Clinton, Benghazi and the Private Email Server
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pushed Clinton hard over her use of a private email server — mocking her as “the most transparent person ever.”
He demanded to know the search terms her attorneys used to sort through which emails were work-related and therefore should be turned over to the State Department and which were personal.
“You might have made more mistakes — we don’t know,” Jordan said.
Clinton appeared a bit thrown, unable to answer questions about how, specifically, her lawyers combed through her emails.
“I have been releasing my emails to the public,” she said, a reference to the State Department’s court-ordered release of her work emails.
The hearing started at 10 a.m., and Jordan’s line of questioning didn’t begin until 7:45 p.m. If Republicans were hoping Clinton would be worn down, it didn’t happen. But they did manage to push the portion about Clinton’s private server into prime-time television. It was a risk, as some news outlets — like Fox News — had already cut away from the hearing.
The email questions did push Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings over the edge, though, as he lambasted Republicans for trying to “badger you into a gotcha moment.”
“We’re better than that. We are so much better. We’re a better country,” an impassioned Cummings said to Clinton. “And we are so much better than using taxpayer dollars to try to destroy a campaign.”
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