PRIVATE EMAILS
Hillary Clinton Secrete Hacked Documents
2016ER ATTACKS
REPUBLICANS
ATTACKED SECRETARY CLINTON FOR USING A PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS AND PRIVATE SERVER
Rand Paul Said That Hillary Clinton Using A
Personal Email While At The State Department Was “Directly Flouting The Law.”
BRIAN KILMEADE: “But one of the stories for the last two days headlining is
that Senator Hillary -- excuse me -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's lack
of using the State Department e-mail, using a personal e-mail for four years.
And when people request to get it, she has not been handing it over, because
she wasn't using it. Is this a big deal to you?” RAND PAUL: “Yeah. And not only
is it the e-mails and directly the flouting the law, I think there's going to
be a constitutional question of whether or not she was receiving foreign gifts
while in office. The Constitution explicitly says that as a senator or as a
Secretary of State, you're not allowed to receive gifts from foreign countries.
They've been receiving millions of dollars in their foundation. Now if they're
going to say, that's not us, me directly, but do they profit in any way from
their foundation, does it pay for their travel, does it pay for any of their
expenses? She's got a lot of questions she's going to have answer.” [Fox &
Friends, Fox News, 3/4/15]
Rand Paul Posted That Hillary Clinton’s Use Of
Private Email Was The Latest In A Long Line Of Reasons She Should Permanently
Retire, Including Benghazi And The Failed War In Libya. “The revelation of
Hillary Clinton's private email server for State Department business is just
the latest in a long line of reasons why she should permanently retire. Her
dereliction of duty in defending our consulate in Benghazi and failed war in
Libya should disqualify her from ever becoming President. COMMENT below with
'RETIRE NOW' if you agree!” [Rand Paul, Facebook, 3/9/15]
Rand Paul Said That General Petraeus Pled
Guilty To Having Secure Information Unsecured And That Somebody Should Ask
Hillary Clinton The Same, If Anything On Her Personal Email Should Have Been On
A Secure Server. “’There is the question of whether or not if she [Hillary
Clinton] has those emails on a personal email and they’re talking about secure
subjects, whether that’s actually compromised,’ Paul said. ‘And that’s what he
pled guilty to, what Petraeus pled guilty to, having secure information
unsecured.’ ‘So I think somebody ought to ask the question, whether or not she
has anything on the email that should have been on a secure server,’ Paul
said.” [Buzzfeed, 3/6/15]
HEADLINE: “Jeb Bush: ‘Baffling’ That Hillary
Clinton Didn’t Consider Security Risk Of Personal E-Mail.” [Washington Post, 3/6/15]
Jeb Bush Said Hillary Clinton’s Decision To Use A
Private Computer Server As Secretary Of State Was “A Little Baffling.” “During his
conversation with Radio Iowa this morning, Bush also commented on the
controversy surrounding the private computer server Hillary Clinton used for
her email when she was secretary of state. Bush, as Florida’s governor, used a
private email account and personal server. He still encourages people to send
messages to that jeb@jeb.org address, but Bush
indicated that, if he’s elected president, he would not use a private email
account. ‘For security purposes, you need to be behind a firewall that
recognizes the world for what it is and it’s a dangerous world and security
would mean that you couldn’t have a private server,’ Bush said. ‘It’s a little
baffling, to be honest with you, that didn’t come up in Secretary Clinton’s
thought process.’” [Radio Iowa, 3/6/15]
Jeb Bush Spokeswoman: “Hillary Clinton Should
Release Her Emails. Hopefully She Hasn’t Already Destroyed Them…Governor Bush
Believes Transparency Is A Critical Part Of Public Service And Of Governing.” “A potential
rival of Clinton in the presidential campaign, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.),
called on the former secretary of state to make the collection of emails
public. ‘Hillary Clinton should release her emails. Hopefully she hasn’t
already destroyed them,’ Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said. ‘Governor Bush
believes transparency is a critical part of public service and of governing.’
