Bob Woodward compares Hillary Clinton emails to Nixon’s Watergate scandal

Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, one of the lead reporters into the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration, said that Hillary Clinton’s private emails reminded him of President Nixon’s secret tapes on Monday’s Morning Joe.

“Well, it certainly is, but, I mean, follow the trail here”. You know, there are all these emails. “Well, they were sent to someone or someone sent them to her. So, if things have been erased here, there’s a way to go back to these email or who received them from Hillary Clinton“. “So you’ve got a massive amount of data”.

He said the FBI, inspectors general and others are “furious” because they have spent hours being trained in the proper use of government email.

Dozens of messages already released publicly have had information redacted as classified, raising questions about Clinton’s security practices when she declined to use the regular State.gov system and instead issued herself a private email account on a server she kept at her home in New York.

“I think in the media and political environment we’re in, where everything is driven by impatience and speed, that’s going to not be possible”, said Woodward, “but they’re going to have to get some answers”.

Clinton remains defiant, placing the blame for her troubles, as she usually does, on the vast right wing conspiracy.

Still, nothing has been proven to be illegal, he said, and perhaps it’s time to slow down a bit.

Clinton maintains her status as the national front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, though her favorability ratings has declined since the news about her emails broke.

In the meantime, the first calls for Ms. Clinton to withdraw from the race for the presidency are starting to be heard, though thus far from just a few journalistic quarters. He also stated that it’s “easier to describe the creation of the universe” than say how material becomes classified.