To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (184652 ) 9/3/2015 7:30:55 AM From: GROUND ZERO™ 6 RecommendationsRecommended By FJB joefromspringfield locogringo MJ Sedohr Nod and 1 more member
Respond to of 224777 You and the hildabeest sound a lot like richard nixon... Nixon: I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. Clinton: I think it's kind of fun. People get a real-time behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about and what I was communicating about. Nixon: I want the public to learn the truth about Watergate and those guilty of any illegal actions brought to justice. Clinton: I want it all out there. Nixon: The facts will prove that the president is telling the truth. Clinton: That does not change the facts, and no matter what anybody tries to say, the facts are stubborn. Nixon: We have waived executive privilege on all individuals within the administration. It has been the greatest waiver of executive privilege in the whole history of this nation. Clinton: I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public. Nixon: I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate operation. Clinton: I don't know how it works digitally at all. Nixon: No one on the White House Staff, at the time (White House Counsel John Dean) conducted the investigation … was involved or had knowledge of the Watergate matter. Clinton: I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received. Kenneth E. Phillipps: So what? Colin Powell did the same thing. Nixon: This kind of capability not only existed during the Johnson administration, it also existed in the Kennedy administration. Clinton: Previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing. ... I mean, Secretary Powell has admitted he did exactly the same thing. ... We both did the same thing. Nixon: As far as the tapes are concerned, rather than being in defiance of the law, I am in compliance with the law. Clinton: What I did was legally permitted, number one, first and foremost. Nixon: The first operation, begun in 1969, was a program of wiretaps. All were legal, under the authorities then existing. Clinton: The laws and regulations in effect when I was secretary of State allowed me to use my email for work. That is undisputed. Nixon: We have cooperated completely. Clinton: We're fully cooperating with [the investigation]. Nixon: Let me explain very carefully that the principle of confidentiality either exists or it does not exist. Clinton: Look, my personal e-mails are my personal business. Right? Nixon: I have spent many hours of my own time personally reviewing these materials and personally deciding questions of relevancy. Clinton: Under the law that decision is made by the official. I was the official. I made those decisions. Nixon: How (the 18 1/2 minute gap on one tape) was caused is still a mystery to me and, I think, to many of the experts as well. Clinton: Like with a cloth or something? Nixon: We are standing firm on the proposition that we will not agree to the Senate committee's desire to have (the tapes). Clinton: The server will remain private. Nixon: The easiest course would be for me to blame those to whom I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign. But that would be a cowardly thing to do. Clinton: I think there are disputes going on among agencies about what shoulda coulda woulda been done four, five, six years ago. That's something for them to work out. Nixon: The Watergate issue has taken on overtones of a partisan political contest. Clinton: So for the past eight years, Republicans and their allies have attacked President Obama with everything they’ve got. … But the real target isn’t me; it’s everything you and I believe in. … It’s not about emails or servers either. It’s about politics. Nixon: I am confident that in those months ahead, the American people will come to realize that I have not violated the trust that they placed in me when they elected me as President of the United States. Clinton: Now, with respect to any sort of future issues, look, I trust the American people to make their decisions about political and public matters. Nixon: This office is a sacred trust and I am determined to be worthy of that trust. Clinton: People should and do trust me. Nixon: I frankly wish we hadn't had a (taping) system at all, then I wouldn't have to answer this question. Clinton: Looking back, it would've been better for me to use two separate phones and two email accounts. I thought using one device would be simpler, and obviously, it hasn't worked out that way. usatoday.com GZ