Last night, the State Department dumped a massive collection of 7,000 emails, all related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.
The dump, which was supposed to have come earlier in the day, was delayed by several hours because 150 of the emails showed signs of classified information. The rest showed signs of an embattled Hillary Clinton, struggling not just with foreign policy, but with managing a meddling Sidney Blumenthal, an overworked Huma Abedin, an opinionated daughter, a work environment filled with “ogrish males,” and uncertainty over canned seafood.
The highlights:
- The Heritage Foundation has compiled a list of all of the serious matters that came up in Hillary Clinton’s email, from reports of terrorist rumblings in Afghanistan to concerns over allowing Joe Biden to go to Iraq without complete, adult supervision. She presided over a number of shifting alliances: with Britain, with Germany, with Cuba and with the Israelis. In one case, an old friend of Bill Clinton even pressed Hillary to meet with the Israeli ambassador, since she and the administration seemed to have locked the ambassador out of important negotiations.
- Sidney Blumenthal has some interesting insights on fissures within the GOP coalition. He also thinks that John Boehner is a “louche, alcoholic and lazy.”
- Sidney Blumenthal does not like the Tea Party.
- Sidney Blumenthal does not like Justice Clarence Thomas and floated a memo from David Brooks to Hillary Clinton on having Thomas impeached for workplace harassment.
- Chelsea Clinton does not like the State Deparment website.
- Chelsea Clinton does not like how the State Department does business in Haiti, and does not like it when her parents forward her emails.
- The State Deparment IT help desk was thoroughly confused as to why Hillary Clinton wasn’t using a State Department email, especially when she asked the State Department IT help desk to help her with a non-State Department email.
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- She has a lot of trouble with shipments of canned fish.
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- She doesn’t understand that Fox News air’s reruns of Bill O’Reilly’s program. Or how to consult a TV guide:[[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”98346″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”255″,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”480″}}]]
- And last but not least, Hillary Clinton really liked Martin O’Malley at one time, probably before he started taking his shirt off for everything.
This is only the second of several massive email dumps expected from the State Department. Fortunately for Clinton, they’re mostly about nothing. Unfortunately for Clinton, they also yield more classified materials.
And also probably more stuff on that missing fish.
