http://nypost.com/2015/09/20/hillarys-latest-excuse-there-is-no-evidence/Hillary’s latest excuse: ‘There is no evidence’
By Post Editorial Board
September 20, 2015 | 9:35pm
Months into her e-mail scandal, Hillary Clinton is still trying to get away with lines like, “There’s no evidence of that.” Oh, and answering questions with laughter.
No wonder she keeps falling in the polls — behind a 74-year-old Brooklyn-born socialist in the first two primary states, where more folks are paying attention.
On CNN’s “The Situation Room” last week, she faced questions about the claim by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that she should face criminal charges for using a private e-mail account and server to conduct official State Department business, including e-mails with highly classified information.
Clinton burst into laughter.
She kept up the giggling when asked about the chance that hackers from Russia or China broke into her server to glean national-security secrets. And then gave the lawyerly answer, “There’s no evidence of that.”
Well, not yet — the FBI’s only started looking for it, years after the breach might’ve occurred.
Anyway, Clinton went on: “This is, you know, this is overheated rhetoric, baseless charges trying to somehow, you know, gain a footing in the debate and in the primary. And it really doesn’t deserve any comment.”
Baseless charges? Yeah, the FBI makes it a habit to investigate those.
Facts already on the public record prove Clinton had top-secret info on that server. Two former CIA chiefs have faced prosecution for putting classified information on their home computers.
And after two decades at the pinnacle of Washington power, Clinton can’t plead ignorance that some of those e-mails (reports on conversations with foreign officials; data from US spy satellites) were “born classified,” even if they didn’t come labeled “Top Secret.”
Donors are panicking because she can’t make the story go away — and her campaign is reaching for a lifeline: It’s started sending Bill Clinton out to fund-raise.
He’s not doing public events yet — the campaign doesn’t want to be seen to need him. But that moment is coming — because it’s looking like the only thing that can save Hillary Clinton now is a truly gifted liar.
