Too Stupid To Rule

Guest Post by The Zman

Talk to anyone in law enforcement and they will tell you that the stupidity of criminals is a key part of solving crimes. The crooks leave clues and make huge blunders that allow the cops to catch them. Ray-Ray decides he has had enough of Peanut disrespecting him so he walks up to him at a party and starts shooting. Not only are there a million witnesses, Ray-Ray leaves the gun with his fingerprints and brags to his buddies latter that he just dusted Peanut at a party. It’s not a hard case to solve because Ray-Ray is a moron.

That comes to mind when reading the stories about the Clinton secret e-mail caper. We have enough of the details at this stage to have a rough idea how we got to this point. They wanted to have a secret communication method that would be not be subject to government security and Freedom of Information Act requests. They also figured that this secret system would be free from Congressional oversight. After all, if no one knew it existed, then no one could ask any questions about what was on it.

It’s not hard to imagine the conversations leading up to the decision to go with this plan versus using Google or Yahoo accounts. They figured that the reason guys like General Patraeus got caught using Gmail was that the government IT people were able to tell when people were accessing these systems via their work computers. Alternatively, they just assumed the government had access to these system like they do in the movies. Either way, they determined that using these options for personal stuff was a bad idea.

Hilariously, it appears they came to the conclusion that having their own e-mail server meant that all the e-mail was magically hidden in the box in Hillary’s bathroom. Their subsequent attempts to erase the hard drives suggests they did not know that e-mail travels across networks and is also stored on the receiver’s servers. Those servers are usually on a network not controlled by the recipient. They started to realize this at some point, which is why they smashed their phones and laptops.

The most amusing part of this caper is they started sending e-mails from this domain to people outside the domain. If they had kept this as a tight internal communication system, they could have got away with it. Highly secure e-mail systems actually work this way. You cannot send or receive mail from outside the domain. That way people cannot forward mail off the system and the system is not exposed to outsiders looking for an open window. In some government facilities, access is only through terminals in the facility.

Once e-mail was sent from the domain to outsiders, it was only a matter of time before the secret was out. They were lucky that most media people are remarkably stupid so they lack the wherewithal to wonder why Hillary Clinton did not have a State Department e-mail account. Watch the cable channels and you come away thinking that the people on TV just learned about e-mail last week. Eventually the Romanian cab driver unearthed the whole thing and the enterprise came crashing down.

The other bit of interest in the area of technical competence is how they responded to FBI requests for their e-mail. They printed them off and turned them over as paper documents. These are lawyers and they just assumed they could bury the government with paper. After all, how can they possibly organize 50,000 pages of e-mail? This is an old trick. In discovery one side asks for everything so you give them everything plus a mountain of junk they have to sort through to find what they want.

What they failed to understand is that the FBI digitized this stuff in a day or two. Modern high speed scanners can process 50 pages a minute. OCR technology can turn the paper into a machine readable document. Content management systems let you store millions of documents so they can be searched and sorted based on content. I have this on my laptop so I can stash all of my documents in a database, rather than file folders. The Clinton people were as ignorant of this as they were of how e-mail worked.

There are a lot of angles to these Clinton scandals, but the thing that transcends all of it is the rank stupidity of the people involved. There were safer and more secure ways to establish clandestine communications. Even with their setup, a modest amount of discipline would have prevented most of this from happening. All they had to do was limit mail going out of the system. When the time came to burn it down, they only had to destroy the server entirely and no one would be able to prove anything.

The argument from Team Trump in the closing days of the election is that Hillary Clinton is too corrupt to rule. He’s painting her as the face of the larger problem, which is the metastasizing corruption of the ruling class. It’s a good closing argument and it resonates, but the reason Hillary should not rule is she is dangerously incompetent and she surrounds herself with outlandishly stupid people. A society can survive crooked rulers, but it cannot survive stupid ones. Hillary Clinton is too stupid to rule.

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Big Dick
Big Dick

Really? Too stupid to govern? Sameo Sameo since Nixon.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

You mean ‘same old same old’.
Reminds me of a co-worker who thought the term was ‘fine by’.
And he wasn’t deliberately modifying it like my old boss who would say, Kay Seroo Seroo.

unit472
unit472

Its not ‘stupidity’ its the nature of how people interact. Mobsters and drug kingpins KNOW the FBI could be tapping their phones but they just can’t resist using them. Osama bin Laden had to live like a hermit and use couriers to communicate which made him irrelevant to al Qaeda.

