Questions about Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of a personal email during her time as secretary of state have followed her ever since she announced her presidential bid earlier this year. “Right?” she told reporters at one point during Tuesday’s event.
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The FBI took control of Clinton’s email server last week and its agents are now combing through it, even though the device was wiped clean of all data. “Nobody talks to me about it other than you guys”, she said. And in that new poll out this morning, George, 56% of voters say they believe that Hillary did something wrong with her e-mails, yet, again, another indication that this is taking a toll on her campaign. “I suspect some will and I suspect some won’t”, Kirby said.
Clinton handed over 55,000 pages of email to the State Department in December 2014, and the agency published a sampling of her personal correspondence online in July.
Ed Henry with Fox News posed the questions to Clinton while she was at the podium for a nationally televised press conference – and it wasn’t the former secretary of state’s greatest political moment. In a court filing Monday the State Department said more than 300 emails on Clinton’s private account have been flagged because they may contain classified information. The war on women, the income gap, and whatever else Democrats want to peddle with have to wait.
Clinton has persistently revealed her disdain for the public in this episode.
“She “‘did not send classified material and [she] did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified“. The agency found multiple ones Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal produced between himself and the former secretary of state that she had not included in those given to the State Department, prior to testifying before the Select Committee on Benghazi.
In a press conference in March, Clinton said she had deleted around 30,000 emails from a private account maintained on the server at her New York home after lawyers reviewing them said they were unrelated to her official duties.
She did not break any State Department rules with the arrangement, but critics have noted it makes public-record keeping more difficult and opens up questions about vulnerabilities to her system. Officials from Platte River Networks said the server no longer had any of Clinton’s emails on it, but it did at one time. A cybersecurity expert told Business Insider that the fact Clinton’s IT firm was not “a cleared contractor is largely irrelevant, since they were handling what should have been unclassified email”. But subsequent examination of the emails that she turned over has resulted in increased expressions of concern from the intelligence community.
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Clinton directed that it be turned over after the FBI requested it as part of an inquiry into whether data that had been stored on the server was secure.