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill emphasized to the Times that emails Clinton sent
to other government officials at their official accounts would have been
archived as part of those accounts. In her statement, Psaki made the same
point.” [Politico, 3/2/15]
3/2/15: Jeb Bush Called On Hillary Clinton To
Release Her Unclassified Emails Because “Transparency Matters,” Noted He
Released His. Jeb Bush @JebBush “Transparency matters. Unclassified @HillaryClinton
emails should be released. You can see mine, here. http://jebbushemails.com.” [@jebbush,
Twitter, 3/3/15]
Jeb
Bush Spokeswoman Dismissed Comparisons Between His Personal Email Server And
Hillary Clinton’s, Noting “His Emails Were Available Via Public Records
Requests Throughout His Time In Office And Have Remained Available.” “In
an email of talking points to supporters, Burns Strider, a senior advisor to
Correct the Record, a group that defends Mrs. Clinton in the news media,
pointed out that former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, also a likely 2016
presidential candidate, also hosts his own personal email server. Mr. Bush is a
prolific user of email who continued to use his personal jeb.org domain,
which his aides could also access, while he was in the governor’s office, said
Kristy Campbell, Mr. Bush’s spokeswoman. Under Florida’s records laws, emails
from Mr. Bush’s personal account have been made public. ‘His emails were
available via public records requests throughout his time in office and have
remained available,’ Ms. Campbell said.” [New York Times, 3/4/15]
HEADLINE:
“Walker Says Clinton ‘Should Answer Questions’ About Email Use.” [New York
Times, 3/5/15]
·
Walker:
Hillary Clinton’s Potential Evasion Of Laws Was Something She Should Answer
Questions About. “Gov. Scott
Walker of Wisconsin, a likely Republican presidential candidate in 2016,
criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton for using a personal email account when she
was secretary of state. ‘Hillary Clinton's potential evasion of laws is
something she should answer questions about,’ Mr. Walker said through his
spokeswoman, Kirsten Kukowski, in an email.” [New York Times, 3/5/15]
HEADLINE: “Walker
Rips Clinton For ‘Audacity’ In Email Scandal.” [Weekly Standard, 3/9/15]
·
Walker:
How Could Hillary Clinton Ensure That Confidential Information Wasn’t
Compromised? “In an interview Sunday afternoon, Scott Walker strongly
criticized Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of private email as secretary of
state and rejected accusations that he's guilty of hypocrisy on the issue. ‘It’s
a logical assumption that the secretary of state is talking about highly
confidential classified information. How can she ensure that that information
wasn’t compromised?’ Walker told The Weekly Standard following an event
with supporters in Des Moines.” [Weekly Standard, 3/9/15]
·
Walker:
The Bigger Issue Was The “Audacity” For Hillary Clinton To Put Her Personal
Interest Above The Interests Of The Country. “‘It’s a logical assumption
that the secretary of state is talking about highly confidential classified
information. How can she ensure that that information wasn’t compromised?’ Walker
told the Weekly Standard following an event with supporters in Des Moines. ‘I
think that’s the bigger issue—is the audacity to think that someone would put
their personal interest above classified, confidential, highly sensitive
information that’s not only important to her but to the United States of America.
I think is an outrage that Democrats as well as Republicans should be concerned
about.’” [Weekly Standard, 3/9/15]
Rubio On Hillary Clinton Using A Private Email
Account When She Was Secretary Of State: “Using A Private Server Outside The
Government System Is Extremely Vulnerable, To Hackers And All Sorts Of Foreign
Countries That Can Hack In And Get Secrets.” KELLY: “All right, let me switch
gears with you because there was a lot of news today, we just talked about it,
about Hillary Clinton using only, exclusively a personal e-mail account when
she's secretary of state. Her team said, this is a nonissue. It's exactly the
same thing Colin Powell did which there real questions about but that's what
they're saying, there's no there, there. Your take on it?” RUBIO: “Well, there
may or may not be obviously that's something that will have to be further examined.
