{"id":11239,"date":"2018-06-23T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T17:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2018-06-23T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T17:09:43","slug":"hillarys-hamartia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hillarys-hamartia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary\u2019s Hamartia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton could have spared the country hours of wasted investigations, debates, and near civil war had she just made three easy ethical and logical choices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One:<\/strong>\u00a0Had she, as Secretary of State, used a standard Department of State email server for her official correspondence, there would have been no Inspector General\u2019s 500-page plus report. Indeed, there would have been no three-year-long email scandal that has all but destroyed the reputation of the Washington hierarchy of the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, there would have been no need for all the distortions by Clinton, the FBI, and the Department of Justice. Just think of it: no bit-bleaching of Clinton hard drives, no smashing of mobile devices, and no secret meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/hillarys-hamartia\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution Hillary Clinton could have spared the country hours of wasted investigations, debates, and near civil war had she just made three easy ethical and logical choices. One:\u00a0Had she, as Secretary of State, used a standard Department of State email server for her official correspondence, there would have been no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1150,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Vh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11237,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/scandals-sanitized-with-linguistic-trickery\/","url_meta":{"origin":11239,"position":0},"title":"Scandals Sanitized with Linguistic Trickery","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Obama becomes an unnamed \u2018government official,\u2019 \u2018investigation\u2019 becomes a \u2018matter,\u2019 and \u2018illegal\u2019 becomes \u2018improper.\u2019 There are lots of strange things throughout Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz\u2019s massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. 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