Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s stalwart front may have suffered a few cracks during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, after a Fox News journalist pressed her about her allegedly wiped email server and she retorted, in obvious discomfort: “What, like with a cloth or something?” She said there was just one account; there were more. “I was the official”, said Clinton.
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She added: “In retrospect, this didn’t turn out to be convenient at all and I regret that this has become such a cause c￩l￨bre”.
The email forwarded by Clinton adviser Huma Abedin to Mrs. Clinton provided an update of the deteriorating security situation in eastern Libya and included information that was sensitive at the time about tentative plans for then-special envoy Chris Stevens to possibly evacuate.
Ms Clinton last week handed over to the FBI her private server, which she used to send, receive and store emails during her four years as secretary of state. The Washington Times reported Monday that the department has flagged more than 300 emails from Clinton’s personal email account as containing potentially classified material.
“It’s the process by which the government, and sometimes in disagreement between various agencies of the government, make decisions about what can or cannot be disclosed”, she said.
We’re sparing readers the fork-in-the-eye frustating two minutes in which Palmieri bobbed and weaved around Heilemann’s many questions as to whether Hillary ordered emails simply to be deleted or if she instructed people to wipe the server clean.
“It’s not about emails or servers”, Clinton said last weekend.
Clinton attempted to rest the issue and explained her insight relating to the review process. Forensics experts told The Associated Press this week that some emails and other data may still be extracted from servers even after they are supposedly expunged.
The vast right-wing conspiracy is at it again, Hillary Clinton says.
Clinton: “Well, My personal emails are my personal business, right? And, the American people will have plenty of time to figure it out”.
In a news conference Tuesday afternoon, when a reporter asked, specifically, whether she had “wiped” the server, Clinton demonstrated exactly why Republicans ought to let this issue take center stage for as long as possible.
“We have turned over the server”, she said. Her Republican critics suggest that the move and new revelations about classified information points to her malfeasance as secretary of state.
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Clinton turned 30,000 e-mails over to the State Department in December 2014, and the department now has a team reviewing the correspondence to determine what should be released and what should be redacted under laws that allow the government to withhold public documents from release on a variety of grounds, including national security.