There are two there's that we have to look at. The first is using a private
server outside the government system is extremely vulnerable, to hackers and
all sorts of foreign countries that can hack in and get secrets. You're
Secretary of State, potentially transacting national business on an unsecured
server or private server and that leaves our secrets and not on just that but
our strategies exposed for the Chinese and the Russian and other intelligence
agencies.” [Kelly File, Fox News, 3/3/15]
Rubio On Hillary Clinton Using A Private Email
Account When She Was Secretary Of State: The State Department Disclosure Rule
Was “Clearly Violated.” KELLY: “All right, let me switch gears with
you because there was a lot of news today, we just talked about it, about
Hillary Clinton using only, exclusively a personal e-mail account when she's
secretary of state. Her team said, this is a nonissue. It's exactly the same
thing Colin Powell did which there real questions about but that's what they're
saying, there's no there, there. Your take on it?” […] RUBIO: “And the other
is, the state department has a rule because the diplomatic discourse and so
forth, is part of the archives of the United States. So that rule was clearly
violated.” [Kelly File, Fox News, 3/3/15]
Rubio When Asked
If He Would Use Email If He Was In The Executive Branch In 2017: “You Shouldn’t
Put Anything Into Email You Don’t Thinks Going To Be Read By A Foreign
Intelligence Agency.” “When Rubio was asked whether he'd use email
if he were in the executive branch in 2017, his answer focused on security.
‘You shouldn't put anything into email you don't thinks going to be read by a
foreign intelligence agency. Especially if you're the president of the United
States or a candidate for it, it's a real risk,’ he said. He added that
‘virtually every major presidential campaign in the last two cycles has been
hacked by a foreign government or foreign intelligence to some extent, so
there's a danger involved in communications because it gives your adversaries
insight into your thinking and so forth.’” [CBS News, 3/4/15]
Rubio On Hillary Clinton’s Email Controversy At The
State Department: If She Was “Transacting State Department Business On An
Insecure Server, That Alone Is Reason To Be Alarmed.” VAN SUSTEREN:
“What about the Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, controversy over the
emails?” RUBIO: “Number one, it appears she violated the rules that the State
Department had established. But the bigger concern is was she transacting
government business on a server that's not secure? Because we know these
servers are targets for foreign intelligence. We know the Chinese, the
Russians, the North Koreans, the Cubans and others are constantly trying to
hack into computers, and especially that of governmental officials. She if was
transacting State Department business on an insecure server, that alone is
reason to be alarmed.” [On the Record w/ Greta van Susteren, Fox News, 3/4/15]
CLINTON DEFENSE
CLINTON
RELEASED ABOUT 30,000 WORK RELATED EMAILS TO STATE DEPARTMENT FROM HER TENURE
AS SECRETARY, DECLINING TO TURN OVER ONLY PERSONAL, PRIVATE EMAILS
New York
Times: Secretary Clinton “Turned Over To The Obama Administration All
Correspondence About Government Business But Had Erased Records Of About
Private Matters.” “Hillary Rodham Clinton revealed on Tuesday that she had
deleted about half her emails from her years as secretary of state, saying she
had turned over to the Obama administration all correspondence about government
business but had erased records of communications about private matters, like
yoga routines, her daughter’s wedding and her mother’s funeral…Mrs. Clinton
said she turned over some 30,490 emails to the State Department in December,
nearly two years after leaving office.” [New York Times, 3/10/15]
Clinton
Spokesman: Clinton Provided “30,490 Printed Copies Of Work-Related Emails” To
The State Department In December 2014. “On December 5, 2014, 30,490 printed
copies of work-related emails sent and received by Secretary Clinton form March
18, 2009 to February 1, 2013 were provided to the Department. This totaled roughly
55,000 pages. About 90% of thee emails were already in the Department’s
record-keeping system because they were sent to or received by ‘state.gov’
accounts. [Before March 18, 2009, Secretary Clinton continued using the email
account she had used during her Senate service.]” [Nick Merrill, 3/10/15]
Clinton
Spokesman: Secretary Clinton’s “Email Account Contained A Total Of 62,320 Sent
