By Count Friedrich von Olsen
Our current Republican vice president, Mike Pence, is under fire for having used, while he was Indiana governor, both a state email account and a personal email address from which he engaged in state-related and personal communications. I do not have an email address myself, as my butler, Hudson, handles that for me. But I do understand email to be an electronic form of communication, something like the teletype in my day…
Now the Democrats have their undergarments all wadded up because during last year’s presidential campaign, Mr. Pence leveled criticism at Hillary Clinton for relying on a private email server when she was of secretary of state. Her account was hacked into, apparently by some folks with mal-intent toward our country, perhaps even Russian intelligence. It turns out that Mr. Pence’s emails were hacked, as well. The Democrats suggest there is some hypocrisy here…
The difference I perceive is that when he was Indiana governor, Mike Pence was not involved, for the most part, in communicating with regard to sensitive secrets, whereas when Mrs. Clinton was firing off and receiving her missives, she was on a daily basis dealing with sensitive diplomatic matters of grave import, the compromising of which might well have threatened our national security…