Hillary Clinton: US Presidential candidate under pressure to turn in email

A majority of Americans believe that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account for official business was a matter of convenience, according to a new poll released Wednesday morning by Monmouth University.

A spokesman for her said Hillary, wife of former President, Bill Clinton, “pledged to cooperate with the government’s security inquiry” and would answer further questions.

The inspector general for US intelligence agencies had reported that two of the e-mails not only were classified but were in fact categorised as “Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information”, one of the strictest security classifications, he said.

The FBI has declined to give details about the nature of its investigation and who it might encompass, although it is likely to prove an unwelcome distraction for Clinton for months as she tries to keep voters focused on her policy proposals.

Clinton campaign aides had claimed there was nothing for investigators to find, and the State Department has said it’s not yet clear if the material ought to be considered classified at all.

2016 Republican hopeful Bobby Jindal is one of several GOP presidential candidates circling the wagons in this latest “Server Saga”.

And it isn’t just the private email server issue that’s causing her to lose public support and trust.

Sec. Clinton has always maintained she turned over all of her work-related emails to the State Department and deleted all others – and until this week, refused to turn over her home server to the government.

The State Department previously had said it was comfortable with Kendall keeping the emails at his Washington law office.

“That’s a long time for top secret classified information to be held by an unauthorised person outside of an approved, secure government facility”, added the Republican Senator.

Of all groups polled, Republicans are following the Clinton email story most closely, with 78 percent saying they have heard a lot about it, compared to 56 percent of Democrats and independents each.

“The Intelligence Community has recommended that portions of two of the four emails identified by the Intelligence Community’s Inspector General should be upgraded to the Top Secret level”.

The decision to give up the server came after the FBI said Mr. Kendall was not permitted to possess classified information contained in some of the e-mails, said a US official who was not authorized to speak publicly. Every time the typical email user without their own server fires off an email message, a copy of that correspondence resides on their email carrier’s server, which then connects with the recipient’s server to deliver the message. Moreover, Clinton requested that the State Department make the emails public in order to maximize transparency about the entire affair.