And Received Emails From March 2009 To February 2013.” Secretary Clinton’s
“email account contained a total of 62,320 sent and received emails from March
2009 to February 2013. Based on the review process described below, 30,490 of
these emails were provided to the Department, and the remaining 31,830 were
private, personal records.” [Nick Merrill, 3/10/15]
Clinton
Spokesman: 31,830 Of Secretary Clinton’s Emails Were “Private, Personal
Records.” Secretary Clinton’s “email account contained a total of 62,320
sent and received emails from March 2009 to February 2013. Based on the review
process described below, 30,490 of these emails were provided to the
Department, and the remaining 31,830 were private, personal records.” [Nick
Merrill, 3/10/15]
SECRETARY
CLINTON ASKED THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO RELEASE THE EMAILS SHE HAD GIVEN THEM AS
SOON AS POSSIBLE
Hillary
Clinton Asked The State Department To Release Her Emails. “Hillary Clinton
broke her 48-hour silence over the use of her personal email account while she
served as secretary of state with a late-night tweet Wednesday saying she wants
‘the public to see my email.’ But her response is unlikely to tamp down the
pressure for answers as she faces the deepest scrutiny she's been under since
leaving the government. ‘I asked State to release them,’ Clinton tweeted at
11:35 p.m. ET ‘They said they will review them for release as soon as
possible.’” [CNN, 3/4/15]
SECRETARY
CLINTON INSISTED THAT SHE FOLLOWED EVERY RULE AND WENT “ABOVE AND BEYOND”
DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
Associated
Press: Secretary Clinton On State Department Email Regulations: “I Fully
Complied By Every Rule I Was Governed By.” “‘I fully complied by every rule
I was governed by,’ Clinton said in her first public comments since it was
disclosed last week that she exclusively used a private email and server for
government business.” [Associated Press, 3/10/15]
Associated
Press: Secretary Clinton “Says She Went ‘Above And Beyond’ What She Was
Required To Do As A State Department Employee.” “Clinton was answering
questions Tuesday for the first time about her email practices as secretary of
state. She spoke following a Tuesday afternoon speech at the United Nations.
She says she went ‘above and beyond’ what she was required to do as a State
Department employee.” [Associated Press, 3/10/15]
THE
STATE DEPARTMENT BEGAN REVIEWING SECRETARY CLINTON’S EMAILS FOR RELEASE
State
Department Spokeswoman Psaki: “We Will Review The Entire 55,000-Page Set And
Release In One Batch At The End Of That Review To Ensure That Standards Are
Consistently Applied.” “‘We will review the entire 55,000-page set and
release in one batch at the end of that review to ensure that standards are
consistently applied throughout the entire 55,000 pages,’ Psaki said.”
[Politico, 3/10/15]
THE
STATE DEPARTMENT FIRST ASKED FORMER SECRETARIES OF STATE TO TURN OVER EMAILS
CONTAINING OFFICIAL BUSINESS IN OCTOBER 2014, AND SECRETARY CLINTON WAS THE
FIRST TO RESPOND
Clinton
Spokesman: The State Department “Formally Requested The Assistance Of The Four
Previous Secretaries In A Letter To Their Representatives Dated October 28,
2014 To Help In Furtherance Of Meeting The Department’s Requirements Under The
Federal Records Act.” “The [State] Department formally requested the
assistance of the four previous Secretaries in a letter to their
representatives dated October 28, 2014 to help in furtherance of meeting the
Department’s requirements under the Federal Records Act. The letter stated that
in September 2013, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
issued new guidance clarifying records management responsibilities regarding
the use of personal email accounts for government business.” [Nick Merrill,
3/10/15]
Clinton
Spokesman: Secretary Clinton Was “The First To Respond” To A State Department
Letter Requesting Work-Related Emails From Former Secretaries. “Following
conversations with Department officials and in response to the Department’s
October 28, 2014 letter to former Secretaries requesting assistance in meeting
the Department’s record-keeping requirements, Secretary Clinton directed her
attorneys to assist by identifying and preserving all emails that could
potentially be federal records. This entailed a multi-step process to provide
printed copies of the Secretary’s work-related emails to the Department, erring
on the side of including anything that might potentially be a federal record.
