Hillary, Obama and Now Kerry -- Is an Email Cover-up Underway?

As we wait for Iowa to vote amid a weekend flurry of candidate appeals and pundit predictions, the most bizarre comment came from Secretary of State John Kerry, who refused to say that his predecessor Hillary Clinton had top secret information on her private server or whether her acts had threatened national security. President Obama has already said there was not a serious error. Kerry said it was not a matter for his office. Kerry made it seem the State Department he heads has nothing to do with the scandal : "The seven emails, or a few emails at any rate, are being withheld at the request of the intelligence community itself. I can't speak to the specifics of anything with regard to the technicalities, the contents, what may or may not have taken place with respect to her personal server because that's not our job. We don't do that." Even more odd, Kerry tacked on a whopper of a statement : "We don't know about it. It's in other hands." So, Secretary Kerry's position is that the State Department's responsibility was limited to releasing emails under a Freedom of Information Act court order, not to evaluating : "That is why it is happening at this moment. And that literally is all I am able to say about them -- not because I won't, but because we don't have any of the other information. It's not our information. We don't make any judgments about it. That is in other hands." ~~~~~ The State Department is reading 55,000 pages of Hillary emails she dumped on the Department in the least usable format possible - paper - then marking in black all classified information before release and passing the marked emails to other agencies and Intell for comment. Did John Kerry appoint the email readers? Did he give guidance about their email classified information task? Does he get progress updates? Has he tried to improve State classification rules? Or, did he ask to be kept out of the most important scandal ever to hit the Department he heads? ~~~~~ Newsmax published a weekend interview with Howard Krongard, State Department Inspector General from 2005 to 2008, who says State never set up a government email address for Clinton and so the State Department isn't telling the truth when it claims it didn't know about Clinton's use of a private email server for official business. For Krongard, "This was all planned in advance," saying the purpose was to get around rules on federal records management. "That’s a change in the standard," he said, noting that previous Secretaries had state.gov email accounts. "It tells me that this was premeditated...and eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private e-mail server until later." Krongard said there was no State Department Inspector General for more than 5 years from 2009 to 2013 -- Clinton's entire tenure : "This is a major gap....it's without precedent...the longest period any department has gone without an IG." It's "clear" Clinton didn't want to be subject to internal investigations, he said. An audit of the emails of her and her staff would have shown that secret information was being sent over Clnton's nonsecure system : "The starting point of an investigation is the material going through SIPRNet [State's classified system]. She couldn’t function without the information coming over SIPRNet. How did she get it on her home server? It can't just jump from one system to the other. Someone had to move it, copy it. The question is who?" ~~~~~ Dear readers, the State Department said Friday that emails were removed from the latest batch because they may contain top secret information. Was Kerry advised of this before the emails were withheld from the FOIA court-ordered release? Did he agree? Does he know what Top Secret information is in the emails and the dangers posed by their nonsecure distribution? Is Kerry or Obama performing his official classification duties? Or is Kerry under a White House order to say nothing -- in another coverup to protect Obama and his senior officials from criminal investigation?