Obama at Selma 50 Learns About Hillary Clinton Email Scandal On News
Recorded on March 8, 2015. My Shot of the Day on Today #39;s News of President Obama #39;s Speech at Selma on the 50th anniversary of the famous civil rights march. Obama stated that he learned about...
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The Flap Over Hillary Clinton #39;s Email Account
Congressional Republicans and some Democrats are starting to call for accountability in what #39;s become a growing fiasco over Hillary Clinton #39;s use of a personal email account while she worked...
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The Flap Over Hillary Clinton's Email Account - Video
Hillary Rodham Clintons use of personal email accounts as secretary of State mimicked her predecessors but drew attention to her penchant for secrecy as she begins what appears to be a second presidential run.
Clinton turned her personal email over to the State Department last year so it could be saved for history, following both the letter and the spirit of the rules, Nick Merrill, a spokesman for the presumptive Democratic candidate, said in a statement Tuesday.
Yet many of her emails became part of the record only when Clinton messaged State Department employees at their official addresses, he said, a practice that stops short of ensuring that every email Clinton wrote made its way into federal archives. The explanation left out what happened to her emails to foreign officials or others outside the government and what security concerns were raised by her use of a private email account.
Clintons allies defended the practice, with one liberal group labeling questions about it a right-wing attack. Merrill cited former secretaries of State of both parties who did the same thing.
Like secretaries of State before her, she used her own email account when engaging with any department officials, Merrill said. For government business, she emailed them on their department accounts, with every expectation they would be retained.
The Clinton camps response recalled earlier instances of her political instinct for privacy and protection, honed over years in public life. As first lady in the early 1990s, for example, the secrecy surrounding the closed-door healthcare reform negotiations that she spearheaded for President Clinton helped contribute to their failure.
Now, with Clinton widely considered the front-runner for her partys presidential nomination even though she has yet to declare her candidacy, her team is facing questions about her high-profile role as the nations top diplomat during President Obamas first term.
If the secretary was doing what she was supposed to do under the law, why would the State Department have to ask her for her emails back? asked Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, the chairman of a House select committee looking into the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that happened while Clinton ran the department. Four Americans were killed, including the ambassador.
Word of Clintons private email account, first disclosed by the New York Times, put pressure on the White House to answer questions about an administration that Obama long has promised would be the most transparent in history. His team is supposed to conduct business on government email, yet some officials apparently exchanged messages with Clinton at one or more private email addresses when she was secretary of State.
The top White House spokesman said he wasnt sure whether anyone in the West Wing suspected Clinton wasnt using an official email address like everyone else.
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Hillary Clinton used personal email while serving as secretary of State
Hillary Clinton on Monday helped unveil a new report on global gender inequality co-sponsored by her family's foundation, but did not address recent revelations that the Clinton Foundation accepted donations from foreign governments that have been oppressive to women.
She also did not address the fact the foundation accepted funds from foreign governments when she was secretary of state. Or why she used a private email address during that time.
The report and its rollout were meant to help showcase the women's rights speech Clinton delivered in Beijing in 1995, one of the highlights of her time as first lady. But the controversies have overshadowed her attempts to tout her work on behalf of women in the run-up to her likely presidential campaign.
Clinton has so far remained relatively mum, only tweeting last week that she has asked the State Department to release her emails.
Some Democrats, sush as California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, have called on Clinton to explain why she used a private email account while serving as America's top diplomat.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday said President Barack Obama emailed with Clinton on occasion but did not know it was a personal email server.
"He was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up or how Secretary Clinton and her team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act," Earnest said.
Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, addressed the fundraising controversy on Saturday. "My theory about all of this is disclose everything and then let people make their judgments," he said in an interview at the Clinton Global Initiative University.
"You've got to decide when you do this work whether it will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country," he added.
The report, titled "No Ceiling," found that women around the world have made tremendous gains over the past two decades in closing the gender gap. But in many areas, including leadership, women's progress has been too slow.
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Lawmakers began investigating Hillary Rodham Clintons use of personal email while she was secretary of State after the disclosure Wednesday that she had exclusive control over her email account through a private server linked to her New York home.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi, which has been investigating the fatal 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya, said it issued subpoenas for Clintons personal emails related to the attack, and for those of others who also might have information. The panel sent letters to Internet firms telling them to preserve emails.
Meanwhile, Internet records confirmed Clinton had her own server installed to use the clintonemail.com account, which was set up in January 2009, when she began serving as top U.S. diplomat. Use of the server was first reported by the Associated Press.
While her private email use appeared to break no law, it violated administration policy calling for officials to use government email accounts. Legal experts and public-disclosure advocates contend her use of the account could limit public access to her records.
Critics say it raises questions about Clintons penchant for secrecy during her public career, and could complicate her expected run for the presidency.
Clinton turned over some of her messages at the State Departments request last year. Late Wednesday, she said on Twitter: "I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible."
The Benghazi committee has been pressing Clinton for more details of how she and other State Department officials responded to the attack. The new revelations could extend the committee's investigation and escalate its conflict with Clinton.
A spokesman for the committee, Jamal D. Ware, said the panel had discovered Clinton used two separate email addresses while she was secretary of State.
Without access to the relevant electronic information and stored data on the server which was reportedly registered to her home there is no way the committee, or anyone else, can fully explain why the committee uncovered two email addresses, the statement said.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the committee, told reporters the panel would use whatever legal recourse we have to get the documents.
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