Hillary Dillary

That dawg won't hunt.

   Eight formal investigations by congressional committees, the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the email system used by Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State, none of which found sufficient evidence to support formal charges, don't seem to be enough for Republican opponents.
   Now they want yet another probe, in their years-long, expensive effort to find a vindictive needle in a barn full of haystacks. The worst allegation to come out of the plethora of probes is that she and the State Department she supervised at the time were "extremely careless" in their handling of material that could be construed as sensitive to national security.
   Even so, only a small handful -- totaling perhaps a few dozen out of the 30,000 emails that the FBI searched through -- had been marked secret. And even many of them were marked as such after they had been distributed. Oops.
   Meanwhile, members of Congress routinely get classified material through their personal email accounts on commercial systems, and there is no hue and cry about their handling of information via non-government systems.
   Was the use of a personal system poor judgment on her part? She has admitted that it was. Are government systems totally secure from hacking by foreign governments or hostile groups? Probably not.
   Conclusion: No system is entirely secure, and if you don't want to see it in print, don't put it in the computer, much less on the Internet.
   Was Hillary Clinton suspicious of the government operated communications system while she was Secretary of State? Probably. Did she have good reason not to place full trust in a government system? Possibly.
   Or, to quote an old Republican Party campaign slogan, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."
   Otherwise, as folk in the South might say, the best hound dog in the world can't find what ain't there.