A new email released on Friday by the State Department reveals that actor Ben Affleck had Hillary Clintons private email address while she was Secretary of State. The White House’s intentions were first reported Friday by the New York Times.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began to outline her plans for criminal justice reform Friday in a speech at the historically black college Clark Atlanta University. The Democratic presidential front-runner called for an end to racial profiling in law enforcement and said that she would prevent the federal government from asking job applicants about their criminal history.
A US District Court judge ordered the State Department in May to make public all of the a few 55,000 e-mails that were retained on Clinton’s server by the middle of January 2016.
Another email Republicans may seize on – when aide Huma Abedin forwarded Clinton an article in December 2011 about gunmen trying to assassinate the head of the Libyan army, she replied with something completely different. “I will ask for your votes, and your support, and your prayers because I am the most qualified candidate to beat Hillary Clinton and to become president of the United States”.
It took the crowd of roughly 2,100 people, who had enthusiastically welcomed Clinton, to rally around her and drown out the protesters.
Clinton has still not released her criminal justice platform. According to Politico, after Lady Gaga defended the candidate’s fashion choices from Project Runway “bully” Tim Gunn, Hillary Clinton asked her aides to track down the singer’s address so she could write her a note of thanks.
Messages from aides Anne-Marie Slaughter and Huma Abedin passed on compliments about Clinton’s looks, with Slaughter writing that her son commented that Clinton looks like former “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow.
Clinton has said she did not knowingly send or receive classified information through her private email system, a practice the government forbids. Presidents often seek to avoid formally invoking executive privilege, which carries political overtones dating to President Richard M. Nixon’s assertion of the authority to block congressional investigations of the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s.
Clinton’s announcement came one month after Bernie Sanders and other Democratic leaders in the House introduced a bill to ban private prisons all together.
But by refusing to release the emails, Mr. Obama is following a well-worn precedent that he and his predecessors have established.
“Secondly, one of the things that is obvious to me is the only thing Secretary Clinton has ever run is this president – President Obama’s – failed foreign policy”.
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Patrisse Cullors, an activist and co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, said that while Clinton’s position on mass incarceration in black communities was “important and necessary, I’d like to hear her speak about the issues affecting all Black people not just a focus on Black men”. Emailing under the code name “Evergreen” in February 2012, she wrote that she was “quite bereft” at the lack of the tiny pictures. “It will be up to me assuming we get this done to be a president who builds on what we have achieved and goes even further”, she said.
