirt to a foreigner!). It doesn’t matter. The constant production of scandal accusations – facilitated by Clinton’s reflexive secrecy – is successful. A poll by Quinnipiac University released last week found that the top three words voters associate with Clinton are “liar,” “dishonest,” and “untrustworthy.”
Note that he still insists that she did something wrong with using a private email-if nothing else then being 'boneheaded.'
So doing something 'boneheaded' is a major scandal? And if she was in fact boneheaded so are many high ranking government officials including Colin Powell and Susan Rice.
"Republicans have actually conducted business from non-governmental accounts and erased millions of emails. There was no howling about that from outraged Republicans."
"Never mind about what she "should have known" or "could have known." None of that matters. The Republicans have continually leaked information, much of which has proven to be false and misleading."
"Even for a Republican White House that was badly stumbling through George W. Bush's sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 was shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering a two-year span, had been lost."
"The emails had been run through private accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee and were only supposed to be used for dealing with non-administration political campaign work to avoid violating ethics laws. Yet congressional investigators already had evidence private emails had been used for government business, including to discuss the firing of one of the U.S. attorneys. The RNC accounts were used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC email for 95 percent of his communications."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/all-democrats-have-to-say-this-there-is.html
"Sometimes they are sinister (she murdered Vince Foster!), sometimes they are nonsensical (she ordered the military not to rescue those Americans in Benghazi!), sometimes they are legitimate (her boneheaded use of a private email server as Secretary of State) and sometimes they are silly (her staff sold a T-shirt to a foreigner!). It doesn’t matter. The constant production of scandal accusations – facilitated by Clinton’s reflexive secrecy – is successful. A poll by Quinnipiac University released last week found that the top three words voters associate with Clinton are “liar,” “dishonest,” and “untrustworthy.”
Note that he still insists that she did something wrong with using a private email-if nothing else then being 'boneheaded.'
So doing something 'boneheaded' is a major scandal? And if she was in fact boneheaded so are many high ranking government officials including Colin Powell and Susan Rice.
"Republicans have actually conducted business from non-governmental accounts and erased millions of emails. There was no howling about that from outraged Republicans."
"Never mind about what she "should have known" or "could have known." None of that matters. The Republicans have continually leaked information, much of which has proven to be false and misleading."
"Even for a Republican White House that was badly stumbling through George W. Bush's sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 was shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering a two-year span, had been lost."
"The emails had been run through private accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee and were only supposed to be used for dealing with non-administration political campaign work to avoid violating ethics laws. Yet congressional investigators already had evidence private emails had been used for government business, including to discuss the firing of one of the U.S. attorneys. The RNC accounts were used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC email for 95 percent of his communications."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/all-democrats-have-to-say-this-there-is.html
I mean please, can we ever have just an ounce of context? That's always the maddening thing about Clinton scandals.
"Even in the anything-goes world of the Clinton scandal industry, though, O’Keefe’s latest exercise suggests her accusers are running out of ammunition. O’Keefe’s video did show evidence of law-breaking – by his own organization. In the brief clip, an unidentified woman who calls herself a Canadian tries to buy Clinton merchandise at a campaign-event tent and is told that foreign nationals can’t contribute. O’Keefe’s videographer then steps in and offers to buy the merchandise for the Canadian, who would pay her back."
So it sounds like entrapment by O'Keefe's videographer.
In any case the answer to the question the media asked O'Keefe yesterday is Yes, it is a joke, and not just O'keefe's sting operation into t-shirt selling but also the entire Emailgate Truther jaunt that VSP like Milbank have credibly followed for half a year.
Maybe it's time for the media to stop letting the joke be on them. Yesterday may be a good start towards this. The worst thing for Emailgate may have been the release of actual emails.
"Even in the anything-goes world of the Clinton scandal industry, though, O’Keefe’s latest exercise suggests her accusers are running out of ammunition. O’Keefe’s video did show evidence of law-breaking – by his own organization. In the brief clip, an unidentified woman who calls herself a Canadian tries to buy Clinton merchandise at a campaign-event tent and is told that foreign nationals can’t contribute. O’Keefe’s videographer then steps in and offers to buy the merchandise for the Canadian, who would pay her back."
So it sounds like entrapment by O'Keefe's videographer.
In any case the answer to the question the media asked O'Keefe yesterday is Yes, it is a joke, and not just O'keefe's sting operation into t-shirt selling but also the entire Emailgate Truther jaunt that VSP like Milbank have credibly followed for half a year.
Maybe it's time for the media to stop letting the joke be on them. Yesterday may be a good start towards this. The worst thing for Emailgate may have been the release of actual emails.
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