As the State Department has said, Secretary Clinton was the first to respond to
this letter.” [Nick Merrill, 3/10/15]
MULTIPLE
FEDERAL REGULATIONS GRANT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS THE FLEXIBILITY TO DETERMINE
WHICH OF THEIR EMAILS COULD BE CONSIDERED PUBLIC RECORDS
Clinton
Spokesman: “The Federal Records Act Puts The Obligation On The Government
Official To Determine What Is And Is Not A Federal Record,” As Does The State
Department Foreign Affairs Manual. “The Federal Records Act puts the
obligation on the government official to determine what is and is not a federal
record. The State Department Foreign Affairs Manual outlines guidance ‘designed
to help employees determine which of their e-mail messages must be preserved as
federal records and which may be deleted without further authorization because
they are not Federal record materials.’” [Nick Merrill, 3/10/15]
SECRETARY
CLINTON’S ATTORNEYS USED MANY LAYERS OF SEARCHES IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHICH
WERE WORK-RELATED
Clinton
Spokesman: “Secretary Clinton Directed Her Attorneys To Assist [In Determining
Which Emails Of Hers Were Work-Related] By Identifying And Preserving All
Emails That Could Potentially Be Federal Records.” “Following conversations
with Department officials and in response to the Department’s October 28, 2014
letter to former Secretaries requesting assistance in meeting the Department’s
record-keeping requirements, Secretary Clinton directed her attorneys to assist
by identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal
records. This entailed a multi-step process to provide printed copies of the
Secretary’s work-related emails to the Department, erring on the side of
including anything that might potentially be a federal record. As the State
Department has said, Secretary Clinton was the first to respond to this
letter.” [Nick Merrill, 3/10/15]
Clinton
Spokesman: In Order To Determine Which Emails Would Be Released, Clinton
Attorneys Searched By Date, Sender, Recipient, And Keywords Including
“Benghazi.” “A search was conducted on Secretary Clinton’s email account
for all emails sent and received from 2009 to her last day in office, February
1, 2013. After this universe was determined, a search was conducted for a
‘.gov’ (not just state.gov) in any address field in an email. This produced
over 27,500 emails, representing more than 90% of the 30,490 printed copies
that were provided to the Department. To help identify any potential non-‘.gov’
correspondence that should be included, a search of first and last names of
more than 100 State Department and other U.S. government officials was
performed. This included all Deputy Secretaries, Under Secretaries, Assistant
Secretaries, Ambassadors-at-Large, Special Representatives and Envoys, members
of the Secretary’s Foreign Policy Advisory Board, and other senior officials to
the Secretary, including close aides and staff. Next, to account for
non-obvious or non-recognizable email addresses or misspellings or other
idiosyncrasies, the emails were sorted and reviewed both by sender and
recipient. Lastly, a number of terms were specifically searched for, including:
‘Benghazi’ and ‘Libya.’” [Nick Merrill, 3/10/15]
SECRETARY
DID NOT ROUTINELY CORRESPOND WITH FOREIGN LEADERS THROUGH EMAIL
Clinton
Spokesman: “During Her Time At State, [Clinton] Communicated With Foreign
Officials In Person, Through Correspondence, And By Telephone…The Review Of All
Of Her Emails Revealed Only One Email With A Foreign (UK) Official.” [Nick
Merrill, 3/10/15]
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