This latest Clinton document dump was mandated by a federal court judge who ordered the arguably politicized State Department to release all of the documents on a monthly basis.
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Clinton has been dogged by troubling poll numbers on her integrity.
The Friday release brings the volume of emails publicly released by the State Department to roughly 12 percent of the 55,000 pages Clinton had turned over to department lawyers earlier this year.
Hillary Clinton took the opportunity to slam two Republican presidential candidates’ tax plans for being too weighted in favor of the rich. “For example, [former Florida Gov.] Jeb Bush supports eliminating or dramatically lowering capital gains taxes for wealthy investors with no incentives for long-term holding”, she said.
“It must be disconcerting for grassroots Democrats to know Hillary Clinton profited so handsomely off of her political connections and the same Wall Street bankers she hypocritically attacks on the campaign trail”, Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Short said.
– Abedin forwarded to Clinton an email on October. 9, 2009, in which a top State Department official described “a long secure call” that morning with former Sen.
Hillary Clinton as U.S. secretary of state from January 2009 to February 2013 chose to shield all her email traffic from snoopy journalists and lawmakers by using a private email server at her Chappaqua, New York home.
One e-mail that got blacked out shows former Clinton administration National Security Adviser Sandy Berger coaching Clinton on how to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in negotiations with the Palestinians.
There is also the matter of the classified information that found its way onto her insecure email system.
Several messages were sent from private email accounts.
The lion’s share of the Clintons’ income is provided by various speaking fees the pair receive around the nation every year. In fact, it is the obligation of the head of every federal agency to do so. Abedin on September 22 forwarded to Clinton a chain of emails from department staff summing up the maneuvering over the issue.
In the letters, Grassley also contends Clinton’s private email server interfered with the investigation.
“Many Republicans seem to think of Latin America as a land of crime and coups, rather than a place where free markets and free people are thriving”, Clinton said, adding a dismissive view opens the door for China to assert itself as an economic superpower in the region.
But there’s an even bigger lesson here: the apparent ham-handedness – still – of the U.S. State Department in handling potentially sensitive and secret information and keeping those communications secure at the same time it meets basic responsibilities under federal law to provide information that should be public to the public when it asks. An American embassy in Havana isn’t a concession; it’s a beacon. She is the first candidate for president in 2016 to release detailed information about her personal health.
“The OIG had reason to believe that email evidence relevant to that inquiry was contained in emails Ms. Abedin sent and received from her account on Secretary Clinton’s non-government server, making them unavailable to the OIG through its normal statutory right of access records”, he wrote.
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Information for this article was contributed by Richard Rubin and Jennifer Epstein of Bloomberg News and by Lisa Lerer and Marilynn Marchione of The Associated Press.
