Why would a public official of Clinton’s stature, one who aspires to be our first woman president, delete four years of email correspondence that future historians would use to chronicle her life?
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This isn’t about whether Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, which is likely.
DAVID BECKER/REUTERS As Clinton went to leave, she threw her hands in the air at a shouted question about whether the email issue was hurting her campaign.
Henry, appearing on “Special Report“, downplayed the combativeness of the two, but video on MSNBC showed the former secretary of state was not happy with Henry’s continued questioning.
After inspectors general for the State Department and for the Intelligence Community raised concerns about the content of the emails, the State Department added intelligence staff to assist in the process.
How Clintonian. Now, there’s no question there is a right wing that wakes up each morning delighting in the idea of taking down the Clintons.
Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton’s homebrew email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves. That release, along with the news that the FBI may be able to recover some of the deleted information from her server, has contributed to growing worries among Democrats that this is a story that will plague Clinton throughout the presidential campaign.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now investigating who sent the classified information through Clinton’s email system; it is also trying to figure out whether her server might have been compromised by foreign powers, though there is yet no reason to conclude the server was invaded by hackers.
Her claim that she used a private server so she could just carry one device for work was proven false.
HILLARY CLINTON: Look, I take responsibility.
“Whether it was a personal account or a government account, I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified“, she said.
The testy exchange over the email server stood in stark contrast to the enthusiastic reception Clinton received from a crowd of several hundred supporters that packed the community center gymnasium and an overflow room. The Clinton camp turned over the other half, 30,000 emails in total, to the State Department.
The British Daily Mail newspaper reported Tuesday she hired a small technology firm, Platte River Networks of Denver, Colorado, to maintain her computer server and it was stored in a bathroom closet at her New York home.
“I don’t know. You know how it works digitally”. “It’s the process by which the government-and sometimes in disagreement between various agencies of the government-make decisions about what can and cannot be disclosed”.
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And these were on official State Department systems, too. The explanation that she didn’t want people prying into private matters such as “planning for /8 daughter 3/8 Chelsea’s wedding … as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes” is unconvincing.
