Increasingly open contempt for the rule of law

Mark Steyn weighs in on the latest Clinton scandal:

It's all part of a pattern here - that they're protecting their own in the same way as they protect the President when he decides which bits of U.S. immigration law no longer apply, or which bits of Obamacare law no longer apply; that there is an increasingly open contempt for the rule of law... She thinks she can get away with it, which is one reason all this stuff is coming up and out now... The New York Times guy who broke the story is sort of kind of sheepish about his own scoop. In other words, he's writing it up now because he doesn't want the scoop to get out of hand. But it's a major, it's a major issue. The problem in Libya on the night of Benghazi was that nobody, either in Benghazi or in Tripoli, can get hold, could get hold of the cabinet officer in charge of American foreign policy... The deputy ambassador in Tripoli, after the U.S. ambassador had been killed, was able to get the president of Libya on the phone, but he wasn't able to get anyone who mattered in his own department back in Washington on the phone. Because he's like all these other shlub ambassadors: He didn't have the email for the Secretary of State. That's absolutely ridiculous. The Australian ambassador in Washington knows how to contact the Australian foreign minister in Canberra... This was a separate, unique arrangement that Hillary Clinton thought she was entitled to because of her celebrity, and there were real consequences to it.

The revealed email address - hdr22@clintonemail.com - attracted some comment earlier this week because "hdr" is "Hillary Diane Rodham". But nobody could figure out what the "22" meant. The year she was born? The age of Bill's current girlfriend? The obvious explanation is that it's to distinguish it from email addresses hdr1 through hdr21:

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