One of the more disturbing revelations from\u00a0this year\u2019s U.S. presidential election, has been Hillary Clinton\u2019s compulsive propensity to hide all sorts of things from the American public<\/strong>. While I appreciate one\u2019s right to privacy as much as the next person, if you want to run for President of these United States, transparency and engagement with the public should be a top priority and requirement.<\/p>\n In this post, I want to highlight three troubling ways in which Hillary Clinton has been shamelessly and inexplicably hiding things from the public throughout her presidential run. <\/strong><\/p>\n The first instance is one that came up frequently during the Democratic primary. That is, transcripts of the extraordinarily high priced speeches she gave to numerous corporations, including multiple Wall Street banks that were at the center of the 2008\/09 financial crisis.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n In a very popular post<\/a><\/strong> published back in May, I highlighted all her speeches from 2013-15, including the specific amounts earned.\u00a0The total came to $21.7 million, but that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Clintons leveraging public office to enrich themselves to oligarchic levels. For example, as CNN<\/em> reported<\/a> back in February:<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton\u00a0and her husband, former President\u00a0Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including\u00a0Goldman Sachs\u00a0and\u00a0UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Given the extraordinary amount of money the couple earned over the past decade and a half, you\u2019d think the public would have a right to hear what she actually said to many of these entities, especially the chronically corrupt TBTF Wall Street banks. Nevertheless, she refuses to release the\u00a0transcripts.<\/p>\n For an idea as to why she might be hiding the content of these speeches, see:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The Real Reason Hillary Clinton Refuses to Release Her Wall Street Transcripts<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Hillary Consolidates Wall Street Support as Republican Financiers Shift to Clinton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Hillary Clinton is in Deep Trouble \u2013 \u201cHordes of Wall Street Executives\u201d Descend Upon Philly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Hiding Wall Street speech transcripts is just one example of Hillary Clinton\u2019s extreme secretiveness and shadiness when it comes to her lack of accountability to the American public.<\/p>\n Example number two relates to the extremes she went to hide her communications while Secretary of State. By now, everyone knows about her private email server and the FBI investigation that solidified what many of us already knew \u2014 she is above the law.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n What you may not know, are some of the additional details surrounding her email affair courtesy of the FBI notes released on Friday ahead of a long holiday weekend. Let\u2019s review a few of them courtesy of\u00a0\u00a0Chris Cillizza\u2019s article published in the Washington Post,<\/em>\u00a012 Things I Learned From the FBI Report on Hillary Clinton\u2019s Private Email Server<\/a>:<\/p>\n 1. Clinton had 13 mobile devices during her four years at the State Department and five iPads.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Clinton never sought approval to conduct state business on her own private email server despite \u201can obligation to do so.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell advised Clinton to keep it secret that she was using a BlackBerry to conduct official business.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4. A\u00a0note sent to all State Department employees on Clinton\u2019s behalf warned them against the risks of using personal email addresses for official business.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yet she did it anyway.<\/p>\n 5. The State Department, regularly during Clinton\u2019s tenure, sent out notes warning of the dangers of using mobile devices not up to agency\u00a0security standards.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yet she did it anyway.<\/p>\n 6. Clinton neither participated in conversations with her lawyers about how to determine which emails were professional and which were personal, nor did she provide them any guidance as to the locations of those emails.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7. Clinton told the FBI the decision to delete her personal emails was because she didn\u2019t need them anymore, not because she was trying to avoid State Department, FBI or Freedom of Information Act requests.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8. Three weeks after the\u00a0New York Times broke the story of the existence of Clinton\u2019s email server<\/a>, a number of Clinton\u2019s emails were deleted.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9. The FBI found 17,448 work-related and personal emails that Clinton did not turn over to the State Department.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10. Clinton told the FBI that she was unaware that the \u201cC\u201d marking on emailed documents meant they were confidential.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11. Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton associate, sent the secretary of state 179 email memos during her time as the nation\u2019s top diplomat.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n For more on Mr.\u00a0Blumenthal, see:\u00a0How the Clinton Foundation Paid Sidney Blumenthal $10K per Month as He Gave Horrible Libya Advice to the State Dept.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 12. Clinton was concerned that her email had been hacked.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n But that\u2019s not all. We also learned the following from The Boston Globe<\/em>:<\/p>\n Clinton has repeatedly said her use of private email was allowed. But over a 3 \u00bd hour interview in July, she told investigators she \u2018\u2018did not explicitly request permission to use a private server or email address,\u2019\u2019 the FBI wrote. They said no one at the State Department raised concerns during her tenure, and that Clinton said everyone with whom she exchanged emails knew she was using a private email address.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clinton and her legal team deleted thousands more emails she claimed were personal and private. The FBI report details steps taken by Clinton\u2019s staff that appear intended to hamper the recovery of deleted data, including smashing her old Blackberry smartphones with a hammer and using special software to wipe the hard drive of a server she had used.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As you can see, the\u00a0American public views\u00a0Hillary Clinton as dishonest and untrustworthy not because of sexism, but because she is an extraordinarily shady person.<\/p>\n These first\u00a0two examples of Hillary hiding something we just reviewed relate to her going to great lengths to hide or obscure her communications.