State Department: Hillary decides what emails we can see

“That sounds like goodwill if it’s up to the employee himself to do it.”

“No, it’s not goodwill,” Harf insisted. “It’s a responsibility.”

And that is what the State Department’s position comes down to. Harf says officials have all of Clinton’s emails but concedes that she doesn’t actually know for sure that officials have all of Clinton’s emails. And that it is Clinton’s responsibility, not the State Department’s, to make sure that State has all of her emails. And that the department relies on employees to produce their own emails, although she will not get into whether the department “always” operates that way.

Which points to a larger problem in the Clinton email affair. Everything we know about it — or everything we think we know about it — comes from Hillary Clinton. Day after day, Harf has attempted to pass along information from the Clinton camp as fact, only to concede that she doesn’t really know if it is fact or not. The State Department’s official position appears to be to trust Clinton while admitting that they have no way to know whether that trust is justified. Is that a good way to find out what really happened?