The e-mails may be withheld until after Mr Obama leaves office under the Presidential Records Act, which governs public access to the president’s records. The Democratic presidential front-runner called for an end to racial profiling in law enforcement and said that she would prevent the federal government from asking job applicants about their criminal history.
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The disruption was the first time that Black Lives Matter protesters have interrupted a Clinton event since she announced her bid for the presidency, though they’ve protested other Democrats’ campaign events, reported the New York Daily News.
The email – released by the GOP-led House Select Committee on Benghazi – was sent from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, to the State Department, which Clinton led from 2009 to 2013.
As for what transpired by email between Obama and Clinton, the country will have to wait for the next president-as long as it’s not Clinton.
The State Department is releasing them in monthly batches; another 4,400 were released on Friday.
In the recent Benghazi hearing, Clinton was grilled extensively about her adviser relationship with longtime confidante Sid Blumenthal, but brushed off his advice memos marked “confidential” as just another piece of counsel that she could take or leave. “It is a principle that previous White Houses have vigorously defended as it goes to the core of the president’s ability to receive unvarnished advice and counsel”. In the documents, which include correspondence from a wide array of White House and Justice Department officials, no one even hints that Bill Clinton’s thinking or actions regarding DOMA were animated by the threat of a federal constitutional amendment.
Obama has repeatedly resisted efforts by Congress to turn over the president’s private communications, which by law are exempt from Freedom of Information laws that often are used to pry information out of other parts of an administration.
Clinton also came under fire during her testimony in front of the Select Committee for an email she sent to her daughter Chelsea, under the pseudonym Diane Reynolds, on the night of the attack – which she told Chelsea was the result of “an Al Queda-like group”.
Clinton gave the protesters props and acknowledged their “Black Lives Matter” chants, saying “yes, they do”, but kept talking, although much of the audience couldn’t hear what she way saying over the noise.
“Democratic primary voters deserve to know exactly where Secretary Clinton stands on Social Security”, said Murshed Zaheed, the acting political director of the progressive online organizing group CREDO. “The United States should not have the highest prices for prescription drugs in the world”.
After the letter reached Clinton, she emailed one of her aides, noting it was “from one of the Generals who supported me”. “Is there anyway I can add them?” “Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous”, she said at the time.
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“Here’s my question: on this new berry can I get smiley faces?” she wrote to aide Philippe Reines in February 2012.
