In court papers filed with U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, the State Department updated its progress. She did this through a personal account. We expect there will continue to be competing assessments among the various agencies about what should and shouldn’t be redacted.
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In late July, Clinton said she was “confident” that she “never sent or received any information that was classified at the time“. “Moreover, by a 54-37 percent margin, voters feel Clinton put our national security at risk by using a private email server“.
“It’s about time”, House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement after the front-runner for the Democratic nomination announced that she was directing that the server be relinquished.
“I was permitted to and used a personal email and, obviously in retrospect, given all the concerns that have been raised, it would have been probably smarter not to”, she told Iowa Public Radio last week.
However, State Department officials have said they do not agree with some or all of those classification determinations. And in a way, it’s kind of an interesting insight into how the government operates. It’s like hearing Richard Nixon make jokes about wiretaps while the House prepared articles of impeachment, only Nixon was smart enough not to try that, at least in public.
“I have known Joe for many, many years“.
The State Department insists that none of Clinton’s emails were classified at the time but a later review resulted in some being placed in that category. FBI agents who previously inspected Gen. David Petraeus’ mishandling of classified information have launched an investigation into the security of Clinton’s private email server, propelling the saga to new heights.
Clinton says she exchanged about 60,000 emails in her four years as secretary of state. The State Department initially told a reporter for the website Gawker that it had no such records. Any public official’s work-related emails are the modern equivalent of the letters, memos and diaries that fill the National Archives.
And on Friday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, asked Kendall to describe what security clearance he and his employees had that allowed them access to tens of thousands of Clinton’s emails that were eventually stored on a thumb drive.
Clinton apparently wanted a convenience that millions of Americans enjoy – the ability to receive and send emails on a hand-held mobile device. Justice Department officials said Mrs. Clinton isn’t a target in that investigation. Of those emails, the attorneys added, “an estimated 17,855” were likely responsive to Gawker’s request[.] They couldn’t find any Reines emails that were responsive to a FOIA request…until they found almost 18,000 of them.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were once good friends – she attended his third wedding; he played golf with Bill Clinton – but now it’s all-out war between the two leading presidential candidates.
