On June 23, 1973, the world was given the Watergate smoking gun via the taping of a meeting between then-President Richard Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman.
On Dec. 1, 2009, the world was given Hillary’s email-gate smoking gun via an email few know about between then Secretary of State Clinton and her close confidant and counselor, Cheryl D. Mills.
The email is only seven words long and has just come to light as Hillary simultaneously and finally turned over her private email server to the Department of Justice – something she refused to do for months until last week.
The State Department declassified another batch of Hillary’s emails on July 31 from the roughly 30,000 emails (55,000 pages) that were sent during her time at the State Department. (They’ve released roughly 3,600 emails of the 30,000 thus far.)
One email in this recent July 31 batch could have been easily overlooked. It was dated Dec. 1, 2009, and is a very brief exchange between her and Cheryl D. Mills, who I will shortly show is one who gravely deepens the doo-doo of Hillary’s situation.
The email from Hillary to Mills has only three words in the subject line: “May I borrow.” And only four words are in the body of the email: “SEND by David Shipley?”
The email seems absolutely benign and almost worthy of deletion, right? It does until one unfolds more about the content and its recipient.
The full title of the book that Hillary requests is: “Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better,” by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe. The book pledges to give “essential strategies to help … manage the ever-increasing number of emails you receive and improve the ones you send.”
Hillary doesn’t explain why she wanted the book, but the fact that she requested it from Mills reveals that there was a point of discussion about the book prior to the email and that it was in Mills’ presence. Mills likely recommended something in the book, otherwise Hillary wouldn’t have asked for it.
Her reason for asking Mills to bring her the book, which she did the very next day in their personal meeting, becomes readily apparent once one opens its chapter contents. It is a course of actions that reads like Hillary’s playbook to duck-n-dodge email culpability with the U.S. State Department confidential correspondence.
ABC News highlighted Hillary’s Pandora’s box by referring to Chapter Six: “The Email That Can Land You In Jail.” The chapter contains a sub-section entitled: “How to Delete Something So It Stays Deleted.”
Page 215 also offers further advice how to avoid legal traps: “Stupid (and Real) Email Phrases That Wound Up in Court.” The number one stupidity is: “DELETE THIS EMAIL!”
Shipley and Schwalbe warn: “Some people are hoarders, some are checkers. The main thing to consider is that once you do decide to delete, it’s like taking the garbage from your kitchen and putting it in your hallway. It’s still there.”
In order to really delete emails, the authors counsel that one must take added measures “to make sure that it’s not just elsewhere on the drive but has in fact been written over sixteen or twenty times and rendered undefinable.”
Is it a coincidence that Hillary’s personal server that she just handed over to the FBI was completely “wiped clean?” If you think so, I have a London Bridge to sell you in Lake Havasu City, Arizona!
Can FBI forensics retrieve the once deleted emails on her personal server? It’s possible, but it all depends upon how good of a job Hillary’s minions did at following Shipley and Schwalbe’s instructions.
Ready for another surprise? One of those email redacting minions was none other than Cheryl Mills – the recipient of her Dec. 1, 2009, email and the giver of the book, “Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better.”
As Hillary herself explained back in March of this year, Mills was given the task of “identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal records.”
This is what deepens and darkens the email mud here and Hillary’s guilt: Cheryl D. Mills is not just Hillary’s book-reading buddy, but a long-term Clinton family adviser and lawyer who goes back to Billy’s days in the White House, where she was a deputy counsel and defended him during his 1999 impeachment trial.
The New York Post hit the nail on the head: “Mills has a long track record of hiding Clinton documents. … The job of damage control has fallen to Mills through a parade of scandals. Her lack of cooperation is legendary. In fact, she’s been officially accused of both perjury and obstruction of justice.” (Please, read Paul Sperry’s New York Post article from May, “Hillary’s Closest Adviser is Hiding the Truth of Her Emails,” in which Perry details many deceitful escapades of Mill-Clinton legacy over two decades.)
After a stint at the University of New York in the early 2000s, Mills returned to be an adviser on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. She then aided Clinton’s transition to the Secretary of State Department, closely overseeing the office there as chief of staff.
In 2013, the Washington Post further described Mills as being “among the inner circle of advisers helping Clinton chart her plans for the future and could figure prominently in Clinton’s campaign should she run for president in 2016.”
Unless, of course, Mills is more helpful outside of Hillary’s campaign, like by covering up more email and document tracks or overseeing the future congressional court cases of Hillary’s Email-gate.
Perry was right in the New York Post:
If Congress really wants to get to the bottom of Hillary Clinton’s missing Benghazi and pay-to-play emails, it should call her consigliere Cheryl D. Mills to testify – under oath, and under the klieg lights.
A hearing featuring Clinton will be a wasted show trial with a lot of political grandstanding.
But Mills, who served as the former secretary of state’s chief of staff and counselor, knows where the bodies are buried.
You know the old saying, “If it look, walks, and quacks like a duck, it probably is”?
There’s also, “Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.”
I hope Hillary and Mills both read Page 226 in Shipley and Schwalbe’s book, where the writers warn, “If you’re issued a subpoena, your deletion binge will only make you look guilty.”
Last, isn’t it interesting that just last Friday, Hillary made a joke at the annual Iowa Democratic Wing Ding that she was glad to be a part of the new social media service Snapchat, which offers a communication venue that instantly deletes messages?
Hillary quipped, “By the way, you may have seen that I have recently launched a Snapchat account. I love it – those messages disappear all by themselves.”
I guess Mark Twain was right, “Humor is the good natured side of a truth.”
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