<\/strong><\/u> With respect to\u00a0the first case, she continues to hide\u00a0the\u00a0comments she made\u00a0in private speeches to the corporate titans who fund her campaign. In the second case, she has made it impossible for the American public to know precisely what she was up to as Secretary of State due to her brazen and unapproved decision to use a private email server.<\/p>\n While all of that is bad enough, Hillary continues to showcase\u00a0her compulsive tendency to hide up to the current moment. <\/strong><\/u>What I\u2019m referring to is that despite her being two months away from asking the American public to vote for her to be\u00a0President, she continues to hide from the press and citizenry as a whole, while jet-setting from one of the nation\u2019s most elite enclaves to another, pleading for additional\u00a0oligarchs money in private fundraisers.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s begin with\u00a0her absurd and arrogant stance of refusing to hold press conferences. She hasn\u2019t held one in 274, and if you\u2019d like to keep track at home, click on the screen shot below for a live tracker.<\/p>\n So we know who she\u2019s not meeting with. Let\u2019s now turn to Politico<\/em><\/a> to find out who she is meeting with (privately of course):<\/p>\n When she\u2019s speaking at a fundraiser, reporters camped outside can sometimes hear a muffled voice but can rarely make out her actual words. When she\u2019s greeting voters at a coffee shop or on a rope line after a rally, the former secretary of state often looks right through the reporters hovering around her, like they don\u2019t exist. And when she does acknowledge their physical presence, she smiles through the questions barked at her and encourages reporters to sample a coffee, or a chocolate, instead.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are full days when the rotating pool of traveling press does not even set eyes on Clinton.<\/strong> In one instance last month, Clinton slipped out to Martha\u2019s Vineyard from New York, ditching the pool of reporters assigned to cover her altogether.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Certainly, the past month has been somewhat out of the ordinary for the campaign \u2014 Clinton has been on a cash dash, spending the bulk of the end of summer at private, closed-press fundraisers rather than public events. (Twice, she popped up to call in to cable television programs.) But there has hardly been a halcyon period of accessibility since she launched her campaign 18 months ago.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The article\u2019s author goes on to provide a few lowlights from the press\u2019 recent experience attempting to cover an impossible to cover campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n They Paved Paradise and Put up a Parking Lot, Aug. 30:\u00a0<\/strong>Clinton hit up three big fundraisers in the Hamptons. While she raked in the cash, the pool didn\u2019t have much to report on. \u201cPool was unable to hear a word of HRC\u2019s remarks at first cocktail party. She also took questions, which pool was also prohibited from hearing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At an evening fundraiser hosted by Jimmy Buffett, Clinton was inside dancing with Paul McCartney, according to attendees. Pool reporters were stationed about 400 yards away from the house, \u201camong the parked cars.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Basement Blues, Aug. 29:\u00a0<\/strong>While Clinton entertained donors who coughed up $33,400 a head to attend a Hamptons fundraiser at the home of Jay Snyder, there was \u201cno chance of your pool hearing Clinton here. We are being held in a quaint, but lovely guest house, while Clinton is in the main house.\u201d Earlier in the day, there was a brief window at a fundraiser when the pool could hear Clinton\u2019s remarks. That was quickly remedied. \u201cStaff shooed us into a hidden room farther in the basement out of earshot.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Exclusive Interview with a Caretaker, Aug. 28:\u00a0<\/strong>Clinton attended four fundraisers in the Hamptons. In Bridgehampton, pool\u00a0<\/strong>\u201chad a funny exchange with the man who described himself as the caretaker of the house where we waited. He asked when we were leaving to go into the fundraiser and see her. We told him no, we aren\u2019t allowed to do that. He seemed incredulous.\u201d Pool reported no sighting of Clinton the entire day.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chocolates, Questions, Aug. 25:\u00a0<\/strong>Clinton popped into Hub Coffee Roasters after a rally in Reno, Nevada. There, she ignored questions about Donald Trump lobbed at her\u00a0<\/strong>from the reporters in the coffee shop. Instead, she encouraged them to sample Dorinda\u2019s Chocolates. \u201cIt\u2019s really good!\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Muffled Mumblings, Aug. 24:\u00a0<\/strong>Clinton attended a full day of fundraisers in California, but at the end of a long day that ended at 10 p.m., \u201cpool lost sight of the motorcade as it pulled into the hotel garage, marking a full day without a glimpse of Clinton.\u201d While Clinton raised money at the estate of Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, the pool didn\u2019t even catch a glimpse of the house, instead \u201cwe have to hold at a nearby restaurant.\u201d At a fundraiser earlier in the day, \u201cpool could hear Clinton\u2019s voice, but could not make out any exact words.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Wave, Aug. 23:\u00a0<\/strong>In Burbank, California, as Clinton entered Justin Timberlake\u2019s mansion for a fundraiser, pool reported that Clinton \u201cwaved to us.\u201d Also, a Jennifer Aniston sighting. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ignoring Questions, Aug. 17:\u00a0<\/strong>Clinton ignored questions shouted at her about Trump\u2019s campaign shakeup, while she took a tour of John Marshall High School in Cleveland, ahead of a rally there, one of her two public events of the past two weeks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Indeed, Hillary Clinton\u2019s obvious disdain for the American public as she panders incessantly to oligarchs has reached a level of such shamelessness, even the New York Times<\/em> couldn\u2019t ignore it. As the paper noted in its article,\u00a0Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich<\/a>:<\/p>\n At a private fund-raiser Tuesday night at a waterfront Hamptons estate,\u00a0Hillary Clinton danced<\/a>\u00a0alongside Jimmy Buffett, Jon Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney, and joined in a singalong finale to \u201cHey Jude.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI stand between you and the apocalypse,\u201d<\/strong> a confident Mrs. Clinton declared to laughs, exhibiting a flash of self-awareness and humor to a crowd that included Calvin Klein and Harvey Weinstein and for whom the prospect of a\u00a0Donald J. Trump\u00a0presidency is dire.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2016\/09\/01\/20160905_hillary.jpg\")
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