Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton dismissed questions over her use of a private email server at the State Department as “nothing to worry about”, saying Tuesday that the controversy was being fueled by Republicans who can’t defeat her on the issues.
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Clinton was asked Tuesday by Fox News reporter Ed Henry whether she tried to wipe the server.
Clinton: “I have no idea, that is why we turned it over”.
Republican senators on both committees are pressing to see whether any emails sent or received by Clinton on the private server while she was secretary of state contained any sensitive or secret information that should have been only exchanged on secured, encrypted government communications portals.
“It has nothing to do with me and it has nothing to do with the fact that my account was personal“, Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton said, “No matter what anybody tries to say, the facts are stubborn”.
“I love it”, she said.
She also said she turned over anything she thought was even vaguely work-related in an attempt to be helpful. Clinton again this weekend repeated a carefully constructed defense of her actions, in that she did not send or receive emails marked classified at the time. “It has nothing to do with me and it has nothing to do with the fact that my account was personal“, she said of inspectors general investigations into whether or not classified material was discovered. A July 31 order from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta notes that the department must file a new report after that date, detailing what documents remain to be released.
“Like with a cloth or something“, she said, after initially trying to shrug off the question from a reporter.
“It’s not about emails or servers”, Clinton said last weekend. Because what she knew – her intent – matters a lot under the law.
“All this goes to show that when it comes to classified information, not all standards are black and white”, Fallon said.
When not speaking to the press, she’s started to make jokes about the emails – or blames the whole never-ending episode on partisanship.
“Did you wipe the server?” he asked. Officials from Platte River Networks said the server no longer had any of Clinton’s emails on it, but it did at one time. As former Attorney General Michael Mukasey opined this week, Clinton may have subjected herself to criminal prosecution by keeping classified information at an unauthorized location, destroying that information or, still worse, destroying that information with the intent of impeding an investigation.
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As she walked away from reporters, one shouted a question about whether this story will hang with her campaign until Election Day. Would they really have handed over the server if there was any possible way the feds could recover information damaging to Hillary Clinton?
