Match made in Heaven: Hillary Clinton as secretive as Bill Clinton; deletes over 30,000 emails
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As the upcoming Presidential election approaches, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton continues to be pressed on the issue of her private email account and private servers.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
3/11/2015 (9 years ago)
Published in Politics & Policy
Keywords: Clinton, Hillary Clinton, email, Secretary of State, State Department, Benghazi, 2016 President
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Finally breaking her silence, Clinton has admitted she deleted as many as 31,830 emails from her servers. She addresses these emails as private and based on personal content.
In a press conference following her United Nations' speech on expanding opportunities for women across the globe, Clinton addressed questions for 20-minutes. However, this session is being described by Republicans as one that "left more questions than answers."
According to Clinton, someone, other than herself, went through the 62,320 emails sent and received during her time as Secretary of State from March 2009 to February 2013 and sent 30,490 of those to the State Department.The remaining were "private, personal records."
However, Clinton failed to mention who decided which should be made public and which are to be considered private.
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"Without access to Secretary Clinton's personal server, there is no way for the State Department to know it has acquired all documents that should be made public, and given State's delay in disclosing the fact Secretary
Clinton exclusively used personal email to conduct State business, there is no way to accept State's or Secretary Clinton's certification she has turned over all documents that rightfully belong to the American people," Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi said. "That is why I see no choice but for Secretary Clinton to turn her server over to a neutral, detached third-party arbiter who can determine which documents should be public and which should remain private."
Clinton insists those not turned over are on topics of family, hobbies and the Clinton Foundation.
"I fully complied with every government rule. They were personal and private, about matters I believe were in the scope of my personal privacy and that of other people. I did not see a reason to keep them," explained Clinton on why she had half of her emails deleted. "No one wants their personal email made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy."
The angry Republicans are not letting this stand as is, the State Department is required to have access to all work-related documents, especially focusing on the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack.
"Secretary Clinton alone created this predicament," expressed Gowdy. "But she alone does not get to determine its outcome."
Although Clinton has expressed regret in using a personal email system for convenience and admits it would have been "smarter" to use the State Department official address, the issue is not over.
"The expectation that we merely trust that Secretary Clinton shared all relevant e-mails and that the process of vetting the e-mails was as thorough and unbiased as it should have been is insulting given the Clintons' well-established history of misleading the American people," stated California Rep. Darrell Issa, former chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Her team has requested that after the 900 pages of emails are reviewed by the State Department that they are made public to the people.
"We said we expect the review to take several months. Obviously, that hasn't changed. The release will be posted on a publicly available website. I will have more information about that hopefully soon,' Jen Psaki, the State Department's top spokeswoman told reporters.
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