House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) demanded last week that Hillary Clinton hand over her email server “immediately” in light of reports that two inspectors general have recommended the Department of Justice launch a probe into the former secretary of state’s use of a personal email account.
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Then the Obama administration dispatched officials to various television programs to claim it was a sudden violent response to an obscure online video.
There is also growing tension between the State Department and various intelligence agencies who fear that officials have not been careful enough in deciding what to release. Politics might have contributed to Hillary Clinton hiding her emails. It also directly contradicts statements from Clinton and her staff, as recently as the weekend, that no information was classified at the time it passed through the Chappaqua server.
Hillary Clinton has released the first two major policy proposals for her vision for tackling climate change and ensuring the United States’ primacy as the “world’s clean energy superpower”.
First, the original version of The New York Times story – swiftly revised – falsely suggested that Clinton herself was the subject of a criminal probe. Take just 30 seconds and sign up for WND’s Email News Alerts!
That development was that several instances of classified information had been found in Mrs. Clinton’s personal email – although, in fairness, it’s doubtful whether the information was marked as classified when she sent or received those emails. The judge’s complaints echoed those of Hill Republicans, who have accused the agency of slow-walking document requests in its Benghazi investigation to protect Clinton.
Clinton, who hasn’t spoken publicly about TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline since saying she was “inclined” to approve it in 2010, told reporters July 27 in Iowa that she plans to “refrain from commenting” on the issue.
One of the classified emails was released in full by the State Department on its “reading room” public website for Clinton’s emails. “Whatever she advocates, I pay a lot of attention to, because she knows how to get it through the Congress. And let’s not just do it for the sake of having a higher number out there, but let’s actually get behind a proposal that has a chance of succeeding”.
“These emails were not retroactively classified by the State Department; rather, these emails contained classified information when they were generated and, according to IC classification officials, that information remains classified today”, the inspectors general said.
“This classified information should never have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system”, McCullough said in a joint statement on Friday along with his equivalent at the State Department, Steve Linick.
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“IC IG made a referral detailing the potential compromise of classified information to security officials within the Executive Branch”.
