After treating the controversy as a non-issue and even making light of it, this month Clinton officially apologized for her use of a private email server. In an interview with The Des Moines Register editorial board yesterday, an editor asked Clinton how she would promote transparency if elected president “in light of your private e-mail server“.
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It would carry that oil in a cleaner way than trains, according to a finding by Clinton’s own State Department, which has concluded that greenhouse gas emissions would be 28 to 42 per cent lower with the pipeline.
The FBI has been investigating the security of Clinton’s email setup, which she said she used as a matter of convenience.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has recovered emails deleted from Hillary Clinton’s personal server reinforce the need for a third-party search for messages.
After months of being hounded on the campaign trail to take a position on the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that she is opposed to the project and had delayed taking a position to avoid interfering with the Obama administration. Instead, said the Post, State says it sought only Clinton’s emails in summer 2014 after first learning about her private server, and didn’t contact other former secretaries until October.
Back in August, Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the State Department and FBI to communicate about what was recovered from Clinton’s server, as well as a thumb drive that also contained thousands of her emails.
For Clinton, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, the news Wednesday could have ominous political overtones. “I’m just not convinced that getting our product down to the gulf where there’s a whole bunch of cheap refining is absolutely the best strategy for an industry in Alberta when Albertans want to see focus more on upgrading and refining”.
She said many Americans are forced to pay a significant cost out-of-pocket if they get sick because average deductibles have more than doubled during the past decade. But they noticed that among the 15,000 documents they examined, there were no emails to or from an official departmental account for Mrs. Clinton.
It’s a odd thing not to know – especially for someone whom the State Department went out of its way to target.
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In late July, Clinton had said it would be “inappropriate” to express her opinion on the environmental hot potato while it was still under review.
