While the primary front-runner previously has apologized for her email practices, she dug in on the matter Monday night, assuming a more defensive tone. But in its endorsement editorial, the Des Moines Register made mention of her emails: “She is not a flawless candidate, as evidenced the way she has handled the furor over her private email server”.
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And before you start thinking of a Bernie Sanders nomination, I’ll just say this: If Hillary is indicted and the continuation of her candidacy becomes implausible, I don’t care what Joe Biden has said up to now.
But this is not a defense. The State Department and the Clinton campaign have both framed the discovery of “top secret” material on Clinton’s server as a difference of opinion between State and the Intelligence Community. In other words, certain information is considered classified by its very nature and the nature of its inception. Senior officials have separate computers in their offices for classified and unclassified information. In either case, it is a crime.
Since this was during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, and considering that she had signed two separate non-disclosure agreements, her claims of innocence based on ignorance ring a little hollow. And even if she eludes legal consequences, this stubborn scandal continues to cast a shadow on her already sluggish presidential campaign. And as we have seen there is a lot of – you know a lot of interest.
Last week, intelligence Inspector General Charles McCullough sent a letter to Capitol Hill indicating that some of the emails that were sent and received through Clinton’s private, non-secure server were more sensitive than even top secret.
The State Department has repeatedly blocked the release of more of those emails. Does anyone believe they did not target Clinton’s unsecured private server as well? They also contained mundane moments such as Clinton asking staffers what time different shows aired on television. First, she has no way of knowing that.
“Senator Grassley… announces he’s there for the simple reason to defeat me”, she said. That is not going to go very far with the FBI agents investigating her right now. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who has questioned Clinton’s email use, said at a rally in his home state Saturday to defeat her. that he wanted to defeat her. “But it’s something that took time to get done”. When I was in the White House, I wrote President George W. Bush’s speech acknowledging the existence of another special access program – the Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program.
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Clinton said that it took time to “get all the facts”, hence the delay in her owning up to being wrong about using the email, and she boasted about her transparency in allowing her emails to be viewable for the public.
