Bill Clinton Blames GOP, Media For Wife’s Email Controversy
Not only did Hillary Clinton withhold emails she certified were turned over, she continues to perpetuate falsehoods about being transparent when the server itself was an exercise in skirting public records laws. The younger Clinton is slated to take the reins of the foundation as her mother steps back from her role during the campaign and her father’s role is called into question.
Also on Friday, The State Department announced that in their review of the emails Clinton handed over has discovered more emails relating the Benghazi terror attacks from September 11 2012.
Albright later explained her comments on Twitter and pushed back against Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin, who asked the question Monday. Hillary Clinton is the target of various inquiries by majority Republicans in Congress.
Picketty said his decision not to attend had nothing to do with his opinion of the Clintons.
“I have been involved from the receiving side in a lot of these accusations”, Clinton said. That raises at least the possibility that the 50 percent of her e-mails that Clinton deleted as private could be combed through to ensure that the judgments made by her lawyers werethe right ones. Even so, she had to parse and prevaricate up a storm to get through the interview. “I didn’t look at them”, she told NBC’s Chuck Todd in an interview for “Meet the Press“.
“I did not want to be looking over their shoulder”, she said, calling accusations she was trying to avoid transparency laws “ridiculous”. The emails were missed the first time around because Clinton originally handed them over as 55,000 print pages and were hand searched and categorized. 27 again defended her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, comparing the multiple investigations to Republican-led probes into her husbands administration more than two decades ago. Photos with the former commander in chief are $2,700.
“I’m not particularly a fan, but I am not a non-fan either”, the French economist wrote in an email, adding that he “preferred Hillary’s health plan to Obama’s”.
Vogel and Weiland report that “dozens” of “all manner of celebrities, dignitaries and donors” turned down speaking gigs at the Clinton Foundation’s “Future of Impact” gathering in New York City, celebrating CGI’s tenth anniversary. The email had an update from “Africa Command of the Department of Defense” a Clinton aide wrote the email and forwarded it to Abedin should have been marked as classified. “I was tough on security and Secretary Clinton was very tough on security and I think that is important to be tough because we are obviously concerned about hacking and a variety of issues”.