Report: Hillary Clinton used private email for State business - LoneWolf Sager(_)
A New York Times report says that Clinton emailed aides about State Department business on their personal email accounts. - LoneWolf The Three Muskadoggies(_)
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Its all but assumed that 2016 presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton soon will announce her candidacy. Shes swooping up wealthy donors, lining up eager-beaver staffers, and reportedly preparing to lease a campaign headquarters facility in Brooklyn.
But what if she doesnt? What if shes truly worn out with being a Clinton and all that costs the constant criticism and controversy? (Former Bill Clinton paramour Monica Lewinsky back in the news giving a TED talk on bullying couldnt have helped.) What if she really does want to devote most of her time to being a grandma?
The result would be a mass scramble for the most viable alternative someone who could compete with the likes of tea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz, (R) of Texas, (expected to announce his candidacy Monday) or mainstream GOP favorite Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida now lining up big Republican donors.
Mrs. Clinton was in Iowa this past week, and so was Politicos Gabriel Debenedetti.
Theres a sense of certainty surrounding her prospects in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, yet its accompanied by a deep sense of unease thats rooted in Iowas complicated history with the Clintons, Debenedetti writes. Few expect shell get much of a challenge, but almost no one is under the illusion shell be campaigning in Iowa as a happy warrior either.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos wouldnt have brought smiles to the Clinton camp either not only because it shows her support softening but because it indicates that the controversy over her private email accounts is alive among Democrats as well as Republicans eager to weaken her wherever and whenever they can.
Support for Clinton's candidacy has dropped about 15 percentage points since mid-February among Democrats, with as few as 45 percent saying they would support her, Reuters reported. Even Democrats who said they were not personally swayed one way or another by the email flap said that Clinton could fare worse because of it, if and when she launches her presidential campaign.
Even among Democrats, according to this poll, 46 percent agreed there should be an independent review of all of Clinton's emails to ensure she turned over everything that is work-related, and 41 percent said they backed the Republican-controlled congressional committee's effort to require Clinton to testify about the emails.
Still, Clinton remains far ahead of any other potential Democratic candidate, and any dithering on her part makes it hard for anybody else to jump in.
My view of the electorate is, we react badly to inevitability, because we experience it as entitlement, and that is risky, it seems to me, former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick told The New York Times recently.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at an award ceremony for the 2015 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting March 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee, Getty Images
Hillary Clinton made an unusual appearance Monday evening - she keynoted an awards ceremony to honor political journalists.
"I am well aware that some of you may be a little surprised to see me here tonight," she said to the room of about 300 people, many of them journalists. "You know my relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated."
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Clinton joked that everyone had non-disclosure agreements under their seats, and then moved on to reflect on the life and legacy of Robin Toner, for whom the award was named. Toner was a longtime New York Times reporter who passed away in 2008, the first woman named to be the Times' national political correspondent. Clinton's appearance at the ceremony was a testament to her respect for Toner.
"Mostly I am here because I really admired Robin, I admired her approach toward covering the events that I was involved in, directly, starting in the 1992 presidential campaign, when she covered that campaign," Hillary explained.
Toner, who was also the Times' lead reporter for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential run, sat down with Hillary Clinton for multiple interviews, the last one in 2007 when they spoke about healthcare. Clinton had just rolled out her healthcare plan for the 2008 presidential campaign.
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NEW YORK - MARCH 10: Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after keynoting a Women's Empowerment Event at the United Nations on March 10, 2015 in New York City. Yana Paskova, Getty Images
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails show her concern about the fallout from the 2012 U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, but the emails Congress has do not suggest that she told American forces responding to the attack to stand down or that she participated in a cover-up about the Obama administration's response, the New York Times reports.
The paper did not review the approximately 300 emails Clinton turned over to the special House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, but some of the emails were described to them by four senior government officials.
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The emails show Clinton was following the aftermath of the attacks on the U.S. After an intense hearing before House Republicans a month after the attack, she emailed an aide to ask, "Did we survive the day?"
Clinton has also come under fire for failing to appear on the Sunday talk shows following the event. Critics have suggested that National Security Adviser Susan Rice became the face of the administration response in order to allow Clinton to dodge the fallout, although Rice has said that she appeared on the shows because Clinton was tired. The officials who have seen the emails told the Times that the messages do not settle the question of why Clinton did not appear.
The emails initially reveal that Clinton's team was pleased that Rice described the attacks as having begun spontaneously before evolving. Two weeks later, however, foreign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan sent Clinton an email that appeared to reassure her she had not used similar language, which was landing Rice in hot water.
"You never said 'spontaneous' or characterized their motivations," Mr. Sullivan wrote.
The Times also writes that Clinton's senior staff appeared to contact her using their personal email accounts. This is at odds with the former secretary's insistence that all of her emails to the State Department were captured for archival purposes by virtue of the fact that they were sent to state.gov email addresses.
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"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Hillary Clinton asked at the EMILY's List gala earlier this month. Kris Connor/Getty Images hide caption
"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Hillary Clinton asked at the EMILY's List gala earlier this month.
At the end of the grueling 2008 primary fight, Hillary Clinton gathered supporters in Washington, D.C., and delivered perhaps the most memorable line of her whole campaign.
"Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it," Clinton said to roaring applause.
It's a line, one could say, that began paving the way for her seemingly inevitable 2016 campaign.
"And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time," she continued.
Prior to that final moment in her campaign, Clinton rarely talked about the glass ceiling. The calculus she'd have the women's vote locked up, but some of her campaign advisers were worried about alienating men.
In recent weeks, as she has assembled campaign advisers in New York and early primary states, Clinton has given a number of speeches to women's groups, pointing to a likely shift in tone from 2008 to 2016.
"Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" Clinton asked earlier this month with a glimmer in her eye at a gala for EMILY's List, an organization that works to elect Democratic women.
It's quite a contrast to 2008 when her standard response to questions about possibly becoming the first female president was, "But I am not running as a woman. I am running, because I believe I am the best qualified and experienced person."
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