Hillary Clinton Directs Team to Turn Over Private Email Server to Justice

McClatchy White House reporter Anita Kumar engaged in a humorous bit of hairsplitting Wednesday on behalf of Hillary Clinton, telling MSNBC’s Morning Joe “there are several investigations into her conduct, not into her, but into her use of personal email and a personal server“.

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Earlier in the day, Clinton’s attorney turned the private mail server she used while secretary of state over to the FBI, as well as a thumb drive of work-related emails.

It’s not clear if the device will yield any information – Clinton’s attorney said in March that no emails from the main personal address she used while secretary of state still “reside on the server or on back-up systems associated with the server”. And Kendall, the aide said, has followed State Department guidance on safekeeping.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement Tuesday night that releasing the server does little to answer questions about Clinton’s honesty. “Of course, if she really cares about transparency, she would never have had a secret server in the first place”. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said two emails that traversed Clinton’s personal system were deemed “Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information” – a rating that is among the government’s highest classifications.

“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. She turned over the other half to the State Department last December.

That may not be happening since the Intelligence Community inspector general is deciding which emails to review and how they should be classified.

As Newsbusters points out, Pelley did want to reassure the viewers that “the e-mails were not classified at the time they were created.”

The Justice Department has said the FBI began investigating after the inspector general who oversees the agencies, , formally notified them of his concern that there was classified information not in the government’s control.

McCullough said in the past that “none of the emails we reviewed had classification or dissemination markings”, but that some “should have been handled as classified, appropriately marked, and transmitted via a secure network”.

The inspector general for the intelligence community had told Congress that potentially hundreds of classified emails are among the cache that Clinton provided to the State Department. And no voter will bat an eye when she gets a wrist slap because that’s just how things work and everyone knows it. If you polled the public right now and asked how many expected Hillary to receive any criminal penalty whatsoever for her recklessness in insisting on a private server, how many would say yes?