Hillary Clinton is one email away from jail: Bobby Jindal
A referral from the inspector general of the intelligence community to the Justice Department that led to the current investigation did not allege any criminal wrongdoing, and Clinton’s attorney has said federal authorities simply want assurances that the emails continue to be properly stored.
And Terry Shumaker, a longtime supporter in New Hampshire, said the issue didn’t come up during Clinton’s campaigning in the state this week.
“This is something that isn’t just a matter of her not being able to tell the truth”, said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican presidential candidate, on Wednesday.
The State Department produced the August 5 letter it sent to Mrs. Clinton, which included a copy of Judge Sullivan’s order. “If Hillary Clinton believed in honesty and transparency, she would have turned over her secret server months ago to an independent arbiter, not as a last resort and to the Obama Justice Department”, said Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus.
Clinton has defended her use of the server, saying she used it as a matter of convenience to limit the number of electronic devices she had to carry. “And I certainly didn’t advise her to say there’s to classified information on the server when we know now that there was classified information on the server”.
“And then you have Hillary Clinton, who was the secretary of state dealing with confidential information, with classified information, thinking it was OK to use a private server?”
Earlier this week, Clinton stated in a sworn assertion submitted to a federal decide that she has turned over to the State Division all emails from the server “that have been or probably have been federal data”.
“How in the world can she aver that the public record is complete when she herself did not go through and look at each one of those emails”, Gowdy said.
“She directed her team to give her email server that was used during her tenure as Secretary to the Department of Justice, as well as a thumb drive containing copies of her emails already provided to the State Department“, her campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said yesterday.
The State Department previously had said it was comfortable with Kendall keeping the emails at his Washington law office.
Also Tuesday, Republican Sen.
State Department employees are trained on how to recognize and handle that kind of highly sensitive information – and are warned not to discuss it outside classified areas.
Grassley said the inspector general of the nation’s intelligence community had reported the new details about the higher classification to Congress on Tuesday.
These two emails have been amongst 4 that had beforehand been decided by the inspector basic of the intelligence group to have been categorized on the time they have been despatched.
“That’s a long time for top secret classified information to be held by an unauthorized person outside of an approved, secure government facility”, the Iowa Republican noted.
On Tuesday, the State Department said the inspector general determined that two of those four emails “should be upgraded to the top secret level”, one of the highest levels of classification.
The former Florida governor was lamenting the state of cybersecurity in the U.S., going through a list of examples where classified information had either been leaked or hacked into.