For the Rodhamster to shakedown governments and corporations she had to communicate with them. If she wants to get $12 million from the King of Morocco she has to exchange messages and insisting on some encrypted email system is too cumbersome when you have to have your aides and the grifters over at the Clinton Foundation arrange the details.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Maybe their happy ass lost track of where propriety ends and criminality begins.

Like adulterous lovers, they get so caught up in their own activities that they begin to imagine that since they’ve been hiding it so well, they have become invisible. Pretty soon, they throw caution to the winds as even the threat of discovery is part of the thrill.

These grifters were doing so gangbusters, they forgot to lock the door behind them and stopped whispering, imagining the world had somehow become blinded to their crimes. They have been scamming for so long, it almost became a legitimate affair, sort of like decriminalized marijuana.
All the high with none of the jail time.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Like Denninger said – it’s tough to get good help running a criminal enterprise. That’s also why it was tough to get a good birth certificate forger. You can’t put out an official requisition for a Hawaiian birth certificate forgery. When the circle of conspirators is small, you end up letting the kid who knows Acrobat do it in the basement. Of course, a Big Lie is easy to sell – especially when you have all of the media on board.

D. Smith
D. Smith

What Iska is referring to is the forger who created Obama’s birth certificate in Adobe Illustrator didn’t flatten the image, which left the 9 internal layers visible to anyone who knew how to “release the clipping mask.” Once a person did that there was a myriad of issues, one of which was that the registrar’s “official” stamp was not a part of the document but had been imported from another file, scaled 24%, and rotated -90 degrees. The registrar’s “official” stamp also had a misspelled word (TXE rather than THE) and a happy face drawn into Alvin’s signature. No document scanner could do that!

Reed Hayes, a forensic document expert (and a Democrat) said: Obama’s long form birth certificate on the White House website “is not a scan of an original paper birth certificate, but a digitally manufactured document created by utilizing material from various sources. In over 20 years of examining documentation of various types, I have never seen a document that is so seriously questionable in so many respects. In my opinion, the birth certificate is entirely fabricated,”

For 17 years Obama’s official bio proudly stated “born in Kenya.” It looks like this is one time that Obama didn’t lie.

Andrew G.
Andrew G.

What did you expect?

These are lawyers… they… just like in EVERYONE that’s in government and law enforcement think that EVERYONE is stupid . I deal with this EVERY DAY. Somehow… they are intellectually superior! Just ask them..!

Llpoh
Llpoh

Whenever this issue comes up, that is what I conclude (besides the bitch being totally evil): how stupid and incompetent can she be?

Those emails are out there somewhere, and they will keep coming up like a bad smell for years, decades, even centuries. The recipients have copies upon copies, just waiting for a chance to hold the evil bitch to ransom.

This will NEVER be over.

Anonymous
Anonymous

People get in trouble for what they say, not what they don’t say.

Especially if they say it in writing.

These e-mails are likely to demonstrate that.

Walt
Walt

11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.” Matthew 15:11

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Jeff Schneider
Jeff Schneider

Article is good. Comments section may be better. I am fascinated or maybe dumbfounded when I read this article. I have owned and managed small businesses most of my adult life and therefore I have never been in high level government or corporate positions. So when I read a spy thriller, or watch a movie wherein the the corporate head or a big dog politician is evil; they ALWAYS have top level technicians at their beck and call. I just thought it was SOP. Maybe Hillary needs to see more movies or read a few Tom Clancy novels.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I bet Hillary wishes she had Rose Mary Woods working for her instead of a bunch of Ivy League grads.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

Corruption as a way of life , what is done in dark recesses eventually comes to light ! Note every binding law or regulation passed by our “REPRESENTATIVES” that seriously has long term negative effects on the Republic and the citizens are passed late at night by a small majority with little fanfare or it is tagged with a phony name like “The Patroit Act” were people envision Mel Gibson waving the flag and screaming freedom ! When the truth is the exact opposite ! Like Obama going to college in the Unitied States as a foreign exchange student visa and grant WTF ??? I know I am just a blue eyed white racist devil , because I ask the question and get pissed when I hear BULL SHIT as an answer and it’s not even good BULL SHIT and now Hillary ? When did she become Clinton when she with great press fanfare was the First Lady of Arkansas that maintained her maiden name as a matter of course being that modern independent woman so who is running for president ? Hillary Rodham or ????

yahsure
yahsure

I have noticed that Hillary hasn’t said that the emails are all lies or made up.Not even once. She just talks about Russia.

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